What is the use of golden cherry?
Golden Cherry is distributed in China's Shaanxi, Sichuan and some provinces south of a kind of evergreen climbing shrubs, often growing in the sunny slopes, the edge of the ground, the river ditch side of the bushes. It is also known as prickly pear, mountain pomegranate, mountain chicken head, monk's head, oil cake fruit and so on. It is a plant of the genus Rosaceae.
First, the appearance of the golden cherry features:
Evergreen climbing shrub, five meters high; branchlets thick, with sparse flat prickles, smooth. Compound leaves with leaflets often three, occasionally five, leaflets often ovate, about three centimeters long, leaf edges with sharp serration, surface bright green, glabrous, abaxial yellow-green. Stipules lanceolate, margins finely toothed, caducous. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, flowers about five centimeters in diameter; petiole and calyx tube glandular hairy, fruits growing into needles, calyx lobes lanceolate, apex leafy; petals white. Flowering in April and May.
The fruit is pear-shaped, purple-brown, with dense prickly hairs on the outside; the stalk is three centimeters long, and the sepals are persistent. Fruit from July to October.
Second, the usefulness of the golden cherry:
First, its fruit, leaves and roots have medicinal value, which has been recorded since ancient times. Modern medical research has shown that the fruit, leaves and roots of golden cherry contain 89 compounds, the main components of which are steroids, triterpenes, powdered acid, phenylpropanoid, polysaccharides, vitamins, amino acids, citric acid, linoleic acid and derivatives, and endolipids and other components. It has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, dispelling wind and dampness, detoxifying and astringent, and killing insects. Details can be consulted in specialized medical books.
Second, its fruit is rich in nutrients, can be eaten fresh, can make medicinal food and food coloring additives: currently developed oral liquid, juice drinks, fruit wine, yogurt, such as gold cherry blossom food, which contains anthocyanins, flavonoids, carotenoids and other compounds can be used as food additives and so on. Therefore, golden cherry is a plant with great potential for development.
Before answering the question, the Village People's Nightly Tales put out a riddle.
Life on the can, death on the can, concave neck gourd containing wheat.
Guess the fruit of a plant. You may want to guess it first.
The golden cherry, which we call the sugar can in our hometown. It is a thorny plant with branches like vines and very dense hooked thorns, which can easily hook and tear clothes and skin. And its leaves and fruits with thorns.
Golden cherry generally late spring and early summer flowering, petal color has a variety of colors, only I have seen there are white, peach, water red and other colors. The stamens are mostly yellow. Some people call it wild peony. The young thorns that grow in the spring are edible and have a sweet flavor, so we liked to eat them when we were young. After peeling the skin, it is tender, sweet and delicious.
Golden cherry fruit ripe in late fall and early winter, the fruit is oblong, the upper part has a groove. Long thorns all over the body, rounded on the top and pointed on the bottom. The seeds inside are like ripe wheat, with hairs. The flesh is very sweet. Many animals in the mountains love to eat, especially the fruit beaver.
In the past, some people in the mountains to pick cherryberry wine, and some people use it to boil sugar thin. A few years ago, some people began to buy, but the price is not high, only a few cents per pound, the year before last rose to 2 yuan. Last year, it rose to 4 yuan. Golden cherry began to play up, many folks on the mountain picking to sell. However, the golden cherry is usually grown on the hillside, or in the ravine, and all with thorns, it is not convenient to pick, the number of picking every day is not much. The daily income is also not high, only those who are more diligent farmers will pick it in the spare time.
The golden cherry has both medicinal value and food value. Golden cherry can be solid essence, shrinking urine to stop the legacy, but also can stop coughing and asthma, astringent intestines to stop diarrhea, solid astringent stop belt. Can also lower blood fat, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. Now in addition to using it to make wine, some people also use it to make water to drink.
Last year, my family picked up some, soaked two large pure grain wine. The color of the wine is golden red, no sugar added, still mellow and sweet. During the Spring Festival, it was very popular with guests.
This year, when the golden cherry is ripe, I am ready to pick some more ......
