We all use green onions in our daily cooking. Green onions are the bulbs of the plant green onions. As a common condiment, although it seems ordinary, its effects are extraordinary. Today’s traditional Chinese medicine In this small class, I will take everyone to get to know Congbai.

Scallion white is also known as scallion stem white, scallion white head, and scallion white section. It is warm in nature and pungent in taste. Returns to the lung and stomach meridians. It can induce sweating and relieve external symptoms, relieve yang and detoxify. Traditional Chinese medicine is often used to treat typhoid fever, headache due to cold and heat, abdominal pain caused by yin and cold, internal obstruction due to worm accumulation, constipation, dysentery and carbuncle. Because onion is mild in nature, does not cause heat, does not cause sweating, and is relatively weak in medicinal power, it can be used for mild cases of wind-cold and cold, aversion to cold and fever. Scallion white can also make the Yang Qi flow smoothly up and down and smooth the inside and outside. Mash green onion and apply it to the navel, followed by warm moxibustion. It can treat cold abdominal pain, cold temperament, poor gasification of the bladder and other symptoms. It can also treat stagnant milk, breast pain, sores, swollen and toxins, etc.

Modern research shows that scallions contain volatile oil, the main component of which is allicin. It also contains various vitamins, fatty oils and mucus. The fatty oils also contain a variety of palmitic acid, linoleic acid, and arachidic acid. etc., while mucus contains polysaccharides, cellulose, pectin, etc. Scallion white has the effects of sweating, diuresis, stomach strengthening, and expectoration. The volatile oil component can promote digestion, increase appetite, stop vomiting, treat stomach fullness and chest and diaphragm discomfort, excite nerves, speed up blood circulation in the body, expand pores, and promote sweat glands to discharge sweat. In addition, scallions can also maintain normal metabolism of the human body, improve the function of body organs, and have antibacterial effects.

Let me share with you a few dietary remedies about scallions:

1. Scallion water: Use 20 grams of scallions, 5 grams of red dates, 15 grams of ginger, an appropriate amount of honey, and mix it with Wash the prepared ginger and cut it into small pieces. Put the ginger, red dates and scallions into the pot, add 1000ml of water and bring to a boil. Then simmer over low heat for 40 minutes. After cooking, filter the soup into a teacup and add Season with honey and drink instead of tea. It can relieve sweating and treat colds.

2. Green onion and white ginseng chicken soup: Use 20 grams of green onion, 1 old hen, 10 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 5 grams of red dates, 15 grams of onions, 5 grams of ginger, 5 grams of garlic, appropriate amount of salt, and put the prepared Remove the internal organs of the hen, wash them and cut them into small pieces. Put the dangshen, onions, ginger, garlic, red dates and scallions into the pot, add 2000ml of water and bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours and add salt to taste. Eating chicken and drinking soup can replenish qi, strengthen the spleen, and enhance immunity.

3. Green onion and pear soup: Use 20 grams of green onion and 45 grams of pear. Wash the prepared pears and cut them into small pieces. Put them into the pot together with the green onion. Add 1000ml of water and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat for 40 minutes, eat the pears and drink the soup. It can nourish yin and moisturize the lungs, relieve cough and reduce phlegm.

Scallions are a highly nutritious substance. People can obtain rich plant protein and a variety of trace elements after eating them. Although scallions are good, it is worth noting that people with phlegm-damp constitutions will suffer from colds, colds, and colds. Patients with yin-cold abdominal pain, red and white dysentery, mastitis, sores and carbuncles with swelling and pain, and abdominal pain are very suitable to eat scallions, but people with superficial deficiency and excessive sweating are not suitable to eat scallions.

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