As the saying goes, good medicine is bitter
Chinese medicine that we usually take
Most of them are also bitter
But actually
There are some "sweet" Chinese medicines with the same origin as medicine and food
The same can be health care and healing
We can also buy some and put them at home
Diet and health care are the same
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1. Jujube
【Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective】
Jujube, which has been cultivated in China for more than 4,000 years, is listed as one of the "five fruits", sweet in taste, warm in nature, and attributed to the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effect of tonifying qi, nourishing blood and calming the spirit, and is used to treat spleen deficiency, lack of food, loose stool, blood deficiency, yellowing, restlessness and other diseases.
【Western Medicine Perspective】
Jujube is rich in glucose, fructose and other ingredients, which have sedative, antihypertensive, anti-fatigue, anti-aging and other effects; At the same time, the rich vitamins in jujube are known as "natural vitamin pills", which can promote intestinal peristalsis and relieve constipation.
【Serving Instructions】
The methods of jujube are very diverse, can be watered decoction tea drink, can be boiled porridge, can be stewed soup, can be steamed. It is safer and more effective to break open and core it.
6 combinations of commonly used dates and their effects:
1. Jujube plus goji berry: clear the liver and clear the eyes, nourish the blood and calm the spirit;
2. Jujube plus angelica: replenish qi and blood, relieve constipation;
3. Jujube plus chrysanthemum: nourish the liver and clear heat, nourish yin and bright eyes;
4. Jujube plus ginger: drive away cold and warmth, replenish qi;
5. Jujube plus lily: nourish blood and calm the spirit, clear the mind and eliminate troubles;
6. Jujube plus roses: detoxify and nourish the face, relieve liver depression.
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【Note】
If there is humid heat, phlegm and dampness in the body, real fire should not be eaten, diabetic patients should not eat more. At the same time, jujube should be avoided to increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
2. Longan meat
【Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective】
Longan meat is sweet, warm in nature, and returns to the heart and spleen meridian. It has the effect of nourishing the heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the mind, and is used to treat insomnia, palpitations, body deficiency and anemia, and insufficient qi and blood.
【Western Medicine Perspective】
Longan meat contains very high sugar, its simple sugars are easily absorbed by the body, and contain a large amount of calcium, iron, can promote red blood cells and protein regeneration, especially for postpartum body deficiency anemia has a good tonic effect, can promote physical recovery.
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【Recommended porridge】
Longan meat millet pumpkin porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of millet, 30 grams of glutinous rice, 100 grams of pumpkin, 20 grams of longan meat.
Method: Cook the above ingredients until sticky.
Efficacy: Nourishes the spleen and stomach, calms and calms the mind. And pumpkin rich in pectin and vitamins can protect the gastric mucosa, promote intestinal peristalsis, and help digestion.
【Note】
1. Pregnant women and diabetic patients should be used with caution.
2. Longan meat is hot, phlegm heat, humid heat, yin deficiency and fire in the body are not suitable for consumption.
3. Monk fruit
【Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective】
Luo Han fruit is sweet, cool, lung and large intestine meridian. It has the effect of clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs, sharpening the pharyngeal opening and moisturizing the intestines and laxation, and is often used to treat pulmonary fever and cough, sore throat, loss of voice, irritable bowel and constipation.
【Western Medicine Perspective】
Monk fruit, also known as "fairy fruit". It has 300 times more non-sugar than sucrose, sweet glycosides, contains almost no calories, and is often used as one of the flavoring agents. At the same time, monk fruit contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins, and its nutritional value is very rich.
【Special ointment of our hospital】
The special ointment made by our hospital also often uses monk fruit as one of the auxiliary medicinal materials, which has a good nourishing effect on the liver, kidneys and lungs, and can enhance the effect of the ointment on replenishing deficiency and prolonging life.
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【Serving Instructions】
The eating method of monk fruit is also very simple, directly chewed raw or soaked in water, it can be used to relieve sore throat caused by lung heat and fire, dilute sputum, and help discharge phlegm.
4. Corn whiskers
【Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective】
Corn whiskers, also known as jade wheat whiskers, dragon whiskers, sweet, light, and flat. Attributed to the bladder, liver, and gallbladder meridians. Diuresis, swelling, liver and gallbladder clearance effect. It is used to treat edema, urine leaching, jaundice, milk blockage, hypertension, diabetes.
【Western Medicine Perspective】
Modern research shows that corn whiskers contain a lot of potassium nitrate and vitamin K.
Long-term use of corn must be brewed in water instead of tea, which can regulate blood pressure and have a dilating effect on peripheral blood vessels.
The saponins in corn whiskers can reduce serum cholesterol and blood sugar levels, although they cannot completely replace hypoglycemic drugs, but they are better treated with them.
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【Serving Instructions】
1. The source of corn whiskers is easy to obtain, the use of fresh corn whiskers has the best effect, a cup of dragon whisker tea in hot summer, sweet and delicious, clear heat and cool down, drive away summer fatigue, improve the body's metabolic capacity.
2. Corn must be applied to a wide range and can be taken by the general population with almost no side effects.
5. White grass root
【Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective】
White grass root, sweet, cold. Attributed to the lungs, stomach, bladder meridians. It has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and diuresis. It is used for the treatment of blood heat vomiting, blood in urine, lung fever, cough, gastric heat and vomiting, humid heat jaundice, edema, oligouria, heat and astringent pain.
【Western Medicine Perspective】
Modern research has found that the main components of white grass root are glucose fructose sucrose, citric acid oxalic acid, rutin and white grass, etc., with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, immunomodulatory and other effects, so it is also commonly used in clinical use for nephritis, hepatitis, pneumonia, etc., and it also plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine in the new crown pneumonia.
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【Serving Instructions】
Every spring and summer, Cantonese people like to put white grass root into soup and boil it into "bamboo cane root water" to eat, the taste is sweet, suitable for all ages.
The method is also very simple, take fresh sugarcane and white grass root (dry and fresh), horseshoe boiled together, has the effect of clearing heat and fire, nourishing and quenching thirst, moisturizing the lungs and detoxifying, and has a certain preventive health care effect on colds and fevers, laryngitis, etc.
【Note】
White grass root is cold, spleen and stomach are cold, and people who urinate a lot without thirst should not eat.