Salt as a condiment accompanies us three meals a day, but many people do not know that it is also a good medicine.
Shandong Susha boiled the sea as salt, which is the originator of Chinese salt production. For the first time, Rong Salt and Great Salt are recorded in the Shennong Materia Medica and are listed as the next products. Rong salt is produced in the northwest of the green salt, large salt is produced in Shanxi, Hebei brine salt. Chinese medicine believes that salt tastes salty and cold, non-toxic, into the heart, kidney meridians.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: large salt, detoxification, cool blood moisturizing, pain and itching, vomiting all the time when the wind is hot, phlegm drinking Guan Ge diseases. The "Famous Doctors' Catalogue" also records: large salt, mainly for the treatment of typhoid fever, spitting in the chest phlegm, stopping abdominal pain, killing ghosts and evil scabies, lower sores, and strong muscles and bones.
Kidney solid teeth "Qianjin Fang" records: the gums are exposed, every time the salt is poured, the hot water contains a hundred times, and the teeth are firm after five days. "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" says: Tooth insufficiency (worm teeth. Hidden, the original word for the upper and lower worms) tooth movement, salt half two, soap pod two, with burning red, fine, every night (before going to bed), used to rub (rub) teeth, after a month can be cured, its teeth firm. "Dream of the Red Chamber" also records that Jia Baoyu had the habit of rubbing his teeth with salt every morning, and the result was that his teeth were white and stable.
Emergency Rescue "Elbow Rescue Party" records: yang deficiency evidence, cold limbs, unconsciousness, or tight pain in the lower abdomen, cold sweat and asthma, fried salt ironing navel under the sea of qi, heating.
Pain relief and swelling "Emergency Relief After the Elbow" records: beriberi pain, every night with salt to rub the legs and knees to the nails, when flooded, with hot soup to wash. The "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" records: All beriberi, three liters of salt, steamed and wrapped, near the wall, with the foot stepping on it, so that the foot heart is warm. And the white skin of the locust steamed, Yuliang. Use it night and night.
Modern studies have shown that each 100 grams of table salt contains 39 grams of sodium, 22 mg of calcium, 14 mg of potassium, 2 mg of magnesium, 1 mg of iron, and also contains manganese, zinc, copper, carotene, vitamin A, selenium and so on. Sodium chloride, the main component of table salt, is an indispensable substance for maintaining the normal osmolality of human tissues, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice in the stomach and promote the absorption of protein, which is absorbed into the blood by the gastrointestinal tract and goes to the kidneys, so that the urinary function of the kidneys is exuberant and the diuretic effect is increased.
Salt should not be eaten much, and the "Famous Doctors' Records" records: eat salt, eat more to hurt the lungs, and like cough.
The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2016)" pointed out that salt is the main condiment for food cooking or processed food, and the salt intake in the eating habits of Chinese residents is too high, and excessive salt intake is related to high blood pressure, stomach cancer and stroke, so it is necessary to reduce salt intake, cultivate light taste, quantify the use of salt, and recommend that the daily salt intake does not exceed 6 grams.
Some patients with cough, thirst, edema, hypertension, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease should limit their intake and replace it with unsalted soy sauce.
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