How to eat
1. Walnuts can be eaten raw or cooked, or used as medicinal porridge, decoction, etc.
Raw food
①. Eating three walnut kernels each time, once in the morning and once in the evening, for half a month, can treat whooping cough and chronic bronchitis.
②. Mash one kilogram of walnut kernels, add one kilogram of honey, mix well, and bottle. Take one spoon each time, add boiled water and take it twice a day to treat asthma and asthma.
Cooked food
①, Pork loin and walnuts. Prepare a pair of pork loins, 30 grams of Eucommia ulmoides, and 30 grams of walnut kernels. Put the three together into the pot and cook. After simmering, dip it in a little salt and eat. It has the effect of benefiting the kidneys, supporting yang, strengthening the waist and replenishing qi.
②, Ufa sugar. This is a traditional Han snack. Eat three pieces each morning and evening. It has the effect of promoting black hair. The preparation method is: prepare 500 grams of brown sugar, 250 grams of walnut kernels, and 250 grams of black sesame seeds. Put the brown sugar into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to a simmer and fry until thick, add the fried black sesame seeds and walnut kernels, stir evenly and stop the heat. Pour the fried Ufa sugar into an enamel plate coated with cooked vegetable oil, spread it flat, let it cool, cut it into small pieces, and put it in a sugar box for later use.
③. Five kernel porridge. Eating this porridge every morning and evening can treat habitual constipation caused by Qi and blood deficiency in middle-aged and elderly people. The preparation method is as follows: prepare 10 grams each of sesame seeds, pine nuts, walnut kernels, fried peach kernels (peeled), sweet almonds, and 200 grams of japonica rice. Mix and crush the five kernels, add japonica rice and cook into porridge.
2. Grind walnut kernels and black sesame seeds and mix them for consumption, which can increase sebum secretion, improve skin elasticity, keep skin delicate, delay aging, and quickly replenish physical strength.
3. Some people like to peel off the thin brown skin on the surface of the walnut kernels. This will lose some of the nutrients, so do not peel off this thin skin.
Nutritional effects
1. Tonify deficiency and strengthen the body, providing nutrition: Animal experiments have proven that a mixed fat diet containing walnut oil can increase body weight, increase serum albumin, and Blood cholesterol levels rise slowly, so walnuts are a rare high-fat supplement.
2. Anti-inflammation, sterilization, and skin care: Peach kernels have direct antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. According to clinical reports, walnut tar zinc oxide paste made from mashed walnut kernels can treat dermatitis and eczema with an effective rate of 100%. Walnut kernels are rich in oil, which is beneficial to moisturizing the skin and maintaining human body vitality.
3. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer: Experiments have proven that the active ingredients of walnuts have an inhibitory effect on S37 tumors in mice. Walnuts have certain inhibitory effects on various tumors, such as esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, lymphosarcoma, etc. In addition, walnuts have analgesic effects on cancer patients, increase white blood cells and protect the liver.
4. Strengthen the brain and prevent aging: Walnut kernels contain more protein and unsaturated fatty acids necessary for human nutrition. These ingredients are important substances in the metabolism of brain tissue cells, which can nourish brain cells and enhance brain function.
5. Purify blood and lower cholesterol: Walnut kernels can reduce intestinal absorption of cholesterol. It can also dissolve cholesterol, remove "dirt and impurities" from the blood vessel walls, and purify the blood, thereby providing the body with better fresh blood. Therefore, walnut kernels can prevent arteriosclerosis and lower cholesterol. In addition, walnuts can also be used to treat non-insulin-dependent diabetes.
6. Walnut kernels contain more protein and unsaturated fatty acids necessary for the human body. These ingredients have a very good brain-tonifying effect, nourishing brain cells and enhancing brain function.
7. Walnut kernels can effectively prevent arteriosclerosis and lower cholesterol; in addition, walnuts can also be used to treat non-insulin-dependent diabetes; at the same time, they can increase white blood cells and protect the liver.
