At the table of Hakkas, a pot of soup with medicinal roots is essential. Therefore, Hakka people have the ability to judge the varieties of medicinal roots only from the aroma and taste of medicinal root soup, but few people may know all about their appearance and utility before cooking. So, what are the roots commonly used by Hakka people to make soup?
Dangni (hawthorn) root
When the mud, that is, myrtle, early autumn, is when the mud fruit is ripe. Its fruit is first green and yellow, yellow and red, and red and purple. When the mud is ripe purple, it tastes delicious, produces saliva to quench thirst, has a sweet aftertaste, and the tongue and teeth will be dyed purple-black. When the roots of mud contain phenols, tannins, etc., it has the effects of treating chronic dysentery, rheumatism, hepatitis and lowering blood fat.
Oldenlandia
Hedyotis diffusa, also known as Hedyotis diffusa, Hedyotis diffusa and Hedyotis diffusa, is wild in the grass on the hillside, roadside and stream. Sexual taste: bitter and sweet; Cold; Non-toxic
Clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation and diuresis. In clinical practice, it is found that Hedyotis diffusa can promote blood circulation, reduce swelling, dissipate stagnation and relieve pain. Especially for treating various types of inflammation and effectively preventing the occurrence of cancer.
Milk tree root
Milk roots can be divided into white milk roots and safflower milk roots, which grow in deep mountains and forests, and must be used to make soup. Its nature is warm, sweet and pungent. It tastes sweet and fragrant. The smell of milk roots is milk-flavored.
White-flowered milk root has the functions of clearing away heat, nourishing yin, reducing fire, invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, overflowing qi, promoting fluid production, eliminating dampness and stagnation, clearing liver and moistening lung.
Xihuangcao
Rabdosia, alias gully grass, goat flour, bear gall grass, etc. It is a perennial herb; The rhizome is fat, stout, sometimes in a knot, and the slender fibrous roots are densely distributed downward.
Rabdosia rubescens is a folk herb, commonly known as Coptis chinensis, etc. It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, eliminating jaundice and dampness, cooling blood and removing blood stasis, and is used to treat acute icteric hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, dysentery, enteritis, traumatic blood stasis and other diseases.
Rattan
Stinky rattan, also known as vent rattan, chicken paederia. Stipulum odoratum has the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, ventilating and reducing fire, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, fracture, jaundice hepatitis, dyspepsia, acute conjunctivitis and traumatic injury.
Smelly fart vine soup (small half bowl of hot soup) is also the first choice for Hakka women after caesarean section, which has a very good effect on ventilation, activating blood stasis and relieving pain.
Wuyeshen
Five-leaf God, also called Gynostemma pentaphyllum. Because it contains ginseng soap with exactly the same nutrients as ginseng, it has the reputation of second ginseng and southern ginseng.
Wuyeshen has the functions of invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, nourishing heart and calming nerves, consolidating exterior, arresting sweating, tonifying kidney and warming yang, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, and has obvious improvement effects on heart, lung and spleen deficiency, such as listlessness, lack of qi and laziness, palpitation, chest tightness, insomnia, dreaminess, night sweats, anorexia, loose stool, chronic cough with white phlegm, etc.
Ground beheading
The beheading of the earth is also called the head of gall bladder and the root of straw sandals. Most of them grow in the fields, hillsides, roadsides or grassland beside villages in Hakka areas. There are two kinds of liverworts: white flowers and safflower. In terms of efficacy, safflower is better and slightly bitter.
Specializing in the treatment of head wind, it has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, relieving swelling, relieving cough and diuresis, preventing influenza, etc., and has the auxiliary treatment effect on patients with cold or upper respiratory tract inflammation by beheading their heads and roots with green duck to make soup.
radix fici simplicissimae
Five-finger peach has a sweet smell, mild nature and overflowing aroma. The boiled soup smells of coconut milk. It has the effects of calming liver, improving eyesight, nourishing yin, reducing fire, invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, overflowing qi, promoting fluid production, eliminating dampness, removing stagnation, clearing liver and moistening lung. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, it can be eaten by men, women and children.
