Side effects of peanut red skin

What are the side effects of peanut red skins?

Peanut kernel is an annual woody plant of the genus Arachis. The fruit of peanut is a pod, and the color of the kernel is mostly yellow-white or brown. The seeds inside the peanut kernel are collectively called peanut kernels or peanuts, which are composed of three parts: seed coat, young leaves and embryo. The seed coat, which we often call peanut skin, is light brown or light red in color. What are the side effects of peanut red skin?

Peanut skins generally have no unique side effects.

Group taboo

Peanut skins generally have no unique group taboos. It is not suitable for patients with bruises and swelling from falls. Peanut red skin can invigorate blood circulation and promote blood coagulation function. If people with bruises or blood stasis eat too much, the blood stasis will be difficult to disperse and the swelling will be aggravated. Some middle-aged and elderly people have poor digestion and absorption, "weak spleen and loose stools", and are not suitable for eating peanuts, because peanut kernels are rich in vegetable oils, which have a laxative effect and will aggravate diarrhea. In addition, because peanut kernels contain a lot of vegetable oil, they require more bile to promote digestion, so those who have undergone cholecystectomy or suffer from serious gallbladder disease in middle-aged and elderly people should not eat too much peanut kernels.

The effect of peanut red skin

Peanut kernels are a globally recognized healthy food, and in China they are considered one of the “top ten longevity foods”. Chinese medicine believes that the effects of peanuts are to harmonize the stomach and intestines, replenish blood, invigorate qi, promote blood circulation, lower blood pressure and blood lipids. Among them, the effect of "replenishing blood, replenishing qi and activating blood circulation" mainly comes from the contribution of the red layer on the outside of the peanut kernel. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, "the spleen governs blood" and people with qi deficiency are prone to bleeding. Peanut red skin can replenish the qi of the spleen and stomach, so it can achieve the effect of replenishing qi, nourishing blood and activating blood circulation, which is called "replenishing qi and blood and activating blood circulation" in traditional Chinese medicine.

Peanut skin water is more suitable for women

Western medicine believes that boiling peanut skins in water can inhibit the dissolution of free fatty acids, increase the composition of platelets, improve the quality of platelets, improve the defects of coagulation factors, enhance the contraction function of capillaries, and promote bone marrow hematopoietic function. Therefore, it has significant effects on various bleeding and anemia caused by bleeding, aplastic anemia and other diseases.

Women should eat peanuts "red skin" more often. Female friends, especially those who are in their menstrual period, pregnancy, after giving birth and breastfeeding, should eat more of them. Because women at this stage lose too much blood and consume more nutrients, peanuts red skin is very beneficial for them to nourish qi and blood. In addition, peanut red skin also has the effect of stopping hair loss, promoting hair growth and beautifying hair. According to Chinese medicine, "hair is the result of blood deficiency". Hair loss and gray hair are caused by blood deficiency, which makes the hair unable to be moisturized.