If you eat "walnut porridge" cooked with walnut kernel powder for a long time, it can nourish the skin and make people white and tender, especially for the elderly.
Vitamin E contained in anti-aging walnut kernel can protect cells from oxidative damage by free radicals, which is recognized as an anti-aging substance in the medical field. Therefore, walnut is called "Long live the son" and "longevity fruit".
Yixin walnut has a variety of unsaturated and single unsaturated fatty acids, which can reduce cholesterol content. Therefore, eating stone walnuts is good for people's heart.
Treating insomnia Regular consumption of walnut kernel has a therapeutic effect on insomnia caused by kidney deficiency. The administration method is to use 5 walnuts and 30 grams of white sugar, mash them into mud, add 50 ml of yellow wine into the pot, and fry them on low fire for 30 minutes, daily 1 dose, and take them twice.
Anti-constipation method: 1. Stir-fry walnut kernels and grind them fine, and take 20g before going to bed every night. 2. Walnut kernel, pine nut kernel, and arborvitae kernel are equally divided, and honey is used to make pills (that is, Sanren pills). Each pill weighs 9 grams, 2-3 pills each time, twice a day. 3. 6 grams of walnut kernels, mashed like mud, mixed with appropriate amount of honey to make a paste, served in warm water, 3 times a day.
Juglans regia L. for relieving cough and asthma has the effects of resisting histamine-induced bronchial smooth muscle spasm and relieving cough. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Hong Maiyun: Mai has phlegm disease. Take three walnuts and three slices of ginger, chew them when lying down, sip soup for two or three times, and then chew peach kernels and ginger as before, that is, lie still until phlegm stops coughing."
Foreign nutritionists who treat arthritis have found that it is beneficial for arthritis patients to take walnuts, which is consistent with the Chinese medicine saying that walnuts "treat waist pain and leg pain well, and all bones and muscles ache". The mechanism of walnut in treating arthritis is believed by Chinese medicine to be due to its function of tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, which is related to its rich vitamin B6.
Tips for eating walnuts
Although the fat contained in walnut kernel is an unsaturated fatty acid which is beneficial to remove cholesterol, the fat itself has a high calorie. If it is eaten too much and cannot be fully utilized, it will be stored as cholesterol by the human body, and the result is counterproductive. Generally speaking, the weight of walnuts taken every day should be about 40 grams, which is equivalent to about four or five walnuts. At the same time, other fat intake should be reduced appropriately to avoid excessive calorie intake.
In traditional Chinese medicine, walnuts are very angry and contain a lot of oil. Eating too much will make people get angry and sick. People who are getting angry and diarrhea should not eat them.
Walnut kernel has laxative effect, but boiling water in walnut shell can treat diarrhea. Walnut kernel contains tannic acid, which can be combined with iron and calcium to reduce the drug effect. Drink less strong tea when eating walnuts.
Some people like to peel off the thin brown skin on the surface of walnut kernel, which will lose some nutrients, so don't peel off this skin.