Which season are walnuts ripe?

Walnut ripening season is generally "summer" season (solar calendar, mid-August, early September walnut ripening)

Medicinal value:

Sweet taste, nature of flat, warm, non-toxic, slightly bitter, slightly astringent.

Walnuts are sweet in flavor, warm in nature, and enter the kidney, lung and large intestine meridians. It can tonify the kidney, consolidate essence and strengthen the waist, warm the lungs and stabilize wheezing, moisten the intestines and laxative.

The main treatment for kidney deficiency, wheezing and coughing, lumbar pain; (wood compartment in the nucleus) bitter flavor, warm nature; tonifying the kidney, astringent essence.

Breaking blood and dispelling blood stasis: used for blood stagnation and menstrual closure, blood stasis and abdominal pain, accumulation of blood and madness, and bruising and stasis energy.

Moistening dryness and sliding intestines: used for constipation of intestinal dryness and difficult to relieve stools. This product is bitter to drain and disperse blood stasis, into the liver meridian blood, has strong blood circulation and regulate menstruation, eliminate blood stasis and regenerate new function, suitable for blood stasis is more serious. In addition, it also has the function of moistening the intestines and relieving cough.

Consumption taboos:

According to Song. Ma Zhi "Kai Bao Materia Medica" records: "drinking and eating walnuts will make people hemoptysis". Possibly because of the hot nature of walnuts, eating phlegm fire, and white wine is also sweet and spicy heat, the two with food, easy to cause blood heat. Especially those who have hemoptysis persistent disease, should be contraindicated. Such as bronchial dilatation, tuberculosis patients, drinking white wine can cause hemoptysis, not with walnuts **** food, can also cause disease.

Walnuts can not be eaten with pheasant and duck. Walnuts contain more fat, more food will affect digestion, so should not eat too much. In addition, in order to preserve the nutrition should not be peeled off the surface of the walnut brown skin. Eating more will cause diarrhea. Phlegm fire cough, Yin deficiency fire, loose stools and diarrhea patients should not eat.