8. Walnut kernels contain a large amount of vitamin E. Regular consumption can moisturize the lungs and blacken hair.
9. Relieve fatigue and resist stress.
10. Moisturize the intestines and smooth the intestines: used for dryness of the intestines and constipation and difficulty in defecation. It also has strong effects on promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis and regenerating new energy. It also has certain effects on relieving coughs.
Dietary therapy methods
1. Take three walnut meats each time, once in the morning and evening, for half a month to treat whooping cough and chronic bronchitis.
2. Mash 1 kilogram of walnut meat, add 1 kilogram of honey, mix well, bottle it, take one spoonful at a time, twice a day, with boiled water to treat asthma and asthma.
3. Mash 5 walnuts and drink them with rice wine to treat lactation obstruction.
4·Mash 3 walnut meats, add 3 grams of Shanzi mushrooms, mix thoroughly, and take it with rice wine to treat breast sores.
5. Mash walnut meat and take it with ginger soup to treat nausea and acid swallowing due to deficiency and cold syndrome.
6·10 walnuts, break them, decoct them together with the shells and take them to treat fetal gas in pregnant women.
7·500g each of walnut meat, rock sugar and sesame oil, steam them together and eat them within 7-10 days to treat gallstones.
Foods that are incompatible
Walnuts cannot be eaten together with pheasant meat, and patients with pneumonia, bronchiectasis, etc. should not eat them.
Walnuts should not be eaten with wine. According to the Song Dynasty. Ma Zhi's "Kaibao Materia Medica" records: "Drinking alcohol and eating walnuts can cause hemoptysis." It may be because walnuts are hot in nature, and eating too much can cause phlegm and irritation, while white wine is also sweet and spicy, so eating them together can easily cause blood heat. Especially people with chronic hemoptysis should be contraindicated. For patients with bronchiectasis and tuberculosis, drinking white wine can cause hemoptysis. If not eaten together with walnuts, it can also cause illness. Drug properties
Drug properties: sweet, warm. Returns to the kidney, lung, and large intestine meridians.
Efficacy: Nourish the kidneys and warm the lungs, moisten the intestines and relieve constipation.
Drug Application
1. Kidney yang deficiency, low back pain, weak feet, and frequent urination.
2. Insufficient lungs and kidneys, shortness of breath and cough due to cold deficiency, chronic cough and asthma due to lung deficiency.
3. Intestinal dryness and constipation.
Usage and dosage: decoct and take, 10~30 grams.
Usage Note: It should not be used by those with yin deficiency and excessive fire, phlegm-heat, cough and loose stools.
Brief description of the drug:
Drug name: Walnut Seed
Chinese Pinyin: hu tao ren
English name: English Walnut Seed< /p>
Latin plant and animal mineral name: Juglans regia L.[J.orientis Dode;J.sinensis(C.DC.)Dode]
Effect classification: tonic; moisturizing medicine.
Family and genus classification: Juglandaceae.
Alias: shrimp toad, walnut stalk, walnut meat, walnut kernel.
Nature and flavor: sweet; astringent; warm in nature.
Meridians returned: Kidney meridian; Liver meridian; Lung meridian.
Function: Tonifying the kidneys and strengthening essence; warming the lungs and calming asthma; moistening the intestines and laxative.
Indications: low back pain, weak feet, frequent urination, enuresis, impotence, spermatorrhea, chronic cough and shortness of breath, intestinal dryness and constipation, stranguria, sores and scrofula.
Usage and dosage: Oral administration: decoction, 9-15g; chew alone; 10-30g; or take as pills or powder. External use: Grind into powder and apply for application.
Ecological environment: Born in mountains and hilly areas.
Resource distribution: It is cultivated in all parts of the north and south of my country.
Medical source: It is the kernel of Juglans walnut.
Medicinal material identification
Character identification: The intact seeds are spherical in shape, composed of two brain-shaped cotyledons, 1-3cm in diameter, and a triangular protruding radicle can be seen at one end. Usually the two valves are split or broken into irregular pieces. The seed coat is thin, light brown to dark brown, with dark longitudinal veins. The cotyledons are yellow-white, and the inside is yellow or milky-white after being broken. It is rich in oil and has a slightly fragrant and sweet taste. The seed coat is slightly astringent. The ones that are large, plump, white or milky in cross-section, and rich in oil are preferred.
