Effects and functions of jujube

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The efficacy and function of jujube

Fruit (jujube): tonifies the middle qi, nourishes blood and calms the mind. Used for spleen deficiency, poor appetite, fatigue, loose stools, and irritability in women.

Jujube bark: Anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, antidiarrheal. Used for tracheitis, enteritis, dysentery, metrorrhagia; external use for traumatic bleeding.

Root: promotes qi and blood circulation, regulates menstruation. Used for irregular menstruation, menorrhagia, and leucorrhea.

The role of jujube

It has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for more than 2,000 years. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as insufficient vital energy, weak spleen and stomach, fatigue, poor appetite and loose stools, blood deficiency and sallow complexion, and irritability in women.

Pharmacological studies in recent years have found that jujube contains a variety of biologically active substances, such as jujube polysaccharides, flavonoids, saponins, triterpenes, alkaloids, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), etc., which have many health care and therapeutic effects on the human body.

1. Anti-tumor

The cAMP in jujube participates in many physiological and biochemical processes in the body, such as cell division and differentiation, morphogenesis, glycogen and fat decomposition, and steroid production, and can act on gene transcription and affect protein synthesis. More importantly, cAMP has a significant therapeutic effect on the treatment of various tumors, and can effectively prevent the formation of nitrites in the human body, thereby inhibiting the formation and proliferation of cancer cells, and can even transform cancer cells into normal cells. In addition, the triterpenoid compounds rich in jujube have the effect of inhibiting cancer cells, especially hawthorn acid, which has the strongest effect, even exceeding the commonly used anticancer drug fluorouracil.

2. Antioxidant

The rich vitamin C in jujube has strong antioxidant activity and promotes collagen synthesis. It can participate in the redox reaction of tissue cells and is related to the metabolism of various substances in the body. Adequate vitamin C can promote growth and development, enhance physical strength, and reduce fatigue.

3. Lower blood pressure and cholesterol

The vitamin P content in jujube is the highest among all fruits and vegetables. It can maintain the permeability of capillaries, improve microcirculation and thus prevent arteriosclerosis, and can also promote the accumulation of vitamin C in the human body. In addition, the saponins contained in jujube have the functions of regulating human metabolism, enhancing immunity, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, lowering blood sugar and cholesterol levels; the rutin contained in jujube has the function of protecting the patency of capillaries and preventing the increase of vascular wall fragility, and is effective for hypertension, atherosclerosis and other diseases; the flavonoids contained in jujube can be used for the treatment and prevention of hypertension and arteriosclerosis.

4. Protect liver

The fructose, glucose, oligosaccharides and acidic polysaccharides in jujubes are involved in protecting the liver. Jujubes can significantly increase the total serum protein and albumin in rabbits with carbon tetrachloride-induced liver damage. At the same time, jujubes can improve the phagocytic function of monocytes in the body, protect the liver and enhance physical strength; vitamin C and cAMP in jujubes can reduce the damage of chemical drugs to the liver, and promote protein synthesis and increase the total serum protein content.

5. Improve immunity

Jujube polysaccharide is an important active substance in jujube. It has obvious complement activity and can promote lymphocyte proliferation, thus improving the body's immunity.

6. Prevent and treat insufficient blood supply to the brain

The flavonoids in jujube can prevent and treat cerebral ischemia and protect the ultrastructural damage of brain tissue caused by cerebral ischemia.

7. Anti-allergic

Eating jujube can treat allergic purpura. This is mainly because after the human body takes in enough cAMP, the cAMP content in immune cells also increases, which will inhibit the immune response and achieve an anti-allergic effect; the ethyl-D-furanoglucoside derivatives in jujube have an antagonistic effect on 5-hydroxytryptamine and histamine, so they can be anti-allergic.

8. Prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases

Jujubes are rich in vitamin C and vitamin P, which are beneficial for strengthening capillaries, maintaining the elasticity of blood vessel walls and resisting atherosclerosis. Jujubes contain cAMP, whose pharmacological effects are manifested in improving human microcirculation, dilating coronary arteries, increasing blood supply to the brain and heart, slowing down heart rate, reducing myocardial oxygen consumption and improving the metabolism of ischemic myocardium, so it can prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

9. Prevent and treat osteoporosis and anemia

Middle-aged and elderly people often suffer from osteoporosis, and adolescents and women who are at the peak of growth and development are prone to anemia. Jujubes are rich in calcium and iron, which are ideal for them. The effect is usually incomparable to drugs. Jujubes also have a good tonic effect on people who are weak after illness.

In addition, jujube contains vitamin E, which has anti-oxidation and anti-aging effects. Jujube contains dammarane saponins similar to those in ginseng, which have the effect of enhancing human endurance and anti-fatigue. Jujube also has a tonic and control effect on women's beauty and menopausal hot flashes, sweating, and emotional instability.