1, taboo items of health food
1, Ejiao candied dates-"sweet" is difficult to digest
The main components of Ejiao candied dates are jujube and Ejiao. Ejiao has the function of nourishing blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Jujube is sweet and warm, which can strengthen the spleen and produce blood, and help to improve symptoms such as yellow complexion, fear of cold, mental fatigue and limb weakness. It is suitable for people with physical deficiency and blood deficiency and parturient women.
Edible Note: Ejiao is greasy and difficult to digest and absorb. People with poor spleen and stomach should eat less, not more than 10 capsules a day.
In addition, because of its high sugar content, diabetics do not eat it.
2, medlar-eating too much will lead to indigestion.
Efficacy of Lycium barbarum: clearing liver, improving eyesight, lowering blood sugar, resisting fatigue, resisting aging and improving immunity.
Lycium barbarum, like Poria cocos, not only has many benefits, but also is suitable for a wide range of people and has a very significant health care function. Therefore, many people treat Lycium barbarum as a snack and eat a few every day.
Edible Note: Although Lycium barbarum is good, it should not be eaten more. On the one hand, it is menstrual women, because Lycium barbarum also has the function of enriching blood, which may increase menstrual flow. In addition, eating too much medlar can also lead to indigestion.
3, Fuling cake-diabetic patients do not eat.
Poria cocos is sweet, invigorating the spleen and promoting digestion. Eating Fuling cake helps to stimulate appetite and promote digestion. Adapt to picky children, frail old people. Poria cocos can stop diarrhea, and people who often have diarrhea can eat it in moderation.
Precautions for eating: At present, raw materials such as honey and white sugar are added to poria cocos cakes on the market, which have a high sugar content and are not suitable for diabetics.
4, herbal tea-fire can not be used as water to drink.
The main components of herbal tea are chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, selfheal and licorice. Has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, nourishing yin and reducing fire.
Suitable for people who are often flushed, impatient and talkative, have swollen gums, oral ulcers, dry stools, like to drink cold water and eat cold food. Moderate drinking by patients with hypertension and heart disease with fever symptoms can also reduce dryness and heat.
Edible Note: Herbal tea should not be drunk much, let alone as water. Excessive consumption of herbal tea will consume the yang of the human body. Drink 200-400 ml every day, not much. People with pale face, shortness of breath, laziness and fatigue, cold hands and feet and thin stools are cold constitution. People with cold constitution try not to drink herbal tea.
5, turtle paste-people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat.
The main components of Guiling Plaster are tortoise plastron, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, Radix Rehmanniae, Dandelion, Flos Lonicerae and Flos Chrysanthemi. Has that effect of clearing away heat and toxic material, nourishing yin, invigorating kidney, eliminating acne, moisten intestine and relaxing bowels.
It is suitable for people with yin deficiency such as dry mouth, facial acne and habitual constipation, and can relieve symptoms of yin deficiency.
2. Medicinal value of common foods
1. cinnamon-dispelling cold and relieving pain
Cinnamon recorded in Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica is an essential condiment for stew and stir-fry in ordinary families, which has the functions of tonifying fire and yang, dispelling cold and relieving pain, warming meridians and dredging collaterals.
Recommended medicated diet: cinnamon mutton soup. The specific method is to put 6 grams of cinnamon in the stew about 1 kg. After the stew is cooked, whether eating meat or drinking soup, it can warm the stomach, warm the waist and knees, and cure abdominal cold and flatulence.
2. Illicium verum-anti-flu
Illicium verum is also a common condiment in the family. Chinese medicine believes that star anise can prevent influenza if used well. Adding star anise to medicated diet can enhance immunity and fight influenza.
Recommended medicated diet: Radix Astragali and octagonal tablets. Fish fillet 500g, Astragalus membranaceus 15g, star anise 5g, a little shredded green pepper. Slightly washing the water decoction of Radix Astragali and Illicium verum; After the fishy smell of the fish fillets is removed, add a little astragalus and star anise juice and marinate slightly; Stir-fry in a pan, add a little shredded green pepper and stir-fry slightly.
