Golden hook Hovenia acerba , for the family of Rhamnaceae Hovenia dulcis plants.It is the expanded and twisted infructescence rachis, not the fruit, that is eaten.. The name Golden Hook is widely spread in the Jianghuai region of Anhui Province, and other local names include: Chicken Claw Tree (Anhui, Jiangsu), Chicken Claw Zi (Compendium of Materia Medica), Golden Fruit Pear (Zhejiang), Berry (Poetry), Southern Hovenia dulcis (a study of the plants of the Huangshan Mountains), Wanzhi Fruit, Wanzhi Pear (Fujian, Guangdong), Wanshou Fruit (Guangxi), Zaojiao (Salvation Materia Medica), Hovenia dulcis (Chinese Botanical Records - Official Chinese Name), and Abducted Zaojiao.

Genus name Hovenia: <阴>Hovenia dulcis [(man) David Hoven, 1724-1787, Dutch]. [Cited from Explanation of Botanical Names].

In addition to the expanding infructescence shafts that are edible, golden hooks are quite okay for medicinal purposes:

Lisu medicine] animal Lu Zi: fruit and seeds for drunkenness, fever, thirst, vomiting, bowel movement is not favorable "Nujiang medicine".

[Hmong medicine] Zend ghol bil, Zend dout ghenb: fruit for fever and thirst, drunkenness and vomiting, two bowel movements; root for rheumatism "Xianglan kao". bid nkeb nkul (than look at the wither), Zend ghol bil (real name must), Zend bed ghol (the whole back over), Zid dout ghenb (Hoven dout more): root for foot cramps; fruit antidote alcohol poisoning "Hmong medicine".

[Water Medicine] Xiu, Chicken Date, Chicken Hook: Seeds can detoxify alcohol "Water Medicine".

[Native medicine] abduction (guo zi) fruit treatment of alcohol poisoning, high fever and thirst, pediatric chancre "Native medicine".

Looking at your picture, I am sure that the plant you are asking about is the "Jujube". The official Chinese name for Jujube is "Hovenia dulcis". So what are the benefits of eating this stuff? According to the Chinese Botanical Records: Folk often use jujube to soak and make "jujube wine", this wine can cure rheumatism. Seeds for the cool diuretic medicine, can quench the poison of alcohol, applicable to fever and thirst, drunkenness, thirst, vomiting, fever and other diseases. However, as a kind of audience is not very wide seasonal "fruit", it is often advocated a variety of magical effects, they should be screened, or it is likely to be cheated.

Hovenia dulcis flowers.

Hovenia dulcis is actually the generic name for all Hovenia dulcis plants in the Rubiaceae family, with the two most common species being Hovenia dulcis and Hovenia dulcis Norte. People from the north and south have the tradition of eating it, but the part that we eat is actually its infructural axis. The Hovenia dulcis is fat and rich in sugar, and can be eaten raw, brewed, and boiled in sugar. Eating this fruit does not have the so-called "vitamin supplement, lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, relax the tendons and activate the blood, laxative and diuretic," and other effects that are commonly used by vendors to coax customers. However, it can be eaten as a seasonal fruit to relieve cravings. Therefore, do not be overly obsessed with certain wild fruits, do not think that eating certain wild fruits themselves can be invulnerable to all poisons, longevity, and cure all diseases. Be sure to pay attention to the businessmen's advocacy of their fruits.

The scientific name of the Golden Hook is Hovenia dulcis, which can be found all over the country. Regional dialects are quite varied, Hakka called "Tangerine Quintessence", Guangzhou called "Bijiuzi", Jiangsu is called "Sour Jujube" ... and so on. ... and so on, and more often called "Manju fruit" or "chicken claw". How do you say "Golden Hook" in your dialect?

Golden hook fruit looks more peculiar, I believe many people have seen eaten, especially after the frost of the fruit stalk sweet and delicious. Can be eaten raw, but also can soak wine, the key is the medicinal value is not expensive, 5 edible efficacy.

Nutritional Value of Golden Hook

As early as the ancient period, several ancient medical books have documented the effects of golden hooks.

Golden Hook is sweet in taste, flat in nature and belongs to the heart and spleen meridians; it is beneficial to the bowels, moistening the five organs, detoxifying alcohol, relieving cough and removing vexation, and treating fever and vomiting. It is a cooling drug and the whole plant can be used as medicine, such as: leaves, fruit stalks, bark, stems.

In modern medicine, golden hooks do have medicinal value, rich in carbohydrates, vitamin C, a variety of organic acids, and a variety of trace elements, such as: alkaloids, flavonoids, iron, calcium, sodium ...... and so on.

1、It can relieve alcohol.We have often heard that yogurt can solve the alcohol, but in fact only play the effect of stomach protection only. The golden hook is the real antidote to alcohol "magic weapon", containing organic acids can accelerate the conversion of ethanol contained in alcohol, promote alcohol decomposition, greatly shorten the time of ethanol metabolism in the body, reduce the damage to the human body. So it is a natural food.

