Nutritional value of Abrus cantoniensis
Abrus cantonensis, the name of traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried whole grass of acacia Guangzhou, a leguminous plant. Acacia kwangtungensis, climbing shrub,1m; Dragon; Branchlets and petioles have coarse hairs. Its roots are mostly conical, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, branched, with different lengths, with a diameter of 0.5 ~ 37.5 px. The surface is grayish brown, rough, with fine longitudinal stripes, extremely thin branches and roots, and some of them are broken or left with residues. It's hard. Stems are clustered, with a length of 50 ~ 2500 px and a diameter of about 5 px; Gray-brown to purple-brown, branchlets slender, sparsely pubescent. Pinnate compound leaves alternate, with 8 ~ 1 1 pairs of leaflets, which fall off frequently, and the leaflets are oblong and 0.8 ~ 30px long; The top is flat with small spikes, and the lower surface is covered with hair. The gas is slightly fragrant and the taste is slightly bitter. I like warmth, humidity, cold, drought and waterlogging. Often born in deep mountains or wild bushes. Sweet, slightly bitter, cool. Eliminating dampness and jaundice, clearing away heat and toxic materials, soothing the liver and relieving pain. Commonly used for damp-heat jaundice, hypochondriac discomfort, epigastric pain, breast abscess swelling and pain. Abrus cantoniensis can also be used for cooking soup and dietotherapy in rainy seasons in spring and summer.
Efficacy and function of Abrus cantoniensis
1, protecting liver
Abrus cantonensis can reduce the damage to the liver. Abrus cantonensis is mainly used to treat icteric hepatitis, dysuria, epigastric pain, rheumatic joint pain, blood stasis swelling and pain, traumatic injury and breast abscess. At the same time, it is rich in crude saponins, which has obvious protective effect on liver injury caused by carbon tetrachloride, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, removing blood stasis and relieving pain.
2. Prevention of liver cirrhosis
Abrus cantonensis can effectively prevent liver cirrhosis. Abrus cantonensis can relieve cirrhosis ascites, decompensated cirrhosis after hepatitis, common ascites, liver palm, spider nevus, albumin, globulin ratio inversion and other diseases.
3. Improve people's endurance.
Abrus cantoniensis can effectively improve human endurance. In the experiment of mice, first give them some Abrus cantoniensis. Later, it was found that Abrus cantoniensis can enhance the swimming endurance of mice, and Abrus cantoniensis root decoction can significantly enhance the swimming endurance of mice.
4. Promote gastrointestinal function
Abrus cantonensis can improve the digestive ability of the stomach and promote the normal operation of the stomach function. Rabbit's stomach reaction is sensitive. Through experiments on rabbits, it can be found that the effect on intestinal smooth muscle can significantly enhance the contraction amplitude of isolated ileum in normal rabbits, and anesthetized rabbits can also slightly increase the tension and peristalsis of intestine by gavage or intramuscular injection.
5. Anti-inflammatory effect
The experimental results showed that Abrus cantoniensis had obvious inhibitory effect on xylene-induced auricular swelling in mice, but Abrus cantoniensis had no obvious effect. Abrus cantoniensis and Abrus cantoniensis have obvious inhibitory effects on the capillary permeability of abdominal cavity induced by acetic acid in mice.
Step 6 treat hepatitis
Abrus cantonensis can treat acute hepatitis and other diseases. Abrus cantonensis has a good effect on the treatment of skin and sclera yellow staining, bright color, loss of appetite, epigastric fullness, yellow urine, or fever and aversion to cold.
Edible method of Abrus cantoniensis
When we use Abrus cantoniensis, we should pay attention to the fact that the seeds of Abrus cantoniensis are poisonous, so we need to remove the pods when we use them to avoid poisoning.
The soup that was originally used to nourish the body was not worth the loss because of negligence, so be careful.
There are also some very noteworthy things that should be paid considerable attention to, that is, Abrus cantonensis and Acacia mangium, which belong to the same family, are very similar in appearance, so don't eat them by mistake.
However, the leaves of Acacia mangium are bigger, more hairy and sweeter than those of Abrus cantoniensis. These two kinds of plants have different functions, so they must not be confused to avoid adverse effects on the body.