In life, there is a Chinese medicine that we often use in cooking, that is, cardamom. This herb will be used as a spice when stewing meat, which not only makes the meat taste better, but also warms up to remove dampness and reduces the raw moisture problem caused by meat.
Cardamom flavor spicy, warm sex. It belongs to the lungs, spleen and stomach meridians. The main effect is to reduce damp gas, warm to stop vomiting, appetizing and digesting. In the clinic, it is mostly used for the treatment of wet and turbid obstruction, not thinking about eating, the beginning of wet temperature, chest tightness and hunger, cold and wet vomiting, chest and abdominal distension and pain, food accumulation and other symptoms. For nausea and vomiting caused by wet evil internal obstruction, not thinking about eating, stool diarrhea, digestive tract symptoms caused by heat stroke in summer, fever and vomiting diarrhea during "gastrointestinal cold".
Cardamom has white cardamom, grass cardamom, nutmeg, they all have aromatic breath, can be dry and wet, if subdivided, grass cardamom heavy in the warm stomach to stop vomiting, white cardamom is heavier than appetizing consumption, nutmeg is heavy in the astringent intestine to stop diarrhea. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded as "Cardamom cures diseases, takes its spicy heat and diarrhea, can enter the yin and yang, remove cold and dryness, and open up the power of food." The south is humble, the mountains are smoky, drinking acid, the spleen and stomach are often cold and wet and depressed, so the food must be used, and it is appropriate. However, too much can also help the spleen heat, hurt the lungs and damage the eyes." Therefore, when using, it is also necessary to pay attention not to excessive.
Modern experimental data show that cardamom contains many active ingredients that are beneficial to the human body.
1, bacteriostatic effect, cardamom shell decoction in vitro on dysentery bacillus has a bacteriostatic effect. α-Terpineol has an inhibitory effect on Bacterium thuringiensis in vitro.
2, asthmatic effect, cardamom contained in the α - terpene enol, α - terpine alcohol, etc. have a asthmatic effect.
3. Stomach anti-nausea effect, cardamom can promote gastric juice secretion, enhance intestinal peristalsis, stop abnormal fermentation in the intestine, drive away gastrointestinal gas, and have anti-nausea effect.
4, antioxidant effect, white cardamom essential oil has a good antioxidant effect, and india production of white cardamom essential oil antioxidant slightly stronger than China white cardamom essential oil.
When we eat meat, eating too much meat can lead to indigestion. The cardamom that enters the spleen and stomach is a warm drug that can help the digestion of meat. Avoid food accumulation caused by slow digestion and staying in the body. After the accumulation of food, it will be transformed into "wet" in the body, and over time it will become a wet and heavy constitution.
When stewing meat, cardamom is best put into the pot when the meat is ripe, because its medicinal ingredients are mainly volatile oils, and after a long stew, it will lose its medicinal effect.