Medicinal plant thyme
When I was a teenager, I liked Xi Murong's poem "Qilixiang" -
"But our souls return night after night / The breeze blows out of time / Turns into a garden full of tulips."
Xi Murong's Seven Li Xiang
Fluttering in the wind, the seven incense of the four wild fangxins is also called ten incense, thousand incense, thousand incense... At that time, I wondered, seven miles, thousands of miles, thousands of miles are fragrant, why is there a difference of thyme?
Growing up to eat Western food, frequently encounter the appearance rate champion in Western food, this champion is called "thyme", the near-triangular leaves are thin and small, embellished with thin branches, there is the beauty of weak willow wind, can be born on the ground, can also spread into clusters in the stone crevices, hardy, drought-resistant, but also can bloom beautiful purple flowers, just like our "can't die" as skinny.
Western food appearance rate first yo
After encountering thyme, I feel that we have a bunch of aliases for qilixiang and qilixiang, which are gentle and frugal with Chinese, and friendly leave "hundred" to the imported thyme.
Thyme is native to southern Europe, although it is an exotic red and purple seasoning, but it has long settled in China, the Yuan Dynasty has taken thyme to and from the fishy seasoning records, "Materia Medica" records: "The taste is slightly spicy, the natives cook lamb food, fragrant." However, the alias of thyme in China is very simple, called ground pepper, ground pepper, mountain pepper, mountain pepper, the best name is called musk herb.
It's very good to go to the smell
Thyme whole plant has a unique fragrance, selling flowers said to be able to repel mosquitoes, indicating that the smell of thyme is very combat effective, in fact, a fine smell, thyme belongs to the low-key introverted incense, suitable for making spices and vegetables of the incense, aggression is not strong, good compatibility, since ancient times is a natural flavoring spice, in addition to adding to the beef and mutton to fishy, added to other ingredients are also versatile, try it, there will be unexpected but also very good acceptance of small surprises. Even when making kimchi, adding a little thyme to the jar can not only inhibit the multiplication of bacteria in the kimchi water, it is not easy to "haze", but also make the kimchi emit a chic fragrance if there is none.
If you send this thyme to the laboratory for testing, you will find that thyme is higher than the nutrients in ordinary green leafy vegetables, and with its abundant secondary metabolites, thyme naturally joins the team of medicinal and food uses.
Medicinal and food dual-use thyme
Thyme combines the spicy taste of herbs with the sweetness of vanilla, and the two flavors are intertwined, without interfering with each other and blending into one, with distinct layers and vividness.
Thyme can be used as medicine, ancient, European inheritance of thousands of years of plant herbs can always see the figure of thyme, thyme derived from the Greek word for courage "thumus", in the Middle Ages often used to give to the warriors on the battlefield. In my opinion, it should be because thyme is as tenacious as a warrior, able to tolerate extreme habitats, and more importantly, thyme has anti-infective properties, which can be used to clean the wounds of warriors who fight on the battlefield and prevent infection in broken areas.
Thyme, which has emigrated to China, eats and takes medicine when it comes, and conscientiously performs the function of medicinal herbs. Looking at the ancient books, you can see the medicinal effects of thyme, which is said to be the main treatment of inflammation and throat swelling and pain; the "Xinjiang Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine" records that it has the effect of suppressing cough and phlegm, and dispersing cold in warmth.
Later, following the footsteps of gold diggers, thyme in Oceania has the potential to catch up, growing freely and smiling in the vast space.
There are many varieties of thyme, count up, ten fingers are not enough, cat thyme, musk thyme, maculata lemon thyme, lavender thyme, white spot lemon thyme, lemon thyme, Oregon, safflower thyme, silver spotted thyme, orange thyme... The variety is the innate condition of quality, the environment is the acquired condition of quality, such as the silver spot thyme with milky white or silver white markings on the leaf edge, growing in the South Island Central Otago region, cold winter it is not afraid, summer dry it is not afraid, thyme grown in adversity, accumulated the richest secondary metabolic substances, medicinal value is unique.
Modern pharmacological analysis
Ancient medicine book records can be seen as a summary of the experience of the ancients in using thyme as a medicinal use, and the analysis of thyme by modern pharmacology can be seen as a verification of the medicinal value of thyme. Thyme performs well in the laboratory, rich in skullcap, luteolin-7-glucoside, glucoside, apigenin and other flavonoids and volatile oils, volatile oil to the highest content when the flower blooms, its main ingredients are vitex phenol, thymol, para-polyanithorin, linalool, etc., these functional active substances of anti-inflammatory, cough, antiseptic and other effects have withstood the test of modern science. Thymol contains thymol, linalool and umbrella flower hydrocarbons, the bactericidal effect is strong and the toxicity is low, the oral and throat disinfection and sterilization can show the hand, and can also promote the movement of tracheal cilia, help to secrete tracheal mucus, and have the effect of expectorant and anti-inflammatory.
In the Jinzhong region of Shanxi Province, China, thyme has always been a good medicine for the treatment of tracheitis in the folk, and after liberation, the local hospital has been clinically repeatedly verified for many years, and a paper has been issued, believing that thyme can be used for the auxiliary treatment of chronic tracheitis, and the efficiency is stable at more than 80%.
By the way, there is a folk prescription for colds and coughs that are common in China and the West, suitable for all ages: 6 grams of thyme, 6 grams of perilla leaves, 6 grams of almonds, 6 grams of tangerine peel, 6 grams of licorice, and fried in water. Lo and behold, all the medicinal herbs in this formula are medicinal and food-combined food, which can be described as the import of medicinal food products, and the medicinal food is the same as the family.
Known as the European herbal kingdom of Germany, after the official certification can be legally added to the food in the herbal about 1,000 species, this certification is similar to China's medicinal food and beverage food catalog, thyme is one of the most popular, the front of the house behind a bush, can be used as ingredients, can be used as medicinal materials, of course, in the sparsely populated Oceania, see mostly wild, like to pick a handful back.
Wild thyme
There are 100 grams of thyme on the table, two or two, enough to refresh my heart, hold a handful, the afterscent is still there, just like the birth of a beautiful woman - into the pot, delicious dishes, soaked into the cup, clear throat, planted in the garden, fragrant and fragrant. In this way, the seven incense of the girl's generation became the thyme of the pharmacy under the kitchen, just like this, making a cup of vanilla tea, our home, a family incense.
These kinds of medicinal food and herbs are lined up on my family's table, everyone recognizes, who is this with whom? Is thyme the most poetic one?
Vanilla family portrait
This one tastes like the wood ginger from my hometown
This one has a plain name
This is best recognized
This Chinese foreign name is different
This scent is enough to make a sachet to drive away mosquitoes
This is what to see at the beginning of the pattern description
I heard Thyme say #thank you for liking me #