Red jujube is also called jujube, Wang Anshi’s “Fu Jujube” once had a poem praising it, “the wind bag falls into the vermilion, and the day is wrinkled red jade.” “Red dates also symbolize auspiciousness and happiness, and are essential items for ceremonial celebrations, such as red dates and peanuts placed on the bedside quilt corners of newlyweds, implying the early birth of a precious child.
In the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine, jujube is the most common medicine and food homologous prescription. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that red dates are sweet in taste, warm in nature, and return to the spleen, stomach, and heart meridians. It is commonly used to treat weakness of the spleen and stomach, lack of qi and blood, lack of food and loose stools, fatigue and fatigue, palpitations and insomnia, women’s irritability, and disharmony between camp and health. This product is also effective when used alone, such as “Zhengzhi Criterion” to treat dirty irritability, self-sadness, self-crying, self-laughter, red dates are burned, and rice drink is adjusted. Because the irritability is mostly related to the lack of heart yin and the exuberance of the heart, and the heart qi is often insufficient, it is often compatible with wheat and licorice, such as sweet wheat and jujube soup (“Jin Kui Yaolu”). In addition, jujube also has the effect of protecting stomach qi and alleviating drug toxicity, such as ten jujube soup (“Treatise on Typhoid Fever”). Modern pharmacological studies have proved that jujube has the effect of enhancing muscle strength, increasing body weight, increasing the secretion of digestive juices, protecting the liver, and sedative-hypnotic.
Although jujube is a good health fruit, due to its high sugar content, it is not suitable for diabetics, constipation, internal heat and even others. In the “Diet Recipe for Living with Rest”, it is said: “Eating too much causes swelling and diarrhea, heat and thirst, which is the most unbeneficial…… All children, postpartum and warm fever, summer fever before and after diseases, jaundice, swelling, chancre accumulation, phlegm stagnation, and contraindication. ”
In daily life, red dates can be eaten as snacks, and they can also be used to make tea in water, or put a few pieces in porridge and soup. The following is a recommendation for 3 jujube health diet recipes for your reference.
White soup with red dates and shallots
Ingredients: 20 red dates, 7 green onions.
Method: After washing the red dates, put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water and boil for 20 minutes, then wash and add the green onions, and cook continuously for 10 minutes before eating.
Efficacy: Nourish the heart and spleen, nourish the blood and calm the nerves.
Red jujube anti-depression porridge
Ingredients: 15 red dates, 6 grams of mint, 30 grams of wheat, 150 grams of japonica rice.
Method: Wash the red dates, remove the pits, and cut them into cubes; Mint decoction, remove the residue and retain the juice; Wash the wheat and japonica rice, put it in the pot and add mint soup, boil it over a fire, add diced red dates, turn to a simmer and boil it into porridge.
Efficacy: soothing the liver and relieving depression, tonifying the spleen and soothing the nerves.
Red dates and peanuts
Ingredients: 100 grams of peanuts, 10 red dates, appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Method: Soak peanuts in warm water for half an hour, peel off the skin (peanut coat); After washing the red dates, put them in a pot with the peanut clothes, add an appropriate amount of water, and fry them on low heat for half an hour. Take out the peanut coat, add brown sugar, and drink instead of tea.
Efficacy: Nourish blood and stop bleeding, replenish deficiency and strengthen the spleen.