A, sour beans

Sophora beans is the alias of Sophora japonica L., for China's commonly used Chinese medicinal herbs, legume Sophora (Sophora japonica L.) dried flowers and buds, mature fruit. The product is in the shape of a bead, 1-6cm long, 0.6-lcm in diameter. the surface is yellowish-green or yellowish-brown, wrinkled and rough, and the side of the dorsal suture line is yellow. The texture is soft and moist, dry and wrinkled, easy to break at the contraction, the section is yellowish green and sticky. Seeds 1 to 6, kidney-shaped, about 8mm long, smooth surface, brown-black, one side with gray-white rounded umbilicus; hard texture, cotyledons 2, yellow-green. Fruit flesh gas slightly, bitter taste, seeds chewed with soybean smell.

Sophora beans have the effect of improving eyesight and hair quality. Sophora beans are rich in oleic acid 22.3%, linoleic acid 53%, linolenic acid 12%, in a study conducted on 24 patients with high blood pressure or with high blood fat, scientists found that after drinking tea broth made from Sophora beans for 1-2 months, 83.9% of the patients gained improvement in high blood pressure and blood fat. However, they also found that acacia beans do not lower blood pressure in normal people.

In another experiment, scientists observed the efficacy of locust bean in reducing weight. They gave 52 patients who weighed 20 percent more than the normal standard acacia bean tea soup, and after a month, found that 45 had lost a kilogram, a success rate of 86.5 percent.

1, intestinal wind and blood diarrhea. With acacia horn (de-stemmed, fried) one or two, the ground elm, angelica (wine-roasted), windproof, scutellaria, Hovenia (bran-fried) each half a couple, *** research for the end, add wine, paste made into pills, such as a wuling big. Fifty pills per serving, sent down in rice soup. This formula is called "acacia horn pill".

2, colon prolapse. With acacia real, acacia flowers, etc., fried for the end, dipped in sheep's blood cooked to eat (with pig kidneys peeled and dipped in the end of the sizzling to eat can also be), to wine off.

3, internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids. With half of the acacia horn, pounded into juice, pounded into juice, sun, thick, take the ground gall for the end, with the decoction into a pill, such as a big sycamore. Each serving ten pills, water to send down. When making pills, it is also made into a tappet, and is taken into the anus. The end of the ground gall can be replaced by the end of the bitter ginseng.

4, eye heat and darkness. With Sophora japonica, Huanglian each two, *** research for the end, add honey into pills, such as a stout big. Each serving twenty pills, syrup sent down. The second time a day.

5, the heart of the great heat boredom. With the acacia horn burned to the end, wine to take a spoonful.

Two, sour beans

Sour beans is the only species of the genus Sour beans of the family Fabaceae, also known as sour horn is a tropical tree, native to eastern Africa, including Madagascar deciduous forests, but has been introduced to tropical Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. English Tamarindus consists of Tarmar and indus, Tarmar means ripe date's and indus means India. Tamarindus is a traditional Chinese medicine. In winter and spring, the sky is high and the wind is clear, walk into the Dai village in Xishuangbanna , it is easy to see a kind of local people especially favorite fruit tree - sour angle, it is a tall tree, the trunk is rough, the branches and leaves are sparse, and the branches are hung with bunches and bunches of brown, curved hook-shaped pods. At present, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan Thermal Institute of experts, Yunnan, the number and quality of Cape Sour tree is better than Hainan, therefore, Yunnan is known as "the countryside of Cape Sour". Sour bean tree is the city tree of Sanya City, Hainan Province, China.

Alias

Sour plum, sour horn, Taman Lindu, tamarind, Manmu, rammed wood, Han sour, sour pods, sour dumplings, sour sour, sour jujube, Tongzhaotu, Tongzhaoxiang, umeboshi. Sour beans (scientific name: Tamarindus), also known as tamarind, sour horn, sour plum (Hainan), "Mukhan" (Dai), hemp ram, sweet eyes Kan, Tongxaotu. Sour horn of the genus Sumac tropical, subtropical evergreen tree, the genus contains only one species of sour horn two types: sweet type, sour type.

Nutrition

Sour beans can be eaten raw, tender even with the skin and meat of the whole can be eaten, but if it is old, the seeds inside the bite will be very bitter Oh. To be used to dip chili salt, or pickled to eat the taste will be better, but also can be made into a pickled bean sauce to eat, taste sweet and rich.

The tamarind pulp is rich in sugar, acetic acid, tartaric acid, anthranilic acid, citric acid and other ingredients, in the food field is mainly used to make condiments, beverages, jams, etc., the product is loved by consumers.

In the Latin American and African markets, common pickled bean condiments, and in tropical subtropical countries and regions, pickled bean drinks and pickled bean drink mixes are very prevalent, so much so that the U.S. Coca-Cola Company has also begun to study pickled beans.

The international market has been sold in Central America, sour beans ADE soda, India, sour bean drinks, South America, sour beans and papaya, guava, bananas and other mixed drinks, Thailand, whisky and sour bean mixing wine, China Kunming sour bean juice, fruit dew and so on.

Every summer, Xishuangbanna local residents like to choose mature sour beans, plus brown sugar boiled in water made

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Cool drink to drink, sweet and sour, fresh, heat relief, or sour bean juice in the leisure food rice cold noodles, dried rice, rice noodles in the seasoning, hot and sour appetizing, appetizing, tempting appetite.

Soybean pulp and rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements, including calcium in all fruits in the first place. Therefore, in medicine, tamarind is also widely used by people.

For example, regular consumption of tamarind can cure diarrhea, gas and bloating, leprosy, paralysis, paralysis, prevention and treatment of scurvy, excessive bile, can kill human parasites, slowing down the poisoning of alcohol, mandarins!

Directly oral tamarinds can produce heat, remove heat and detoxification, eliminate sore throat, help digestion, clean teeth and teeth. If mixed with salt can be used as a rheumatism application.