Star anise (scientific name: star anise? Verum), also known as fennel, star anise, fennel and fennel. It is an Illicium plant of Illicium. Its namesake dried fruit is one of the seasonings for Chinese food and Southeast Asian cooking. It is an evergreen tree growing in a humid, warm and semi-cloudy environment, and its height can reach 20 meters. Mainly distributed in southern Chinese mainland. Fruits are picked in autumn and winter, and are reddish brown or yellowish brown after drying. The smell is sweet and fragrant. Use whole fruit or powder. ?

Medicinal and edible fruits and seeds can be used as condiments and medicines. It has strong fragrance, and has the effects of expelling worms, warming middle warmer, regulating qi, invigorating stomach, stopping vomiting, dispelling cold and calming the nerves. Illicium verum can be used not only as seasoning, but also as raw material for perfume, toothpaste, soap and cosmetics. In industry, it can also be used as a repellent and stimulant in medicine. It is warm in nature and pungent in taste. Has the effects of warming yang, dispelling cold, regulating qi and relieving pain. Can be used for treating cold vomiting, cold hernia, abdominal pain, lumbago due to kidney deficiency, wet and dry beriberi, etc. ?

1. What is the composition?

The mature fruit is aggregate fruit, which consists of 8 follicles arranged radially on the central axis. The fruit is 1 ~ 2 cm long, 0.3 ~ cm wide and 0.6 ~ cm high. The outer surface is reddish brown with irregular wrinkles, the top is beak-shaped, and there are many cracks on the upper side; The inner surface is light brown, smooth and shiny; Hard and brittle. The fruit stalk is 3 ~ 4 cm long, connected with the center of the fruit base, curved and often falls off. Each pod contains 1 seed, oblate, about 6mm long, reddish brown or yellowish brown, shiny, with umbilicus at the top; The endosperm is white and oily. The smell is fragrant, pungent and sweet. [4]?

Alias anise, anise. ?

Warm and sweet. ?

Meridian, spleen and kidney meridian. ?

Efficacy of dispelling cold, regulating qi and appetizing. ?

Suitable: people with stomach cold hiccup, cold hernia, abdominal pain, heart cold pain and small intestinal hernia should eat it; People with kidney deficiency and low back pain should eat; People with beriberi should eat it. ?

Bogey: people with yin deficiency and fire are forbidden to eat; Patients with eye diseases should not eat; Sjogren's syndrome, diabetes, climacteric syndrome and active pulmonary tuberculosis are not allowed to eat; Constipation due to stomach heat is not edible. ?

2. Introduction of raw materials?

Illicium verum is the fruit of Illicium verum, which is often used as seasoning. Star anise is also called fennel, because it can remove the odor from meat and add flavor to meat. Illicium verum is a specialty of China, which is abundant in Guangdong and Guangxi. The color is purple-brown, octagonal and star-shaped, with sweet taste and rich aroma, which comes from volatile anisaldehyde. ?

Star anise is an indispensable condiment for making cold dishes, stews and stews. Its function is not as good as other spices, and it is also the main raw material for processing spiced powder. ?

3. Nutritional analysis?

The fruit contains volatile oil, and the main components are anethole, anisaldehyde and anisyl acetone. ?

Anise oil is the main component of star anise, which can stimulate gastrointestinal nerves and blood vessels, promote the secretion of digestive juice, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, strengthen the stomach and promote qi circulation, and help relieve spasm and pain?

(2) Aniline can promote the maturation of bone marrow cells and release them into peripheral blood, and has obvious effect of increasing white blood cells, mainly neutrophils, which can be used for leukopenia. [3]?

4. Relevant persons?

Can ordinary people eat it?

1.？ Suitable for people with spasmodic pain and leukopenia?

2.？ Not suitable for people with yin deficiency and excessive fire. ?

Eat like a gram?

Psoralea hates licorice and avoids blood. ?

Suitable: people with stomach cold hiccup, cold hernia, abdominal pain, heart cold pain and small intestinal hernia should eat it; People with kidney deficiency and low back pain should eat; People with beriberi should eat it. ?

Bogey: people with yin deficiency and fire are forbidden to eat; Patients with eye diseases should not eat; Sjogren's syndrome, diabetes, climacteric syndrome and active pulmonary tuberculosis are not allowed to eat; Constipation due to stomach heat is not edible. [3]?

5. Production direction?

① Illicium verum is widely used in cooking, mainly used in cooking processes such as boiling, frying, marinating, sauce and baking. Often added to beef and rabbit dishes, it can remove fishy smell, increase aromatic smell, adjust taste and increase appetite?

② When stewing meat, put star anise into the pot, and its fragrance can be fully hydrolyzed and dissolved into the meat, which makes the meat taste more mellow?

③? When cooking soup, you can add salt and star anise to the cabbage, and finally put some sesame oil, so that the dish has a strong meat flavor?

④ When pickling eggs, duck eggs, Chinese toon and coriander, adding star anise will have a unique flavor. ?

⑤ Make fried mutton slices with medicated stew and crispy fat duck fried spicy beef? Fried crispy beef? Almond radish pig lung soup? Homemade crispy duck crispy duck? The stewed mutton soup in Beijing is made, 3 ~ 5g per meal?

6. Diet therapy?

Illicium verum has the effects of warming yang and dispelling cold, regulating qi and relieving pain. ?

Precautions?

Eating more star anise may hurt your eyes and cause sores. The fruit produced by the first flowering every year is called "Spring Illicium verum", and the fruit produced by the second flowering is called "Autumn Illicium verum". Illicium verum is plump, with red skin, rich fragrance and good quality. [3]?