The efficacy and function of sour jujube kernel

As the name suggests, the sour jujube kernel is the kernel of the sour jujube. Generally, people separate the sour jujube pulp and kernel when the sour jujube is ripe and harvested. The jujube kernel in the jujube core is the seed of the jujube, and after processing, it can also be used as medicine to treat diseases. The seeds of the sour jujube not only have a calming and hypnotic effect, but can also help people calm down. If there is pain in the body, it can also have an analgesic and cooling effect.

The seed of the sour jujube should be more accurately called the northern sour jujube seed, mainly to distinguish it from the southern sour jujube with five eyes and six channels.

Ziziphus jujuba seed, also known as jujube kernel, sour jujube core, and mountain jujube kernel. The product is made by removing the pulp and shell of the ripe fruits of the Rhamnaceae tree Ziziphus jujuba, collecting the seeds and drying them in the sun. It grows on sunny hillsides and roadsides, and is mainly produced in Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Liaoning, Shanxi, Shandong, Yunnan and other places. The fruits are harvested in autumn when they are ripe, the pulp and core are removed, and the seeds are taken out and used raw or slightly stir-fried.

1. Pharmacological Action

The seeds of the sour jujube tree can be used as medicine after processing. It contains bioalkali, multiple amino acids and metal elements, which can calm the mind, nourish the liver, and astringe sweat. It has a good therapeutic effect on symptoms such as insomnia, palpitations, and spontaneous sweating due to physical weakness. Ziziphus jujuba seeds are often used in combination with Ganoderma lucidum to have calming and sleep-inducing effects, and can treat severe insomnia.

1. Sedative and hypnotic effects:

Oral administration or intraperitoneal injection of the decoction of Chinese jujube seeds to rats showed sedation and sleepiness, and the Chinese jujube seeds showed the above effects regardless of day or night. The sedation index of mice when taken orally was 1.95, and it showed a synergistic effect with barbiturates. After using Chinese jujube seeds continuously for 6 days, the animals' sleep became shallower and the duration was shortened, that is, tolerance was produced, but it disappeared after 1 week of stopping the drug.

2. Stabilizing effect:

In recent years, some people have compared Chinese date seeds with tranquilizers and found many similarities. After the decoction of Suanzaoren was intraperitoneally injected into rats, all animals showed quietness and lethargy. But external stimuli can wake it up. When the dose was increased to the toxic dose, the mice did not show loss of righting reflex and anesthesia. The decoction can inhibit conditioned reflexes but not unconditioned reflexes when administered intragastricly to mice. Ziziphus jujuba seeds also have a significant antagonistic effect on the manic symptoms caused by subcutaneous injection of morphine hydrochloride in cats.

3. Analgesic and cooling effects:

The hot plate method of mice proved that intraperitoneal injection of Chinese jujube seed decoction had a significant analgesic effect, significantly prolonging the latency of pain response in mice, and the action time could last as long as 3 hours. Oral administration or intraperitoneal injection of the decoction has a cooling effect on normal rats