What does autumn taste like?
Crab flavor. It is said that "the autumn wind rises, the crab feet itch"!
Every year during the National Day festival, crabs have become a popular seasonal delicacy on the table, folk known as "a plate of crabs, top table dishes" saying, "Dream of the Red Chamber" Lin Daiyu once wrote a poem praised: Chelative young jade double full, shell convex red fat block incense.
Chinese medicine believes that crabs are cold, clear blood and heat dissipation, and eating more can hurt the yang of the spleen and stomach, resulting in abdominal pain, diarrhea, stomach cold, vomiting and other uncomfortable symptoms. Especially known as people with spleen and stomach deficiency, it is manifested as long-term poor appetite, like hot diet, easy to bloat, diarrhea, such people eat more crabs are more likely to aggravate the discomfort
Chinese medicine believes that cold clears the blood and dissipates heat, hurts the sum of the spleen and stomach, and then causes diarrhea
Chinese medicine divides things into two attributes, yin and yang, which can also be said to be cold and hot. Traditional Chinese medicine health, dietary therapy herbs, etc. have classified the cold and heat properties of food. Chinese medicine classifies things with extroverted, diffuse, pushing, warm, excitatory and other characteristics as yang, that is, heat. Classify what is inward, condensed, quiet, cool, and downward as yin, that is, cold. Crabs are born at the water's edge, feel cool and cool, and compared to other animals, like to be quiet and less moving, so Chinese medicine believes that crabs are cold.
Cold is clear blood and heat dissipation, and eating more can hurt the spleen and stomach, resulting in abdominal pain, diarrhea, stomach cold, vomiting and other uncomfortable symptoms. Therefore, for those who have a long-term spleen and stomach deficiency, such as long-term poor appetite, like hot diet, easy to bloat, diarrhea, such people eat more crabs are easy to worsen and aggravate the discomfort.
Modern medicine believes that intestinal infections caused by bacteria are the main cause of diarrhea
From a modern point of view, the "cold" of crabs causes diarrhea, the reason is that crabs are not cooked, and the intestinal infections caused by a large number of pathogenic bacteria they carry. Because crabs live on carrion and live in dirty water. There are a large number of bacteria and parasites that multiply in the heart, lungs, stomach and mouth organs, and when the crab dies, the bacteria and the toxins they produce will invade the flesh. If the crab is not cooked or eaten as a dead crab or contaminated with dirty things in the stomach during the process of crab peeling, parasites, bacteria and toxins will be eaten together, which can easily cause stomach pain and diarrhea.
Emma：
But, as a standard foodie, how could we let go of such a delicious crab! What to do? This time, Emma recommended a "new friend" of crabs besides the ginger we know, and three steps let everyone turn the crab cold into delicious and healthy to eat!
The first step to "go cold":
Throw away the crabs in the most "cold" parts
Crab contains high-quality protein and unsaturated fatty acids, minerals are higher than ordinary meat and milk, and crab paste crab yellow contains fat, many of which are essential fatty acids that are beneficial to health, and are very popular seafood products. However, many people say that crabs are cold and cold, which can easily lead to diarrhea and cannot be eaten more. In fact, regarding the causes of crab cold diarrhea, Chinese and Western medicine have different interpretations.
Combining the explanations of Chinese medicine and current medicine, we also know that the four most "cold" parts of the crab body (the four parts with the most bacteria) must be discarded when eating crabs.
Crab gills: You can see when you open the crab shell, the soft hairs distributed on both sides are the respiratory organs of the crab (because it is used to filter water quality, so there are many bacteria hidden), and all can be removed.
Crab Heart: The crab heart is a small soft white flake between the yellow paste and the black film coat, which is said to be the coldest place in the crab.
Crab stomach: shaped like a triangular bone packet, also called crab bubbles, it is said that the crab stomach is filled with crab excrement, there is dirty sand inside, so this part must not be eaten.