3. Coix seed strengthens the spleen and stops diarrhea
Coix seed is also recorded in Shennong's Herbal Classic. Chinese medicine believes that coix seed is sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature, enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, has the functions of diuresis, strengthening the spleen to stop diarrhea, clearing heat and detoxifying, and is also good for balancing blood pressure and blood lipids.
Recommended medicated diet: Coix seed lotus lily porridge. First, 50 grams of coix seed, 30 grams of lotus seed (heart-removed) and 20 grams of lily are boiled, and then 50 grams of japonica rice is used to cook porridge, and a proper amount of brown sugar (or honey) is added for seasoning. Has effects in invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, moistening lung, relieving diarrhea, strengthening body constitution and caring skin, and is suitable for constipation, eczema of lower limbs and facial acne.
4. Euryale ferox-tonifying kidney and prolonging life
Euryale ferox, also known as chicken head rice, is also recorded in Shennong Herbal Classic. Ancient medical books say that it can tonify kidney, astringent essence, strengthen spleen, stop diarrhea and stop leukorrhagia. It is a good food that "the baby is not old and the elderly can eat it for a long time". It has the characteristics of "supplementing but not being strict" and "preventing dryness and not being greasy".
Recommended medicinal diet: Euryale ferox purslane lean broth. Euryale ferox100g, purslane 50g, lean pork150g. Wash the three herbs, put them together in a pot, add some water and season. This soup has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating dampness and stopping leukorrhagia.
5. Siraitia grosvenorii-Runfei Zhike
Siraitia grosvenorii is known as the "fairy fruit", which has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is very suitable for sore throat, cough due to excessive heat, constipation due to intestinal dryness, etc. It's sweet, but it doesn't produce heat, and it can also help to purify blood fat and relax the bowels.
Recommended medicinal tea: arhat fruit tea. 50 grams of Siraitia grosvenorii and 250 grams of clear water are boiled together, then the residue is separated, and then a proper amount of honey is added into the water, which can be used as a summer drink after being fully mixed. Arhat fruit tea has the effects of clearing lung-heat, relieving cough, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels, and protecting throat. It can also treat hoarseness, cough discomfort, sore throat and so on caused by wind-heat invading the lungs.
6. Chinese yam-appetizing and digestive aid
Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. It is a dual-purpose medicine and food for calming the nerves and nourishing the stomach. Yam is commonly used in clinic to treat spleen and stomach weakness, anorexia, fatigue, diarrhea and other diseases.
Recommended medicinal diet: Meiling porridge. Chinese yam100g, soybean milk1000ml, and fragrant rice 250g. Boil fragrant rice porridge in a casserole, add soybean milk and yam after boiling, simmer slowly, and collect juice with low fire to avoid bottom paste. It can regulate the spleen and stomach and relieve abdominal distension. It is said that Song Meiling didn't want to eat, and the chef prepared porridge made of yam and soybean milk to make it appetizing. Later it was called "Meiling porridge".
Experts remind that any medicine and food have the same origin and have their own sexual and taste characteristics. Traditional Chinese medicine often habitually compares medication to fighting, which requires rigor. Therefore, it is suggested that when eating, don't overdo it. Only by consulting a professional doctor based on syndrome differentiation can it play a role in health care. There is also a difference between nip in the bud and treating diseases. If you are sick, it is still recommended to go to the hospital for medical treatment, not just diet therapy.
3. Matters needing attention in purchasing Ejiao
1, select origin:
Ejiao is a stick made of donkey skin through more than 50 processes, such as decoction and concentration. It has the effects of nourishing blood, nourishing yin, moistening dryness and stopping bleeding, and is generally the most authentic produced in Dong 'e County, Shandong Province.
2. Select year:
As the old saying goes, ginseng should be new, and Ejiao should be old. At present, the shelf life of Ejiao is mostly five years, but it can generally be used as long as it is properly preserved, placed in a cool and dry place, at a temperature below 25℃, and has no foul smell and mildew when opened. Experiments show that real donkey-hide gelatin, if properly preserved, can be preserved for one hundred years.