Microscopic identification: The powder is yellow-white in color and rich in oil. ① The surface of the epidermal cells is polygonal in shape, with a diameter of 14-34 μm, and a thin wall. Some of the vertical walls are slightly thickened like a plant. Observed under the cold chloral hydrate device, irregular brown blocks can be seen. ② The stomata often protrude from the surface, are infinitive, and have 3-8 accessory cells. ③ The surface of cotyledon epidermal cells is rectangular or strip-shaped, with thin walls and irregular crisscross arrangement. ④ The cotyledon cells are oval or round, containing aleurone grains and fat droplets. ⑤ Reticulated cells are occasionally found at the base of the vascular bundle of the seed coat. They are oval in shape, 23-45 μm in diameter, 60-140 μm long, and have slightly thicker walls with oblique and transverse strips or reticular pits. ⑥The threaded conduit is small, with a diameter of 7-10μm. ⑦There are a lot of fat and oil droplets scattered. ⑧There are many aleurone particles.
Application identification: Walnut meat and psoralen: both can treat impotence, cold pain in waist and knees, spermatorrhea and other diseases. Walnut connects the gate of life, benefits the triple burner, replenishes qi and nourishes blood. Together with the bone-breaking paper, it is a medicine for nourishing the lower burner, kidney, and life. However, psoralen also enters the spleen meridian and has the effect of moisturizing the intestines and laxative, and can be used to treat constipation caused by yin and blood deficiency.
Chemical composition
Walnut kernel contains 22.18% crude protein, of which the soluble protein is mainly composed of glutamic acid, followed by arginine and aspartic acid. Crude lipids are 64.23%, of which neutral lipids account for 93.05%; triacylglycerols in neutral lipids are 82.05%, sterol lipids are 3.86%, and free fatty acids are 4.80%. The fatty acid composition of total lipids and neutral lipids is mainly subic acid 64.48%-69.95% and oleic acid 13.89%-15.36%; the fatty acid contained in triacylglycerol is mainly linolenic acid 69.98; the non-saponifiable part of sterol esters is mainly β-sitosterol, and a small amount of campesterol, stigmasterol, avenasterol -5-enol, stigmaster-7-enol; carbohydrates 13%; a variety of free essential amino acids; isoleucine, leucine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, valine, threonine Acid and lysine, etc., its content is 47.50% of the total amino acids.
The fruit contains 1,4-naphthoquinone, Juglans quinone, 4-hydroxy-1-naphthyl-β-D-glucopyranoside, 4,8-dihydroxy-1-naphthyl- β-D-glucopyranoside, potassium, calcium, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, strontium and other trace elements. Immature fruits are rich in vitamin C. The peel contains salicylic acid, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillic acid, gentisic acid, p-hydroxyphenyl acid, gallic acid, p-coumaric acid, ferulic acid, caffeic acid, sinapinic acid, protocatechuic acid, cloves acid, and chlorogenic acid.
The exocarp of immature fruits contains α-aminated juglans quinone, β-hydrogenated juglans quinone, α-hydrogenated juglans quinone-4-β-D-glucopyranoside, 1,4- Naphthoquinone, 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, Juglans quinone, 5-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, 5-hydroxy-3-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone ,2.3-Dimethyl-5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone and 2,3-dihydro-5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone and 2,3-dihydro-5-hydroxy-2-methyl Base-1,4-naphthoquinone.
Preparation method
"Shiyi Dexiao Prescription": "Peel the skin and grind it like mud."
"Surgical Examples": "Peel the tip "The current method is to take the raw medicinal materials and remove the impurities and separated wooden membranes. Store in a dry container in a cool, dry place.
Pharmacology: Walnut kernels have high medicinal value. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" lists them as a top-quality product for lightening the body, replenishing qi, and prolonging life. Medical scientists of the past dynasties regard walnut kernels as a top-quality product for treating diseases.
