Chinese Medicine Class: Coix Kernel (Chinese)
Last time, it was said that in the spring of "spring sleepiness" and "wet weight", the diet should not only remove dampness, but also strengthen the spleen. For the old Guang, who are often in the humid Lingnan region and are good at "boiling beautiful soups", they can always flexibly use various soups to cook a variety of healthy spleen and wet soups. Among the many old and wide-ranging wet soups, coix kernel is estimated to be the most frequent flavor.
Coix seeds are derived from the dried mature kernels of the grass plant coix, harvested when the fruit is ripe in autumn, laid off the fruit, dried and removed from the shell, yellow-brown seed coat and impurities can be used. Coix kernels are also known as barley, barley, six grains, because of its main carbohydrates, calories higher than rice and wheat, and rich in fat, protein, amino acids, vitamins and calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and other trace elements, nutritional value is extremely high, so it has long been eaten as food, with the "world's grass plant king", "life and health of the grass" reputation.
Coix kernel is not only rich in nutrients, can provide the human body with the required calories, and is easy to be digested and absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, is the elderly, children and long-term illness deficiency, post-illness recovery period of the ideal meal replacement food, often eaten, but also enhance human immunity, so that the human body is light, agile, healthy and long-lived. Studies have found that coix kernels are rich in vitamin E, regular food can maintain the skin gloss and delicate, and can eliminate acne, fade spots, improve skin tone, is a cheap and easy to obtain beauty and skin care products.
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material:
60 grams of dried soil poria (200 grams of fresh products), 50 grams of fried barley, 1 clove of tangerine peel, 2 dates, 350 grams of pork backbone, salt to taste.
method:
(1) Wash the above materials and blanch the pork spine.
(2) Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot and bring to a boil; add the above ingredients, cook on low heat for 1 hour, and season.
Professor Yang Zhimin, a special health expert and vice president of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Expert Comments:
In the hot summer, it is easy to be upset and irritable, mouth and tongue sores, dry and bitter oropharynx, yellow and short urine, sticky stool, eczema of the limbs and other symptoms, damp and hot, making people uncomfortable. Soil poria, mild in nature, can clear heat and dehumidify, turbidity and detoxification; stir-fried barley, cold reduction, can strengthen the spleen to remove dampness, water and swelling; with the smooth gas phlegm of the tangerine peel, and the honey jujube, the soup can be moist and hot, suitable for the public to cope with the Lingnan summer, damp heat, phlegm wet physique people can often take.
Tip: People with qi deficiency and yang deficiency are not recommended.
Pharmacists on duty in this period:
Xiang Jun, Clinical Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmacist of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Specialty: Chinese medicine drug consultation, including common chinese medicine decoction and taking methods, compatibility contraindications, rational drug consultation, commonly used Chinese medicine tablet identification, commonly used toxic Chinese medicine research, Chinese proprietary medicine drug consultation, etc.
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[Reporter] Yan Huifang
【Author】 Yan Huifang
【Source】 Daily meals in the South