China has thousands of years of food culture, for diet, we pay special attention, not only to be full, often also require color, fragrance, taste, that a variety of auxiliary food materials on the field, especially inseparable from this kind of thing, every household kitchen has - five-spice powder.
Five-spice powder
Five-spice powder is a mixture of more than 5 kinds of spices ground into a powder, which is often used to apply to chicken and duck meat before frying and frying, and can also be mixed with fine salt for dipping. It is widely used in spicy dishes of oriental cuisine, especially suitable for roasting or quick-stir-frying meat, stewing, stewing, simmering, steaming, and boiling dishes for seasoning. Its name comes from the balance of Chinese culture's requirements for sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty tastes.
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Five-spice powder also has some dietary contraindications. Allspice powder cannot be eaten when it has oil oozing out and becomes bitter. Pregnant women should not eat it in the early stages of pregnancy, otherwise it is easy to cause intestinal dryness and constipation.
efficacy
Five-spice powder brings together the advantages of various raw materials, aromatic, spicy and warm, has the effect of healthy spleen temperature, anti-inflammatory and diuretic, etc., and has a certain help in improving the body's resistance.
The basic ingredients of five-spice powder are ground into peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, and cumin seeds. Some recipes also include dried ginger, cardamom, licorice, pepper, tangerine peel, etc. It is mainly used for stewed meat or poultry dishes, or added to the marinade to add flavor or mixed with fillings.
Five components
1 peppercorn
pepper
Pepper is used as a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of warming the qi, chasing the cold, relieving pain, and killing insects. Treat stomach and abdominal cold pain, vomiting, diarrhea, schistosomiasis, roundworm and other symptoms. Also used as epidermal anesthetic.
2 cinnamon
cinnamon
Cinnamon, also known as jade laurel, oyster cinnamon, jade tree, large cinnamon, spicy cinnamon, ping'an tree, Chinese cinnamon bark, is the dried bark of cinnamon of the lauraceae plant. The bark is aromatic and can be used as a spice, and the taste is similar to that of cinnamon produced in Sri Lanka, but it is spicy, less delicious than cinnamon, and thicker than cinnamon. It has tonify yuanyang, warm the spleen and stomach, remove the cold, and pass the blood vein. Cure the fire decline of the life gate, the cold pulse of the limbs, the collapse of the dead yang, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia running dolphin, waist and knee cold pain, autism fistula, yin gangrene, fluid injection, and the effects of the void yang floating over, hot and cold.
3 octagons
aniseed
Star anise is used for medicinal purposes, has the function of dispelling wind and rational qi, and gastric adjustment, and is used for cold vomiting, abdominal cold pain, stomach bloating and stuffiness. However, eating too much can damage the eyes and sores.
Star anise has the functions of stomach strengthening, wind repellent, analgesia, regulating qi, dispelling cold and dampness, treating indigestion and neurasthenia. With the continuous improvement of the level of new drug development, its use continues to expand, and shikimic acid extracted from star anise can synthesize anti-cancer drugs and prepare anti-influenza drugs. Dried star anise contains 8%-13% shibaric acid, which is the best natural plant raw material, in addition to the toxic star anise (mandarin grass seed) content is higher than it, has not found a plant with potential large-scale production value.
clove
4 cloves
In the eyes of Chinese medicine, cloves are spicy, warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, lungs, kidney meridians. Fear of gold. It has the effect of reducing the reversal in temperature, dissipating cold and relieving pain, warming the kidneys and helping the yang.
5 cumin seeds
Cumin
Cumin is the dried ripe fruit of fennel of the umbelliferous family. Also known as "Theory of Medicinal Properties" of Fennel, "New Cultivation of Materia Medica", Fennel "Kaibao Materia Medica", Fennel and Earth Fennel "Materia Medica", Wild Fennel "Lu Wei Yan Materia Medica", Fennel "Zhu's Collection of Examination Formulas", Gu Miaoxiang, Gu Xiang "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine", Xiangzi "Chinese Medicinal Plants". It has the effect of relieving cold and pain, rationalizing qi and neutralizing.