The composition of ginseng is extremely complex, and its effective components are all over the plant. The magical effect of ginseng comes from its rich ginsenoside, ginseng polysaccharide, amino acids, peptides, flavonoids, volatile oil and various trace elements, among which more than 50 kinds of ginsenoside contained in ginseng are medically proved to be the key substances that play a role in human body. A large number of modern scientific experiments have proved that ginseng has almost no toxicity and chronic toxicity, and there is no side effect after long-term use. The key to the use of ginseng is to grasp the quantity. As long as the dosage is appropriate, there will be no discomfort. Ginseng has obvious anti-fatigue effect on human body, anti-tumor, improving immunity, relieving depression and anxiety, and has anticancer and anticancer effects. It can be used as an adjuvant for treating cancer, and can also improve the symptoms of female climacteric disorder, protect the liver and relieve alcoholism.
American Ginseng
Total saponins (5% ~10%) are the main pharmacological components of American ginseng, similar to ginseng, but with different proportions. The pharmacological effects of their total saponins are basically the same, but the total saponins of Panax ginseng focus on antidiuretic and anti-fatigue, while the total saponins of Panax quinquefolium focus on sedation. American ginseng has many pharmacological activities.
1.For cardiovascular system: (1) improve myocardial function, resist ischemia, (2) resist arrhythmia, (3) resist shock and (4) resist arteriosclerosis.
2. Enhance physical fitness: (1) resist hypoxia, (2) resist fatigue, (3) resist high temperature, (4) resist cold and (5) resist hunger and thirst.
3. Promote hematopoiesis.
Step 4 be calm.
5. lower blood sugar.
6. Enhance immunity.
It is worth noting that Chinese medical workers have made a comparative study on the pharmacological activities of imported American ginseng from western countries, which proves that Chinese American ginseng has very significant and the same pharmacological activities in anti-fatigue, anti-hypoxia, anti-convulsion, anti-diuretic and protein synthesis, and there is no significant difference.
taurine
Taurine is a sulfur-containing amino acid, which exists in animals and has many pharmacological activities.
The function is as follows:
1 effect of strengthening the liver and benefiting the gallbladder: guinea pig experiments show that taurine can relieve bile obstruction and has the effect of benefiting the gallbladder.
2 antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects: this product may lower the body temperature by acting on the central 5-ht system or catecholamine system.
3 hypotensive effect
4 cardiotonic and antiarrhythmic effects
5 hypoglycemic effect
6 Niuiodate can relax skeletal muscle and antagonize myotonia.
Swim bladder glue (gelatin)
Fish glue, in fact, is the dry product of swim bladder, which is rich in gum, so it is called fish glue, and some people call it flower glue. It can be traced back to before the Han Dynasty that China people cut fish bellies for eating. 1600 years ago, Qi Min Yao Shu recorded the so-called fish belly today.
Fish glue is as famous as bird's nest and shark's fin. It is one of the eight treasures and is known as marine ginseng. Its main components are advanced collagen, vitamins and trace elements such as calcium, zinc, iron and selenium. Its protein content is as high as 84.2%, and its fat is only 0.2%, so it is an ideal food with high protein and low fat.
Cut the dried swim bladder bought back into small pieces with scissors (it is enough to use half a swim bladder at a time), put it in an aluminum bowl, add appropriate amount of hot water and soak it for one day. Then put the bowl into a pot of suitable size, steam it for a while, and then take it out. Hold down the aluminum bowl with one hand and pound the colloid in the bowl with the other hand with a small wooden stick. This is a tedious job, which needs to be repeated and its water quantity adjusted until the colloid is completely dissolved and becomes glue. Then you can use it, and after each use, leave extra for next time. When it is reused, it is already dry. At this time, add a little more water and steam it.
