These wild vegetables must not be missed in summer!
01
Clear liver and stomach fire: purslane
Materia Medica contains: Purslane, "its leaf ratio is not like a horse's tooth, and the sex is slippery like amaranth, hence the name". Its sexual taste is sour and cold, and it belongs to the large intestine and liver meridian. It has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, cooling blood and reducing swelling.
Chinese medicine believes that eating some purslane in summer can play a role in lowering liver fire and clearing stomach fire. At the same time, purslane is also a rare natural high potassium food, because the lack of potassium in cells will lead to a decrease in cell water content, leading to human aging, eating purslane can keep potassium at normal levels.
02
Helps the spleen and stomach awaken: herbs
Also known as green-stemmed mint, cat's tiger, lala incense, artemisia ba, chicken su, water hemp leaf, etc., it is the aerial part of the plant herb of the family Lepidoptera. In the summer, the main ingredient in the huoxiang zhengqi liquid that we often drink is huoxiang.
Mild sexual taste. Return to the spleen, stomach, lung meridians. It has the functions of clearing heat and detoxification, dispersing cold and dispelling dampness, preventing and treating vomiting, and promoting digestion. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is introduced that the herb has the effect of relieving the heat and cooling, while the characteristics of the herb are introduced in the "Materia Medica" - the spice is slightly warm, the sweetness is not steep, and it helps the spleen and stomach to wake up.
The edible part of the herb is generally a young stem and leaf, which is a good product for wild game. It can be mixed cold, stir-fried, dumplings, boiled fish, and can also be made into porridge.
03
Clear-minded: Peppermint
Peppermint, the soil name "silver dancao", is a plant of the family Lipaceae, that is, other dried whole grasses of the same genus. The whole plant is green and fragrant. The leaves are opposite, the flowers are small lilac, lip-shaped, and the flowers are dark purple-brown with small fruit.
Peppermint is a cool sweating antipyretic, which is used in Chinese medicine to prevent and treat influenza, headache, red eyes, body heat, sore throat, gums and other symptoms. Usually use mint instead of tea, clear mind and eyes.
Peppermint porridge is fresh and pleasant, relieves wind and heat, and can also enhance appetite and help digestion. Peppermint tofu can prevent colds and nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose and other symptoms.
04
Swelling and loosening: dandelion
We have written before that dandelion is a perennial herb of the genus Asteraceae. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is flat and sweet and slightly bitter, has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, reducing swelling and loosening knots and prolactination, and is also commonly used in Traditional Chinese medicine to prevent and treat mastitis. In addition, dandelion also has diuretic, diarrhea, jaundice, choleretic and other functions.
05
Stomach depletion: bitter shoots
Bitter shoots are the best raw materials for mountain cuisine, bitter and sweet taste, cool and cold, with disinfection and detoxification, weight loss and fitness, stomach and other functions. Fresh bitter shoots can be eaten directly, commonly known as "sweet bitter shoots".
There are many kinds of bitter shoots: stir-frying, burning, cold mixing can be, the flavor is unique, bitter and sweet. The more common bitter bamboo shoot methods are cold mixed bitter bamboo shoots, bitter bamboo shoot roast pork ribs, bitter bamboo shoot roast chicken, bitter bamboo shoots fried meat, vegetarian fried bitter bamboo shoots, bitter bamboo shoot soup and so on.
Chinese medicine product - plantain
Plantain was first published in the medicinal work Shennong Materia Medica, and was listed as a top product, saying that it was "allergic to stop pain, facilitate urination, and dehumidify paralysis." Long-term service light body resistant to aging".
Plantain sweet; Light; Slightly cold, belonging to the lungs, liver, kidneys, bladder meridians, can clear heat and diuretic, wet and antidiarrhea, blind, expectorant. Indications for the treatment of unfavorable urination, under the gonorrhea belt, swelling and fullness of water; Summer diarrhea, red eyes, hot cough and wheezing.
Plantain is good at wetting, all urinary urgency, painful urination, yellow urine, red urine, blood urine, etc. caused by urinary tract infections such as urethritis and cystitis can be used. Modern pharmacological studies have also shown that plantain can increase the excretion of sodium and chloride ions, thereby achieving the effect of diuresis and dampness.
Cool blood detoxification
Plantain is titled a top product in Chinese medicine and is recorded in many medical texts:
The "Materia Medica" contains: "The main heat diarrhea pus blood in front of the car, and the throat of the milk moth." Can be clear, can be scattered, can be profitable."
In the "Materia Medica Preparation", Yun: "Plantain licorice cold, cool blood to heat, anti-vomiting, elimination of fistula and stasis, blindness".
The "Famous Doctors' Catalogue" records plantain: "The main golden sores, hemostasis, epistaxis, blood stasis, blood spasm, blood circulation, red urine, cessation, lower breath, removal of small insects."