1, the introduction of the golden cherry. Golden cherry seed alias: prickly elm, prickly pear seed, golden poppy seed, mountain pomegranate, mountain chicken head seed, sugar warbler seed, sugar jar, candy, bee sugar jar, betel nut fruit, golden kettle bottle, sugar tangerine, yellow tea bottle, vine hooks, praying mantis fruit, sugar prickly fruit, lantern fruit, prickly olive, lantern fruit, prickly orchid tree seed. The root bark is extracted to make tannins; the fruit is used as medicine, with diuretic and kidney tonic effects; the leaves have detoxifying and decongesting effects; the roots are used medicinally to invigorate blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis, pull out toxins and astringent, and dispel wind and dampness. Cuttings or seed propagation; soil requirements are not strict, preferably born on sunny slopes. The fruit contains vitamins, malic acid, citric acid, tannins, saponins and so on. Golden tassel is suitable for soft and hard candy, fruit juice, soda, fruit punch, gas wine, champagne and other coloring. Therefore, connoisseurs believe that the golden tassel is rich in wild resources, fast-growing, but also easy to cultivate, is an ideal, with the potential to develop and utilize the natural juice drink raw materials.
2, the composition of golden cherry. The fruit contains berry acid, malic acid. The pericarp contains a variety of hydrolyzed tannins: golden cherry tannins, cynarin, before cornflower, he elm, long pedunculated aristolochicin, snake containing tannins, cynarin, in addition, the above-ground portion of the triterpene compounds have been isolated to a variety of triterpene compounds: ivy saponins yuan, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, hydroxy ursolic acid methyl ester , methoxy ursolic acid methyl ester , methyl comedic acid, methyl hydroxy comedic acid methyl ester, methyl wild opuntia, comedic acid, Glucopyranoside, commissionic acid methoxy, glucopyranoside, wild ravenson acid, glucopyranoside , methyl, glucopyranoside, glutenol, glucopyranoside, oxyglutamate drunk, glucopyranoside, hydroxyglutamate, glucopyranoside, stigmasterol, diol, glucopyranoside.
3. Golden Cherry is cheap, about $6 per unit.
Effectiveness and function of goldenseal
1, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. In recent years, research has found that gold cherry extract can kill Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, etc. It can be used to treat diseases caused by infection with Staphylococcus aureus or Escherichia coli.
2, solidifying the urine, astringent bowel diarrhea. Gold cherry contains a large number of acidic substances, soap, etc., both can fix the room to prevent men from spermatorrhea, women with too much, but also astringent intestinal tract, to prevent the spleen constraints due to dysentery.
3, cough and asthma, anti-spasmodic. Chinese medicine believes that wheezing and coughing is caused by the upward reversal of lung qi, golden cherry taste sour and astringent, can converge lung qi, can stop coughing and asthma. Modern research has found that gold cherry contains anti-smooth muscle spasm components, can prevent spasm of the stomach and intestines and trachea. 2, shrinking urine and stopping the loss of urine. Golden cherry contains a large number of acids and saponins, with constraints on the bladder sphincter, prolonging the interval between urination, increase the amount of urine discharged each time the role of urine, can be used to treat enuresis and urinary frequency of the disease.
4, lipid lowering. Cherryberry contains fatty acids, bougainvillea alcohol, bipolar and soap, etc., can reduce blood lipids, reduce fat deposition in blood vessels, can be used for the treatment of atherosclerosis.
5, golden cherry nutrition. Golden cherry fruit flavor unique, honey flavor and fragrance, its nutrition is very rich, containing sugar (mainly fructose and other reducing sugars), citric acid, malic acid, tannins, vitamins, more than 20 kinds of amino acids, 18 kinds of minerals, and resins, saponins and other ingredients, especially vitamin C and reducing sugar content is high. It is determined that each 100g of fresh golden cherry fruit pulp containing vitamin C1009mg, the content is second only to the prickly pear, is 2 times the fresh jujube, 10 times the honeysuckle, citrus 30 times. Secondly, the golden cherry is rich in zinc and selenium, these two elements are essential for the human body with specific health and cancer prevention effects of trace elements.
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How to make wine from golden cherry seeds
How to make wine from golden cherry seeds.
1, simply put, it is to choose the golden cherry 1-2 kilograms, more than 45 degrees of white wine 5 kilograms, the right amount of rock sugar, the golden cherry into a clean bottle and other containers, and then add the white wine to soak. General soak a month to drink; containers must be sealed, placed in a cool dry place for storage.