The efficacy of fish glue:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that swim bladder is sweet and flat in taste, nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, tonifying kidney and fixing essence, and it is often used in combination with traditional Chinese medicine to treat peptic ulcer, tuberculosis, rheumatic heart disease, aplastic anemia and vasculitis. Taking swim bladder gel beads directly has obvious curative effect on neurasthenia, children's chronic spleen wind, women's menstrual deficiency, leukorrhagia, metrorrhagia and so on. Swimming bladder can improve appetite by enhancing gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function, prevent and treat anorexia, dyspepsia, abdominal distension, constipation and other diseases, strengthen brain and nerve functions, improve thinking and intelligence, maintain normal secretion of glands, and prevent mental retardation, nerve conduction block, slow response, senile amnesia and other diseases. Fish glue can help the human body to quickly eliminate fatigue and help the recovery of surgical patients' wounds. Some food experts said that in the past, old people would keep some old fish glue for their daughters or daughters-in-law to eat before and after pregnancy. Generally speaking, it can be eaten after 4 to 5 months of pregnancy, and several times before delivery, so that it will be more comfortable after delivery. In addition, 4 to 5 days after surgery, you can also eat fish glue, and the wound will heal better. It is said that there was a man who was nearly eighty years old, but he could still give birth after eating it. Because of his rich gum, he had the effect of nourishing, nourishing and prolonging life.
root of kudzu vine
Pueraria lobata, a leguminous plant pueraria lobata, is a common vegetable in some southern provinces of China. Its taste is sweet, cool and delicious, and it is often used for making soup.
Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist in Ming Dynasty, made a systematic study on Pueraria lobata, and thought that its stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and roots can be used as medicine. He recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Pueraria lobata is sweet, pungent, flat and non-toxic, and its indications are: quenching thirst, body heat, vomiting, all kinds of evils, activating yin and relieving all kinds of poisons".
Effect:
1.Improve the regeneration ability of hepatocytes, restore normal liver function, promote bile secretion and prevent fat accumulation in the liver.
2. Promote metabolism, strengthen liver detoxification function, and prevent alcohol from damaging the liver.
3. For coronary atherosclerosis caused by hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, angina pectoris and myocardial infarction can be prevented and treated by improving myocardial ischemia.
4. For cerebral arteriosclerosis caused by hyperlipidemia, cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral infarction, hemiplegia and vascular dementia can be prevented and treated by improving the state of cerebral ischemia.
5. Strengthen the autoimmune function of hepatobiliary cells and resist virus invasion.
Black-bone chicken
Anti-aging and anti-cancer
? Black-bone chicken contains a lot of vitamin A, trace elements selenium and melanin, which have the effects of scavenging free radicals, inhibiting the formation of lipid peroxide, resisting aging and inhibiting the growth of cancer cells.
? Regulating gynecological diseases
? Black-bone chicken contains a lot of iron, which has the functions of nourishing yin and enriching blood, strengthening spleen and strengthening chong, and can effectively treat irregular menstruation and iron deficiency anemia in women. "Compendium of Materia Medica" holds that "(black-bone chicken) is beneficial to parturient, and it can cure women's abortion."
? Keep fit and prevent diseases
? Black-bone chicken contains a lot of protein, multivitamins and trace elements such as selenium, iron, copper and manganese, but its cholesterol content is extremely low, so it is a nourishing good product with high protein and low fat. Recent studies have also proved that DHA and EPA contained in black-bone chicken can also improve children's intelligence, prevent Alzheimer's disease, prevent cerebral thrombosis and myocardial infarction.
? improve immunity
? Black-bone chicken contains a variety of vitamins, lysine, methionine and histidine that are indispensable to human body. Regular consumption can effectively regulate physiological functions and improve human immunity.
