What are the medicinal properties of jujube?

Many people's understanding of dates is limited to their edible value. For example, some girls who love beauty will eat a few dates raw every day. This can make their skin more tender and can also replenish blood for the body. Men like to use it to make tea, which can also be good for health. In fact, in traditional Chinese medicine, jujube can also be said to be a kind of Chinese medicine. So, what are the medicinal properties of jujube?

The cyclic adenosine monophosphate contained in jujube is an essential component for the energy metabolism of human cells. It can enhance muscle strength, eliminate fatigue, dilate blood vessels, increase myocardial contractility, improve myocardial nutrition, and has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, red dates have the effects of tonifying deficiency and replenishing qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, strengthening the spleen and stomach. Red dates have a good effect on chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, anemia, allergic purpura and other diseases. Red dates contain triterpenoid compounds and cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which have strong anti-cancer and anti-allergic effects.

Jujubes have many beneficial effects on the body, so there is a saying among the people that "eat three dates a day and you will never look old." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that jujube is sweet and warm in nature, and can replenish qi, nourish blood and calm the mind. People who are weak after illness, patients with anemia, and women with cold hands and feet in winter can all regulate their bodies by using dates. However, jujubes are both a food and medicine and have their own unique medicinal properties. If you use them as a tonic without distinguishing right from wrong and regardless of your body constitution, sometimes it may not only fail to have a health-promoting effect, but may even make things worse. Especially the following 4 types of people are better off eating less or no jujube:

Those with excessive phlegm and dampness. Such people often have thick and greasy tongue coating, sweet or greasy mouth, loss of appetite, and a bloated stomach. In severe cases, they may also have symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and swelling of the eyelids and face. The nourishing and greasy nature of jujube can easily promote dampness, making phlegm and dampness remain in the body and difficult to eliminate, thereby aggravating the above discomfort. People with this constitution are more suitable to eat foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, such as coix seed, red bean, yam, and loofah.

Love people who are on fire. People of this type have a hot constitution and often suffer from symptoms of getting angry, such as constipation, bad breath, swollen and painful throat and gums. Jujubes are sweet and warm in nature and tend to be warming and tonic. If consumed in large quantities, it would be like adding fuel to the fire.

Patients with early stage of cold. In the early stages of a cold, the wind-cold or wind-heat that invade the human body are at their peak. If you eat jujubes at this time, their sticky nature will often cause the evil to stagnate, resulting in the consequence of "keeping the enemy inside the door", making it difficult to expel the disease in the body and not conducive to recovery.

People with diabetes. Jujubes contain a lot of sugar, which can increase the blood sugar level in diabetic patients and aggravate their condition. Therefore, people with high blood sugar should not eat too many dates.

Except for the four types of people mentioned above, everyone can eat dates with confidence. Moreover, the shelf life of jujubes is relatively long, so you can buy more at a time and put them in a dry place at home, so that the jujubes will not spoil easily. If possible, if you have a stove at home, you can roast some dates and then soak them in water to drink, which tastes very good.