Speaking of perilla,
I think my friends know each other,
It can be found everywhere in rural areas,
Its purple leaves,
The rich aroma is particularly conspicuous.
When cooking fish,
Pick a handful of perilla leaves and put them inside,
It can remove fishiness and increase flavor.
Microscopic
Perilla, is an annual herb of the Lamiaceae family, and because of its purple-red leaf side, it is also known as cinnamon, red so, fragrant su and so on. Because Hua Tuo discovered its medicinal value and was widely used. It is recorded in "Erya": take the young stems and leaves of perilla, boil porridge with juice, and the long clothes make the body white and fragrant. It is enough to see that the Chinese people's consumption of perilla has a long history.
Perilla in spring and summer is the leaf growth period is luxuriant, fresh perilla leaves are not easy to preserve, in order to have perilla leaves for a long time, people usually pick fresh leaves back, dry the water, and then seal the jar for preservation. When you usually drink water, you can take out dried perilla leaves and soak them in water, and if you want to improve the taste, you can also add some brown sugar. Perilla tea can warm the stomach and drive away cold, which is more suitable for people with cold stomach and deficiency of qi.
Why eat crab with perilla?
Fish, crab, shrimp and snail meat is cold, and our stomach likes warmth, and these cold things enter our stomach in large quantities, making our stomach cold, all of which will produce abdominal pain and diarrhea. And perilla can promote our appetite, let the spleen and stomach move, restore vitality, so perilla can neutralize the cold of fish and crabs.
Shiso brewed water instead of tea drinking, which was also extremely popular in ancient times. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Song Renzong, revealed the world and evaluated the soup drink, and the result was the first cooked water of perilla. Cooked water is a drink, that is, in the Song Dynasty, perilla tea gained a high degree of recognition.
Perilla water can drive away cold and detoxify, usually people can take perilla water directly after the cold and cold, can accelerate the relief of cold symptoms, in addition, people have cold intolerance and cough and shortness of breath and other adverse symptoms, you can also directly use perilla leaves to soak in water.
Correspondent | Shen Hongyang
Edit | Gan Yuqiong