? Chinese medicine theory:
? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black-bone chicken has the effects of nourishing yin, reducing fever, tonifying liver and kidney, etc. Taking medicine can treat all deficiency symptoms, such as dizziness, weakness after illness, emaciation, bone steaming hot flashes, waist and leg pain, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, irregular menstruation and nocturnal emission.
pilose antler (of a young stag)
Efficacy of velvet antler
Strengthening yang, invigorating qi and blood, benefiting essence and strengthening bones and muscles. Treat fatigue, fatigue, dizziness, deafness, dark eyes, waist and knee pain, impotence and spermatorrhea; Uterine deficiency and cold, metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia.
① Classic: the main body leaks evil blood, cold and heat shock epilepsy, and tonify qi and strengthen ambition.
② Bielu: Treating exhaustion such as malaria, emaciation, soreness of limbs, lumbocrural pain, small convenience, ejaculation, blood drowning, bleeding in the abdomen, loose stone shower, carbuncle swelling, heat in the bone, gangrene and itching (The Book of Materia Medica says,' itching' should be selected').
③ Theory of Medicinal Properties: It mainly supplements men's waist, kidney deficiency and cold, weakness of feet and knees, sexual intercourse in dreams, spontaneous emission of semen, blood leakage in women's collapse, and taking a square-inch dagger with hollow warm wine at the end of roasting. And the main red and white belt, into the scattered use.
④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": tonify deficiency, strengthen bones and muscles, break blood stasis, prevent miscarriage and lower qi, and crisp it for use.
⑤ "Compendium": Nourishing essence and marrow, nourishing blood and strengthening bones and muscles. Treat all asthenia, deafness, dim eyes, dizziness and asthenic dysentery.
How to use traditional Chinese medicine prescription
① Treatment of exhaustion of essence and blood, dark complexion, deafness, blurred vision, thirsty mouth, low back pain, weak feet, turbid urine, dryness on the upper part and cold on the lower part, and no severe supplement: velvet antler (soaked in wine) and angelica sinensis (soaked in wine). For the fine, boiled ebony paste is a pill, as big as buttonwood. Every fifty pills are reported, and the hollow ones are delivered with rice. ("Jisheng Fang" black pill)
② Deficiency of essence and blood, exhaustion of camp and health, spontaneous sweating due to hot flashes, panic, limb fatigue and all kinds of weakness: velvet antler (steamed with wine). One or two aconites (cannons) each. Chop it finely, divide it into four servings, two cups of water and ten slices of ginger, fry until eight minutes, remove the residue and take it before eating. (Rongfu Decoction of "The Prescription of Relieving the Efficacy of World Doctors")
③ If you don't do anything to treat weakness and yang, your face is unclear, you urinate frequently, and you don't think about your diet: you should pay five dollars for velvet antler, use one or two more (peeling and slicing) and one or two dried yams (as the end). Wrap it in raw silk, soak it in wine for seven days, and drink three lamps a day. When the wine is exhausted, the velvet antler will be dried and reserved for tonic. "Puji Fang" deer antler wine)
(4) The treatment of vertigo is very severe. If you look up, your eyes will turn around, and your eyes will often be black. If you see something flying, or if you see something as two: velvet antler, take half a cup each time, use three glasses of ashless wine, fry until one cup, remove me, and add a little musk. Essentials of syndrome differentiation and treatment)
⑤ If you can't cure the dampness for a long time, your feet will be covered with less yin, your tongue will be white and your body will ache, and your feet will be swollen: pilose antler, aconite San Qian, Amomum tsaoko, Cuscuta San Qian, Poria, five cups of water, and two cups will be boiled, which will be taken again every day, and the residue will be boiled again. ("Differentiation of Epidemic Febrile Diseases" Lufu Decoction)
⑥ Treatment of deficiency and cold of small intestine, frequent urination: two or two pieces of velvet antler (crispy and slightly yellow), one or two pieces of white keel (burnt), three pieces of ootheca mantidis (slightly fried), one or two pieces of red pepper (slightly fried), one and a half pieces of aconite root (baked) and one or two pieces of dogwood. The medicine is smashed into powder, honey is refined and smashed into one or two hundred pieces, and the pills are as big as buttonwood. Take 20 pills with salt soup every time, hollow and before eating at night. ("Sheng Hui Fang" velvet antler pill)
Chinese date
A small red date is very effective. It is often seen in the prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, because red dates have the function of relieving medicinal properties; Jujube can invigorate qi and nourish blood, which is a good nutrition.