It can be seen that plantain has the effect of cool blood detoxification, regulates the bleeding caused by blood fever delusions, and the fresh product has a better detoxification effect. The "Hunan Medicine Chronicle" records that plantain is used to prevent and treat scabies and fire eyes. The General Records of Saint Francis records that plantain is used to prevent and treat red swelling and pain, ulceration of sores, and laryngeal paralysis.
Heat-clearing expectorant
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that plantain enters the lung meridian, and detoxification, so it has the effect of clearing heat and expectorant, suitable for coughing, thick sputum, coughing unpleasant, tongue red moss yellow greasy phlegm hot cough.
Modern pharmacology has found that the plantain contains psyllium glycosides have an antitussive and expectorant effect, which can significantly increase respiratory secretions, and the sputum is diluted and easily discharged, so if the body has various bronchitis or pneumonia that belongs to the sputum fever lung evidence, it is also possible to take plantain for conditioning.
In addition, the seeds of plantain (psyllium) are also a traditional Chinese medicine.
Psyllium tastes sweet and cold, belongs to the liver, kidneys, lungs, small intestine meridians, has the functions of clearing heat and diuretics, infiltrating wetness and stopping diarrhea, blindness, expectorant. It is often used for hot astringent pain, swollen water, hot wet diarrhea, red eyes and pain, phlegm hot cough.
And the summer is hot and humid, air conditioning, cold drinks prevail, coupled with modern people basically have the common disease of staying up late, it is easy to damage people's spleen and stomach yang, so many people have spleen deficiency and wetness and other symptoms, so plantain can play its powerful function perfectly here!
Plantain herbal meals
01, plantain pork loin soup
【Function】Clear heat and relieve heat, dehumidify water, antidote stone poison. Feel the summer body hot and wet, hot and tired, short urine, upset and thirsty, red tongue, slow pulse and other symptoms, must try.
【Ingredients】 Pork loin 250 g, bracken 500 g, plantain (fresh) 60 g.
【Directions】
- Remove the root whiskers of plantain, wash it, put it in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil for 15 minutes, remove the residue and leave the juice;
- Wash the bracken, wash and slice the pork loin, add the plantain juice and boil for a while to taste.
02. Plantain winter melon soup
【Function】Fresh plantain pot winter melon is conducive to water weight loss, the role of eliminating annoyance and thirst, suitable for summer and autumn hot days obese people to reduce heat and lose weight, while also assisting in the prevention and treatment of edema, thirst, urination is unfavorable or urinary pain.
【Ingredients】150 grams of fresh plantain, 500 grams of winter melon.
【Directions】Fresh plantain washed, rooted; Wash the skin and seeds of the winter melon and cut into thick pieces. Put it together in a clay pot, add 1500 ml of water (about 6 bowls of water) or more, boil over a low flame and change to a simmer for 1 and a half hours, add an appropriate amount of salt and raw oil.
Note: If there is stomach discomfort, you can add an appropriate amount of lean meat to neutralize the stomach qi. This amount is used for 1 to 2 people.
03, houttuynia plantain stew pig lung
【Function】Prevention and treatment of galls closed lung heat and fever type: urinary trickle down or drip can not pass, dry throat, polydipsia, shortness of breath or cough, or fever and sweating, red tongue, thin yellow moss, pulse number.
【Ingredients】60 grams of fresh houttuynia cordata, 60 grams of fresh plantain, 150 grams of pig lung.
【Method】 Pork lung cut into pieces and washed, boil soup, season soup and eat pig lung.
04, plantain stew pork belly
【Function】Pig belly, that is, pig bladder; Plantain stew pork belly, damp and heat, diuretic through the shower. Chinese medicine is also commonly used to prevent cystitis, urethritis, ocular conjunctivitis, excessive vaginal discharge caused by damp heat in women and other symptoms.
【Ingredients】 60-90 grams of fresh plantain (20-30 grams of dried products), 200 grams of pork belly, 3 slices of ginger.
【Directions】Wash the plantain and soak it slightly; Rinse the pork belly, wipe it repeatedly with corn starch, wash it again, cut it into small pieces, put it into a clay pot with ginger together, add 2000 ml of water (about 8 bowls), boil over low heat, and change to a simmer for 1 and a half hours.
Tender plantain, as a good medicine for summer heat, in addition to the above ways to eat, you can also use boiling water and then stir-fry, or cold mix, you can also dip sauce, stir-fry, make stuffing, make soup or steamed noodles, the taste is also very good.
In addition, the fresh plantain is washed, about 100 grams each time, decoction juice as tea, or fresh grass cut and dried, when the tea leaves are brewed, there is also a very good role in clearing heat diuresis and clearing the liver.
Note:
Plantain has a strong diuretic effect, and long-term consumption may have adverse effects on the kidneys. Therefore, it is not recommended to eat frequently, in addition, there are slippery sperm is not solid, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, kidney deficiency and cold are also contraindicated.
Source: Healthy Kaijiang
Editor: Zhang Xiaodan