How Do You Eat Sour Jujube Seed? A Detailed Guide to Its Benefits, Effects and Who Should Avoid It

You are probably fairly familiar with sour jujube seed (Semen Ziziphi Spinosae). Sour jujube seed can be used in health foods and has many benefits for the human body. So, how do you eat sour jujube seed? What benefits and effects does sour jujube seed have? Who should not eat sour jujube seed? How much should you eat per day? Do you know the answers to these questions?

1. How do you eat sour jujube seed?

Sour jujube seed is a precious Chinese medicinal herb. It can treat insomnia and anxiety, and it can also protect the myocardium and lower blood pressure. As a medicinal herb that is also a food, it can better exert its nutritional value and health benefits when eaten together with other nutritious ingredients. Here are several common ways to eat sour jujube seed:

1. Celery and sour jujube seed soup

Ingredients: 150 g celery, 10 g sour jujube seed

Method: Wash the celery and cut it into sections, put it in a pot together with the sour jujube seed, add an appropriate amount of water, and season with salt and monosodium glutamate.

Benefits: Clears heat and detoxifies, calms the mind and soothes the nerves

2. Jujube and sour jujube seed porridge

Ingredients: 100 g rice, 15 g sour jujube seed, 15 g jujube

Method: Wash the sour jujube seed, stir-fry it until cooked and set aside. Add an appropriate amount of clean water to a pot, put in the stir-fried sour jujube seed and the jujube, and simmer to make a decoction. Wait until the medicinal liquid has been extracted, wash the rice, put it in the pot and cook until the rice is soft, then it is ready to eat.

Benefits: Treats osteoporosis

3. Lotus seed, sour jujube seed and longan soup

Ingredients: 20 lotus seeds, 10 pieces longan flesh, 20 sand olive kernels, 9 g sour jujube seed, an appropriate amount of rock sugar

Method: Wash all the ingredients and soak them for 20 minutes. Put the lotus seeds, longan flesh, sand olive kernels and sour jujube seed into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of clean water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat. Add a little rock sugar and it is ready to eat.

Benefits: Beauty and skin care, benefits the spleen and stomach

2. What benefits and effects does sour jujube seed have?

Sour jujube seed contains many beneficial components such as alkaloids, saponins and flavonoids. These components have effects such as calming the mind and soothing the nerves, reducing convulsions, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, inhibiting platelet aggregation, enhancing immunity, anti-aging and protecting against radiation.

1. Supplies vitamin C

Sour jujube seed is rich in vitamin C and can supply the vitamin C the body needs each day.

2. Calms and aids sleep

Sour jujube seed has the benefits of treating neurasthenia, convulsions, insomnia, night sweats and other conditions. It also strengthens the body, enhances immunity and tonifies the kidney and strengthens yang, making it very suitable for people with poor sleep quality.

3. Treats palpitations and depression

Sour jujube seed is a good medicine in traditional Chinese medicine for treating palpitations and depression. Sour jujube seed can improve sleep quality and relieve nervous tension, and compared with Western medicine for treating depression, its side effects are milder and it is safer.

4. Beauty and skin care

Boiling raw sour jujube seed in water has an antioxidant effect, and drinking it over the long term has beauty and skin care benefits.

5. Treats bone wind

Sour jujube seed can relax the meridians and activate collaterals, and has a good medicinal effect on muscle and bone pain.

3. Who should not eat sour jujube seed?

Although sour jujube seed has many benefits, some people are not suitable to eat it. The following six groups of people should not eat sour jujube seed.

1. People who are emotionally agitated or overly fatigued

Taking sour jujube seed can easily cause arrhythmia in these people, so it should be taken with caution.

2. People who are prone to allergies

3. People with high blood pressure, high blood lipids or diabetes

4. People with low kidney function

5. People with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

6. Pregnant women

4. How much sour jujube seed should you eat per day?

The edible dose of sour jujube seed is 10 to 15 g per day, and it can be eaten using the methods above.

Sour jujube seed has good medicinal effects on protecting against myocardial damage, protecting the myocardium, lowering blood pressure and preventing renal hypertension. Eating sour jujube seed has many benefits, but exactly how to eat it and how much to eat still need to be determined according to individual circumstances and a doctor's advice. It must not be taken at will.