Abrus cantoniensis
Abrus cantoniensis has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, soothing the liver and dispersing blood stasis. Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials, soothing the liver and relieving pain, used for jaundice, hypochondriac discomfort and epigastric pain; Acute and chronic hepatitis, mastitis. Treat jaundice hepatitis, stomachache, breast carbuncle, scrofula, blood stasis and pain from falls, and use with caution for those with deficiency cold and weakness.
Amaranth root
Amaranth root has the function of cooling blood and stopping bleeding; Clearing away dampness and heat; Detoxification and carbuncle elimination, mainly for gastric bleeding; Bloody stool; Hemorrhoid blood; Cholecystitis; Cholelithiasis; Dysentery; Damp-heat diarrhea; Take it down; The urine is astringent and painful; Sore throat; Eczema; Carbuncle swelling; Gum erosion; Snake bite.
Kuzhai
Kuzhai, the scientific name of Patrinia scabiosa, can be a perennial herb, which smells like "smelly feet" and grows by streams in deep mountains or wet places in ravines. Mostly used for making soup. The taste is different and distinctive. Like durian, it is repelled by taste at first, but attracted by taste after tasting.
The special flavor of Yekuzhai can obviously enhance appetite, and it can be used to stew pig's belly not only to clear away summer heat and dampness, but also to strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. Protein, inorganic salts and vitamins contained in the wild bitter herb can be easily utilized by physiological activities of the body, and it has anti-tumor components, and its special flavor can obviously enhance appetite. Stewed pig bones in wild bitter soup is a common soup for local people in a summer family, which can clear away heat and toxic materials, nourish yin and moisten dryness.
Shigan olive
Olive is an epiphytic herb that grows on the tree-lined rock wall in the deep mountains all year round or grows on the old trees for many years. It has the functions of clearing away heat and nourishing yin, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, moistening lung and promoting fluid production, promoting diuresis and removing blood stasis.
Aigen
Hakka people like to use wormwood to cook chicken soup, thinking that wormwood chicken soup can not only dispel wind and warm the stomach, clear away heat and detoxify, but also calm liver fire, dispel wind and damp, diminish inflammation and relieve cough, so wormwood chicken soup has become a frequent visitor at the Hakka table. Especially in autumn and winter, women in Hakka areas prefer to cook chicken soup with mugwort stems and mugwort roots, and think that mugwort stems and mugwort roots have greater therapeutic effects.
Guanyin string
Guanyin string, the scientific name of Huanghuadaoshuilian, is also called Huanghuapolygala. Perennial evergreen shrub plants born in mountain valleys or streams in the forest are sweet and slightly bitter. Guanyin string has the functions of invigorating qi, strengthening bones and muscles, eliminating dampness, removing blood stasis, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, eliminating fire and enriching blood, and aching waist and legs, and is an essential nourishing product for confinement and daily conditioning.
rhizoma smilacis glabrae
Smilax glabra, Chinese medicine name. Folk call it hard rice head. Smilax glabra has the functions of detoxification, dehumidification and joint dredging. Indications for limb contracture and muscle pain caused by syphilis and mercury poisoning; Damp-heat drenching turbidity, leukorrhagia, carbuncle swelling, scrofula, scabies.
Cabbage
Dog liver vegetables, Hakka names: Qingshe (Xingning), Xiaoqing (Meixian), Shigangqing (Jiaoling, Pingyuan), Liliaqing (Tai Po), alias nine lions Grass, Jiujieli, Hexagonal English, Huatanqing, Mung Bean Green, Zhuyeqing and Huohuocao. Annual or biennial herbs. Born on hillside, wet grassland or roadside grassland. Used for common cold and fever, fever rash, summer heat and polydipsia, conjunctivitis, sore throat, furuncle, hematochezia, hematuria and dysuria.
These soups are not only Hakka specialties that Hakka people who live and work outside the home love to buy, but also "homesickness" that overseas Chinese must take away every time they return home.