Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the small intestine. Vitamin A has a protective effect on the epidermis of the skin, which can make people's skin soft, shiny and elastic, so it is also called "cosmetic vitamin". If vitamin A is lacking in the diet, it will cause dry skin, abnormal keratin metabolism and easy relaxation and aging.
Although carrots are good, it has a lot to do with our eating and cooking methods to maintain their nutrition and be really digested, absorbed and utilized by the human body. Beta-carotene exists in the cell wall of carrot, and the cell wall is made of cellulose, which can not be directly digested by human body. Only by chopping and cooking, can beta-carotene be released and absorbed by human body.
In addition, β -carotene is a fat-soluble substance, and only when it is dissolved in oil can it be converted into vitamin A, which can be absorbed by the human body. Therefore, frying carrots in oil or eating them with other oily foods can double the moisturizing effect. In addition, you can also cut carrots into pieces, add seasonings and stew them with pork, beef and mutton, but be careful not to put vinegar in the cooking process, because vinegar will destroy β -carotene and obviously reduce the nutritional value of carrots. Other names are yellow radish (Seeking the Original of Materia Medica), fenugreek, red fenugreek (Living with Interest Diet Spectrum), clove radish, golden bamboo shoots and carrots. Prescription uses famous carrots. pharmacological action
The amorphous yellow component separated from the petroleum ether extract of dried carrot is dissolved in almond oil, which has obvious hypoglycemic effect when injected into human, rabbit and dog.
Processing
1. Clean to remove impurities and wash.
2. Cut, wash, moisten thoroughly, cut into thick pieces or sections, and dry.
Tropism of nature and taste
Sweet, pungent and flat in nature.
Meridian entering the lung, spleen, stomach and kidney.
Efficacy indication
1. Strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, this product is pungent and warm, and can be used to treat diarrhea due to deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach. Most of this syndrome is caused by diarrhea, which is incurable, prolonged, or deficient in body constitution. After illness, the spleen and stomach are weak and cold. Every time due to improper diet, repeated attacks and slight carelessness in diet, the number of defecation increases significantly. When defecation occurs, the food is indigestible, abdominal distension and screaming, or dull pain, the appetite is not fragrant, and the face is pale yellow and shaohua. Carrot, sweet in taste, flat in nature and slightly wet, belongs to spleen and stomach meridians. The spleen-covering soil is fond of sweetness and bitterness, tonic and offensive, warm and cold, rising and falling. This product is a warm product, which can strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, so as to raise and clear yang, and then diarrhea can be stopped.
2. digestion and stagnation, this product can be used to treat vomiting caused by food stagnation. This disease is mostly caused by improper diet, overeating, spleen and stomach damage, stomach failure, spleen failure to lose essence, resulting in stomach qi going up. Common clinical symptoms: vomiting, acid and sour, abdominal distension, anorexia due to heating, refusal to press, especially eating, feeling comfortable after vomiting, constipation or diarrhea, thick and greasy tongue coating, and slippery pulse. "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": "Carrots are scattered because of their pungent taste, harmonious because of their sweet taste, and descending because of their heavy quality, so they can relax the middle and lower the qi, and make the evil in the stomach go away with them."
3. Warming kidney and strengthening yang, this product can be used to treat impotence caused by deficiency of kidney yang and failure of vital door fire. This disease is mostly caused by indulgence, excessive atrioventricular, or young people mistakenly masturbating, resulting in kidney essence loss, yin damage and yang damage, leading to the decline of life door fire; Or because of other dirty fu-organs and blood, the yang declines first and damages the kidney yang for a long time; or the waist is injured and the kidney governor is damaged; Or after illness, use cold and cool to cut. All the above factors can lead to deficiency of kidney yang and failure of life gate. Symptoms: impotence, impotence, cold head, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, weak ejaculation, thin and cold sperm, fatigue after sexual intercourse, soreness of the back, cold sensation below the waist, energy decline, premature senility in severe cases, pale complexion, mild limbs, long or uncontrollable urination, or diarrhea at dawn, pale tongue, fat tongue with teeth marks, etc. Carrots are warm and enter the kidney meridian; It can warm the kidney-yang deficiency and replenish the life door. "A Compendium of Medical Forests" says: "Carrots moisten the kidney, strengthen the yang, warm the lower part, and eliminate cold and dampness." Impotence can be cured.
4. Detoxification and rash can be used to treat measles fever. Symptoms: strong heat, polydipsia, aggravated cough, irritability or lethargy, or with fright and red eyes. The rash first appeared in the ear thunder, hairline and neck, gradually reached the forehead, face, chest, abdomen and limbs, and finally appeared in the palms and soles of the hands. The rash was bright red or dark red, slightly raised, obstructed by the mouth, red tongue, yellow greasy fur, or yellow dryness, rapid pulse or profusion, and purple fingerprint stagnation. "Lingnan Herb Collection Record" says: "Whenever there is a pock, always use this decoction to drink, which can eliminate heat and detoxify, and can be used fresh or dried in the sun."