2. Cure rheumatism.Golden Hook has the ability to treat rheumatism pain, has the effect of invigorating the blood, eliminating wind and dampness, and relieving spasms. Simply because it contains Hovenia dulcis saponins, this substance is characterized by having that inhibits the central nervous system and can resist convulsions (meaning cramps).

3. Facilitates diarrhea.Golden hook contains a lot of carbohydrates, glucose, dietary fiber and other minerals. Can promote the excretion of urine, but also promote gastrointestinal motility, adsorption of harmful substances in the body, with the discharge of stool, so it can also prevent constipation, so it is advantageous to the efficacy of two stools. It should be noted that diarrhea should not be consumed, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms.

4. Strong body.Golden Hook contains a lot of fructose, vitamins, organic salts, crude protein and trace elements. It can replenish the energy needed by the human body, enhance the disease-resistant energy of the body, and improve its immunity. It can also remove thirst and promote the production of fluids, clear heat and reduce fire, and have a certain prevention of summer heat stroke and cold and other symptoms.

5. Lowering blood pressure.Clinical medicine has documented that it has proven to be effective, and that Golden Hook contains wheatgrass alkaloids and Hovenia dulcis glycosides, which are able to unclog the blood and reduce its viscosity, with antioxidant and blood pressure-lowering effects.

Contraindications of Golden Hook

1, spleen and stomach deficiency cold can not be eaten, because the golden hook belongs to the nature of the cold food. Spleen and stomach cold refers to the fear of cold and like warmth, frequent cold limbs, abdominal distension, watery stools, swelling of the hands and feet, the tongue is more pale is the symptoms of spleen and stomach cold.

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This thing in the hammer hometown name is called "jujube", when my high school classmates from the mountain home to bring us to eat, the first time I saw it exclaimed: hold grass, withered branches you also pick down to eat! (There should be laughter here.)

There are many stories about the abduction of jujubes, and Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, recorded a case:

Su Dongpo's a hometown named Jie Yingchen, got a strange disease, appetite, often thirsty, urinate several times more than normal people. Many doctors said that this is "thirst", equivalent to today's people say diabetes, abnormal metabolism. As a result, according to the treatment of thirst, the disease is not better, but increasingly worse. Later, Su Dongpo recommended a famous doctor called Zhang Brachy, Zhang Brachy after diagnosis, asked him, is not years of drinking, the results found that the patient is an old drunkard, drinking for years suffering from this strange disease, not what thirst, but in the wine poison, with today's words, chronic alcoholism! Alcohol is wet and hot, the patient was thirsty and drank a lot of water and urinated. Since it is alcohol poisoning, the treatment is simple, in accordance with the sobriety formula soon cured the strange disease.

One of the main medicines used by Zhang Bravo was "Hovenia dulcis", which is the formal Chinese name for Jujubae, and today you can still find this herb in Chinese herbal pharmacies.

There is also a story about Emperor Qianlong.

As we all know, Qianlong the fool is a road idiot, once followed a few eunuchs lost their way, no food, no drink, hunger and thirst, easily in front of the emergence of a few houses, the eunuch knocked on the door to go in to ask for food. Inside an old couple has eaten dinner, the poor have no leftovers. The little eunuch repeatedly pleaded, the old man cured a pot of seven twisted and turned wild fruits, said: "This is called 'chicken claw', eat can be hungry." Qianlong a taste, feel the sweet taste, the abdomen is no longer hungry, and the body is full of strength, the dragon's face, asked what is the name of this, the little eunuch think chicken claw is too hard to hear, look at the wild fruit curved, like the Buddhist swastika, the idea, said this is called the fruit of longevity, eat to protect the longevity of the world, the blessing of prolonged life. This ass pat unprecedented, no wonder the eunuchs are extinct! So the jujube also has a different name for the fruit of longevity.

The main effect of the abduction jujube is to detoxify alcohol, modern people think that because the abduction jujube has a high sugar content, eat to detoxify the principle of today's people, after drunkenness hang glucose water is a reason.

Ironhammer thinks this is absolutely modern day cognitive arrogance, don't think you can spout off with a bit of general scientific knowledge, Chinese medicine can't be understood so superficially.

Of course, what Li Shizhen said in the Compendium of Materia Medica would be too esoteric:

"In the past, there were southern people to repair the house with this wood, mistakenly dropped a piece into the wine urn, the wine into water also."

This is also too God, the abducted dates thrown to the wine jar inside, can be the wine into water, this if the winery shot people sneak into the rival winery inside, put some abducted dates into it, but not to others to the scourge of death ah. Haha. Besides, if the jujube is so brutal, then may I ask, how is this jujube wine brewed?

Finally, on a classic record, so we can see the abduction of the strange brain of the wild fruit, in fact, what is the use: "Compendium of Materia Medica", Volume 31, recorded, "Hovenia dulcis, also known as Hovenia berry, are bent not stretching the meaning of the tree, the tree more than the branches and the curvature of the son is also curled, so that the name of the ",".

