The effect of heartwood on insomnia

The core wood of walnut has a good regulating effect on insomnia patients and can help people improve their sleep. Drinking the core wood soaked in water can not only make people feel peaceful, but also help people develop good sleeping habits. The wood of the genus Geum can also nourish the kidneys and replenish qi, and is also helpful for male sexual dysfunction. Not only that, drinking water soaked with the wood of the genus Gexin can also treat gynecological diseases such as dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation.

What is the use of the walnut pith? It can strongly "tonify the kidney, strengthen the kidney," treat "frequent urination, excessive urination, back pain," and can also "activate blood circulation and tonify blood."

If you suffer from long-term insomnia, soak three grams of walnut wood in water, drink one cup each morning and evening, especially the one you drink one hour before going to bed at night, then your insomnia will recover quickly. Remember: it is especially effective for insomnia.

If you have a grinder, you can also grind the walnut pith into powder and take it with warm water each time. This will have a better effect. Of course, it is better for people with poor digestion to drink it soaked in water. But it is not easy to accumulate so much fenshimu. How many walnuts should be eaten to accumulate 3 grams of fenshimu (one-time dosage)? If you want to take it more often for a long time, you have to start accumulating it a long time in advance, otherwise you have to buy it at a Chinese medicine store.

Medicinal value of walnut wood

[Medicinal Materials] The woody diaphragms are in the form of thin flakes, which are often curved, broken and irregular.

The surface is light brown to tan, or brown-black, and slightly shiny.

It is brittle, easy to break, has a slight odor and tastes slightly bitter.

The best ones are large, thin and yellow in color.

It is mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong.

Nature and flavor "New Compendium of Materia Medica": "Tastes bitter, neutral, non-toxic."

Meridians: "Bencao Zaixin": "Enters the spleen and kidney meridians."

[Functions and indications] It is cold in nature, strengthens the kidney and astringes semen. It is used to treat spermatorrhea, gonorrhea, hematuria, enuresis, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, and diarrhea.

① "New Materia Medica": "Strengthen the spleen and strengthen the kidneys."

② Chen Nianzu: "Concentrate the essence and energy.

③ "Shanxi Chinese Medicine Records": "Diuretic and heat-clearing. Treat gonorrhea, hematuria, and summer heat diarrhea."

④ "Handbook of Chinese Medicinal Materials": "It is used to treat nocturnal enuresis and metrorrhagia."

⑤ "Shaanxi Chinese Materia Medica": "Treats deafness."

⑥ "Tianjin Chinese Herbal Medicine": "It has astringent and astringent properties. It can treat spermatorrhea, frequent urination, and leucorrhea."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 2 to 3 qian.

Add 750 ml of water to the hard shell, the pith (the part that separates the walnut meat from the shell) and the walnut meat, and simmer for 60 minutes until there is about 300 ml of the medicinal soup left. Remove the hard shell and core, divide the medicine liquid and pulp into three portions, take one portion three times a day, half an hour before meals, and a course of treatment is 30 days.

One week after taking the medicine, check urine sugar once, and check blood sugar and blood lipids once a month. If blood sugar and blood lipids return to normal, you can switch to a maintenance dose, which is to crush 4 walnuts and boil them into a soup, and take it half an hour before lunch. You can combine it with hypoglycemic drugs for long-term use without interruption.

The efficacy and function of walnut

Nourish your brain

You can add walnut kernels and rock sugar to make "walnut mud", and hide it in a porcelain jar. Take two spoonfuls each time, and mix it with boiling water. A layer of white liquid will float in the cup when it is poured. This is "walnut milk", which is rich and delicious.

Beauty

If you eat "walnut porridge" made by grinding walnut kernels into powder for a long time, it can nourish the skin and make it white and tender. It is especially suitable for the elderly with aging skin to eat it regularly.

Anti-aging

The vitamin E contained in walnut kernels can protect cells from oxidative damage by free radicals and is recognized by the medical community as an anti-aging substance. Therefore, walnuts are known as "longevity seeds" and "longevity fruit."

Good for the heart

Walnuts contain a variety of unsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, which can lower cholesterol levels. Therefore, eating walnuts is good for the human heart.

Treat insomnia

Regular consumption of walnut kernels has a therapeutic effect on insomnia caused by kidney deficiency. The method of administration is to use 5 walnut kernels and 30 grams of white sugar, mash them into a paste, put them into a pot, add 50 ml of rice wine, simmer on low heat for 30 minutes, take 1 dose per day, divided into two doses.

Prevent constipation

Method: 1. Fry the walnut kernels until fragrant and grind them into powder. Take 20 grams every night before going to bed. 2. Take equal parts of walnut kernels, pine nut kernels and cypress nut kernels, mash them into powder and make pills with honey. Each pill weighs 9 grams. Take 2-3 pills each time, twice a day. 3. Mash 6 grams of walnut kernels into a paste, add appropriate amount of honey to make a paste, and take it with warm water, 3 times a day.

Antitussive and Asthmatic

Walnut kernels have the effect of counteracting histamine-induced bronchial smooth muscle spasm and also have an antitussive effect. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Hong Mai said: Mai had phlegm disease, took three walnut kernels and three slices of ginger, chewed them when lying down, and drank two or three sips of soup, and chewed the walnut kernels and ginger again as before, and then lay down quietly. By morning, the phlegm had disappeared and the cough had stopped."

Treat arthritis

Foreign nutritionists have found that walnuts are beneficial for arthritis patients. This is consistent with the understanding of Chinese medicine that walnuts are "good for curing back pain, leg pain, and all muscle and bone pains." Chinese medicine believes that the mechanism by which walnuts can treat arthritis is due to their ability to nourish the kidneys and strengthen the tendons, and that this is related to their rich content of vitamin B6.