Wang Wei, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in a poem, "Zhu Shishu opened under the mountain, the fragrance of the cold more hair. Fortunately, with the clusters of osmanthus flowers, the window to the autumn moon." Describes the dogwood flower is very beautiful, dogwood, is the plant dogwood dry mature fruit pulp. The large red color of the fruit of the almost ripe Cornus officinalis is particularly lovely, looking a bit like the sage fruit. Cornus officinalis is produced in China in the provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, and Hunan, and has been introduced in Sichuan, and is also distributed in North Korea and Japan. The fruit can be used for medicinal purposes, sour and astringent flavor, slightly warm, for astringent strong medicine, has the effect of tonifying the liver and kidney to stop sweating.
There is also a legend about the origin of the name Cornus officinalis. According to legend, during the Warring States period, the king of Zhao suffered from cervical spondylosis, which often made his neck pain unbearable, so he called the imperial doctors to diagnose, so that the imperial doctors must find ways to cure it. One of the royal doctors, surnamed Zhu, found a kind of dried fruit and used it to make a decoction for the king of Zhao, who took it for a period of time, and the pain was soon solved. The king of Zhao was so happy that he praised the doctor and summoned Dr. Zhu to ask, "What kind of miracle medicine is this that can be so miraculous?" Zhu replied calmly, "Your Majesty, this is not a miracle medicine, this is cornelian cherry fruit, this medicine, if you insist on taking, not only can cure cervical spine pain, but also tranquilize the mind, clearing heat and brightening the efficacy of the brain." The king of Zhao was delighted to hear this, "This medicine has so many benefits." So he made people to plant cornelian cherry. And in order to recognize the achievements of Zhu imperial doctor, it was renamed as Shan Zhuyu, and later people wrote Shan Zhuyu into the present Cornus officinalis, and gradually passed it down.
The mature dried fruit of Cornus officinalis, after removing the nucleus, is the valuable medicinal herb yam meat. Its flavor is sour and astringent, into the liver, kidney meridian. For astringent blood tonic and strong agent; can strengthen the stomach, tonic liver and kidney, treatment of anemia, lumbago, nerve and heart weakness. Cornus officinalis also contains 16 kinds of amino acids within the pulp, containing a large number of essential elements. In addition, it contains physiologically active saponin protosaccharides, polysaccharides, malic acid, tartaric acid, phenols, resins, tannins and vitamins A and C and other components. Sour astringent and astringent, it has the effect of nourishing the liver and tonifying the kidneys, fixing the kidneys and astringent essence, and is suitable for the symptoms of lumbar and knee soreness and weakness, spermatorrhea and slippery ejaculation, and dizziness and tinnitus caused by insufficiency of liver and kidney. The Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" set of generations of medical doctors to apply the experience of Cornus officinalis, Cornus officinalis is listed as a medicine to replenish blood and essence, tonifying the liver and kidneys, regulating the gas, replenishing the deficiency, brightening the eyes and strengthening the body.
Recommended way to eat cornelian cherry
Cornelian cherry porridge
Ingredients: cornelian cherry meat 15g, 60g of round-grained rice, sugar.
Practice: first of all, the cornelian cherry meat, remove the core, and round-grained rice into the casserole porridge, when the porridge will be cooked, add sugar, a little boiled that is to become.
Effect: tonic liver and kidney, astringent astringent sweat.
Through the above introduction we have a good understanding of the efficacy and role of Cornus officinalis, such a drug on the treatment of disease, but also has a good help, but some of its contraindications should also pay attention to, need to pay special attention to:
1, the body of the hot and humid, the patient of the urinary dribbling, in order to prevent the condition will be more and more serious, not to take Cornus officinalis.
2, during pregnancy, women are best not to take Cornus officinalis in water, easy to lead to the child's disability and deformity.
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