The efficacy and function of clove powder

Lilac, the perfect fruit of lilac, is native to the Maluku Islands and surrounding islands in Indonesia. Contains volatile oils, mainly containing eugenol, acetyleugenol, B-german irisene, as well as hydroxy-n-amyl ketone, methyl salicylate, humulene, benzaldehyde and other ingredients. It can be used as a spice or as a traditional Chinese medicine. It has the effects of warming the middle and relieving adverse reactions, warming the kidney, nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang. 1. Warming the middle and relieving adverse reactions. Lilac is a very good warming stomachache medicine. It has excellent effects on stomachache, vomiting, hiccups, abdominal pain, diarrhea caused by dampness, and cold menstrual pain in women. It can also relieve gastrointestinal bloating, improve digestion and absorption capacity, relieve nausea and retching, especially morning sickness in pregnant women. 2. Regulating Qi and relieving pain. Cloves mainly contain volatile oil components such as clove oil, which can relieve gastrointestinal bloating, improve digestion ability, and relieve nausea and retching. 3. Refreshing and invigorating, clove flowers have a spicy aroma and are warm in nature. Pungent in nature, it can disperse the qi, warm the body and overcome dampness and cold, have a fragrant taste and open the orifices, and eliminate dampness and filth. "Bencao Zaixin" says that it "opens the nine orifices and relieves depressed qi." Therefore, it has the effect of awakening the mind and opening the orifices. It can be used to eliminate dampness and turbidity, block the clear orifices, disturb the spirit and cause mental confusion, flow of phlegm, nausea and retching, greasy white tongue coating, and slippery pulse. 4. Lilac flowers have a fragrant smell that can ward off filth and remove insects. The "Haiyao Bencao" says: "It can remove insects, cure five types of hemorrhoids, and ward off evil." Therefore, lilac flowers have the effect of warding off filth and removing insects. This crystal is commonly used in all generations to treat disability caused by eating crabs, carbuncles, and nasal polyps. It can be taken orally or applied topically. 5. Warming the kidney, nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang. Lilac flowers are warm in nature and enter the spleen meridian. "Bencao Gangmu" records: "It can cure kidney essence, nourish the kidney and strengthen yang, and warm the waist and knees." Therefore, it has the effects of warming the kidney, nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang, and is commonly seen in symptoms such as erectile dysfunction, coldness, running pig, cold pain in the waist and legs.

Nutritional Information

Lilac flowers contain volatile oil, namely clove oil. The oil mainly contains eugenol (ingredients 72% - 90%), acetyl eugenol, B-german irisene, as well as hydroxy-n-amyl ketone, methyl salicylate, humulene, benzaldehyde, benzyl alcohol, m-methoxybenzaldehyde, benzyl formate, piperine, a-ylanene, etc.

1. Anti-gastric ulcer: It can inhibit the occurrence of experimental gastric ulcer in rats. Clove volatile oil and eugenol can significantly enhance the metabolism of gastric mucus without increasing the acid value. Eugenol may be a specific anti-ulcer ingredient.

2. Inhibit intestinal excitation: Its decoction can inhibit the spontaneous contraction of paraffin-sectioned rabbit intestines, and can resist the excitatory effects of acetylcholine, nitrosamines, etc. on paraffin-sectioned intestines.

3. Anesthesia: Eugenol has anesthetic effects on young grass shrimp, crucian carp, etc. Eugenol can inhibit the compound action potential of A, B, and C fibers of the sympathetic nerves of rats, which may be one of the mechanisms by which lilac prevents tooth decay. Eugenol can block the transmission of frog lumbar vertebral compression nerves, but does not affect the postsynaptic membrane reaction, showing the effect of selective anesthesia of sympathetic nerves.

4. Antibacterial and antiviral treatment: Clove oil and eugenol have broad-spectrum antibacterial effects. The ellagic acid in lilac flowers has anti-herpes simplex virus infection effects. Antifungal drugs: their decoction or alcohol extract has a broad-spectrum antifungal effect, or a killing effect. Eugenol has a significant effect in eliminating Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans.