The Hakka people live in the mountains all year round and have a soft spot for the grass and trees on the mountain, which have medicinal effects on the human body and are also passed down by word of mouth. A unique Hakka medicine root food culture has gradually formed.
On the Hakka table, a pot of soup made with medicinal roots is essential. Therefore, it has also created the ability of the Hakka people to judge the varieties of medicinal roots from the aroma and taste of the medicinal root soup alone, but the appearance and effectiveness of them before they are put into the pot may not be fully known. So, which are the commonly used medicinal roots for Hakka soup?
When mud (Yamaminoru) roots
When the mud is myrtle and mountain seed, its fruit is green and yellow, yellow and red, red and purple. When the mud is ripe purple, it is delicious, raw and quenches thirst, has a sweet aftertaste, and the tongue and teeth are dyed purple-black. When the root of the mud contains phenols, tannins, etc., it has the effect of treating chronic dysentery, rheumatism, hepatitis and lowering blood lipids.
White-flowered snake tongue grass
White-flowered snake tongue grass, also known as snake tongue grass, snake tongue and snake needle grass, wild in hillsides, roadsides, and streamside grasses. Sexual taste: bitter sweet; Cold; Innocuity.
Clear heat and detoxification, activate blood diuresis. In clinical practice, it has been found that the white flower snake tongue can activate blood and reduce swelling, disperse knots and relieve pain. Especially for the treatment of various types of inflammation and can effectively prevent the occurrence of cancer.
Milk tree roots
Milk tree roots are divided into white-flowered milk roots and safflower milk roots, and the growth environment is deep in the mountains and old forests, and the root of white-flowered milk trees must be used to make soup. Its nature is warm, sweet and spicy. The taste is sweet and fragrant. The taste of milk tree roots comes out with a milky smell.
White flower milk root has the functions of clearing heat, nourishing yin and lowering fire, strengthening the spleen and appetizing, overflowing and rejuvenating, removing humidification and stagnation, clearing the liver and moisturizing the lungs.
Brook yellow grass
Creek yellow grass, also known as creek goat grass, goat noodles, bear bile grass, etc. It is a perennial herb; The rhizome is hypertrophied, stout, sometimes pimple-shaped, and densely bearded downwards.
Xihuang grass is a folk herb, commonly known as earthy yellow lian, etc., with the effect of clearing heat and dampness, reducing yellowing and removing dampness, cooling blood and dispersing stasis, and is used to treat acute jaundice hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, dysentery, enteritis, bruising and other diseases.
Stinky fart vine
Smelly fart vine, also known as ventilation vine, chicken vine. Stinky fart vine has the effect of clearing heat and moisture, ventilation and fire reduction, activating blood and relieving pain, fracture, major jaundice hepatitis, indigestion, acute conjunctivitis, bruises and so on.
Stinky fart vine soup (small half bowl of hot soup) is also the preferred herb for Hakka women after cesarean section, which has a very good effect on ventilation, activating congestion and relieving pain in the body.
Gods of five leaves
The five-leaf god, also known as gynostemma. Because ginseng soap contains exactly the same nutrients as ginseng, it has the reputation of second ginseng and southern ginseng.
Wuye Shen has the functions of invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen, nourishing the mind and calming the mind, solidifying the surface and sweating, tonifying the kidney and warming the yang, expectorant and relieving cough, and has a significant effect on improving the deficiency of heart, lungs and spleen such as fatigue, lack of qi and lazy speech, palpitations and chest tightness, insomnia and dreams, night sweats, loss of appetite, loose stools, long-term cough and phlegm.
Decapitation
Decapitation is also called ground gall, straw shoe root. It grows mostly in the fields of the Hakka region, on hillsides, roadsides or on the grasslands next to villages. There are two kinds of gallbladder, white flowers and safflowers, in terms of efficacy, safflower is better and slightly bitter.
Specializing in the treatment of head wind, it has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and reducing swelling, cough and diuresis, preventing influenza, etc., and decapitating the root with green head duck soup, reducing heat and inflammation, and playing an auxiliary treatment effect on cold patients or people with upper respiratory tract inflammation.