2, the nutritional analysis of golden cherry wine. Golden cherry fruit flavor unique, honey flavor and fragrance, its nutrition is very rich, containing sugar (mainly fructose and other reducing sugars), citric acid, malic acid, tannins, vitamins, more than 20 kinds of amino acids, 18 kinds of minerals, and resins, saponins and other ingredients, especially vitamin C and reducing sugar content is high. It is determined that each 100g of fresh golden cherry fruit pulp containing vitamin C1009mg, the content is second only to the prickly pear, is 2 times the fresh jujube, 10 times the honeysuckle, citrus 30 times. Secondly, the golden cherry contains rich zinc and selenium, these two elements for the human body necessary with specific health care and cancer prevention effect of trace elements. Modern pharmacological proof: golden cherry fruit orally can promote gastric juice secretion to help digestion, but also can make the intestinal mucosa contraction, secretion reduction and stop diarrhea; golden cherry decoction of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dysentery bacillus and influenza virus have a strong inhibitory effect.
3, other methods of golden cherry wine. According to different methods of concocting is divided into gold cherry, honey gold cherry, fried gold cherry, salt gold cherry. After concoction stored in dry containers, honey gold cherry, fried gold cherry, salt gold cherry closed, placed in a ventilated dry place; gold tassel is suitable for soft and hard candies, fruit juices, soft drinks, fruit juice, gas wine, champagne and other coloring. Therefore, connoisseurs believe that the gold cherry wild resources are abundant, fast-growing, but also easy to cultivate, is an ideal, with the potential for development and utilization of natural juice drinks raw materials.
Cherry blossom is an evergreen climbing shrub of Rosaceae family, the fruit for traditional Chinese medicine, medicinal wine, juice, syrup and other applications. The roots are also used in traditional Chinese medicine. Golden Cherry contains Bu Gulinol, fatty acids, these components, can effectively help us to achieve the effect of lowering blood lipids, so that the accumulation of fat in the blood vessels quickly removed, but also effective in the prevention of atherosclerosis.
Modern medical research has also found that the golden cherry is also antibacterial anti-inflammatory, cough and asthma, hypolipidemic and shrinkage of urine to stop the efficacy. In particular, the golden cherry for the treatment of diseases caused by E. coli, is a very obvious effect. And the operator is also a very common folk cough and asthma herbal medicine.
Cherry can be eaten raw, can also be dried and sliced after drinking water, sweet and sour flavor, but also has a certain health role, often drink golden cherry in water, for nourishment and health care is extremely beneficial, can play a certain role in tonifying the kidneys, but also promote the secretion of gastric juices, to improve the immune system, for the prevention of colds and viruses have a very good inhibition of the efficacy of the virus, but also effective treatment of coughing, a more popular health care Chinese medicine, is a very important part of the treatment of the disease. A more popular health care Chinese medicine.
Cherryberry wine:
Cherryberry wine is a very good Chinese medicine, of course, or to add some other herbs to complement its effect is better. I am using it as the main wine for some years, the effect is really good, drink a little bit every night, I feel much less fatigue, back pain and back pain gradually also much better.
Production method:Picking down the golden cherry to grind off the surface of the thorns, wash clean, and then split into two halves with a knife, remove the middle of the seeds after drying. Before drying, you can also steam the golden cherry once, completely remove the golden cherry in the pests and bacteria.
Golden cherry soaking need to use 50-60 degrees of rice wine or grain wine, choose glass or ceramic containers, do not choose plastic jars. As the golden cherry soaking will produce a certain amount of sugar, so the rock sugar can be less, or do not put.
It is recommended that no more than one or two jin of rock sugar per jin of rice wine can be used, or white sugar or honey can be used instead of rock sugar, but from a health care point of view, the choice of rock sugar is the best choice.
The golden cherry is certainly not very useful! Because it is really too much in the wild, easy to grow, usually no one wants it! If it was really useful, people would have already picked it up and sold it for money. Because it is more, easy to obtain, so the Chinese medicine doctors will never be like cordyceps as bragging about the divine medicine, use it to cheat money is not good!
My hometown called prickly fruit
Golden cherry, solid essence shrink urine kidney function, can cure excessive nocturnal enuresis,
We pick back here as a wine, usually with rice wine, but also with sorghum wine or baguette wine, soak out of the wine wine color gold-red, excellent taste. It is also a good health product.
We are very much in Hunan, all over the mountains are, we call the chicken weight, ate as a child, now some old people pick home to get rid of the thorns soak wine to drink
scrape clean inside, and then put in the mouth to eat! My rural primary school