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Perilla leaves have always been used for medicinal purposes in our country, but they are used as a cooking ingredient in Japan. So what are the medicinal and edible value of perilla leaves? Perilla leaves have a wide range of functions. We can use perilla leaves to treat colds, and perilla leaves are good for abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. Perilla leaves have the effect of raising blood sugar.

Perilla leaves have the advantage of lowering cholesterol and triglycerides. Eating perilla leaves regularly can help improve brain health and resist aging. Perilla leaves can also protect eyesight and resist allergies.

The whole plant of Perilla has high nutritional value and is rich in protein, vitamins, dietary fiber, fat, calcium, sodium, potassium, iron, copper, magnesium and other nutrients. From a nutritional perspective, perilla is low in sugar, high in fiber, high in carotene, and high in mineral elements.

0.5% volatile oil, as well as purple pigment, cumic acid, adenine, arginine, etc. can be extracted from the whole plant of Perilla. The oil contains 55% perillaldehyde, 25% L-limonene, and a small amount of α-pinene. Perillaldehyde has a special aroma and has an antiseptic effect. In addition, isobathryone can be extracted from the leaves, and the fruit contains 36% fatty oil and substances such as VB1.

Step 1: Perilla leaves contain unsaturated fatty acids, which have multiple functions such as lowering cholesterol and triglycerides, and have obvious therapeutic effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Because perilla oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, it has the effects of strengthening the brain, delaying aging, protecting eyesight, lowering blood lipids, losing weight, and anti-allergic, so the development of health foods based on perilla oil has become a hot topic.

Step 2: Perilla leaves contain alpha-linolenic acid, which has a health-promoting effect on the brain and can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Step 3: Perilla leaves contain OD (superoxide dismutase), which has anti-aging and whitening effects.

Step 4: Perilla leaves contain perilla glycopeptide, which has anti-allergic effects.

Perilla leaves are spicy, slightly warm and non-toxic. It enters the spleen meridian and lung meridian. It can promote the flow of qi and relieve fullness, eliminate phlegm and benefit the lungs, harmonize blood, warm the middle, relieve pain, calm asthma, stabilize the fetus, release the exterior, dispel cold, regulate qi, and harmonize the blood circulation. It is used to treat colds, chills and fever, cough, headache without sweating, asthma, chest and abdominal distension, vomiting, nausea and diarrhea, pharyngeal obstruction, nausea during pregnancy, and fetal movement disorder. It can also detoxify fish and crab poisons, carbuncles, and snake venom.

Perilla leaves are often used to treat colds, coughs, nausea, vomiting during pregnancy, and fish and crab poisoning. Perilla is one of the commonly used Chinese medicines. It is the main medicine for regulating the lungs and qi, and has the effect of stabilizing pregnancy. According to pharmacological analysis, this product dilates skin blood vessels and stimulates sweat glands, causing the body to sweat and reduce fever. Therefore, it can be used for colds, mental fatigue, ear congestion, stuffy head, and driving away cold and heat.

(II) The role of perilla leaves

Step 1: Reduce fever.

Oral administration of 2 g/kg of perilla leaf decoction and infusion to rabbits with fever caused by mixed typhoid vaccine had a weak antipyretic effect; the infusion of Korean perilla was given to rabbits with fever caused by warm prickly heat, which also had a weak antipyretic effect.

Step 2: Antibacterial.

Perilla leaves can inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus in test tubes.

Step 3: Effects on blood sugar.

Oral administration of 0.35 ml/kg of perilla oil to rabbits can increase blood sugar. When perilla aldehyde, the main component of perilla oil, is made into oxime, its oral blood sugar-raising effect is stronger than that of perilla oil. This oxime dissolved in olive oil and injected subcutaneously also has an effect, but it is slower.

Step 4 Effect on blood coagulation.

Injection of perilla water extract into the ear vein of rabbits can shorten the blood coagulation time, plasma recalcification time and thromboplastin time, indicating that perilla has a promoting effect on the endogenous coagulation system, but has no obvious effect on the exogenous coagulation system.

Step 5: Promote intestinal motility.

Perilla ketone isolated from Perilla leaves promotes intestinal peristalsis in rats and accelerates the movement of intestinal substances. This is because Perill ketone stimulates the intestinal sphincter.

Step 6: Calming effect.

Perillaldehyde, Stigmasterol and Dill apiole isolated from Perilla leaves all have sedative effects and can prolong the sleep time of rats reduced by phenobarbital. The median effective dose of Dill apiole is 1.57 mg/kg. The 1:20 concentration of Perilla frutescens decoction has an inhibitory effect on the ECHO11 strain of the virus.

Step 7: Eliminate phlegm.

Perilla leaves can also reduce the body's bronchial secretions and have the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving asthma.

Above we introduced what perilla leaves are. We know that perilla leaves are a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. We can use perilla leaves to treat many diseases. Perilla leaves are very effective for our health and daily health care, but we also need to know that perilla leaves have the effect of raising blood sugar, so they are not good for patients with diabetes.