Aromatic drugs

(1) Illicium verum, also known as anise, fennel and aniseed, belongs to woody plants. ※ taste spices. It tastes sweet and fragrant. Used alone or in combination with other drugs (fragrant drugs), it is beautiful. Mainly used for cooking, marinating, stewing, stewing and other animal raw materials. Sometimes it is also used for vegetarian dishes. Such as stewed radish, marinated bean curd, etc. Star anise is the main seasoning in spiced powder. It is also the most important spice in brine.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Functions: Treating abdominal pain, calming vomiting, regulating stomach, treating hernia, dispelling cold and dampness, soothing liver and warming stomach.

(2) Fennel (namely fennel seed), also known as fennel and fennel. It is a vanilla herb, which tastes like spices. It tastes sweet and fragrant, and can be used alone or in combination with other drugs. The young leaves of fennel can be used as dumpling stuffing, but they are rarely used for seasoning. Fennel seeds are mainly used for marinated and boiled poultry dishes or beans, peanuts and bean products.

The taste, properties and functions are basically the same as those of star anise.

(3) Cinnamomum cassia, also known as Cinnamomum cassia, is the skin of Cinnamomum cassia. It is a woody plant of fragrant wood. Taste spices. It tastes sweet and fragrant, and it is usually used with other medicines, and it is rarely used alone. Mainly used for braised, roasted, boiled, simmered livestock and other dishes. It is the main seasoning in brine.

Attribute: sex is hot and dry. Functions: benefiting liver, dredging channels, promoting blood circulation, dispelling cold and removing dampness.

(4) Ramulus Cinnamomi, the twig of Cinnamomum cassia, has the same taste, use, attributes and functions as Cinnamomum cassia, but it is not as strong as Cinnamomum cassia.

(5) Cinnamomum cassia leaves. The taste, use, attributes and functions are the same as those of cinnamon, but the taste is light.

(6) Shajiang, also known as Kaempferia Kaempferia and Shanla. It belongs to vanilla herbs. This is a spice. The taste is spicy and fragrant. You can eat cooked food raw. It is better to use alone or in combination with other drugs. Mainly used to burn, marinate, simmer, roast and other animal dishes. It is often processed into powder and used in Cantonese cuisine.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: enter the spleen and stomach, relieve stagnation, expel evil qi, and treat stomach cold and pain.

(7) Angelica sinensis, a vanilla herb, is a delicious spice. Sweet, bitter and fragrant. Mainly used for stewing and cooking domestic animals or wild animals. Because of its strong flavor, the dosage is very small, otherwise, it will spoil the dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Functions: enriching blood and activating blood, regulating qi and relieving exterior syndrome, and treating women's irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea and anemia. It is a good medicine for gynecology.

(8) Schizonepeta tenuifolia: it belongs to vanilla herb and is used as a spice. It tastes spicy and fragrant, and is not widely used. Sometimes it is used for burning and cooking meat, mainly for vegetables.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: enter the lung and liver, dispel wind and evil, and clear the head.

(9) Perilla frutescens is a vanilla herb with dual functions. The taste is spicy and fragrant. Not widely used. But it tastes wonderful when used for frying snails, and sometimes used for cooking beef and mutton.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Functions: relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, regulating qi and regulating middle energizer, eliminating phlegm and relieving asthma, and activating menstruation. It can treat wind-cold and cold, fever and aversion to cold, cough and asthma, nausea and vomiting, fish-eating and crab poisoning, etc., and can prevent miscarriage.

(10) Mint belongs to vanilla. Both taste and origin. The taste is spicy and fragrant. Not very useful, mainly used to prepare drinks and sugar water, and sometimes used for sweet dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Functions: clearing the head, dispelling cold, benefiting the throat, moistening the heart and lungs, and eliminating bad breath.

(1 1) Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, also known as Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, belongs to woody plants, tastes like spices and is also a natural pigment, and its color is orange red or orange yellow. The taste is slightly bitter and light. It has little use, and is sometimes used for seasoning poultry or rice products, and is generally based on color matching.

Attribute: cold nature. Functions: clearing away heat and purging fire, clearing the heat of heart and lung, and mainly treating diseases such as fever, vexation, red eyes, jaundice, hematemesis, epistaxis, toxic heat, sores and so on.

(12) Angelica dahurica, a kind of vanilla herb, is a delicious spice. The taste is spicy and fragrant. Generally, it is combined with other drugs. Mainly used for braised, roasted and stewed game dishes of livestock and poultry.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: dispel cold and dampness, reduce swelling and discharge pus, and clear the head.

