China is known as the "Kingdom of Bamboo", from the "Three Friends of the Cold Age" to the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", bamboo has always had the lofty quality of high wind and bright festival in the eyes of literati and inkers.
People have a lot of applications of bamboo, some people use it as garden art, is a natural art for people to watch; some people use it as a letterhead, creating a good story of "bamboo newspaper peace"; and some people regard it as spiritual sustenance, so there are countless famous sayings and good sentences that have been sung through the ages.
However, this article should start from reality and talk about the edible value and economic value of bamboo.
Bamboo has "five treasures", two of which are very common and almost everyone knows, while the other three treasures are less well known than the previous ones.
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Let's talk about the two most common treasures, one of which is bamboo leaves.
The history of edible and medicinal use of bamboo leaves is very long in China, and it was officially included in the "list of natural substances for medicinal and food use" in 1998.
After being included, the health food "Bamboo Corning", which sells the bamboo flavonoids contained in bamboo leaves, also successfully obtained the approval number of health foods the following year.
There are many pharmacopoeias that record the efficacy of bamboo leaves, for example, in the "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica", it is recorded that it has the effect of "the main cough, thirst, phlegm drinking, throat paralysis, and removal of annoyance and heat".
Through the study of modern technology, it has also been found that bamboo leaves contain flavonoids, antioxidants, phenolic ketones, anthraquinones, amino acids, lactones, polysaccharides, and trace elements and other beneficial components to the human body.
Now bamboo leaves are often used to make tea leaves for tea diet, and the more common one is bamboo leaf barley tea.
In addition to making tea, bamboo leaves can also be made into bamboo leaf porridge, bamboo leaf green wine, bamboo leaf rice, bamboo leaf steamed ribs, leaf rice and so on.
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Sun Simiao, a famous doctor of the Tang Dynasty, once recorded in the "Thousand Golden Medicine Formula": "Bamboo shoots taste sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic, the lord quenches thirst, benefits waterways, benefits qi, and can be eaten for a long time."
Compared with the medicinal method of bamboo shoots, in fact, the most common thing in life is to use it in the diet.
As a very healthy and delicious food, bamboo shoots have always been loved and welcomed by people, it is not only very suitable for diabetics, but also promotes digestion, thirst and other effects.
There are many ways to use bamboo shoots, and they can be said to be fried and fried.
The author prefers to fry bacon with high bamboo shoots, just eating bacon is originally a bit greasy, but after combining the fragrance of bamboo shoots, the greasy feeling is suppressed, and only the fresh aroma of the dish is left.
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Many people do not know what bamboo ru is, the author will briefly introduce it here.
Bamboo ru is the dry middle layer of the stem part of the green pole bamboo, showing a filamentous form, but when it is not stripped of the bamboo body, it is always twisted in one place.
Bamboo ru is also a dual use of medicine and food, but compared with bamboo shoots, it is used for medicinal purposes more.
Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records it as a treatment for "typhoid fever, pediatric fever, and women's fetal movements." ”
In addition, its use is also recorded in the "Secret Record of Mother and Son": "Woman loses her fetus: eight or nine months of pregnancy, or falls, cows and horses are frightened, and heartache is painful." Use green bamboo ru five two, one liter of wine, fry five gowns. ”
The bamboo ru that usually appears on the market is concocted, and some of them are also mixed with ginger juice, which becomes ginger bamboo ru.
In terms of consumption, bamboo ru is usually used to make soups, porridge and make tea.
Reed root bamboo porridge
Ingredients: 150g fresh reed root, 20g bamboo russ, 100g japonica rice, 2 slices of ginger
Preparation method: 1. Treat the fresh reed root into small pieces, and fry the juice with the bamboo ru after adding an appropriate amount of water; 2. Remove the dregs in the juice, and then add japonica rice to cook the porridge; 3. When the porridge is about to be cooked, add ginger slices and cook it.
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Bamboo yellow is the product of the lesion that occurs after the bamboo is parasitized by the bamboo yellow fungus, which looks very much like the "tumor" grown by the bamboo.
Although bamboo is sick, the existence of bamboo yellow is of great benefit to people, and today, the purchase price of bamboo yellow on the market is still 100 yuan a catty.
There are many fungal fruiting bodies that are used both medicinal and food, from Ganoderma lucidum to mulberry yellow, and then to the presence of bamboo yellow, almost all of which are due to the presence of lesions caused by fungal parasitism of plants.
In the "Materia Medica Seeking Truth", it is recorded: "With the function of bamboo asphalt, it can be used to get phlegm by sputum, but this cool heart removes wind and heat, cures children with seizures and wind fever, and sputum gushes and loses sound." Compared with bamboo asphalt, its nature is gentle, and the cold slippery disease is also. ”
Not all bamboo will appear bamboo yellow, bamboo yellow fungus generally parasitizes on the two kinds of bamboo, arrow bamboo and short spike bamboo, and most of them grow in the bamboo forest that is about to decay or has decayed, if it is a lush bamboo forest, it is rare to appear bamboo yellow figure.
In addition to medicinal uses, bamboo yellow is often used as a material for brewing wine.
Bamboo yellow mead
Ingredients: 30 g bamboo yellow, 60 g honey, 500 ml of white wine
Preparation method: Direct chicken mulberry bamboo yellow and honey soaked in white wine, only need to seal and wait for 1 day, you can open and drink.
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When introducing bamboo yellow, "Materia Medica Truth" once said that the effect of bamboo yellow and bamboo asphalt is similar.
And this bamboo asphalt is also one of the "five treasures" of bamboo.
The so-called bamboo drainage is the liquid that is drained from the bamboo after the bamboo is heated and roasted.
Therefore, some people also call bamboo leaching bamboo juice, bamboo berth, bamboo oil.
In the "Thousand Golden Medicine Recipe", the recipe of bamboo drainage soup was recorded: "Cure the wind and heat, the limbs are not collected, the mind is confused, I don't know people, I can't say: two liters of bamboo drainage, one liter of raw kudzu juice, three combinations of ginger juice." On the three tastes and warmth, divided into three servings, one for weekdays, one for the sun, and one for the night. ”
Because bamboo is itself a liquid, it often appears in people's vision as a natural nutritional drink, and rarely appears in other ways to use it.
About the five treasures of bamboo the author introduced here, I don't know if you readers know other treasures related to bamboo, welcome to the comment area to share and discuss Oh.