I don't know if you have such a feeling recently: the body is not happy, the mood is not happy, and there is no motivation for anything
Many people also feel heavy in the body, with loss of appetite, indigestion, fatigue, heavy limbs, loose stools, unfavorable joints, and uncomfortable body conditions.
And if you look at all this, nine times out of ten it is moisture at work.
When it comes to moisture, we health care people are too familiar. Even the method of removing dampness, Xiaobian estimates that everyone can say a lot.
Among them, the most popular thing is probably a variety of wet ingredients! For example, barley, poria, red beans and so on.
However, Qin Jun, a pharmacist at Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that on the removal of dampness, the five-fingered peach is more thorough.
Five-fingered peach: can remove dampness from the root
When it comes to dampness, most people use barley, red beans, poria and so on. They are mainly water seepage, in other words, to help you drain the moisture out of your body.
This method is simple and rough and easy to operate, but it is easy to hurt the body, and it is not suitable for everyone.
Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are important organs of the Yunhua Water Valley. The water we consume every day needs to rely on the transportation of the spleen, the whole body, and the nourishment of the internal organs.
If the spleen and stomach are compared to a water pumping machine of the human body, if the spleen and stomach function is not good, there is no incentive to quickly withdraw the "water wetness" in the body, and over time, it will lead to wet resistance and focus.
And the five-fingered peach can just deal with this problem.
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For people with weak spleen and stomach, it can wake up the spleen and appetizer, strengthen the spleen and dissolve wetness, and by accelerating the operation of the spleen and stomach, transport water and wetness, so that the body does not produce wetness. That is, it is to solve the moisture from the root!
Of course, the health benefits of the five-fingered peach can not only remove dampness...
It is known as "Guangdong ginseng", which is super powerful in replenishing qi and strengthening the spleen
When it comes to five-fingered peaches, friends in Guangdong are familiar with it. It is named because its leaves resemble five fingers and the fruit resembles a peach, also known as a five-clawed dragon.
It is used medicinally and food for both medicinal purposes, taking the root into medicine, and can be used fresh or cut into sections, sliced and dried after being put into medicine.
The soup cooked with it, the color is like milk, the taste is like coconut, can be healthy spleen and dampness, can be described as the Cantonese people's "first soup to remove dampness", even the master of traditional Chinese medicine Deng Tietao has a preference for it.
Chinese medicine believes that the five-fingered peach is flat, sweet and spicy, has a healthy spleen and dampness, tonify the lungs and improve qi, sputum, relieve muscles and vitality, and can be used for spleen deficiency and puffiness, lack of food weakness, lung weakness and phlegm, limb fatigue and weakness, night sweats, rheumatism, low back pain and other symptoms.
It is worth mentioning that Elder Deng likes to use it to replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, saying that it is not dry, and it is the first choice.
The old man even named it "Nanqi", also known as "Guangdong ginseng", as opposed to Beiqi (that is, astragalus), which shows that its qigong is the same as astragalus.
And the point is that the five-fingered peach does not have the dryness of astragalus, and it cannot be eaten on fire.
Daily consumption, almost no taboos, all year round, men and women of all ages can drink. Especially for children, nourishing but not too much, especially suitable.
Modern nutrition believes that the five-fingered peach has antibacterial, antiviral, anticoagulant, tumor suppression, immunomodulatory and other effects.
Recently, the rainy season has hit, and heat and moisture have penetrated into each other, and the human body is easily wrapped in damp heat. At this time, the wetness is not five-fingered peach.
Of course, whether it is food supplements or medicinal therapy, for many people, the purchase of five-fingered peach is a technical job!
Teach you by hand and pick out the quality five-fingered peaches
The three-fingered peach and four-fingered peach that appear on the market now are difficult to distinguish from the five-fingered peach in appearance, but the efficacy is far from the same, and everyone should pay attention to the identification when buying.
Specifically, to choose a high-quality five-fingered peach, pay attention to the following 4 points:
Look at the color
It is preferable to have a yellow-brown surface and a yellow-white cross-section.
If the color is dumb, it means that it has been stored for a long time or dried out of control; if the color is bright yellow, it may be smoked sulfur to retain water.
Look at the texture
The fine five-fingered peach section is densely textured, and the concentric rings of one circle after another are clearly visible.
Look at the root thickness
The roots are finer.
Smell the smell
Five-fingered peaches have a faint coconut or milk fragrance, and if they are not or sour, they are inferior.
In fact, in the end, as long as everyone buys five-fingered peaches in regular pharmacies, you don't have to worry about it
But if it is self-purchased, or bought at some roadside stalls, the quality is difficult to guarantee!
You know, there have been some reports of "accidental ingestion poisoning" before
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See clearly!
Don't mistake "broken intestinal grass" for "five-fingered peach"
After careful reading and analysis, Xiaobian found that those so-called "five-fingered peach poisoning" cases were mostly mistakenly picked and eaten fresh hook-and-snout roots.
Hook-kissed, commonly known as broken intestinal grass, its roots, stems and leaves all contain hook-kiss alkaloids, which is a highly toxic plant. If accidentally ingested, nausea, vomiting, severe abdominal pain can occur, and in severe cases, it can cause death.
Therefore, in order to prevent accidents, we must not dig without authorization.
By the way, the root of the five-fingered peach is very different from the root of the broken intestine grass.
The five-fingered peaches on the market are basically dried products. Therefore, people who know a little bit of the five-fingered peach will not admit it. It also reminds us not to buy fresh ones when buying five-fingered peaches.
Well, having said all this, the next old rule, talk about how to eat ~
Add it to the soup to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, clear the liver and moisturize the lungs
As a medicinal and food homologous plant, the five-fingered peach often appears on the table in the form of nourishing soup water.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the soup cooked with it is as color as milk, the taste is like coconut, the most stimulating taste, simply not too hooky!
Usually, Hakka people like to use five-fingered peaches and pork, pork belly, ribs, chicken, duck, pigeon and so on to pair with soup.
In addition, the five-fingered peach can also be freely matched with barley, soil poria, Huaishan, meidou and other ingredients and herbs that strengthen the spleen and dampness, improve qi deficiency and remove moisture.
Finally, Xiaobian recommends a five-fingered peach dietary formula:
Five-fingered peach soil poria lotus seed pork belly soup
Ingredients: 100 grams of five-fingered peach, 200 grams of soil poria, 30 grams of lotus seeds (to the heart), 500 grams of pork belly, ginger, salt to taste.
Method: Wash the five-fingered peach, soil poria and lotus seeds, soak and set aside; wash and cut the pork belly, remove it in water and set aside; boil water, add all the ingredients, cook for 20 minutes, turn the heat to simmer for an hour and a half, and season with salt.
Health effect: This soup has a sweet taste, men and women of all ages can eat, has the effect of clearing heat and dampness, improving qi and strengthening the spleen, clearing the liver and moisturizing the lungs, nourishing the heart and benefiting the kidneys.
Caution: Contraindicated in patients with full abdominal distension and constipation.