Spring is the season when wild vegetables grow wildly. The wild vegetables in this season are unique in taste and rich in nutrition, and garlic with small roots is the most delicious wild vegetables in this season. Small root garlic, scientific name xiè bái, also known as wild garlic, Allium macrostemon Bunge, kohlrabi, small garlic, house garlic, Allium macrostemon Bunge, small root vegetable, Allium macrostemon Bunge, Red Cross and Allium macrostemon Bunge.
Since ancient times, Allium macrostemon has been a good product for both medicine and food. As a food, making soup, cooking and cakes with Allium macrostemon is not only a refreshing and delicious delicacy, but also a rare health care treasure. Bulbus Allii Macrostemon is used as medicine and enters the heart, lung, stomach and intestine meridian, and can be used for chest obstruction, heartache, abdominal distension and pain, diarrhea and diarrhea. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin said in a poem that "the garlic in Luodai is delicious, and the night cup is yellow and warm" to describe the delicacy of the garlic. Bulbus Allii Macrostemon is a traditional Chinese medicine for treating chest obstruction and heartache. Sun Simiao, the drug king, once emphasized that "heart disease should be eaten with Allium macrostemon". People with cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease and angina pectoris can eat more Allium macrostemon, which has a certain conditioning effect.
Bulbus Allii Macrostemon was first recorded in Shennong's Materia Medica Classic: "The main reason is that golden sores fail, and wise men are not hungry and do not work."
-"Do not record famous doctors":
"In addition to cold and heat, eliminating dampness, warming the middle and resolving the knot are beneficial to patients."
-Rihuazi:
"Tonifying deficiency by regulating the middle, food supplement can stop chronic diarrhea and cold diarrhea, making people fat and healthy." Can be used for treating chest pain, chest distress, chest distress, cough, asthma, excessive phlegm, abdominal pain, diarrhea, leukorrhagia, and furuncle.
-Mu Cao Yi Yan;
"Thousands of daughters" are used urgently to treat lung asthma and also to stop diarrhea.
-"Materia Medica Seeking Truth":
Xin is scattered, and scattered is scattered, which makes the upper cold stagnate and disappear; Bitter taste leads to decline, and decline can make the cold stagnate; The temperature is scattered, which can make the middle cold stagnate; When the body slips, it will pass. The general principle can make the cold stagnate for a long time.
This product comes from the dried bulb of Allium tuberosum or Allium macrostemon in Liliaceae. Digging in summer and autumn, cleaning, removing fibrous roots, steaming or scalding in boiling water, and drying in the sun. When used as medicine, it is often better to be large, firm, full, yellowish white and translucent.
It tastes spicy, bitter and warm. Heart, lung, stomach and large intestine meridians. It has the functions of activating yang, dispersing stagnation, promoting qi circulation and guiding stagnation. Used for chest pain, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
The medicinal value of Allium macrostemon is very high. As a traditional Chinese medicine, its compound prescription is often used for diseases such as respiratory system, cardiovascular system and digestive system. As a folk medicinal material, Allium macrostemon Bunge has applied for more than 2,000 patents in China in recent years, including more than 2,000 patent applications for extracts 1000, which are mainly used for the research on the extraction technology of Allium macrostemon Bunge. There are less than 100 patent applications for compound drugs, which are mainly used to treat premature beats, nephropathy, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, breast addiction, irritable bowel syndrome, gastritis, hypertension and fatty liver.
Bulbus Allii Macrostemon has a long history of dietotherapy, and its roots, stems and leaves can be used, so it has the reputation of "vegetable cheese". Modern research shows that Allium macrostemon Bunge has a unique onion and garlic flavor, is rich in nutrition, and contains a lot of crude protein, crude fat, dietary fiber, vitamins, amino acids, carotene and trace elements. Allium macrostemon Bunge contains 17 kinds of amino acids, which has the functions of preventing anemia, detoxifying, promoting hair growth and preventing skin aging. Regular consumption of Allium macrostemon Bunge can warm and tonify weakness, make people cold-resistant, and help strengthen bones and muscles; It has good nutritional value for growing children and calcium-deficient elderly people, so it is also called "wild green vegetable health treasures".
Allium macrostemon Bunge contains saponins, alkaloids, volatile oil, polysaccharides and other bioactive chemicals, among which steroidal saponins are the main active components.
Modern medical research shows that Allium macrostemon Bunge has antibacterial, antitumor, platelet aggregation inhibiting, antithrombotic, antioxidant, blood lipid lowering, atherosclerosis inhibiting, antitumor, spasmolytic and antiasthmatic effects.
1, anti-platelet aggregation
Adenosine, volatile oil and saponin in Allium macrostemon Bunge have a strong inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation.
2. Anti-tumor
Allium macrostemon Bunge has a good anti-tumor effect, showing cytotoxicity to tumor cells such as liver cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, nerve cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
3. Antioxidant activity
The results showed that semi-pure Allium macrostemon polysaccharide had dual functions of antioxidation and scavenging hydroxyl radical.