"Hovenia dulcis is three or four feet high, the leaves are round and large like main beams of sangotao, blossoming in summer, the branches bear fruits, such as chicken claw-shaped, chewing the taste as sweet as honey" and can "quench thirst and remove the annoyance of diaphragmatic heat, moistening the five viscera, facilitating urination, the function of the same as honey".

Have you, uh, ever eaten a date?

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May be a lot of people in the north have not heard of the name of the golden hook, golden hook native to China, has a history of more than two thousand years, mainly distributed in Hubei, Shaanxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other provinces, is currently in the wild or semi-wild state. Rhamnaceae, also known as Manshou Fruit, Ornate River Hovenia dulcis, Chicken Claw Lian, Golden Hook Pear, abducted jujube child, stinking wolfberry, chicken claw, dragon claw and so on.

Golden hooks and other fruits are not the same is, edible parts of the fruit stalk (inflorescence axis) rather than fruit, is the fruit in the expanded fleshy stalk, multi-branching and curved not straight like chicken claw. Golden hook in the frost season ripe, after frost abduction jujube fruit, fleshy fruit stalk fat twisted, color greenish brown or reddish brown, and glossy, tender meat, sweet and sour taste loved by the people. The "Materia Medica" in the description: Hovenia wood with sex dry, flat, non-toxic. Quench thirst in addition to annoyance, go to the diaphragm on the heat, facilitate urination and defecation, function with honey; can stop coughing, antidote wine poison, dispel insect poison. The bark, leaves, roots, fruits and seeds of Jujube can be used medicinally. Seeds containing hedgehog saponins, taste sweet and flat, with heat diuretic, quench thirst, detoxification effect, the main treatment of fever and thirst, eruption, vomiting, urination, alcoholism. Golden hook is rich in glucose, calcium malate, protein, vitamins, minerals and flavonoids and other active substances, with certain nutritional health functions, is a high-sugar, low-fat type of food, scientific research has confirmed that polysaccharides have the ability to regulate and enhance immunity, antioxidant, anti-tumor, anti-mutagenic, lowering the blood finger, anti-aging and so on. The juice of golden hook contains many kinds of amino acids, mainly glutamic acid, proline, alanine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, arginine and so on.

In summary, often eat golden hook not only has the role of strengthening the body, but also can play its medicinal value, moisturize dryness and remove heat, cough and detoxification, is a kind of food for young and old alike.

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Do I cut the seeds when I make the wine? Please advise, thank you.

Ensure is also called abducted jujube.

Here in Sichuan, we call it Duguang'er.

There are all kinds of interesting plants and animals in the countryside, some of which are pretty to look at and some of which are tasty, some of which can cure diseases and some of which can nourish the body. In the countryside there is such a plant that bears fruit shaped like chicken claws. This plant is called "chicken claw pear" by farmers in some places, while in my rural home is called "golden hook". Now I remember when I was a kid, I would go to the mountains on weekends to look for chicken claw pear, and then pick home to feed the family's old sow, chicken claw pear sweet and sour old sow especially love to eat, every time you can eat a lot.

Growing up only to know, the nutritional value of the golden hook is very rich, has a good health function, when I was a child to feed pigs is really a waste, according to the analysis of the chicken claw pear contains a large amount of glucose, sucrose, fructose, organic acids, potassium malate, inorganic salts, vitamins and trace elements such as selenium. Because the chicken claw pear in the sugar content is very high, so after drinking alcohol to eat chicken claw pear can be through the expansion of blood volume in the body, can also play a role in sobering up.

In addition, the chicken claw pear in the dietary fiber content is very high, but also contains a lot of water, constipation or slow gastrointestinal tract peristalsis after eating, can stimulate gastrointestinal tract peristalsis, which can play the function of promoting digestion, promote defecation, to achieve the effect of relieving constipation.

Although not part of traditional Chinese medicine, chicken claw pear has been recorded in both Hmong and Tujia medicines. In Hmong medicine, it is recorded that the fruit of chicken claw pear is used to treat fever and thirst, drunkenness and vomiting, dysuria, and rheumatism. The fruit is recorded in the native medicine as a remedy for alcoholism, high fever and thirst, and pediatric chancre.

Another important function of chicken claw pear is to treat rheumatism. Farmers work all year round, especially in the south humidity is very large, farmers are easily infected with rheumatism, the use of chicken claw pear wine, is said to have a good treatment of rheumatism. But need to remind farmers friends is that these herbs although there is a certain cure, but still focus on daily health care, after the onset of the disease and then try to treat the effect is not good, if the occurrence of rheumatism or the need to go to the regular hospital. Did not occur farmers can drink appropriate wine with chicken claw pear soak to prevent rheumatism.

We also call them golden hooks here, haven't seen this in a while, used to eat them as a kid, so nostalgic!