China's herbal book "Ben Jing" records that red dates are sweet and warm, and have the functions of invigorating the middle warmer, invigorating qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and relaxing the medicinal properties. Modern pharmacological research shows that jujube can enhance the oxygen content in blood and nourish the whole body cells, and it is a tonic with mild drug effect.
In traditional Chinese medicine, that efficacy and function of red dates can be divide into the following categories:
1. Spleen and stomach: People with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea and fatigue, eat seven red dates a day, or use them with Dangshen and Atractylodes macrocephala * *, which can tonify the middle energizer, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and achieve the effects of increasing appetite and stopping diarrhea; Jujube, ginger and Pinellia can be used together to treat gastritis such as bloating and vomiting caused by careless diet.
2. Enhance human immunity Jujube contains a lot of sugar substances, mainly glucose, but also fructose and sucrose, as well as oligosaccharides, arabinan and galactomannan composed of glucose and fructose; It also contains a large number of vitamins such as vitamin C, riboflavin, thiamine, carotene, nicotinic acid, etc., which has a strong nourishing effect and can improve human immune function and enhance disease resistance.
3. Invigorating qi and nourishing blood: Jujube is a good tonic, and it is often added to the diet to nourish the body and moisten qi and blood. Dr. Andy Sun, an immunologist at National Taiwan University, strongly advocates eating more red dates, Astragalus and Lycium barbarum in peacetime, which can enhance the vitality of the body.
4. Enhance muscle strength and gain weight. The experimental mice were given jujube decoction every day for ***3 weeks, and their weight increased significantly compared with the control group. In the swimming test, their swimming time was significantly longer than that of the control group, which showed that jujube had the effect of strengthening muscle strength and increasing weight.
5. Alleviate medicinal properties: Jujube is often used in prescriptions with intense medicinal properties to reduce the side effects of strong drugs and protect healthy qi. For example, in "Ten Jujube Soup", jujube is used to alleviate the toxicity of laxatives such as Gansui, Euphorbia Euphorbia and Wuhua, and to protect the spleen and stomach from harm. Jujube is a sacred product for invigorating qi and nourishing blood, and it is cheap at the same time. People can achieve the effect of health care by making good use of jujube without buying expensive supplements in the market.
6. Sedate and soothe the nerves The flavone-bis-glucoside A contained in jujube has sedative, hypnotic and hypotensive effects, among which the separated grapefruit aglycone C glucosides have central inhibitory effects, that is, reducing spontaneous movement, stimulating reflex and rigidity, so jujube has the functions of calming the nerves and calming the nerves.
7. Nourishing blood and calming the nerves: Women are bipolar, crying uneasily, uneasy, etc. Using red dates together with licorice and wheat can nourish blood and soothe the nerves, and soothe the liver and relieve depression.
8. The ethanol extract of anti-allergic jujube can inhibit the production of antibodies against specific allergic diseases, and also inhibit the reactive antibodies in mice, suggesting that jujube has anti-allergic effect.
9. Anti-cancer, anti-mutation Jujube contains a variety of three kinds of compounds, among which Yemenic acid and phytic acid have been found to have anti-cancer activity and inhibit sarcoma S-180. The nutrients contained in jujube can enhance the immune function of human body, and have certain effects on preventing cancer and maintaining the function of human viscera.
10. Protection of liver It has been proved by experiments that the jujube decoction *** 1 week is given daily to rabbits with carbon tetrachloride liver injury. As a result, the serum total protein and albumin are significantly increased compared with the control group, indicating that jujube has a protective effect on liver.