One of the origins. Yi compatriots have long been eating tartary buckwheat as their staple food, with strong body and rosy skin, and few people suffer from hypertension. The Chinese medicine Compendium of Materia Medica records that tartary buckwheat is bitter, flat and cold, which is beneficial to strength, spirit, eyes and ears, and has the function of lowering qi, widening intestines and strengthening stomach. Modern clinical medical observation shows that tartary buckwheat and its products have the functions of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat and enhancing human immunity, and have adjuvant therapeutic effects on patients with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and stroke. These effects are related to the nutrients contained in tartary buckwheat. (The article comes from Youshun Buckwheat Tea Network) According to scientific workers, buckwheat contains flavonoids, and its main component is rutin.
Rutin accounts for 70%-90% of total flavonoids. Rutin, also known as rutin and vitamin P, has the functions of reducing capillary fragility and improving microcirculation, and is mainly used in the adjuvant treatment of diabetes and hypertension in clinic. Buckwheat-seven nutrients are completely integrated into one, not medicine, not health care products, but food that can be eaten as a meal, but it has excellent nutritional and health care value and extraordinary therapeutic effect. It does not belong to Gramineae, but belongs to Polygonaceae. It is a close brother to the familiar "Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. and rhubarb". It is recognized as an excellent grain for both food and medicine by FAO, and it is a typical embodiment of the homologous culture of Chinese medicine and food. Tartary buckwheat is known as the "king of five grains", which has three health-reducing foods (lowering blood pressure, blood sugar and blood fat). Produced in alpine mountain areas, it is green and natural, pure and dye-free.
Buckwheat is divided into sweet buckwheat and bitter buckwheat, and it is rich in rutin (also known as VP or Luding) and nicotinic acid (vitamin PP), which is 13.5 times that of common buckwheat. Rutin can maintain the level of collagen in the body, beauty beauty, and reduce fine lines; Strengthen stomach and detoxify, help to lose weight. And can prevent the "three highs" of the elderly.
Efficacy
1, purify blood, improve blood circulation and lower blood pressure.
Rutin can inhibit the activity of phosphodiesterase in vivo and avoid platelet aggregation. It helps to purify blood and improve blood circulation. In addition, it also has the function of protecting platelet lipid peroxidation and can help people with hypertension to maintain healthy blood pressure.
2. Protect microvessels, reduce blood lipid and prevent stroke.
Rutin can inhibit the activities of lipoxygenase and prostaglandin synthase to prevent blood vessels from becoming fragile, especially microvessels. At the same time, it has the function of strengthening blood vessels, reducing the incidence of bruises, tendon tumors and hemorrhoids, lowering blood pressure and blood lipid, and preventing stroke.
3. Prevention of diabetic complications
Buckwheat Tatar also contains a special compound, D-chiro-inositol, which can play a similar role to insulin and effectively lower blood sugar. Buckwheat tartar can prevent or inhibit the activity of aldose reductase, which is helpful to delay or prevent the occurrence of diabetic complications.
4, beauty beauty, reduce fine lines
Rutin can help the body absorb and make full use of vitamin C, and can also prevent cells from being damaged by free radicals. In addition, this ingredient can also maintain the level of collagen in the body to reduce the generation of wrinkles and fine lines.
5, remove the garbage in the body and lose weight.
The soluble fiber content of buckwheat tea Tatar is much higher than that of other cereal crops, and its content is 4 times that of rice, 2.7 times that of wheat, 1. 1 times that of corn and 1.6 times that of buckwheat. Dietary fiber intake can provide satiety and slow down digestion to reduce appetite and avoid overeating, so it can help to lose weight. In addition, it can also promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help relieve constipation, and help remove food accumulated in the stomach.
6. Prevent gallstones and lower cholesterol.
The soluble fiber of buckwheat tea Tatar can also reduce the accumulation of bile to avoid the formation of gallstones. An American gastroenterology paper shows that eating a lot of dietary fiber can reduce the risk of gallstones! Dietary fiber based on colloidal glucomannan can slow down the rapid increase of glucose level in the body after meals and effectively prevent diabetes. In addition, dietary fiber can also help control the level of cholesterol in the body.
7, anti-tumor, antioxidant
Rutin also has the effects of preventing rectal cancer, antioxidation, anti-inflammation, anti-mutation and anti-tumor.