5. Moisten lung and relieve cough. This product can be used to treat cough due to deficiency of lung and kidney yin and excessive fire. This syndrome is mostly caused by prolonged illness, exhaustion of yin and body fluid, excessive sweating, or excessive attachment of evil heat to Ru, which damages lung yin, loss of body fluid and loss of lung nourishment. Common clinical symptoms: slow onset, less dry expectoration, sticky expectoration, or blood in the sputum, or hemoptysis, or gradually hoarse voice, dry mouth and throat, or hot flashes in the afternoon, red cheeks, hot hands and feet, insomnia and night sweats, mental fatigue, red tongue with little coating, and rapid pulse. This taste is sweet, entering the lung and kidney meridians, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production; Wei Xin, Xin Yi Run it; Moisten lung and nourish kidney to treat cough. Or gradually hoarse voice, dry mouth and throat, or hot flashes in the afternoon, hot hands and feet, insomnia, night sweats, mental fatigue, red tongue with little fur, and rapid pulse. This taste is sweet, entering the lung and kidney meridians, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production; Wei Xin, Xin Yi Run it; Moisten lung and nourish kidney to treat cough.
6. Identification application, carrot and divine comedy. Both herbs are sweet, pungent and warm in nature and belong to spleen and stomach meridians. Functional digestion and stomach. Used for indigestion, abdominal distension, anorexia and diarrhea. The difference, however, is that carrots enter the lung and kidney meridians in addition to the two functions, and have the functions of moistening lung and relieving cough, warming kidney and strengthening yang, which is different from the same.
dosage
Oral administration: decoction; 15-30g, or raw or mashed juice.
External use: mashed juice coating.
Compatibility should be avoided
And proper taboos.
1. The Divine Comedy Tamenosuke.
2. Cough caused by wind-heat invading the lungs should be used with caution.
Compatibility application
1. with medicated leaven, which is sweet and pungent, warm in nature and enters spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effect of promoting digestion and regulating the stomach, and can be used for indigestion, abdominal distension, anorexia and diarrhea. Carrots are sweet, pungent, flat and slightly warm, and also enter spleen and stomach meridians. Efficacy: spleen and stomach, digestion and stagnation. It can be used to treat diarrhea due to deficiency of spleen and stomach, abdominal distension and bowel sounds, and food stagnation and vomiting. The two drugs are compatible and must be used together, with medicated leaven as the main part and carrot as the auxiliary part; * * * plays the role of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, promoting digestion and resolving stagnation. Used for indigestion, abdominal distension, anorexia, acid regurgitation, vomiting and diarrhea, etc., and the curative effect is increased.
2. With Fructus Cnidii, Fructus Cnidii is pungent, bitter and warm, and belongs to the kidney meridian; Efficacy of warming kidney and strengthening yang, used for impotence, cold-rich infertility and other diseases; Carrots are sweet, pungent, flat and slightly warm, and enter the kidney meridian. Efficacy: Warming kidney and strengthening yang can be used to treat impotence due to deficiency of kidney-yang and failure of vital energy. The two herbs have similar effects, both of which have the effects of warming kidney and strengthening yang. Compatible with each other, complementary to each other, carrot assists Fructus Cnidii, which increases its effect of warming kidney and strengthening yang.
3. With Herbivorous Silkworm, carrots are sweet, pungent and flat, and belong to spleen and stomach meridians. Efficacy: spleen and stomach, digestion stagnation. It is used to treat diarrhea, vomiting, hiccup and other syndromes due to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Herbivorous silkworm is sweet, slightly pungent and flat, and enters spleen and stomach meridians. Efficacy: invigorating spleen and regulating stomach can be used to treat infantile malnutrition syndrome. Compatibility of the two drugs, taking the temperature of carrot and the sweetness of grass silkworm; It is used to treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and dampness stagnation, insufficient stomach yin and deficiency and cold. Syndrome of food retention, vomiting, anorexia and pantothenic acid have the effects of eliminating dampness and cold, warming and neutralizing the stomach.
4. With coriander, coriander, warm, lung and stomach meridians; Efficacy: sweating and rash; Used in the early stage of measles, it is not well exposed; Carrots are sweet, pungent and flat, and enter the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. Efficacy: detoxify and penetrate rash, and clear heat. The compatibility of the two drugs can be used to treat measles in the early stage, poor eruption and fever in the middle stage.
Prescription preparation
1. Prescription for Measles (Records of Lingnan Herbs): four carrots, three cilantro, and two cilantro. Add more water and boil it into two bowls for one day.
2. The recipe for treating chickenpox (Annals of Lingnan Herbs) includes four carrots, three chestnuts, three chestnuts, three chestnuts and two chestnuts. Decoct.
3. The recipe for treating whooping cough (Lingnan Herbs Records) has four or two carrots and twelve red dates, and three bowls of water are boiled into a bowl, which can be served at will. Take it for more than ten times.
4. Prescription for treating food accumulation (Experience Prescription) l5 grams of medicated leaven and 30 grams of carrot. Efficacy: digestion and stomach. It can be used to treat indigestion, abdominal distension, anorexia, etc.