(13) Amomum villosum is a kind of vanilla herb, which tastes like spices. The taste is spicy and fragrant. Combined with other drugs. It is often used for cooking, braising, stewing and other livestock dishes.

Attribute: sexual heat and dry fire. Functions: enter the lung, propagate evil, break stagnation, regulate the stomach and stop vomiting.

(14) Alpinia katsumadai, a kind of vanilla herb, is a delicious spice. The taste is spicy, fragrant and slightly sweet. Combined with other medicines, it is mainly used for stewed, boiled, roasted, braised and stewed poultry and game dishes.

Attribute: sexual heat. Functions: It is stronger in taste than cardamom, warming the stomach and the middle warmer, treating cold and pain in the heart, promoting chest and benefiting diaphragm, treating vomiting, eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen, and relieving phlegm and toxin.

(15) Nutmeg, a kind of vanilla herb, is a delicious spice. The taste is spicy, fragrant and bitter. Combined with other medicines, it is used to marinate livestock dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Functions: Warming the middle energizer, dispersing adverse reactions, eliminating pathogenic factors in the stomach, removing phlegm from the lower qi, thickening the intestine and stopping diarrhea.

(16) Amomum tsao-ko, a kind of vanilla herb, is delicious and fragrant. The taste is spicy and fragrant. Combined with other medicines, it can be used for burning, marinating, boiling and stewing meat dishes.

Attribute: hot and dry fire. Function: break the qi of furuncle, send cold of spleen and stomach, intercept malaria and remove phlegm.

(17) Curcuma longa, a vanilla herb, is a delicious spice. The taste is spicy, fragrant and bitter. It is a spice with both color and taste, which is both a spice and a natural pigment. Generally speaking, it is mainly used for color matching, and it is used in combination with other medicines for beef and sheep dishes, and sometimes for chicken, duck, fish and shrimp dishes. It is also the main ingredient in curry powder and satay sauce.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Functions: breaking qi and removing blood stasis, expelling wind and removing cold, reducing swelling and relieving pain.

(18) Amomum villosum is a kind of vanilla herb, which is delicious and fragrant. The taste is spicy and fragrant. Combined with other medicines, it is mainly used for burning, marinating, stewing, boiling and other meat dishes or bean products.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Functions: expelling cold and quickening qi, stopping vomiting, treating stomachache, resolving stagnation and resolving phlegm.

(19) Alpinia officinarum, a vanilla herb, is a delicious spice. The taste is spicy and fragrant. Combined with other medicines, it can be used for cooking, marinating and stewing dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: dispel cold, stop the pain in the heart, disperse adverse reactions and treat salivation and vomiting.

(20) Lilac, also known as chicken tongue incense, belongs to woody plants of fragrant wood and tastes spices. The taste is spicy, fragrant and bitter. Either alone or in combination with other drugs. Often used for steaming, roasting, simmering, boiling, marinating and other dishes. Such as clove chicken, clove beef, clove bean curd skin, etc. Because its flavor is extremely rich, it should not be used more, otherwise, it will be counterproductive.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: Propagate the middle energizer, warm the stomach, tonify kidney and strengthen yang, and treat vomiting.

(2 1) Zanthoxylum bungeanum, also known as Sichuan pepper, is not unique to Sichuan, nor is it good from Sichuan. It is produced in North China, Northwest China, Central China and East China. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a woody plant, which tastes spicy, hemp and fragrant. All animal materials can be used. It is suitable to be used alone or in combination with other medicines, but it is mostly used in fried, boiled, marinated, roasted, fried, roasted and fried dishes. Both vegetarian and vegetarian dishes are suitable. In Sichuan cuisine, pepper is widely used.

(22) Cuminum cyminum L. is a spice with pungent and fragrant taste. Usually used alone, it is mainly used for roasted, fried and fried mutton, beef, chicken, fish and other dishes. It is a kind of spice commonly used and liked in northwest China. The flavor of cumin is extremely strong and special. Southerners find it difficult to accept this taste, so there are few cumin dishes in southern cuisine.

Attribute: sexual heat. Functions: dispersing wind and dispelling cold, warming stomach and removing dampness.

(23) Pepper, a vine, is a spice. The taste is spicy and fragrant. All animal materials can be used. Soup and vegetables are suitable. Because of its extremely strong taste, the dosage is very small. It is often ground into powder for use. Pepper is widely used in Cantonese cuisine.

Attribute: sexual heat. Functions: dispelling cold, lowering qi, relieving middle warmer, dispelling wind and removing phlegm.

Note: Pepper can cause sores and help fire, and hurt yin. Those with a hot stomach should not eat it.