Pine nuts refer to red pine nuts. Korean pine is also called "fruit pine" and "sea pine". As a snack for people's leisure and entertainment, pine nuts have been recorded in Youyang Miscellanies in the Tang Dynasty, and have become quite popular in the Song Dynasty, enjoying a high reputation. At that time, longevity fruit, regarded as longevity, also developed a special way of eating. "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains its method as follows: "Take pine seeds in July, remove the bark and mash them into paste. Every time the chicken is big, mix the wine, three times a day, once a hundred days, and travel five hundred miles in three hundred days. "

Nutritional value of pine nuts

According to modern scientific research, the nutritional and medicinal value of pine nuts is really extraordinary. Take common pine nuts as an example. Every100g of nuts contains protein16.7g, 63.5g of fat and 9.8g of carbohydrate. Most of the fat in pine nuts is unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid and linseed oleic acid, which is beneficial to human body. In addition, the contents of minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron are also very rich. Eating pine nuts regularly and in moderation can get nourishing and strong effects.

"Records of Famous Doctors" contains: wind arthralgia, cold, deficiency, qi deficiency, tonic deficiency ... Pine leaves control rheumatic sores, grow hair, protect the five internal organs, keep the middle warmer and prolong life. Loose knot is warm, and the wind is long. Wind deficiency, foot joint pain.

Pine nuts were originally used by humans because of their medicinal value. The earliest medical book in China, Shennong Herbal Classic, recorded the function of pine nuts, pointing out that "turpentine can cure gangrene, malignant sores, head selection, baldness, scabies, ethos, internal organs and clearing heat" and so on.

"Kaibao Benhua" contains: pine nuts are mainly used to treat joint wind, dizziness, muscle atrophy, whitening, eliminating dampness and regulating five internal organs to avoid hunger. "Li Shizhen in Ming Dynasty said that pine nuts can" moisten the lungs and cure dry cough ".

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