The efficacy and function of peanut oil

Peanut oil is a very common medicinal material in life. Peanut oil has a wide range of uses, so you can choose it with confidence. Let’s take a look at it together.

[Alias] Fruit oil, peanut oil (Compendium of Materia Medica).

[Source] It is a fatty oil extracted from the seeds of the leguminous plant peanut .

[Chemical composition] Peanut oil contains glycerides of various fatty acids. The main fatty acid is oleic acid (39.2-65.7%). Next are linoleic acid (16.8-38.2%), palmitic acid (7.2-12.9%), stearic acid (2.6-5.6%) and arachidic acid, behenic acid, tetracosanoic acid, myristic acid, cerotic acid, cis-eicosene-9-acid, eicosene-11-acid, arachidic acid, lauric acid, etc.

[Pharmacological action] Peanut oil can be used as a solvent for oily injections and as a base for ointments in pharmaceutical preparations. Some experiments have shown that subcutaneous injection of peanut oil once a day (0.05 ml/100 g) for 3 days can cause mild enlargement of the thyroid gland of rats and increase the thyroid iodine uptake rate. The steam distillate of peanut oil has a weak antibacterial effect. In the replication of experimental atherosclerosis in rats, if peanut oil is combined with other high-cholesterol feeds, the aorta can produce "atherosclerosis" similar to that in humans; if butter is used instead of peanut oil, blood clots often occur and the lesions are different from those in humans.

[Nature and flavor] "Compendium of Materia Medica": "sweet, neutral."

【Function and indication】 "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can relieve constipation and relieve constipation."

【Clinical application】 ①Treatment of acute and chronic bacillary dysentery

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

This article ends here on the medicinal value of peanut oil. In fact, peanut oil has many different medicinal effects and has significant benefits to the human body. Everyone can try it.