Affected by the epidemic, in order to ensure the safety of teachers and students, the canteen of a middle school in Jiangmen City was asked not to use five-finger peach, and many netizens learned of this matter and expressed doubts:
"Something's wrong, right?" My family often uses five-fingered peach to boil soup to drink, isn't it good? ” "Why can't it be used, is the five-fingered peach poisonous?" I drink it often. ” "What you buy in the pharmacy should be able to use it with confidence, what is unsafe about this?"
In this regard, Chen Xiao, deputy director of the Municipal Supervision Bureau, said that the roots of the five-fingered peach are very similar to the broken intestinal grass, which is easy to confuse and difficult to distinguish, so it is proposed that the five-fingered peach cannot be used.
The people of the whole country know that Guangdong people like to cook and drink soup. However, recently, when Xiao Li and a few friends in Guangdong had dinner, they ordered a pot of five-fingered peach stewed chicken soup, but they almost ate people's lives.
After dinner that night, Xiao Li and his friends successively developed symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, fatigue, and blurred vision. After the doctor, the doctor arranged for them to wash their stomachs and infuse them, and the next day their condition gradually improved. After investigation, it turned out that Xiao Li and his friends ordered chicken soup with five-fingered peach in the restaurant, mixed with broken intestinal grass.
The doctor who received the treatment said that every year there are many cases of mistakenly eating "fake" five-fingered peaches. If you are not a professional, it is difficult to distinguish between five-fingered peach and broken intestine grass, so it is often eaten by mistake.
Five-fingered peach is also called five-finger milk, Cantonese ginseng, because the leaves grow like five fingers, and the fruit is like a peach when ripe. Traditional Chinese medicine in China believes that the five-fingered peach tastes spicy and sweet, flat and slightly warm, which can be beneficial to qi and deficiency, healthy spleen and wetness, cough and phlegm, suitable for limb fatigue and weakness, less food bloating, rheumatic waist and leg pain.
The "Chinese Medicine medicinal diet" records that the five-fingered peach, "in summer, the weather is hot, the human body likes to be cool, the five organs belong to the heart, suitable for cleansing; in long summer, the five organs belong to the spleen, suitable for light supplementation." Therefore, Cantonese people who "drink beautiful soup every day" like to use five-fingered peach to cook soup to achieve the health effect of dispelling wind and dehumidification, activating blood and relieving pain.
Specifically, the effects and effects of the five-fingered peach are:
1. Strengthen the spleen and supplement the lungs
Five-fingered peach is warm, into the spleen meridian, lung meridian, liver meridian, has the medicinal value of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, suitable for spleen weakness, lung weakness cough, indigestion and other symptoms.
2. Enhance immunity
Studies have proved that the five-fingered peach is rich in the active ingredient psoralen, which has antiviral, antibacterial, anti-tumor and other effects, which can significantly improve the body's immunity.
3. Cough and phlegm
Five-fingered peach is rich in natural ingredients, which can be anti-inflammatory and bactericidal, can significantly improve the cough symptoms caused by tracheitis, laryngitis, etc., and can dissolve phlegm and keep the respiratory tract unobstructed.
4. The air is moist
Five-fingered peach can improve spleen and stomach disharmony, enhance the spleen's rising function, promote the operation of gas in the body, and achieve the effect of qi and dampness, especially for patients with spleen deficiency and edema and chronic hepatitis.
However, it should be noted that the five-fingered peach is mildly medicinal, and those with damp fever and no damp evil should try to avoid eating it as much as possible so as not to aggravate the symptoms. Especially for patients with stomach diseases and wind fever and colds, they should try not to eat five-fingered peaches.
In addition, pregnant women should also prohibit the consumption of five-fingered peaches, because pregnant women have a weak constitution and are easy to absorb the medicinal ingredients of five-fingered peaches, which is not conducive to fetal development.
Because the five-fingered peach has a slight toxicity, during the consumption of the five-fingered peach, you should try not to stay up late, so as not to accumulate toxins in the body, and pay attention to the light diet, avoid fried food, spicy food, raw and cold food, etc., so as not to reduce the efficacy of the five-fingered peach.
Every year, the media will report many cases of poisoning caused by accidental ingestion of broken intestines as a five-fingered peach. Why is the five-fingered peach so easily confused with the broken intestine grass?
Mainly because the intestinal grass grows in mountainous areas, the roots are often entangled and mixed with other plants, and the appearance is very similar to the five-fingered peach, and the flowers are "silly and indistinguishable" with honeysuckle, so there are often cases of mischief and miseeding.
In addition, in order to prevent insects, some bad merchants will use sulfur to smoke five-fingered peaches in order to seek a good appearance, so that five-fingered peaches are not good for the body. So, when buying a five-fingered peach, how to distinguish between true and false? There are three main points to look at:
First, look at the appearance, the root section of the five-fingered peach is concentric ring pattern, and the section of the root of the broken intestine is densely textured with radioactive;
The second is to smell, the five-fingered peach smells a faint coconut smell, and the broken intestine grass smells slightly bitter.
The third is to look at the color and texture, the surface of the five-fingered peach is orange-yellow to reddish brown, the skin is thin and tough, and it is easy to peel off.
Finally, in order to avoid poisoning incidents, do not pick wild five-fingered peaches, and do not buy five-fingered peaches from roadside vendors to avoid accidents. You need five-fingered peaches, you can go to a regular Chinese herbal medicine shop to buy, quality and safety are guaranteed.
As long as we buy five-fingered peaches through formal channels, we can avoid food poisoning to the greatest extent. Of course, it is not 100% safe, and it is also necessary to strengthen vigilance and improve the ability to distinguish between five-fingered peaches. #Healthy Life Diary##Health Science Contest ##39健康超能团 #
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