Walnut kernels are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that walnuts are warm in nature, sweet in taste, non-toxic, and have the effects of strengthening the stomach, nourishing blood, moistening the lungs, and nourishing the mind. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" lists walnuts as top-quality products that can be taken for a long time to lighten the body, replenish qi, and prolong life. According to the "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica" written by Meng Shen of the Tang Dynasty, eating walnut kernels can whet the appetite, moisturize the blood vessels, and make bones and flesh delicate. Liu Han of the Song Dynasty recorded in "Kaibao Materia Medica" that walnut kernels "can make you fat and strong, moisturize your muscles, blacken your hair and hair. Eating more can help you get rid of the five hemorrhoids." Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that walnut kernels It has the effects of "tonifying qi and nourishing blood, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, benefiting the gate of life, locating the triple burner, warming the lungs and moistening the intestines, treating deficiency and cold, asthma and cough, severe pain in the waist and feet, hernia in the heart and abdomen, and bloody diarrhea and intestinal wind".
According to scientific research, the phospholipids in walnuts have a good health care effect on the brain nerves. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which can prevent and treat arteriosclerosis. Walnut kernels contain zinc, manganese, chromium and other indispensable trace elements for the human body. In the aging process of the human body, the zinc and manganese contents gradually decrease. Chromium has the functions of promoting glucose utilization, cholesterol metabolism and protecting cardiovascular systems. The antitussive and asthmatic effect of walnut kernels is also very obvious. In winter, it is very effective for patients with chronic bronchitis and asthma. It can be seen that regular consumption of walnuts can not only keep fit but also resist aging. Some people often take tonics. In fact, eating a few walnuts every morning and evening is of great benefit, and is often better than taking tonics.
There are many ways to eat walnuts. Boiling walnuts with an appropriate amount of salt water, drinking water and eating the residue can cure kidney deficiency, low back pain, spermatorrhea, wilting, forgetfulness, tinnitus, frequent urination and other symptoms.
Anti-cancer effect: Juglans leaf-phase fruit contains walnut quinone. Intraperitoneal injection of Juglans quinone in mice can prolong the life of mice with liver cancer and ascites by 95%, and inhibit the S180 solid type of mouse sarcoma by 50%. In vitro, it has a strong effect on the DNA synthesis of mouse liver cancer cells. From the observation of electron microscope, juglans leaf quinone mainly affects the mitochondria of liver cancer cells.
Other effects: Feeding dogs a mixed fat diet containing walnut oil can accelerate their weight gain, increase serum albumin, and increase blood cholesterol levels more slowly.
Research shows that it may be responsible for the synthesis, oxidation and excretion of cholesterol in the body. Nature and flavor: sweet, warm.
"Seven Volumes of Food Classic": sweet and warm.
"Ben Cao Tu Jing": Hot in nature.
"Yilin Zhuan Yao": sweet but slightly pungent, even the skin is astringent.
Meridians returned: Enter the kidney and lung meridians.
"Outline": Enters the kidneys and lungs.
"Lei Gong Pao Pharmaceutical Properties": enters the three meridians of lung, liver and kidney.
"Materia Medica Seeking Truth": Enters the gate of life, and also enters the lungs and large intestine.
"Compendium of Materia Medica": Enter the foot Yangming and hand Taiyin meridians.
Functions and Indications: Tonifying the kidneys and strengthening essence, warming the lungs and calming asthma, moistening the intestines, treating asthma and cough due to kidney deficiency, low back pain and weak feet, impotence, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, stranguria, and dry stools.
Taboos for use
People with phlegm-fire and accumulated heat or yin deficiency and excessive fire should not take it.
"Qianjin Food Treatment": Don't eat too much, it will cause phlegm and make you vomit food.
Wang Ying's "Food and Materia Medica": Eating too much produces phlegm and activates kidney fire.
"Compendium of Materia Medica": No treatment is allowed for symptoms such as phlegm-heat in the Lung family, burning fire in Mingmen, yin deficiency and vomiting.
"Deqi Materia Medica": It is contraindicated for those who have persistent diarrhea.
