Efficacy and function of cold potato
Alias kudzu, sweet potato, cold melon, radish, shage, and bean potato.
It comes from leguminous sweet potato Pachyrrhizus erosu(L.) Urban, and is used as medicine with tubers and seeds.
Habitat distribution in the provinces south of the Yangtze River.
chemical composition
It contains Pachy sapogenin, A(C30H38O6), B(C23H 18O7) and pachyrrhizone (C20H 14O7).
The seeds contain erosnin (C 18H8O6), rotenone (C23H22O6), erosone, pachyrrhizin and iso-elliptone.
Sexual taste root: sweet, slightly cool.
Functional indication
Root tuber: quenching thirst and relieving alcohol poisoning.
Chronic alcoholism: fresh root tuber mixed with white sugar.
Drunk and thirsty: chew fresh roots for half a catty.
The seeds are poisonous and can be used as pesticides, which are effective in controlling tobacco, sugarcane and cotton aphids. Treat scabies for external use.
Usage and dosage: 4 ~ 8 taels of fresh root tuber, appropriate amount of seeds boiled with vinegar, and the juice is applied externally.
Excerpt from "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine"
Nutritional value of cold potato
Cold potato is rich in nutrition and contains many elements necessary for human body, such as calcium, iron, zinc, copper and phosphorus. It also lowers.
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Blood pressure, blood lipid and other effects.
Like sweet potato, cold potato is also a high-yield crop, and the yield per mu can reach several thousand kilograms or even more than ten thousand kilograms. Therefore, in southern China, cold potato is planted as a major cash crop in some places.
The fleshy tuberous root of cold potato is rich in starch, sugar and protein, crisp and juicy, with thin and tough skin, easy to peel off, and can be used for raw food, fried food and feed. Processed into sand Ge Fen, it has the effect of cooling and removing heat. The tuberous root of cold potato is storable and can adjust the balanced supply of vegetables throughout the year. Seeds and stems and leaves contain rotenone, which is toxic to people and animals and cannot be eaten, but pesticides can be extracted.
The starch content in the mature root tuber is high, so starch can be extracted. Rotenone (C23H22O6) is contained in seeds, stems and leaves, which is toxic to people and animals and can be used to make insecticides. The edible part of cold potato is a fat root tuber, which is rich in sugar and protein. According to the determination, each kilogram of root tuber contains 810 ~ 880g of water, 76 ~119g of carbohydrate, and some minerals and vitamins. Its meat is white, tender, crisp, sweet and juicy, and can be eaten raw and cooked, and can be processed into sand Ge Fen, which has the effect of cooling and removing heat.
The tuberous root of cold potato is storable and can adjust the supply of vegetables. India and Southeast Asian countries also eat its tender pods. Its seeds, stems and leaves contain rotenone, which is toxic to people and animals and can be used to extract pesticides.
Edible value of cold potato
It can be eaten raw and cooked, and processed into sand Ge Fen, which has the effect of cooling and removing heat.
Cold potato anti-tumor protein
A new anti-tumor protein of cold potato was purified and separated from the seeds of cold potato by a specific method. The anti-tumor protein of sweet potato has the activity of inhibiting liver cancer, gastric cancer and melanoma.