Medicinal value
Leek is sweet, spicy and warm; Has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening yang, warming middle warmer, stimulating appetite, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass. Pharmacological studies have found that it has the functions of regulating blood lipid and preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases. Clinically, it is often used to treat traumatic injury, diaphragmatic choking, nausea, enteritis, vomiting blood, epistaxis, chest pain, impotence, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission and polyuria.
As a medicinal material, leek was first seen in Liang Tao Hongjing's Bielu of Famous Doctors, saying that it can "smooth the five internal organs and eliminate stomach heat". Herbal dietotherapy can "benefit the chest and diaphragm" The theory of herbal supplement can "warm the middle warmer, lower the qi, tonify deficiency, harmonize viscera, make people eat it, make people eat it, Yiyang, stop diarrhea, white pus, abdominal cold pain and cook it".
Eating leeks in summer can help digestion, guide stagnation, eliminate accumulation and strengthen the spleen. Taking it in winter can warm kidney and strengthen yang. External washing with leek soup can treat neurodermatitis; Mashing and external application to treat urticaria; Mash the juice and take 10 ~ 20ml each time to treat hematochezia, hematuria and nosebleeds. In addition, leek seeds also have the functions of tonifying kidney, benefiting liver and strengthening yang, and fixing the lower energizer. Grinding leek seeds into powder and taking it with boiling water every morning and evening 15g is effective in treating impotence.
Diet menu
◆ Fried Walnut Shrimp with Chinese chives
Ingredients: 500g leek, 0/00g walnut kernel/kloc-,20g shrimp kernel, sesame oil, refined salt and monosodium glutamate.
Method:
(1) Wash leeks and cut them into 3cm long pieces for later use.
(2) Soak the shrimps in warm water for 30 minutes and then wash them for later use.
(3) Walnuts are shelled and the meat is washed for later use.
(4) First, heat the pot with high fire, add vegetable oil, add walnuts and shrimps when it is 80% hot, stir-fry over medium fire until cooked, then add leeks and stir-fry for a while, and add refined salt and monosodium glutamate to taste before eating.
Efficacy: tonifying kidney and strengthening yang.
How to eat: 65438+ 0 ~ 2 times a day. It lasts for 20 to 30 days.
Indications: deficiency of kidney-yang, weakness of waist and knees, dizziness, sexual dysfunction, impotence, premature ejaculation, severe cold infertility and hypofunction; Women have irregular menstruation, infertility due to palace cold, and more leucorrhea.
◆ Fried lamb liver with leek
Ingredients: leek150g, sheep liver120g, vegetable oil, shredded ginger, refined salt and yellow wine.
Method:
(1) Wash leeks and cut them into 3cm long pieces for later use.
(2) Wash sheep liver and cut it into thin slices for later use.
(3) Heat a wok with high fire, add vegetable oil, add shredded ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, then add sheep liver slices and yellow wine and stir-fry evenly, then add leeks and refined salt and stir-fry until cooked.
Efficacy: tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, benefiting essence and blood, nourishing liver and improving eyesight.
How to eat: it can be eaten alone or with meals, 1 ~ twice a day. It lasts for 20 to 30 days.
Indications: Women are usually weak, with scanty menstruation, pale face, depressed abdomen, abdominal and back pain, irregular menstruation and infertility due to cold uterus.
◆ Leek ginger milk soup
Ingredients: 500g leek, 30g ginger, 250ml milk.
Method:
(1) Wash the leek, cut it into fine pieces, scrape the ginger, then put the leek and ginger together in the juicer to wring the juice, and take the juice for later use.
(2) Put the leek ginger juice into the pot, add the milk and cook with low fire.
Efficacy: Warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach.
How to eat: 1 time every morning and evening, and 1 hour after meals is better.
Indications: chronic gastritis with stomach cold type, duodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis with epigastric cold pain, vomiting with clear water, abdominal distension after eating, severe pain after eating cold, mild pain after eating warm, loose stool, tasteless mouth and pale tongue with white fur.
[Edible Note] Cooked leeks tend to be warm and tonic, while raw leeks tend to disperse silt. If it is cooked food, don't heat it for too long. Patients with yin deficiency, fever, sores and eye diseases should not eat or eat carefully.
□ Li Zhenqiong, Associate Professor of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Remind you: "Xiaoshi Yang Yang" is a folk prescription for eating leeks, which comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before use.