Commonly used formulas
Treatment of internal and external dampness, Yang Qi failure, deficiency and cold, asthma and cough, waist and foot pain: 1000 grams of walnut meat (mashed), 500 grams of psoralen (wine steaming). Grind it into powder, mix it with honey and drink it like a syrup. ("Xu Chuan Xin Prescription") To cure chronic cough: 50 walnut kernels (boil hot, peeled), 250 grams of ginseng, 350 almonds (fried with bran, soaked in soup and peeled). Grind it evenly, add refined honey, and make a pill as large as Wuzi. Chew one pill carefully each time, drink it with ginseng soup, and take it before lying down. ("Compendium")
To treat postpartum asthma: divide walnut kernels (no need to peel) and ginseng into equal parts. Finely chop, take 25 grams each time, add 2 cups of water, fry for 7 minutes, and drink frequently. ("Pu Ji Fang")
To treat weak kidney qi, low back pain that feels like breaking, or something heavy falling on the waist, and difficulty in sitting up: 20 walnuts (peeled off), broken old paper ( 400g (soaked in wine, stir-fried), 200g garlic (boiled into paste), 800g eucommia (peeled, soaked in ginger juice, stir-fried). The top is made into fine powder and the garlic paste is made into pills. Take 30 pills each time, drink it with warm wine and a woman with light vinegar soup. Regular use can strengthen muscles and bones, activate blood vessels, blacken moustache, and improve color. ("Prescription" Qing'e Pills)
Benefit blood and marrow, strengthen muscles and bones, improve eyesight, please the heart, and moisturize the skin: 200 grams each of Guzhi, Eucommia ulmoides, 膆薢, and walnut kernels. The first three flavors are made into powder, then add walnut paste and mix well, pestle a thousand times to make pills as big as Wuzi. Take 50 pills each time, empty, and drink with warm wine and salt soup. ("Yu Yao Yuan Prescription")
Treatment of kidney failure, dry lips and mouth, spontaneous discharge of semen, or red and yellow urine, five-color turbidity, dry stool, loose stools without excessive thirst: White Poria , walnut meat (remove the thin skin from the soup, do not grind it), and one large aconite (peele the navel, cut into slices, a cup of ginger juice, one part of clam powder, boil and dry together, and bake). Divide it into powder and make honey pills as big as Wuzi. Take three to fifty pills with rice drink; or make it into powder, mix it with rice drink and take it before eating. ("Three Yin Prescriptions" Hutao Pills)
Treatment of tinnitus and spermatorrhea caused by kidney deficiency: three walnut kernels, seven Schisandra chinensis seeds, and an appropriate amount of honey. Chew before going to bed. ("Guizhou Herbal Medicine")
To treat Shilin: one liter of walnut meat. Boil one liter of fine rice pulp and porridge and take it as a meal. ("Haihai Jixian Prescription")
To treat frequent urination: simmer walnuts, chew them while lying down, and drink with warm wine. ("Compendium")
To treat jealousy: chew walnuts and drink dried ginger soup. Or just chewing walnuts, or just eating dried ginger soup can also cure it. ("Applicable Prescriptions for Communication")
To treat red dysentery: seven pieces each of Citrus aurantium and walnuts, and one stick of honey locust (non-wormy). For the three flavors, burn the grass ashes on new tiles to remove the smoke, grind them very finely, and divide them into eight servings. Take one dose every time before going to bed and at the second and fifth watch, mixed with Schizonepeta tea. ("Shengji Zonglu" Zhike Powder)
Treatment of visceral disease: 50 grams of walnut kernel. Mash it into pieces, mix with sugar and boiled water and take it three times a day. ("Journal of Hygiene" 4 (1): 6, 1936)
Treatment of fire sores: Take walnut peel and burn it to make it black, pestle it like grease, and apply it on the sore. ("Prescriptions Collection by Plum Master")
To treat scrofula: burn the walnut flesh to make it black, cut off the smoke, grind it with rosin and apply it. ("Kaibao Materia Medica")
To treat rat fistula and phlegm core: walnut meat with skin, the same number as Fritillaria and whole scorpion, take as a honey pill. ("Ben Jing Feng Yuan")
Chronic tracheitis and bronchial asthma: Walnut duck: Ingredients: 200 grams of walnut kernels, 150 grams of water chestnuts, 1 old duck, 100 grams of chicken puree, egg white (1 ).
