English name: turn jujube
Family name: Rhamnaceae, Rhamnaceae
Genus name: Hovenia dulcis Thunb.
Scientific name: Scientific name Zhishu. There are many nicknames in ancient and modern times: Wanzi Pear, Miqulv, Linshanguo, Mimu, Mu Coral, Chicken Feet, Chicken Feet, Papaya, Golden Hook, Golden Hook Pear, Lizao, Hulu, Chicken Feet Pear, Chicken Feet Lotus, Stinky Fruit, Lotus Green, Soup and so on.
Deciduous trees, up to 10 m; Shoots, abaxial surfaces of young leaves, petioles and inflorescence axes are initially pubescent and then shed. Leaf blade oval to ovoid, wide oval or heart-shaped oval, 8-16cm long, 6- 1 1 cm wide, tapering at the top, round or heart-shaped at the base, often asymmetrical, serrated at the edge, hairless on the surface, and hairy on the back along or between veins. Fuzzy cymes are terminal and axillary; Flowers are small, yellow-green, about 4.5 mm in diameter; Petals oblate; Styles often diverge to the middle or deep. Fruit stalk is fleshy, twisted and reddish brown; The fruit is nearly spherical, hairless, about 7 mm in diameter and grayish brown. Flowering in June and fruiting in August-10. The fruit is shaped like the word "ten thousand", so it is called papaya.
Produced in the south of this province, it is a positive tree species, growing on sunny slopes, valleys, ditches, roadsides, or cultivated; Distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces, cultivated in Henan.
The fruit stalk contains a lot of glucose and potassium malate, which is sweet after frost and can be eaten raw or brewed, commonly known as "melon jujube"; The fruit used as medicine is a cool diuretic, which can relieve alcoholism; "Guazaojiu" can cure rheumatism; Wood has moderate hardness and beautiful texture, and is used in architecture, furniture making and arts and crafts.
food therapy
1. Hovenia dulcis Thunb contains a lot of glucose and organic acids, which can not only expand the blood volume of human body, but also relieve alcoholism, so it has the effect of sobering up and calming the nerves.
2. Hovenia. It contains a lot of water, glucose, organic salts and lipids, which can promote urine excretion and accelerate intestinal peristalsis, so it can promote defecation.
3. Hovenia. It contains a large amount of calcium and Hovenia dulcis Thunb saponin, has central inhibitory effect, can prevent convulsion, and can be used for treating rheumatism, numbness and numbness.
4. Quench thirst, relieve annoyance and supplement nutrition. Hovenia dulcis Thunb contains a lot of glucose, sucrose, fructose, organic acids, inorganic salts, vitamins and so on. It can quench thirst, clear away heat and relieve annoyance, supplement human nutrition and enhance the body's disease resistance.
5. Lowering blood pressure In recent years, it has been found that Hovenia dulcis Thunb contains wheat straw alkali, B- carboline, Hovenia dulcis Thunb C, D, G, H, rhamnine and so on. It has anti-lipid peroxidation and blood pressure lowering effects.
Health diet
1. Hovenia dulcis Thunb Fresh orange and pork lung soup. 1 20g, pig heart and pig lung1,and 30g of red sucrose. Cleaning Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, cleaning pig heart and lung, and cutting into small pieces; Put Hovenia dulcis Thunb, pig heart and lung, and red cane sugar into a crock, add 1000 ml of water, simmer for 60 minutes, and add a little refined salt and monosodium glutamate to serve. This dish has the effect of quenching thirst and relieving annoyance, and can be used as a diet therapy for patients with hematemesis due to alcohol accumulation.
2. Hovenia dulcis Thunb. 2 dry Hovenia dulcis Thunb., 500ml low-alcohol shochu. Wash Hovenia dulcis Thunb. first, cut it with a knife, soak it in distilled liquor, seal it, and open it after 1 week. Drink it twice a day, 20 ml each time. The wine has the effects of expelling pathogenic wind and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
3. Hovenia dulcis Thunb chicken liver: 2 Hovenia dulcis Thunb, 1 yellow chicken liver. Firstly, grinding Hovenia dulcis Thunb into fine powder for later use; Wash the chicken liver, cut it with a knife, put it on a plate, sprinkle with Hovenia dulcis Thunb powder, steam it in a cage for 20 minutes and take it out. The dish has the effects of invigorating spleen and resolving food stagnation, and can be used for treating infantile malnutrition.
4. hey. Four fresh oranges. Soup, four tiles 10g, raspberry 10g. After cleaning the above three kinds of medicinal water, put them into a crock, add appropriate amount of water, boil them with strong fire, then stew them with low fire for 20 minutes, and filter out the soup. This soup has the effect of expelling pathogenic wind and dredging collaterals, and can be used to treat diseases such as liver wind, hand and foot convulsion, abdominal pain, dog acute and head wind.