Sihaiwang: speaking of Auricularia auricula, we are not new to each other. It's a nutritious and popular fungus food, known as "the scavenger of blood vessels". So, can Auricularia auricula really clear blood vessels? Let's take a look at it with the small knitting~
The nutritional components of Auricularia auricula:
Auricularia auricula is rich in protein, fat and carbohydrate, and also contains many kinds of vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, plant sterols, phospholipids, polysaccharides, adenosine and other substances.
Function of Auricularia auricula:
Li Shizhen recorded in compendium of Materia Medica that Auricularia auricula was born on rotten wood, and its nature was Gan Ping. It was mainly used to treat qi benefiting without hunger, light body and strong will, and it had the functions of treating hemorrhoids and blood dysentery. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the functions of moistening and strengthening, clearing lung and benefiting qi, invigorating blood, calming and relieving pain.
Obviously, it is not difficult to see that traditional Chinese medicine believes that Auricularia auricula has the function of promoting blood circulation, in fact, it is the anticoagulant of modern medicine.
Modern medical research has analyzed a variety of bioactive substances from Auricularia auricula, among which Auricularia auricula polysaccharide plays an important role. Some scientists have isolated a polysaccharide from Auricularia auricula, which is composed of L-fucose, L-arabinose, D-xylose, D-mannose, D-glucose, glucuronic acid, etc. Scientific research has found that Auricularia auricula polysaccharide has various effects on our body's blood system, such as intravenous injection, intraperitoneal injection and gastric perfusion of mice with Auricularia auricula polysaccharide 50mg / kg, and it has been found that any treatment can produce significant anticoagulant effect on the blood of mice.
Scientific researchers found through antithrombotic experiments that oral administration of Auricularia polysaccharide 18.5mg/kg in rabbits can significantly prolong the formation time of specific thrombus and fibrin thrombus, shorten the length of thrombus, reduce the wet and dry weight of thrombus, reduce the number of platelets, reduce the adhesion rate of blood platelets and blood viscosity, and finally achieve antithrombotic effect. In addition, it has been reported that Auricularia auricula polysaccharide (300 mg / kg / day) has been administered to hyperlipidemia mice for 12 consecutive weeks. The results show that the serum total cholesterol content and atherosclerosis index of mice are significantly reduced.
Many scientific data show that Auricularia auricula polysaccharide does have the effect of protecting blood vessels, so it can be considered as having a certain effect of "clearing blood vessels".
It should be noted that in daily life, on the premise of balanced diet, it is very encouraged and recommended to eat more Auricularia auricula. But we must not use agaric instead of medicine to avoid delay. In addition, because Auricularia auricula has the function of promoting blood circulation and anticoagulation, people with bleeding diseases should not eat it; pregnant women should not eat more.