Efficacy of chicken soup
In China's food culture, there is a saying that "there is no feast without chicken", and eating chicken is also "good luck". Chicken is white meat, which is one of the best sources in protein. The content of protein in chicken is about 23.3g100g, which is significantly higher than that of beef and mutton. "It's better to eat without meat than soup", "Eating meat is better than drinking soup", "singing opera, cooking soup by chef" and so on show China people's love for soup. Chicken soup is rich in short peptides, amino acids, colloidal substances, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, which are easily absorbed and utilized by the human body. It has the characteristics of rich nutrition, delicious taste, stimulating appetite, helping digestion and facilitating absorption.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chicken is warm and sweet, which is the product of warming spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and blood and tonifying kidney. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "chicken is mainly used for diarrhea, frequent urination, clearing away heat and vexation, treating children's eating disorders, treating adults' dripping nausea, removing alcohol disease, treating moths, closing throat and all aphtha and tongue sores. "In foreign countries, as early as the12nd century, Jewish doctors suggested that chicken soup could be used as a prescription to treat asthma and colds, and Jews even used chicken soup as" penicillin ".
(1) Chicken soup can relieve cold symptoms and reduce stress reaction. Eating hot chicken soup, the steam emitted by hot chicken soup is helpful to clean the respiratory tract quickly and effectively, remove respiratory viruses in time, and promote the relief of symptoms such as cough, dry throat and sore throat. The content of cysteine in chicken soup is high, and the chemical structure of cysteine is very similar to that of phthalcysteine. The sulfhydryl group contained in it can break the disulfide bond in protein polypeptide in sputum, thus reducing the viscosity of sputum and promoting the elimination of sputum. High concentration chicken soup can significantly inhibit the migration ability of neutrophils, and the secretion promotion of neutrophils is the main reason for cough, nasal congestion and other upper respiratory symptoms in cold patients. Chicken soup inhibits the activity of neutrophils, thus achieving the effect of relieving cold symptoms. Drinking chicken soup can also reduce the excessive cortisol level after stress load and reduce stress response.
(2) Chicken soup can improve immunity and resist fatigue. The results showed that chicken contains two strong antioxidant substances, namely acetaminophen and corsinol, which can effectively scavenge active oxygen in the body. Most animals' meat contains no or only one of them, and chicken is rich in these two antioxidants. Through mouse experiments, continuous gavage of chicken soup can keep the number of T cell subsets and CD4+/CD8+ ratio in peripheral blood at a high level, make the immune system in a strong activation state, improve and maintain the high immunity of mice, and the immunity can be maintained for a long time. Nutritional chicken soup can improve the intensity of delayed allergic reaction induced by DNFB and promote the formation of hemolytic plaque in mice, which shows that chicken soup can enhance the cellular immunity and humoral immunity of mice. Chinese herbal chicken soup can promote the secretion of norepinephrine in the body, and has the functions of nourishing blood and benefiting qi, enhancing physical strength and eliminating fatigue.
(3) Can chicken soup improve anxiety? Nutrition research shows that high protein and various amino acids can affect and improve brain function and improve anxiety. It has been reported that health medicated diet combined with chicken soup can improve anxiety.
(4) What other functions does chicken soup have? Chicken soup contains a variety of bioactive substances, and also has physiological functions such as promoting metabolism, improving anemia, improving hyperglycemia, lowering blood pressure and antioxidant activity.
Agrocybe aegerita
Agrocybe aegerita is a kind of edible and medicinal fungi with rich nutrition and remarkable health care effect. It contains a lot of nutrients and active substances, such as protein, polysaccharides, phenols, flavonoids, vitamins and alkaloids. It has many medicinal effects such as antioxidation, antivirus and immunomodulation.
Stewed chicken soup with tea tree mushroom
1, stewed chicken soup with tea tree mushroom, cooked many times at home, and loved by the whole family. Every time I drink this chicken soup, I feel like pouring a ladle of water on the dry yellow land, making a squeaky sound and the sweet taste permeates my whole body.
2. The following is a simple tea tree mushroom stewed chicken soup:
1) raw materials: one chicken, Agrocybe aegerita, ginger, salt and sugar;
2) Cut the chicken into pieces, chop the chicken oil and put it into a pot for refining, leaving only a proper amount of chicken oil in the pot, and stir-fry the chicken pieces to dry the water vapor;
3) Add enough water into the pot, put the chicken pieces and water into the pot, bring to a boil with high fire, add Agrocybe aegerita and ginger slices, and simmer slowly. At this time, if you set the alarm clock, you can rest assured to do other things or take a nap;
4) stew for one hour (depending on the size of the chicken, some need 2 hours), add half a spoonful of sugar, enough salt, and put it in a bowl. A pot of delicious love chicken soup that can enhance immunity and prevent colds is ready.
5) Put it in a bowl and enjoy it slowly.
3, practice points: chicken, tea tree mushroom, etc. It should be fresh, cooked without other materials, and keep the original flavor of chicken and Agrocybe aegerita throughout. Add enough water at a time, don't add water in the middle, drink more soup and stew the raw materials in one go.
4, keywords: simple, easy, original flavor, sweet and fresh, time, patience, enhance immunity.
5. Conclusion: Self-confidence and patience will make you successful.
Note: Although chicken soup is delicious, it is not suitable for everyone. For patients with hyperacidity, biliary tract diseases, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, it is advisable to follow the doctor's advice.