Coix kernel is a common medicinal and food homologous food in life, which has a variety of health care and treatment effects, especially suitable for wet areas and arthritis, limb puffiness, beriberi, obesity and other groups.
"Life Times" (search for "LT0385" within WeChat can be followed) invites authoritative experts to prescribe 4 dietary remedies for coix to help you achieve the purpose of dispelling diseases and strengthening your body.
Experts interviewed
Chen Qihua, Chief Physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Coix + yam porridge
Weakness of the spleen and stomach
Specific method: Take 50 grams of coix kernels, 50 grams of yam, and honey to taste. After washing the herbs, put them in a pot, cook the porridge according to the usual method, and mix it with honey once a day.
Spleen and stomach weakness in the concept of traditional Chinese medicine refers to insufficient spleen and stomach transport function, decreased digestive function, which can cause chronic gastritis, constipation, pediatric chancre and other diseases.
Coix can strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote appetite, help digestion, can treat spleen deficiency and diarrhea, and is often used in spleen-strengthening formulas. Li Shizhen also recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that coix can "strengthen the spleen and stomach, tonify the lungs and clear the heat, and remove wind and dampness."
Yam taste sweet, flat, into the lungs, spleen, kidney meridians, not dry and not greasy, with the effect of nourishing yin, healthy spleen tonic lungs, stomach tonic kidneys, etc., the main treatment of spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue and weakness, loss of appetite and other diseases, is a blind flat spleen and stomach medicinal and food dual-use products, the average person is suitable for eating.
Modern pharmacological studies have shown that yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which are conducive to the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach. Taken at the same time, the two flavor ingredients can strengthen the spleen and vitality, and the stomach and intestines.
Coix + crucian carp soup
Reduce swelling
How to do this: Take 100 grams of coix kernels and 300 grams of crucian carp. The crucian carp is descaled and offaled, and the coix is boiled in the soup and seasoned. Take once a day or every other day for several days.
"Edema" refers to a type of disease characterized by fluid retention and flooding of the skin, with the head, eyelids, limbs, abdomen, and even the whole body edema as the clinical features.
According to the theory of Traditional Chinese medicine, due to the evil of external cold and damp heat, water dampness and spleen, sore poison immersion, diet fatigue, long-term illness and weakness, etc., resulting in dysfunction of the internal organs, slow metabolism of water, and unfavorable bladder gasification, so it is edema.
Coix seed is a commonly used clinical water-soaking drug, which can promote the metabolism of blood and water in the body, and is mainly used for adverse edema in urine, as well as spleen deficiency type edema and other diseases.
Crucian carp has the effect of enhancing disease resistance, water and milk, blind nootropics, and contains comprehensive, high-quality protein and amino acids, easy to digest and absorb, regular consumption can enhance the body's resistance.
Therefore, crucian carp coix soup can treat diseases such as spleen deficiency and dampness and edema.
Coix + red beans + hawthorn porridge
Dehumidify slimming
How to do it: Take 100 grams of coix kernels, 50 grams of red beans, 30 grams of hawthorn, wash and soak for half an hour, pour into the pressure cooker together, and then add the appropriate amount of water. Cook on high heat until jetted and reduce heat, then cook for another 15 minutes. Take once daily for several days.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, obesity and edema mean that there is moisture in the body, and the water cannot flow with the qi and blood, staying in the body, so that the human body "expands".
Coix has the effect of dampness and heat removal, and is often used for diuretic anti-inflammatory, dehumidifying and relieving pain, and can also promote metabolism and help lose weight.
Red beans can reduce water and swelling, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and red into the heart, but also tonic heart. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that red beans have pharmacological effects such as antioxidant, immune-enhancing, antibacterial, and diuretic.
Modern people have great mental stress, lack of qi, poor diet, little exercise, and spleen deficiency. Dehumidifying, replenishing the heart, strengthening the spleen and stomach, not coix seeds and red beans.
Studies have shown that hawthorn has the effect of digesting and strengthening the stomach, dissipating qi and stasis, can help digestion, regulate lipid metabolism, and contains organic acids, which can promote gastric juice secretion and protein digestion, and the lipase in it can also promote lipolysis.
The three flavor ingredients are taken together, which can strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, promote metabolism, lose weight, and do not hurt the body, especially for the middle-aged and elderly obesity effect.
Coix + red dates + millet porridge
Post-illness conditioning
Specific method: Take 50 grams of coix kernels, 50 grams of red dates, 50 grams of millet, add water to boil into porridge, eat on an empty stomach, once a day.
After the postoperative period, the human body is relatively weak, and the body should be nourished and properly nourished. As the saying goes, "medicine is not as good as food supplement", the nutrients in food are more easily digested and absorbed by the human body, and the spleen and stomach should be conditioned with liquid or semi-liquid food first, and then gradually increase nutrition and restore vitality.
It has a sweet and slightly cold taste, and can be used for the conditioning of physical weakness after a long illness. Modern research has shown that coix has anti-inflammatory and analgesic, improve immunity, regulate blood lipid metabolism and other aspects of pharmacological effects, can promote the body's healing.
Red jujube is flat, sweet, return to the spleen, stomach meridian, has the effect of tonifying qi, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the blood, etc., can be used for spleen and stomach weakness, lack of qi and blood caused by shortness of breath laziness, yellowish face, do not want to eat and other symptoms, especially in the late stage of the disease and post-surgery conditioning.
Modern pharmacological studies have also shown that jujube has the effect of enhancing resistance, increasing red blood cells, and aiding digestion. Millet can strengthen the spleen, nourish the stomach, replenish deficiency, easy to digest, suitable for the conditioning of long-term illness and weakness.
Editor of this issue: Liu Yunxuan
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