Rice vertebrae are hazelnuts, hazelnuts can replenish the spleen and stomach, benefit qi, eyesight, and on the night urination, thirst, such as lungs and kidneys are not enough people quite helpful. However, hazelnut is warm and hot, easy to fire, do not eat more. Preparations extracted from hazelnuts have anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and vasodilatory effects.

Hazelnut also contains an anti-cancer chemical component - paclitaxel, is the active ingredient of the red bean shiritol, can treat breast cancer, ovarian cancer and other cancers, is very valuable medical raw materials. Although hazelnut is rich in fat, it can lower blood pressure and lipids, protect eyesight and slow down aging. It is rich in fat is also suitable for which fat-soluble vitamins are absorbed by the body, is weak, easy to starve, after the illness of the body of the people of the good choice.

Hazelnut rich in aspartic acid and arginine can enhance the activity of arginase, to exclude ammonia in the blood, thus enhancing immunity and prevent cancer. Hazelnut oil light yellow color, is an excellent edible oil and industrial oil. The oil meal can be used as feed and fertilizer. Shells, bracts and leaves contain tannins, which can be used to make quebracho extract.

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There are about 20 species of hazelnut in the world, and nine species are recognized by academics, i.e., the European hazelnut, American hazelnut and Turkish hazelnut.

China: China's native hazelnut there are 9 species, respectively, Sichuan hazelnut, Dian hazelnut, Chinese hazelnut, Wuling hazelnut, Vichy hazelnut, flat hazelnut, prickly hazelnut, hairy hazelnut, downy hazelnut. There are also seven varieties, namely, Chuan hazelnut var. short-stalked Chuan hazel, Hairy hazel var. short-bracted hazel, glandular hairy hairy hazel, Chinese hazelnut var. bell-bracted hazel, prickly hazel var. hidden prickly hazel, flat hazel var. long-bracted hazel, pom-pom hazel var. broad-leaved pom-pom hazel.

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