3, look at the appearance:
Ejiao is rectangular or square, hard and brittle, without oil holes, air holes and obvious knife marks. Authentic Ejiao is smooth and shiny, brown in cross section and translucent to light. It is true that the surface of the rubber block is as yellow as amber and as light as black.
4. Smell:
Just smell Ejiao. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "The pseudo-human's qi is turbid and smelly, which can't be tolerated by medicine. Real people don't stink, and Xia Yue is not wet and soft. " Fake donkey-hide gelatin is generally made from the leftovers of cowhide and horse skin, and its smell is rancid. The easiest way is to put the purchased donkey-hide gelatin block in your hand, put air in your mouth first, and then put it in front of your nose to smell it. If it is real Ejiao, it has the unique fragrance of traditional Chinese medicine, and it smells exciting. If it is fake donkey-hide gelatin, it has obvious odor. Another method is to mash genuine donkey-hide gelatin, put it into a cup, add appropriate amount of boiling water, then cover the cup and let it stand for 1-2 minutes. When opened, gelatin has a strong fragrance. Or remove the outer packaging of the film and wrap it with a damp and hot towel for 1-2 minutes. It smells like rubber when opened. The counterfeit goods have been detected by the above two methods, and there is no glue smell and no fishy smell.
5, measuring hardness brittleness:
Take genuine donkey-hide gelatin and pat it hard on the table. It will break into several pieces. The broken parts are brown, translucent and free of foreign objects. The poor quality Ejiao is tough and not easy to break, and it is suspected to be fake and shoddy leather glue.
6. Test solubility:
Finally, look at solubility. After the genuine Ejiao is mashed, it is easy to dissolve completely by heating and stirring in water. When heated and melted in water, the liquid surface is covered with a layer of fatty oil, which smells like pork skin soup, and no granular foreign bodies can be seen by naked eyes. Bad Ejiao is not easy to dissolve, and some will have insoluble flocs.
7, touch dry humidity:
Is to touch the skin of Ejiao. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "The true person is not smelly, and Xia Yue is not wet and soft." Even in summer, Ejiao made of pure donkey skin will not be wet and soft, the skin will be dry and the hands will not be wet. If you think the skin of Ejiao is wet and sticky, it is a fake and shoddy product, you must not buy it.
8, try with fire:
Several samples of real donkey-hide gelatin were burned in a crucible, which burst at first, then expanded and melted to release white smoke, with a strong fragrance of sesame oil. After ashing, the residue is dark black, loose and flaky, and does not stick to the crucible. Otherwise it is counterfeit money.
9, there are blisters:
The identification of true and false donkey-hide gelatin can also be done by breaking the genuine rubber block, putting it into a proper amount of transparent glass, adding a proper amount of boiling water, stirring and dissolving it, and standing for 1 ~ 2 minutes. There is no visible granular foreign body in the glue solution, which smells slightly unique gum fragrance, while Ejiao will form jelly when dissolved in hot water. False donkey-hide gelatin aqueous solution has obvious fishy smell or peculiar smell, and some of them will have insoluble flocs. After dissolution, obvious granular foreign bodies are common in the glue solution. The donkey-hide gelatin solution does not agglutinate after standing for 4 hours, and the fake solution condenses into paste.
In addition, other identification methods of fake donkey-hide gelatin are attached:
1, Niu Pijiao is a fake donkey-hide gelatin, which is hard and not easy to break. It has a strong smell when burning, and there is no oil drop on the surface of the test water.
2, miscellaneous leather rubber, burning with soybean oil aroma, water test solution is dark gray-brown, with a small amount of oil spots on the liquid surface.
3, bone glue, the surface is opaque and dull, there are small holes caused by bubbles, irregular wrinkles on the side, hard and not easy to break, slightly smelly.
4, gelatin, smooth and bright, crisp, slightly gas or ink-like smell. After fire test, it becomes white flake powder and does not stick.