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What's good for Xiaoman's health? Efficacy and function of Xiaoman's bitter herbs

Today is Xiaoman in the 24 solar terms. Do you know what it means? One of the major customs of Xiaoman solar terms is to eat 'bitter vegetables' on the day of solar terms. The' bitter vegetables' here are not only one kind of vegetables, but all kinds of bitter vegetables, such as bitter vegetables, wolfberry, balsam pear, etc., should be eaten on Xiaoman's day.

What to eat on this day of Xiaoman solar term

1. Bitter herbs

The spring wind blows, the bitter vegetables grow, and the wasteland is the granary. Bitter cabbage is one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. ZhouShu: a bitter dish show on the day of Xiaoman. "The book of songs": picking bitter, picking bitter, under the first Yang. It is said that in order to survive, Wang Baochuan once ate bitter vegetables in hanyao for 18 years. In the old society, every spring when the peasants were young and yellow, they relied on bitter vegetables to satisfy their hunger. Bitter vegetables, with bitter taste, although the adverse mouth, better than jejunum. During the long march of that year, the Red Army used bitter vegetables to satisfy their hunger and overcome difficulties one by one. There was a song in Jiangxi Soviet Area: bitter vegetables, yellow flowers, wild vegetables and grain. The red army went to the battlefield and killed the enemy bravely to win the battle. Kucai is known as' Red Army dish 'and' Long March dish '.

Bitter vegetables, bitter with astringent, astringent with sweet, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender fragrance, rich in nutrition, contains a variety of vitamins, minerals, choline, sugars, riboflavin and mannitol needed by the human body, with the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxification. Compendium of materia medica: if you take it for a long time, you will feel at ease, benefit Qi, lighten your body and endure aging. In medicine, bitter herbs were often used to treat febrile diseases, and the ancients also used them to sober up. Ningxia people like to blanch bitter vegetables, cold wash cold mix, mix salt, vinegar, spicy oil or mashed garlic, cool spicy, eat steamed bread, rice, make people appetite. Yellow rice soup can also be used to pickle bitter vegetables into yellow, sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil the bitter vegetables with boiling water, extrude the bitter juice, and use it to make soup, stuffing, hot frying and noodles, with different flavors.

2. Lycium barbarum seedlings

Chinese wolfberry seedling is also called Chinese wolfberry tip. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the whole plant of Lycium barbarum seedling is cool in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and trouble, nourishing yin and improving eyesight. It is suitable for the treatment of yin deficiency fever, thirst, dry mouth, hand foot heart heat, liver and kidney deficiency, two eyes dryness, deficiency fire toothache and other diseases.

Pick up the tender Lycium barbarum seedlings and put them into the Su Shang Tang to cook or roll the soup to enjoy the refreshing and heat dispelling effect; for the taste of delicious taste, stir fry the young Lycium barbarum seedlings until half cooked, pour in the egg paste (mix salt, pepper and raw oil when beating the egg paste) and fry until golden and half coke, with porridge and rice.

3. Balsam pear

Summer to eat bitter gourd is a good recipe for clearing heat and detoxification. Balsam pear has the effects of clearing away heat, nourishing blood and Qi, tonifying kidney and spleen, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. It has certain effects on dysentery, sore swelling, heat stroke, excessive heat rash, conjunctivitis and other diseases. Momordicin in balsam pear is known as' fat killer ', which can reduce the intake of fat and polysaccharide.

The key to choose balsam pear is the fruit tumor, which is the convex place on the surface of balsam pear. The bigger the size of the fruit tumor is, the fuller the flesh is; the smaller the size of the fruit tumor is, the thinner the flesh is. The Yellow balsam pear is generally too ripe and tastes bad. It is better to blanch with hot water before stir frying balsam pear to reduce bitterness and remove oxalic acid, so as not to affect calcium absorption.

Efficacy of Xiaoman's bitter herbs

Xiaoman solar term

"BIE Lu": "bitter vegetables are good for Sichuan Valley, mountain mausoleum and roadside. Ling Dong will not die. On March 3, it was harvested and dried in the shade. '

Tao Hongjing: "according to tongjunlu, bitter herbs are born in March, and help sparse. In June, the flowers come out from the leaves, and the stems are straight and yellow. In August, they are black, and the roots are reborn. In winter, they are not withered. Today's tea is very similar to this. '

"Tang Materia Medica" says: "tea is a kind of wood, but not a vegetable. It is picked in spring as bitter tea. According to Erya, tea and bitter vegetables. "Shi Mu" cloud, Yi, Kucha. There is no proportion between the two. According to Yitong guayan xuantu, Kucai was born in cold autumn. After winter and spring, it was named xianaicheng. Its leaves were as thin as gesory, and its flowers were as yellow as chrysanthemum. This is similar to that of Tongjun. '

"Compendium of compendium": "bitter herbs, that is, Ixeris. Home growers call it chicory. It's really a thing. There are two kinds of spring seedlings, red stem and white stem. The stem is hollow and fat, and there is white juice. The leaves are like turnip leaves, green with green color. The upper leaves are clinging to the stem, and the tip leaves are like crane beaks. Each leaf is bifurcated, and it looks like a through leaf. Yellow flowers bloom like wild chrysanthemums. A flower knot a cluster, such as chrysanthemum and crane lice, flower is convergence. There is white hair on the seed, which flutters with the wind and grows when it falls. '

It has obvious effect on diabetic patients, because diabetes is a typical endocrine disorder - Fugui disease. According to the five flavors of food: bitter, spicy, sour, sweet and astringent, we usually eat too much sweet food, but very little bitter and astringent food. So over time, the imbalance of food nutrition leads to endocrine disorders. Bitter hemp is dry and astringent. It can make up for the five flavors of modern diet and is very good for diabetic patients. Actually, anyone should eat it often. Many people who use it as tea say that they haven't had a cold since they drank kumachai tea. Bitter dish itself is anti-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory. It is definitely effective to prevent influenza. It is a kind of good wild vegetable health product to enhance the immunity of modern sub-health population. For today's popular 'swine flu' is the first choice to prevent tea.

Nowadays, there are many diabetics, many people who have a good cold, and more people who have constipation and body poison. This tea is urgent for people's needs and has a significant effect on the sub-health symptoms of modern people. At the time of rapid economic development, we need this kind of pure natural green organic health care products.

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