There is a plant that looks like a bamboo shoot but is not a bamboo shoot, its name is Zibai, its other names are many, some places are called winter shoots, and some places call it high bamboo shoots, or bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, etc., no matter what it is called, it looks like this ↓↓↓
Zibai is a spindle-shaped hypertrophic gall formed by the stimulation of the flower stem of the grass plant [gū] and grows in the water of the lake swamp, which is distributed in the north and south of China. That is to say, it is not a seed or fruit, but a swollen stem after infection with powdery mildew.
The effect of whiteness
White cold taste sweet, into the spleen, stomach, liver, bile meridians, there is a clear heat, diuretic dehumidification, tonal stool function, suitable for excessive drinking, hot thirst, unfavorable urination, hot and humid jaundice, constipation knots and so on.
The "Food Materia Medica" compiled by the Ming Dynasty physician Lu He records: "It is white, sweet and cold. Go to annoy the heat. Youyun: The Lord's five visceral evil qi, gastrointestinal fixation, heart and chest floating heat, thirst quenching, good urination. Eating more makes people scorch cold, cold air, hurt the yang. Do not eat with honey. Bad food is great. ”
The "Materia Medica" says that it "relieves heat, quenches thirst, removes yellow eyes, facilitates urination, relieves fever and diarrhea, and detoxifies alcohol".
Nutritional analysis shows that ziba is rich in fiber, which can enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance appetite, promote bowel movements, and reduce blood lipids. Regular consumption of this product can effectively prevent high blood pressure, high blood lipids and habitual constipation.
Zibai's "close relative" Kumi
Before the "full-time" production of russet, its main product was its fruit, that is, rice.
During the Warring States period, the Zhou Li Tianguan records that "the king's gift, eat the six knots", which include "稌, 黍, 稷, 梁, wheat, and 菰." Suri, carved beard also. Among them, "菰" refers to the rice, also known as carved beard. The Tang Dynasty poem Saint Du Fu has a sentence: "Slippery memory carved hu rice, fragrant smell of brocade with soup." The Song Dynasty Lu You's "Long Song Line" also has a word cloud: "The rice is like a pearl cooking, and the soup is like cheese regardless of money." "It turns out that rice was used as one of the staple foods a long time ago.
Rice
Rice is also a traditional Chinese medicine, which is contained in the "Materia Medica": quenching thirst. "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: relieve annoyance and heat, adjust the stomach and intestines.
The yield of the rice is low, the growth environment is harsh, and later people found that the stem end of the plant was infected by the black powdery fungus, growing into the white, the taste of the white is more delicious than the rice, and it is easier to plant, so everyone began to change to the white, and the rice gradually decreased.
The dietary remedy for Russet is recommended
Old cucumber mushroom white crucian carp soup
Ingredients: 1 old cucumber (about 500 g), 2 russet white (about 100 g), 100 g mushrooms, 6 horseshoe, 3 slices of ginger, 1 white crucian carp (about 500 g).
method:
1, old cucumber, russet, horseshoe cut into thin pieces; grass mushrooms washed, cut in half, put into boiling water for a little blanching, fished out and rinsed with cold water; ginger washed, sliced;
2: Handle the white crucian carp cleanly, add a hot oil pan with ginger slices and fry over low heat until golden brown on both sides (sprinkle some white wine when frying).
3, then, put the other prepared ingredients into the pot together, add 1500 ml of water, a little white wine, boil over low heat for 30 minutes, season with salt, you can.
Efficacy: It has good effects of clearing heat and relieving heat, dampness and detoxification, healthy spleen and qi.
White fish head soup
Ingredients: 1 large fish head, 100 grams of russet white, 2 pieces of tofu, 3 slices of ginger.
1: Wash and slice the white shell, cut the tofu into pieces after washing, and clean the fish head.
2: Heat the oil, add the russet and stir-fry for a while, add the soup, fish head, tofu, ginger, fine salt and boil, skim off the foam, sprinkle with green onion, monosodium glutamate and serve.
Effect: Relieves heat and dampness, moisturizes and moisturizes.
White porridge
Ingredients: 150 grams of russet white, 50 grams of rice, appropriate amount of condiments.
Directions: Wash the whites and finely cut them into thin pieces. Rinse the rice, put it in a pot, add water to cook the porridge, add the white sauce, condiments, etc. when it is cooked, and then boil for a while.
Effect: It can clear heat and dampness, nourish yin and vitality. Suitable for thirst after drinking, urinating and astringent.
Shredded white potatoes
Ingredients: White russet, potatoes, condiments each appropriate amount.
Method: Wash the white and potatoes, peel the potatoes, cut into strips; put the vegetarian oil in the pot and heat it, put the green onion and ginger to simmer, and then add the potatoes and the white and stir-fry until cooked, add salt, monosodium glutamate, etc., and fry.
Efficacy: Can strengthen the spleen and stomach, suitable for chronic spleen and stomach disease indigestion, poor food and so on.
White bean sprouts
Ingredients: 150 grams of white, mung bean sprouts, appropriate amount of condiments.
Directions: Wash the white and cut into strips. Wash the mung bean sprouts. After the pot is heated in an appropriate amount of vegetarian oil, the white and mung bean sprouts are added, stir-fried for a while, and then the salt, monosodium glutamate, green onion, ginger, etc., can be fried.
Effect: Can clear heat and laxative, suitable for hot knot constipation and habitual constipation. ■
[Source: The content of this article is synthesized from China Traditional Chinese Medicine News, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, etc.]