11 flavors of Chinese medicine hidden in the kitchen, do you know how many? 1.Garlic 2.Cloves 3.Star anise 4.Cumin 5.Grass fruit 6.Sand kernel 7.Cinnamon 8.Cumin 9.Coriander 10. Pepper 11. Black sesame seeds

Guo Dingding, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions, Shanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

11 flavors of Chinese medicine hidden in the kitchen, do you know how many? 1.Garlic 2.Cloves 3.Star anise 4.Cumin 5.Grass fruit 6.Sand kernel 7.Cinnamon 8.Cumin 9.Coriander 10. Pepper 11. Black sesame seeds

Bulbs of the lily family garlic.

【Sexual Taste and Return to the Scriptures】Spicy, warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, lung meridians.

【Function and indications】It has the effect of detoxification and swelling, insecticide and diarrhea. It is often used for carbuncle sores, scabies, tuberculosis, cough, diarrhea, dysentery.

Dried buds of the myrtle family cloves.

【Sexual Taste and Return to the Scriptures】Spicy, warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, lungs, kidney meridians.

【Function and indications】Temperature inversion, tonic kidney and yang. It is used for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, hiccup vomiting, less vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, kidney deficiency and impotence.

Dried ripe fruit of the magnolia family star anise.

【Sexual Taste and Return to the Scriptures】Spicy, warm. It belongs to the liver, kidneys, spleen and stomach meridians.

【Function and indications】It has the effect of warming the sun and dispersing the cold, rationalizing the qi and relieving pain. It is used for cold hernia abdominal pain, kidney deficiency and low back pain, stomach cold vomiting, cold abdominal pain.

Dried ripe fruit of the umbelliferous plant fennel.

【Function and indications】Cold relief, qi and stomach. It is used for cold hernia abdominal pain, testicular fall, dysmenorrhea, less abdominal cold pain, abdominal distension pain, less vomiting and diarrhea.

Dry ripe fruit of the gingeraceae plant grass fruit.

【Sexual Taste and Return to the Scriptures】Spicy, warm. Return to the spleen and stomach meridians.

【Function and indications】In dry and wet temperature, malaria is amputated and sputum is removed. It is used for cold and wet internal resistance, abdominal distention and pain, vomiting, malaria cold fever, plague fever.

Dried ripe fruit of ginger plants Yangchun sand, green shell sand or Hainan sand.

【Sexual Taste and Return to the Scriptures】Spicy, warm. Spleen, stomach, kidney meridians.

【Function and indications】Wet appetizer, warm spleen and antidiarrhea, rational qi and safe fetus. It is used for wet and turbid obstruction, non-hunger, spleen and stomach deficiency, vomiting and diarrhea, pregnancy obstruction, fetal restlessness.

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Bark of the lauraceae plants Tianzhu Gui, Yin Xiang and Sichuan Gui.

【Sexual Taste and Return to the Scriptures】 Warm, spicy, sweet. Return to the stomach, large intestine, liver, kidney meridians.

【Function and indications】Warm spleen and stomach, warm liver and kidneys, dispel cold and relieve pain, disperse stasis and reduce swelling. It is used for cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, cold waist and knee pain, cold hernia abdominal pain, cold wet paralysis pain, stasis and dysmenorrhea, blood diarrhea, intestinal wind, bruises, swelling and pain, etc.

Fruit of cumin parsley, a plant of the umbelliferous family.

【Sexual Taste and Return to the Scriptures】Spicy, warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, kidney meridians.

【Function and indications】Disperse cold and relieve pain, rationalize and adjust the qi. It is used for cold pain in the abdomen, indigestion, cold hernia falling pain, menstrual irregularities.

Stems and leaves of the umbelliferous plant Coriander.

【Sexual Taste and Return to the Scriptures】Spicy, warm. Return to the lungs and stomach meridians.

【Function and indications】Publication of diaphragm, stomach. It is used for measles is not easy to penetrate in the early stage, food stagnation and stomach pain, and closure.

Piperine is nearly ripe or ripe fruit. Harvested in late autumn to the following spring when the fruit is dark green, sun-dried, it is black pepper; when the fruit turns red, it is harvested, soaked with water for several days, the flesh is wiped off, and dried in the sun, which is white pepper.

【Sexual Taste and Attribution】Spicy, hot. Return to the stomach and large intestine.

【Function and indications】Warm in the cold, lower breath, phlegm elimination. It is used for abdominal pain and diarrhea, loss of appetite, epilepsy and phlegm.

Seeds of sesame seeds.

【Sexual Taste and Attribution】Sexual flatness, sweet taste. Return to the liver, lungs, kidney meridians.

【Function and indications】Tonify liver and kidneys, improve sperm and blood, moisturize intestines. It is used for dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, premature whitening, post-illness hair loss, dry bowel and constipation.