Hawthorn also has therapeutic value. Chinese medicine believes that Hawthorn Gan Ping is non-toxic and its kidney is spleen and stomach. All those who look chlorosis, loose muscles, loose stools or convulsions, or edema of limbs can often eat hawthorn. In modern times, Yu Shuhong, a famous physician of Changshu, recorded a medical case of treating spleen deficiency diarrhea with roasted hawthorn. A patient suffering from chronic diarrhea, yellow face floating, long after the treatment had a unilateral, a day with a hawthorn, out of the yellow mud put the stove inside and outside the cooked food, the results of the rest of the month then bear fruit. The book "Sweet Potato Transplants" also said that sweetpotato cooked food can cure spleen and diarrhea, and the constipation applied in hawthorn is more common in body fat, yellow-faced person, uncomfortable stool, and then dried up. With edema. Hawthorn eaten regularly can make the stool go smoothly, so "Herb seeking the original" said that Hawthorn can "broad stomach, pass constipation." Hawthorn's diuretic effect is a strong one, but it has a good adjuvant effect on mild edema of obese body type. "Lingnan Medicinal Products Record" said: "Vinegar cook clothes, rule body swollen." There is also a record of the mountain mortuary “Yufeng cold, Yi color†in the Chinese medicine literature.
In recent years, the health care value of hawthorn has been increasingly valued by people. Nutritionists found that hawthorn is rich in vitamin B, vitamin C, lysine and other nutrients. Japanese scholars have found that hawthorn is rich in mucin, a mixture of polyketides and proteins that can maintain the lubrication of the digestive tract, respiratory tract, and joint cavity, maintain cardiovascular elasticity, prevent arteriosclerosis, and delay aging. It was found that hawthorn contains a kind of estrogen and can protect human skin. In addition, the rich cellulose in the hawthorn can absorb water in the intestine and increase the volume of the stool, thus promoting defecation.
Hawthorn's hometown often eats steamed, boiled, porridge porridge. When it is time to eat, it should be hot, and it is not advisable to swallow it too quickly to prevent congestion. Some people do not eat excessive amounts of hawthorn, which is easy to burn and bloating. It is advisable for the elderly to eat hawthorn to eat porridge. Practice is: first wash the skin of the hawthorn, cut into small pieces, with rice, boiled water appropriate amount, into the Hawthorn holding mash porridge thick, you can put some brown sugar, but also more delicious. If people are prone to edema on weekdays, they can add coixes; those who feel insomnia and insomnia, who have lotus seeds, those who have low back pain, who can add geizi, dizzy flowers, can add chrysanthemums, wolfberry, and congee together, have better curative effect.
[Pharmaceutical efficacy]
According to records in ancient literature such as the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Compendium of Materia Medica", sweet potatoes have the effect of "reducing deficiencies, replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and strengthening kidney yin", making them "longevity and less disease," and they can "make up for Chinese medicine." And blood, warm stomach, fat five internal organs" and so on. "The biography of the sweet potato" stated that it has six kinds of medicinal values: treating dysentery and diarrhea; treating alcohol accumulation and diarrhea; treating dampness and jaundice; treating nocturnal emission and whitishness; treating blood deficiency and menstrual disorders; treating children with hoarding . It can be seen that sweet potato is not only a healthy food, but also a good medicine for rickets.
1. Nourish the liver and kidney, help the body recover. Sweet potatoes can improve the function of the digestive organs, nourish the liver and kidney, and have a restoring effect on the body's debilitation. It can effectively treat hepatitis and jaundice.
2. Sweet potatoes have anti-cancer effects. The most nutritious substances in the diet are β-carotene (vitamin A precursor), vitamin C and folic acid, and the three are rich in sweet potato. Rich in lysine and carotene, can promote normal epithelial cell maturation, inhibit abnormal epithelial cell differentiation, eliminate carcinogenic oxygen free radicals, prevent carcinogens from binding proteins in the nucleus, and promote the enhancement of human immunity.
3. Sweet potatoes are good for the heart. Sweet potatoes are rich in potassium, beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C, and vitamin B6. These five ingredients help prevent cardiovascular disease. Potassium helps balance the body's cellular fluids and electrolytes, maintains normal blood pressure and heart function; beta-carotene and vitamin C have anti-fat oxidation and prevent atherosclerosis; folate and vitamin B6 help lower blood levels of high cysteines The content of amino acids avoids damage to arterial blood vessels and eliminates cardiovascular risk factors.
4. Contraint. Sweet potato contains a large amount of cellulose and pectin, which are not easily destroyed by digestive enzymes, and can stimulate digestive fluid secretion and gastrointestinal motility, thereby playing a laxative effect.
5. Enhance resistance, promote sexual desire and delay aging. Sweet potatoes contain a special property of vitamins C and E, that is, only the vitamins C and E contained in sweet potatoes will have special properties that will not be destroyed under high temperature conditions. Vitamin C can significantly enhance the body's resistance to colds and other viruses, while vitamin E can promote sexual desire and delay aging.
6. Lose weight. Sweet potato is also an ideal diet food. It contains less calories, only one-third of the calories produced by the same weight of rice, and is free of fat. Therefore, eating sweet potatoes is good for human health and has certain weight loss effects.