4. The role of cardiovascular diseases.
The effective components in Allium macrostemon Bunge may play a role in treating coronary heart disease by anticoagulation, plaque stabilization, antioxidation, anti-inflammation, lowering blood lipid, inhibiting RASS system, increasing NO protection and promoting estrogen secretion.
5, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
Allium macrostemon has obvious inhibitory effect on both gram-negative bacteria and gram-positive bacteria. The effective components in Allium macrostemon Bunge can inhibit inflammatory mediators and exert anti-inflammatory activity.
6. Asthma
Saponins are the effective components of Allium macrostemon Bunge for relieving asthma, and Allium macrostemon Bunge has obvious immediate antiasthmatic effect on bronchial asthma.
7. Other functions
The raw and processed Allium macrostemon Bunge also has the functions of analgesia, hypoxia tolerance, antidepressant and protection of vascular endothelial structure. Allium macrostemon extract can improve skeletal muscle metabolism and enhance insulin sensitivity, and can be used for preventing and treating metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes.
Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, used Bulbus Allii Macrostemi (Gualou Garlic Liquor Decoction, Gualou Banxia Decoction and Fructus Aurantii Immaturus Garlic Guizhi Decoction) to treat chest obstruction in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber.
1, Fructus Trichosanthis and Bulbus Allii Macrostemi white wine soup
Composition: Trichosanthes kirilowii 24g, Allium macrostemon 12g, and seven liters of white wine (appropriate amount).
Efficacy: dredging yang, dispersing stagnation, resolving phlegm and reducing qi: used for chest obstruction, with symptoms of chest pain, excessive phlegm, shortness of breath, inability to lie down, white and greasy fur and heavy pulse.
Clinical application: At present, this prescription is commonly used to treat angina pectoris of coronary heart disease with drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is also used for pleurisy, chronic bronchitis, hypochondriac pain, etc.
2. Gualou Scallion Pinellia Decoction
Composition: Fructus Trichosanthis 12g, Bulbus Allii Macrostemon 9 g, Rhizoma Pinelliae 9 g, and 70ml of white wine (non-modern white wine, which is actually yellow wine, and fermented grains can also be used instead). )
Efficacy: promoting qi circulation to relieve depression, activating yang to dissipate stagnation, resolving phlegm and broadening chest.
Clinical application: This prescription can be used to treat angina pectoris of coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, ventricular tachycardia, intercostal neuralgia, hyperplasia of mammary glands, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, traumatic pneumothorax, cough and asthma in the elderly, chronic bronchopneumonia and chronic cholecystitis.
3. Fructus Aurantii Immaturus Bulbus Allii Macrostemon Guizhi Decoction
Composition: Fructus Aurantii Immaturus 12g, Cortex Magnolia Officinalis 12g, Bulbus Allii Macrostemonae 9g, Ramulus Cinnamomi 3g, Fructus Trichosanthis 12g.
Efficacy: dredging yang, dispersing stagnation, resolving phlegm and reducing qi.
Clinical application: This prescription is often used for patients with coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, intercostal neuralgia, non-suppurative costal chondritis and other chest yang deficiency and phlegm and qi accumulation.
1, sweet and sour garlic
Ingredients: 500 grams of Allium macrostemon, appropriate amount of white sugar and white vinegar.
Practice: wash the Allium macrostemon, drain the water, put it in a sealed container, add white sugar and white vinegar, and soak it for 10 day.
Efficacy: Sweet and sour garlic is sweet and sour, which has the functions of appetizing, strengthening the spleen to sober up and helping digestion. It is suitable for anorexia, anorexia and dyspepsia.
Ingredients: Allium macrostemon 15g, black-bone chicken 250g, jujube 9g, 6 slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.
Practice: First, wash the Allium macrostemon and jujube, and slice the Allium macrostemon for later use; Wash the black-bone chicken, cut into pieces, put it in a pot filled with clear water, boil it with strong fire, and skim off the floating foam; Add jujube and ginger slices, simmer 1 hour, add onion slices, cook for a while, and season with salt.
Efficacy: This decoction has the effects of promoting qi circulation, resolving hard mass and nourishing qi and blood. It is suitable for people with deficiency of qi and blood, fullness and tightness in chest and hypochondrium, and easy fatigue.
3. Fried eggs with onions
Ingredients: Allium macrostemon120g, 3 eggs, salt and oil.
Practice: first wash the Allium macrostemon and cut it into fine powder for later use; Beat the eggs into a bowl, add salt, and beat them with chopsticks or eggbeater until foaming. Heat the pan, pour in the oil, pour in the egg liquid when the oil is hot, sprinkle with the fine powder of Allium macrostemon, fry for about 5 minutes on high fire, and then fry one side until brown.
Efficacy: This medicated diet has the effects of pungent flavor, appetizing, broadening chest and removing arthralgia. Suitable for people with anorexia, chest distress and heartache, cold hands and feet, coronary heart disease and angina pectoris.
1, use with caution for people with spleen and stomach weakness, yin deficiency or fever.
2, taking too much Allium macrostemon will stimulate the gastric mucosa, and those with ulcers do not need it.
3, people with stomach qi deficiency and cold, fever will occur after taking white onion, it is not appropriate to use it more.
Reviewer: Ye, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University.
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