Star anise, cinnamon, and cardamom are all commonly used condiments in the kitchen, and their medicinal properties also have their own merits. In this issue of "Kitchen Health Class", we will listen to the experts of Shanghai Guanghua Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine share the "secrets" hidden in star anise, cinnamon and cardamom.
1
star anise
Star anise is pungent and warm, and belongs to the liver, kidney, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the effect of warming the yang and dissipating cold, regulating qi and relieving pain, and can be used for cold hernia abdominal pain, kidney deficiency and low back pain, stomach cold vomiting, and cold pain in the abdomen.
The main ingredient of star anise is fennel oil, which can stimulate gastrointestinal neurovascularity, promote the secretion of digestive juices, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, have the effect of strengthening the stomach and qi, help relieve spasms and reduce pain;
Pharmacist advises
1. Patients with eye diseases with yin deficiency and fire, Sjogren's syndrome, menopausal syndrome, active tuberculosis, bronchial asthma, gout, diabetes, and people with fever eat less or even avoid eating.
2. Star anise is a warm medicine, with a pungent taste and warmth, and it is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and internal heat constitution. Because it has the effect of increasing white blood cells, it is not recommended for patients with high white blood cells in the body. In addition, in recent years, studies have found that star anise will have a small estrogenic effect, so it is not recommended to eat it when suffering from uterine lesions, breast lesions and other conditions that affect estrogen levels in the body.
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Cinnamon
Cinnamon is pungent, sweet, hot, and returns to the kidney, spleen, heart, and liver meridians. It is often used for impotence and uterine cold, cold pain in the waist and knees, kidney deficiency and asthma, deficiency and yang floating, dizziness and redness, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, deficiency and cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea.
Cinnamon mainly contains volatile oils, flavonoids, flavanols and their polymers, terpenes, lignans, phenolic acids, coumarins, saponins, polysaccharides and other components, in addition to inorganic elements and other compounds. At present, cinnamaldehyde in volatile oil is generally considered to be the main active substance. Cinnamon has a certain effect on the digestive system and cardiovascular protection, in addition, cinnamon also has antibacterial and antioxidant effects.
Pharmacist advises
1. Pregnant women, lactating mothers and people with poor liver and kidney function should not take large doses for a long time, as large doses of cinnamon are toxic to the liver and kidney. Cinnamon has the ability to lower blood pressure and blood sugar, anticoagulant function, patients taking related drugs or related concerns, please pay more attention or avoid taking cinnamon powder or cinnamon essential oil.
2. Cinnamon should not be used with red stone grease.
3. In addition, there is a kind of cinnamon on the market called Ceylon cinnamon, which is native to Sri Lanka and is also a common spice, but it is not included in the current 2020 edition of the Pharmacopoeia in mainland China.
4. Cinnamon contains many volatile components and is recommended to be kept tightly sealed.
3
cardamom
The fruit of cardamom is also a commonly used spice for people to add to the effect of removing the smell and improving the freshness when stewing meat. In addition to being a wonderful seasoning, cardamom is also commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, and in the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" according to different plant sources are divided into cardamom, nutmeg, cardamom and grass cardamom, several Chinese medicine effects are slightly different.
Pharmacist advises
1. Cardamom is pungent and warm, yin deficiency and internal heat or stomach fire is excessive, dry mouth and thirst, dry stool should not eat, Sjogren's syndrome and diabetic patients should avoid eating.
2. Grass cardamom should not be used for stomach pain, tenesmus, abdominal distension and other diseases caused by heat in patients with low yin deficiency and low blood and insufficient fluid.
3. Cardamom is deficient in yin and should not be taken by those who have heat.
4. Nutmeg damp heat, diarrhea and yin deficiency and fire are forbidden to take it.
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Written by: Zhao Li
Editor: Cheng Qian
Editor-in-charge: Wang Bo
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