How to eat cloves? What can I do when cooking?
Clove plays a very important role in daily life, especially in diet. Almost many people will add a little clove to their rice. So, what are the ways to eat cloves? Can you cook them? Lilac is pungent and warm, can warm the spleen and stomach, strengthen the viscera and yang, and be fragrant and enlightened. Therefore, it can be used to stop vomiting, regulate stomach and reduce adverse reactions, and treat abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting caused by deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach. Abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by children eating cold drinks and eating too many fruits and vegetables in summer can be mashed with 3 grams of clove and 3 grams of ginger, filled in the umbilical fossa, covered with gauze and fixed with cloth tape, and changed daily 1 time. Eugenol is the main effective component in clove, which can inhibit many harmful bacteria in oral cavity, especially for toothache and halitosis caused by gingivitis and dental caries. Shen Kuo recorded in Meng Qian Bi Tan: In the Han Dynasty, Langguan played with something big and small in front of the emperor, and his mouth contained chicken tongue incense (clove), which could correct the bad breath caused by stomach heat or dental diseases, so as not to cause displeasure to the emperor. Today, patients with toothache and bad breath can gargle with clove 10g and decoction. Clove can be used in cooking, cigarette additives, incense additives, tea making and so on. You can also take medicine. Chinese medicine also has clove buds as medicine. The medicine is fragrant, warm in nature and pungent in taste. Clove oil is an important perfume, which can also be used to treat burns and as a dental analgesic. The cloves added in cooking are not only delicious, but also have many good health care functions. For example, clove ribs are a delicious and nutritious dish, which has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing essence and enriching blood; It is suitable for patients with deficiency of both qi and blood and yin deficiency.