Instructions for preparation and consumption: Slaughter the duck, remove its internal organs, wash it, soak it in boiling water and put it in a basin. Add onions, ginger and a little MSG, steam in a basket, take out and let cool, remove bones and cut into pieces. Grind the walnut kernels and water chestnuts into fine pieces, mix with the chicken puree, egg white, and a little wet powder to form a paste. Pour the paste on the duck body, fry in oil until crispy, remove and control the oil and serve. Served with meals. Efficacy and Indications: Walnut kernels are sweet in taste and warm in nature. They can nourish the kidneys and yang, nourish the lungs, moisturize the intestines and relieve constipation. They are rich in fatty oils, a large amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, sugars and other ingredients. . Water chestnuts are sweet in taste and cold in nature. They can clear away heat, promote fluid production, resolve phlegm and eliminate accumulation. Duck meat is sweet in taste and slightly cool in nature. It can nourish yin and blood and clear away heat. "Yilin Zhuanyao" says: "It can remove labor fever, so it can cure cough." It contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin B1 , B2, B5, etc. This meal can nourish the kidneys, warm the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Treatment of chronic cough due to kidney deficiency in infants, with symptoms of thin sputum, restless breath, frailty and sickness, and worsening cough and asthma in autumn and winter. Used for chronic tracheitis and bronchial asthma (remission period). Note: This meal is good at tonic and is suitable for deficient cough. It should not be used if the baby suffers from external infection or coughs with thick phlegm, or is in the fever period. Treatment of urinary tract stones: 4 taels of walnut kernels, fried in cooking oil until crispy, add appropriate amount of sugar, mix and grind to form an emulsion or paste. Take it in divided doses within 1 to 2 days (reduced for children). Take the medicine continuously until the stones are passed and the symptoms disappear. For stones in various parts of the urinary system, stones can usually be passed one or more times within a few days after taking the medicine, and they may become smaller and softer than before taking the medicine, or they may be decomposed in the urine and turn milky white. Therefore, it is believed that this product may have a stone-dissolving effect.
Treatment of dermatitis and eczema: Crush walnut kernels, stir-fry until completely charred and oily, grind into a paste in a mortar, cool and set aside. For the exudation, erosion or sub-acute stage of general dermatitis and eczema, 30-50% walnut tar zinc oxide paste can be applied evenly and thinly. If there is a lot of exudation, more walnut tar should be added. Even using pure oil will not cause irritation. If there is not much exudate in the affected area and the erosion is not severe, you can sprinkle a layer of talcum powder on the surface of the evenly thin ointment to fix it, and generally no bandaging is needed; if there is a lot of exudate, you need to apply it thickly and wrap it with gauze. Change the dressing 1 to 2 times a day. Do not wash it with water the next time you change the dressing. At the same time, take general desensitization drugs orally. 172 cases were treated, all of which were in the acute exudative, erosive or subacute stages of various dermatitis and eczema without secondary infection, and all were effective. Among them, there were 70 cases of contact dermatitis, 67 of which were cured and improved (symptoms were significantly reduced, exudation, erosion and scabs subsided, leaving chronic skin lesions); 3 cases of seborrheic dermatitis, 26 of which were cured and 11 of which were improved; There were 10 cases of infantile eczema, 7 cases recovered and 3 cases improved; among 55 cases of other eczema, 31 cases recovered and 24 cases improved. Most of them are cured in 1 to 10 days, and a few are cured in 10 to 20 days or more. Preliminary observations show that this product has the effects of astringing, anti-inflammatory, inhibiting exudation, soothing and relieving itching, without local irritation, and can replace wet compress therapy.
Treatment of external auditory canal boils: Take 1 tael of walnut kernels, fry them with 2 taels of cooking oil, and filter and discard the residue. Soak small strips of gauze with its oil (preferably add a little borneol), insert them into the boil and swollen part of the external auditory canal, and change them once a day. Generally, you will feel lightness or pain relief immediately after treatment, and this can last for about 24 hours. It can be cured in a few days.