Fresh perilla can be used for cooking. Some people especially like that special smell, while others don't. Whether you like it or not, perilla is a very good food for both medicine and food, and it is highly recommended for everyone to eat. Let's see what other good effects:
purple perilla
Alias: Gui Zhi, Bai Su, Su Chi, etc. It belongs to the genus Panicum in Labiatae. It looks like the one below, with serrated edges, purple on both sides or green on the top.
In Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen once recorded: "Perillae leaves when tender, and it is eaten with vegetables, or it is very fragrant with salt and plum sauce, and Xia Yue makes soup to drink", which shows that Perillae is very common in China people's diet.
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Leaves (perilla leaves), stems (perilla stems) and fruits (perilla seeds) can all be used as medicine, young leaves can be eaten raw to make soup, and stems and leaves can be flooded. Dozens of perilla products such as edible oil, medicines, pickles and cosmetics have been developed.
The origin of perilla is China, which is a good thing in China. Perilla frutescens is a very delicious condiment in some areas of southern China.
Medicinal value
Sexual taste and meridian tropism: pungent and warm, lung and spleen meridians entered. It has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, promoting qi circulation and harmonizing middle energizer, and can also relieve the poison of fish and crabs.
Used for colds, fever, anhidrosis, cough with excessive phlegm, and anorexia, nausea and vomiting, and spleen and stomach discomfort caused by colds.
Talk about the role related to diet
Perilla frutescens is a commonly used Chinese medicine in China, and fresh products are often used as dishes, even tea. Japanese people often cook with perilla, especially when eating sashimi, which is an essential companion. As mentioned above, perilla has the function of detoxifying fish and crabs.
Especially in summer, the damp heat is strong. If you are poisoned by eating fish and crabs carelessly, you can drink perilla soup when you have symptoms such as chest tightness, abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea. If the symptoms of poisoning are serious, please seek medical attention in time. In addition, in the southern region, putting the leaves or stems of Perilla frutescens into the pickle jar can prevent white germs from being produced in the pickle liquid.
Now medical research shows that perilla has antibacterial effect, especially on Staphylococcus aureus, pathogenic bacteria, typhoid bacteria and so on. Therefore, there is also a scientific basis for drinking perilla and detoxifying fish and crabs in summer. This is one of the reasons why perilla is often eaten with fish and crabs. Both fresh and dry products can be used.
Perilla leaf can also be used externally.
Folium Perillae has the function of contracting blood vessels and promoting platelet aggregation, so it has the function of hemostasis for external use. This is often used when I was a child.
According to the introduction of Chinese Journal of Dermatology, fresh perilla leaves have a certain effect on treating verruca vulgaris. For the sake of safety, I suggest you do it under the guidance of a dermatologist.
Is Perilla taboo?
"Materia Medica Classic" records: "This disease belongs to yin deficiency, cold, heat, aversion to cold and headache, so be careful not to throw it, and the disease should be concentrated." Not suitable for people who get sick when they get angry. "
Because perilla is warm, it corresponds to the disease of wind and cold. If it is fever or long-term yin deficiency, it is not recommended to eat perilla.
We usually eat perilla, which is a good choice and helpful to everyone's health. However, we should also realize that there is a certain amount of food, and the addition amount of dried perilla is 5~ 10 g at a time, and the consumption amount of fresh perilla is not recommended to exceed 300 g at a time.
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