Crab intestines: when the crab navel is broken, the bottom has a black line, and the crab intestines and the crab stomach are connected, so when removing the crab stomach, the crab intestines must also be removed, so that they can eat clean and healthy
The second step of "de-cold":
With the use of perilla, the "crab" is absolutely cold
In fact, in addition to resisting the coldness of crabs, people often cook ginger with crabs, or mix ginger with vinegar to dip crabs, or drink yellow wine when eating crabs; in order to drive away the fishy smell of crabs, some people often put cooked crabs and chrysanthemums on the same plate. As Xue Baochao in "Dream of the Red Chamber": the wine is not fishy and still uses chrysanthemums, and the sexual anti-accumulation cold ginger is fixed. However, ginger has a spicy taste, which can affect the original aroma of crab meat when too much; rice wine is wine after all, and it may not be very suitable for women, children or many people outside Jiangnan; and they are only to alleviate the coldness of crabs, and they lack good therapeutic effects on the discomfort symptoms that occur after eating crabs.
So is there a magic weapon that can not only alleviate crab cold, but also not destroy the crab fragrance, but also treat many uncomfortable symptoms after eating crabs? Yes, that is — perilla! Let's first take a look at what the effects of perilla are:
Perilla has an bacteriostatic effect
Perilla leaf is the leaf of the perilla leaf of the herbaceous plant Perilla of the family Lipaceae, with a spicy taste, temperate, spleen and lung meridians. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains "walking in the qi wide, clearing the phlegm and lungs, and blood, warm in the middle, analgesic, wheezing, and fetal safety". "Medicinal Materia Medica": "Eat raw leaves as a soup, kill all fish and crab poison." ”
The smell of perilla leaves is fragrant, and cooking with crabs can dispel the fishy smell of crabs, warm the cold of crab meat, and also make crabs fill with the unique aroma of Su leaves, without affecting the taste of the crabs themselves. When uncomfortable symptoms such as stomach cold, stomach pain, bloating, diarrhea and other uncomfortable symptoms occur after excessive crab eating, you can drink it with perilla decoction or tea. Modern medicine has confirmed that perilla has a good bacteriostatic effect on E. coli
Perilla restricts coldness
The use of perilla leaves to restrain the coldness of fish and crabs is widely used in the Japanese diet. In Japanese cuisine, raw fish or crab meat is often used, and in order to reduce their coldness, perilla leaves are often used as an ingredient to cook at the same time, and sushi is made from perilla leaves on the outside of the fish and crab meat. Perilla leaves have a long history of treating stomach discomfort caused by crab eaters.
Recommend a perilla crab recipe, easy to learn!
Perilla crab preparation: Take 5 crabs as an example
1) Use 5-10 pieces of perilla leaves, a small piece of ginger, 3 grams of salt, a small amount of rice wine.
2) Put the washed crab in the pot, put a few pieces of perilla leaves on top, and boil the scattered ginger in the pot with salt and rice wine for 20 minutes.
3) Remove from the dish covered with perilla leaves and serve
Important reminder: The following groups of people, use perilla with caution
1. Perilla leaf temperature, if it is a patient with body nausea caused by strong fire, do not take it.
2. Yin deficiency constitution or suffering from yin deficiency diseases, do not take.
3, perilla leaf soaking water can not be taken for a long time, perilla leaf contains a large amount of oxalic acid, if taken for a long time, oxalic acid will be deposited in the body in large quantities, easy to lead to diseases of the nervous system and digestive system, serious may also damage the hematopoietic function of internal organs
The third step of "de-colding":
Drink some of them, your stomach is warm!
After eating the crabs made with perilla, we have one last process, drinking some of them can help you warm your stomach!
Brown Sugar Ginger Tea:
Crab cold, especially for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, after eating the body may aggravate the cold in the body, and drinking brown sugar after eating crab can not only neutralize the cold of crabs, but also warm the stomach, reduce the cold in the body and relieve gastrointestinal discomfort.
rice wine:
Rice wine is a kind of warm wine, not only can neutralize the cold of crabs, but also has a certain cold repellent effect, help digestion of food, after eating crabs, it is best to choose semi-dry type of rice wine to eat together.
Soup:
After eating crab, a bowl of hot soup is perfect, hot soup can not only replenish water for the human body, but also relieve the discomfort of the stomach and intestines, increase the heating in the body.
Finally, although these three steps can neutralize the cold of crabs, people who are allergic to seafood, people who are in the onset of gout, patients with kidney diseases, pregnant women (which may increase the risk of dystocia and miscarriage) These 4 types of people are still not recommended to eat crabs, delicious so much, eat something else is in a beautiful mood!
Editors: Lu Xiaofeng, Xiaojing