Walnut kernels
Nut foods are considered to be one of the most important components of a healthy diet, and walnut kernels are recognized as a great way to prolong life. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this product belongs to the kidney, lungs and large intestine meridians, and has the effects of strengthening the kidneys and astringent essence, warming the lungs and moistening the intestines, replenishing the life, and benefiting the three cokes. Walnut kernels are recorded in the “Suixingju Diet Recipe”: “Sweet and warm to moisten the lungs, benefit the kidneys and intestines, dissolve deficiency and phlegm, relieve deficiency and pain, strengthen the waist and feet, disperse wind and cold, help acne pulp, have exerted asthma, clear the blood veins, replenish the deficiency of childbirth, moisten the skin, warm the water and dirt, make copper poison, treat all pains, kill sheep, and relieve teeth.” It can be seen that walnuts have a variety of therapeutic or health care effects, such as dissolving cold phlegm, strengthening the waist and legs, benefiting blood and veins, tonifying postpartum weakness or beauty. In addition to the use of walnut kernels in many traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, such as moth pills and walnut pills, walnut kernels are also processed into walnut powder, walnut drinks, red dates and walnuts and other snacks, and vernaculars. Modern research believes that walnut kernels are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, and have various functions such as delaying aging, lowering cholesterol, and reducing the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. However, it is also necessary to pay attention to the daily consumption amount, too much food also has side effects such as moving wind and phlegm, helping kidney fire, etc., patients with deficiency and cold constitution or deficiency can eat more, but patients with phlegm and fire should be particularly careful.
Walnut shells
After removing the walnut kernel, a solid walnut shell remains, but its function should not be underestimated. Many ancient books of Chinese medicine contain many healing effects of walnut shells. In the treatment of internal administration, the ancients often used the method of burning ash to treat walnut shells before using them. As recorded in the “Benjing Fengyuan”: “The shell burns ash to cure cradle carbuncles, takes two coins of ash powder, and the wine is subdued, and it disappears before it is swollen, and it has gradually collapsed.” “Juvenile Eclectic” contains: “Long-term dysentery is not stopped, the walnut shell ashes are stored at the end, depending on the size, and the wine is served.” “It can be seen that walnut shell ash preservation has a lot of therapeutic effects.
In terms of external treatment, walnut shells can be used externally after burning ash and can be used externally, and are also commonly used as septum moxibustion to treat diseases such as surgery or internal women and children. The “Hui Zhi Tang Experience Formula” contains the treatment method for the initial onset of the nameless swelling poison: first fill the walnut shell with pounded garlic, then seal it with yellow paper and cover the affected area. Finally, the big moxa pill is put into the shell and moxibustion is 7 strong, and the swelling can be reduced after 3~5 times of moxibustion. In modern times, improved walnut shell moxibustion is also used to treat eye diseases, because the eye is not suitable for direct moxibustion, and the walnut shell resembles an eye, which is conducive to covering up the shell moxibustion, and these innovative uses have greatly improved the application range of walnut shell.
Walnut diaphragm
Walnut diaphragm is a light brown woody sheet in the shape of a butterfly between walnut kernels in the walnut shell, which is bitter in taste, astringent, flat in nature, and returns to the spleen and kidney two meridians, also known as walnut, walnut, distraction wood, etc. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, astringent Chinese medicine has the function of astringency and astringency, so it is commonly used in clinical practice to treat diseases such as spermatozoa, frequent urination, blood in the urine, lower belt, dysentery and so on. Boiling walnut diaphragm into water to make tea every day has a certain effect on treating insomnia. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to whether the walnut diaphragm is used when using walnuts, because there are also some formulas that require walnuts to be peeled or used together with walnut coating. As recorded in the “Materia Medica”: “A young child has phlegm and asthma, and he does not breastfeed for five days, and he takes ginseng and walnut soup, and his asthma is determined.” Tomorrow, go to the walnut clothes, gasp and recover, still even leather clothes, and heal. The cover has the function of collecting the lungs. ”
Two walnut remedies
Crystal peach
Ingredients: one pound of walnut kernels, one pound of persimmon frost cake.
Method: First, the walnut kernels are steamed, and then they are steamed in a steamer with persimmon cakes until they melt into one, and then they are taken at will after cooling. Or you can put the ground walnut kernels into the persimmon cream cake and steam it at the same time.
Efficacy: From the “Medical Hearts and References to the West”, it has the effect of treating lung and kidney deficiency, or cough, or wheezing, or waist and knee pain, or limb weakness, and the effect is especially good for treating children.
Walnut and red date porridge
Ingredients: 30 grams of walnut kernels, 15 grams of peanut kernels, 5 red dates, 100 grams of japonica rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar and other seasonings.
Method: After washing walnut kernels, peanut kernels, red dates, and japonica rice, add an appropriate amount of water and cook with japonica rice, and then add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and other seasonings to cook for a while before serving.
Efficacy: Nourish qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and kidneys.