Perilla, also known as red su, red su, and coriander, is an annual herb of the family Lipaceae, which is a traditional medicinal and food dual-use plant.
Perilla is commonly used in Chinese medicine, while Japanese people are mostly used in cooking, especially when eating sashimi, and it is also used as a vegetable or tea in a few parts of China.
Perilla leaf, also known as Su leaf, has the function of relieving the cold, qi and stomach, and is mainly used to treat cold and cold, cough, chest and abdomen distension, nausea and vomiting and other symptoms. The seeds, also known as Suzi, have the functions of suppressing cough and asthma and expectorant.
Perilla whole herb can distill perilla oil, the oil from the seed is also called suzi oil, long-term consumption of suzi oil has obvious effect on the treatment of coronary heart disease and high blood lipids.
1 The Legend of Perilla
Legend has it that during the late Eastern Han Dynasty, during the Jiujiu Chongyang Festival, several youth competed to eat crabs, and these young people shouted stomach pain in the middle of the night that night. At this time, I happened to meet the divine doctor Hua Tuo, and after diagnosis, I learned that I had eaten many crabs and had been poisoned by cold. However, since there was no medicine to treat this disease at that time, Hua Tuo did not know what to do.
Just when Hua Tuo was in a dilemma, he remembered that when he was collecting medicine before, he found an otter greedily eating crabs, and it wasn't long before the otter lay on the ground and rolled. Later, it climbed to the shore, ate some purple blades of grass, lay down for a while, and was all right.
So he went to the countryside to pick some of that purple grass and immediately fried soup for a few young people to take. After a while, the young man's stomach stopped aching.
Because this herb is purple, it feels very comfortable to eat in the stomach. Hua Tuo named this herb "Zi Shu". It has now become "perilla".
2 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.
3 Common compatibility
Sue Ye
1. With wu xiangfu, tangerine peel and other drugs, such as xiang susan, the treatment of wind chill manifestations and stagnation (chest tightness, vomiting, stomach discomfort of wind chill cold, commonly known as "stop eating cold"), chest full of stuffiness, nausea and vomiting;
2. Used with almonds, platycodon and other drugs, such as apricot susan, the treatment of cough and sputum;
3. With the same use as half summer, magnolia, poria and so on, such as half-summer magnolia soup, the treatment of seven emotional knots, sputum condensation stagnation plum nuclear gas certificate;
4. Compatible with ginger, tangerine weed and other medicines, for eating fish and crab poisoning and causing abdominal pain and vomiting, can be detoxified.
Suzi
1. Matched with white mustard seeds and lychee seeds, such as three sons raising relatives soup, treatment of sputum reversal, cough and asthma, phlegm and other evidence;
2. Compatible with cinnamon, angelica, Magnolia and other warm kidney phlegm under the qi products, such as Suzi deflation soup, the treatment of long cough and phlegm and asthma;
3. With almonds, hemp seeds, melon seeds, etc., such as perilla hemp seed porridge, it can moisturize the slippery intestines and reduce lung qi to help the conduction of the large intestine.
4 Therapeutic diets
Perilla stewed fish
1, fresh crucian carp to scale, belly to remove gill, perilla leaves clean, drain the water;
2, oil pot, sauté chives, ginger garlic, dried red pepper segments, when the aroma wafts out, lay the fish flat into the pot, fry over medium heat;
3: Cook cooking wine along the edge of the pot, add a little soy sauce and soy sauce, add hot water that has just been cooked, add sugar and a spoonful of watercress sauce, simmer over medium heat until the soup is more than halfway through
4: Add perilla leaves, and use salt to salt and light taste, the soup is basically exhausted, sprinkle some green onions to get out of the pot.
Cold mix with su leaves
1, the Suzi leaves washed (prefer softer can choose to steam);
2, garlic minced or sliced, cut well, take an empty bowl, take a little salt, chicken essence, seafood soy sauce, sesame oil, oil consumption, paprika, garlic put together, add a little warm water to make a paste;
3: Pour the seasoning from the bowl into the suzi leaves, grasp and stir with your hands to taste.
5 Precautions for use
1, perilla into the drug should not be fried for a long time, otherwise it will lose its active ingredients;
2. Perilla has the effect of raising blood sugar, so people with high blood sugar should not take too much perilla;
3. Studies have shown that some components of perilla are also toxic side effects, α-pinene can cause rash, ataxia, coma, and irritation of gastrointestinal side effects, and periosool is also irritating and allergenic.