[Medicinal Diet Name]
Apple Soup
[Ingredients]
1 apple, white fungus, 1 red date, wolfberry, rock sugar as needed.
[Steps]
1. Soak the white fungus and tear it into small pieces. 2. Wash and peel the apple, remove the core, and cut into small pieces. Wash and remove the pit of the red date.
3. Put the white fungus, apple, and red date in a clay pot with 3 bowls of water. Bring to a boil and simmer for thirty minutes.
4. Finally, add wolfberry.
[Functions and Indications]
Nourishing the stomach and generating fluids. Moistening the lungs, assisting in lowering blood lipids and blood pressure.
[Benefits of Wolfberry]
1. Immune regulation
Wolfberry is rich in wolfberry polysaccharides, which is a water-soluble polysaccharide composed of 6 monosaccharide components: arabinose, glucose, galactose, mannose, xylose, and ribose. It has physiological activity and can enhance nonspecific immune function, improve disease resistance, inhibit tumor growth and cell mutation.
2. Anti-aging
Immune aging is closely related to cell apoptosis. Wolfberry polysaccharides (LBP) can significantly improve the phagocytic function of phagocytes and the proliferation ability of lymphocytes.
3. Lowering blood sugar
Wolfberry polysaccharides can significantly enhance the activity of damaged pancreatic islet cells' superoxide dismutase (SOD), improve the antioxidant capacity of pancreatic islet cells, reduce the damage of peroxides to cells, and reduce the production of malondialdehyde. This indicates that wolfberry polysaccharides have a certain protective effect on pancreatic islet cells.
4. Lowering blood pressure
Wolfberry polysaccharides can reduce blood pressure in rats (both systolic and diastolic); reduce the content of malondialdehyde and endothelin in plasma and blood vessels, increase the release of calcitonin gene-related peptides, and prevent the formation of hypertension.
5. Improving vision
The light-sensitive cells of the human retina are composed of retinol and rhodopsin. The rich beta-carotene in wolfberry can be converted into vitamin A in the human body, and vitamin A can generate retinol, thereby improving vision and preventing macular degeneration.
6. Enhancing respiratory system's disease resistance
Wolfberry is rich in beta-carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the human body. It has the function of maintaining the normal growth and differentiation of epithelial tissues. When the amount is sufficient, it can prevent nasal, pharyngeal, throat, and other respiratory infections and enhance the disease resistance of the respiratory system.
7. Beauty and skin care, moisturizing the skin
Skin aging is mainly caused by oxidative damage caused by free radicals. The wolfberry polysaccharides and beta-carotene contained in wolfberry are powerful antioxidants. In addition, the synergistic effect of the trace element selenium and vitamin E contained in wolfberry forms a strong antioxidant force; in addition, vitamin A can maintain the growth and differentiation of epithelial tissues, prevent skin dryness and follicular keratosis, thus playing a role in beauty and skin care and moisturizing the skin.