Five-fingered peach
The five-fingered peach has a bitter smell, mild nature and full of aroma. The soup has the aroma of coconut milk. It has the functions of calming the liver and brightening the eyes, nourishing the yin and lowering the fire, strengthening the spleen and appetizing, overflowing and rejuvenating, removing humidity, clearing the liver and moisturizing the lungs. It can be eaten by men, women and children of all ages regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Chicken bone grass
Chicken bone grass has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, soothing the liver and dispersing stasis. Functional indications: clear heat and detoxification, relieve liver pain, for jaundice, flank discomfort, stomach swelling pain; Acute and chronic hepatitis, mastitis. Treatment of jaundice, hepatitis, stomach pain, cradle carbuncle, sputum, bruises, bruises, bruises, blood pain, cold and weak people should be used with caution.
Amaranth root
Amaranth root has cool blood to stop bleeding; Clear humid heat; The effect of detoxification and carbuncle elimination, mainly for the treatment of gastric bleeding; Blood in the stool; Hemorrhoidal blood; Cholecystitis; Cholelithiasis; Dysentery; moist heat and diarrhea; Down; Astringent and painful urination; sore throat; Eczema; carbuncles; erosion of the gums; Snakebite.
Bitter fasting
Bitter Fast, scientific name Bitter Sauce Grass, is a perennial herb that smells like a "smelly foot" and grows deep in mountain streams or in damp places in ravines. Mostly used in soups. The taste is alternative and distinctive. Like durian, it is initially rejected by taste, but after tasting, it is attracted by taste.
The special flavor of wild bitter fasting can significantly enhance appetite, and it is used to stew pork belly to not only relieve heat and dampness, but also strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. The protein, inorganic salts and vitamins contained in Wild Bitter Zhai are easily utilized by the body's physiological activities, have anti-tumor ingredients, and its special flavor can significantly enhance appetite. Wild bitter boiled pork bones is a soup commonly used by local people in a summer family, which can clear heat and detoxify, nourish and moisturize.
Stone olives
Stone olive is an epiphytic herb that grows on the rock wall of deep mountain trees or epiphytes in perennial old trees all year round, clearing heat and nourishing yin, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough, moisturizing the lungs and rejuvenating, relieving dampness and eliminating stasis.
Aigan
Hakka people like to use wormwood to make chicken soup, believing that wormwood chicken soup can not only dispel wind and warm the stomach, clear heat and detoxify, but also calm liver fire, dispel rheumatism, anti-inflammatory, and suppress cough, so wormwood chicken soup has become a frequent customer on the Hakka table. Especially in autumn and winter, women in the Hakka area like to use mugwort stalk and aigen to boil chicken soup, thinking that mugwort stalk and aigen have a greater therapeutic effect.
Yellow flowers pour water lily
Guanyin skewers, scientific name Huanghua poured water lotus, also called Huanghua Yuanzhi. A perennial evergreen shrub plant that grows in valleys or streams in the forest, with a slightly bitter taste. Guanyin String has the ability to replenish qi, strengthen muscles and bones, dispel dampness, disperse stasis, quench thirst, dispel fire and blood, and sore waist and legs, and is a necessary tonic for confinement and daily conditioning.
Porridge
Tu Ling, called hard rice in the Hakka region. Poria has the effect of detoxifying, dehumidifying and benefiting joints. Mainly treats limb spasms and muscular pain caused by syphilis and mercury poisoning; Hot and humid drenching, banding, carbuncles, sputum, scabies.
Dog liver dish
Dog liver vegetables, Hakka names: Qingxing (Xingning), Xiaoqing (Meixian), Tank Qing (Jiaoling, Pingyuan), Lixiaqing (Tai Po), alias Nine-headed Lion Grass, Nine Sections Hedge, Hexagonal Ying, Phlegm Qing, Mung Bean Green, Bamboo Leaf Green, Liver Firegrass. Annual or biennial herb. It grows on hillsides, wet grass or roadside meadows. For cold fever, fever macules, heat polydipsia, conjunctivitis, sore throat, boils, blood in the stool, blood in the urine, urine is unfavorable.