Hello everyone, I am Feibing Life, in our daily life, apples are a fruit that everyone likes to eat. I only know that apples taste very good, and apple leaves are just ordinary leaves that can only be used to feed pigs, ducks, geese, and sheep. But let me tell you, if you know its nutritional value and medicinal value, understand its wonderful use, it is a treasure.
First, let me talk about the nutritional value of apples!
Apple leaves, the leaves of the genus Apple of the Rosaceae family, contain 3-6 nitrogen and 0 phosphorus in apple leaves2—0.3. Potassium 2 and a variety of trace elements; Nitrogen content in pear leaves is 2-22. Phosphorus 0l—0.25, potassium l2—2.6％。
1. The natural antioxidants contained in apple leaves, such as polyphenolic compounds, flavonoids and vitamin C, can sweep away free radicals in our body and protect our cells from oxidative attack.
2. There is also a substance of "malic acid" in apple leaves, which can reduce our blood sugar levels by promoting the secretion and utilization of insulin, so that our body can always maintain a stable state.
3. The internal compounds of apple leaves also have a hypolipidemic effect, which can subtly reduce the level of cholesterol and triacylglycerol in our blood and escort our cardiovascular health.
4. The glycoprotein and malic acid of apple leaves have a special relationship with our liver, which can stimulate and accelerate the repair and regeneration of our liver cells, and care for the health of the liver.
2. The medicinal value of apple leaves:
Apple leaves have a bitter taste. Cold, return to the meridian, return to the liver and kidney meridian.
1. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" records:"Apply to the umbilicus to treat yin syndrome. It also treats postpartum blood fans, menstrual water irregularities, steaming fever and fever, and takes the effect. "
2. "Southern Yunnan Sketch Theory" records:"Paste the fire poisonous sores, burn the ash and adjust the oil. "Dosage and dosage for internal use: decoction, 1 3 taels. Excerpt from: "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine".
The medicinal value of apple leaves is to cool the blood and detoxify, and is used for postpartum blood dizziness, menstrual irregularities, fever, heat poisonous sores, and burns. Internal: decoction. External use: appropriate amount, fresh leaves, picked in June and October, best dried in the sun.
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