1 Nourish the kidney and raise the sun to drive away the cold

Where most green leafy vegetables are on the cool side, fennel greens are warm. The warming effect of fennel can be said to rank first among green vegetables. Leeks, parsley, scallions, these greens are also warm, but fennel beats them all.

Why? Because fennel mainly enters the kidney meridian, directly warming the yang of the kidney. People with yang deficiency, that is, people who are cold and usually afraid of cold, are best suited to eat more fennel, which can tonify the kidneys and help the yang. Fennel can regulate not only deficiency cold but also actual cold. When you have a cold feeling, you can eat fennel to disperse the wind and cold.

Let's put it this way, fennel has a health regulating effect on all cold symptoms. Anyone who has localized or overall cold symptoms, such as cold hands and feet, a cold stomach, love of hot food, or cold pain in the abdomen, eating fennel is good for the body.

2 Fennel is also a stomach disease

Fennel is also into the stomach meridian, can warm the stomach, stomach, stomach, regulating a variety of cold stomach type stomach disease. Fennel can be used to warm the stomach and relieve pain in people with cold stomach and stomach pain, it can be used to open the stomach in people with loss of appetite, it can be used to help digestion in people with indigestion, and it can be used to revitalize the spirit of people who are depressed. Fennel smells pungent, so it regulates the role of qi is also very strong, for qi stagnation and qi reversal caused by the disease can be adjusted through, such as chest tightness, hiccups, intestinal cramps, abdominal distension, hernia, bad breath, and even cold and wet feet, etc..

3 Eat almonds mixed with fennel

Yin and Yang double complement, prevent colds

Eat raw mixed fennel dishes, if you can add a little sweet almonds in the best, both yin and Yang balance, but also enhance the efficacy of the fennel, but also prevent gastrointestinal colds.

Method

Boil the sweet almonds in water for ten minutes. Chop the fennel greens, add the sweet almonds, and mix in soy sauce and vinegar in a 2:1 ratio.

Tips

Be careful not to put sugar in the fennel mix, otherwise it will affect the effectiveness of this dish. Almonds should be sweet, not bitter almonds. Bitter almonds are a very good Chinese medicine, but there is a slight poison, usually only into the medicine, usually can not eat more.

Efficacy

Fennel can disperse wind-cold, almonds can moisturize the lungs and asthma. Fennel can warm the stomach and eliminate food, and almonds can harmonize the stomach and resolve phlegm. Fennel smoothes qi and can stop vomiting, almonds lower qi and can stop cough. Fennel is antiseptic and antidiarrheal, almonds are laxative, and the two can be used together to maintain the balance of intestinal function. Moreover, fennel helps yang, almonds nourish yin, with together is yin and yang double complement.

4 Fennel boiled water

Warm tonic kidney yang

Fennel greens are the stems and leaves of the medicinal plant fennel. And the seeds of fennel, fennel seeds, is what we usually call cumin, is a common spice used to make brine dishes, the famous five-spice powder is equipped with cumin.

Fennel is the seed, it is warm and tonic role, compared to the stem and leaf nature to be most. It can complement the kidney yang, kidney yang deficiency people, usually cooking often put some cumin, it is equivalent to eat kidney medicine.

Fennel is a great tonic for the kidney Yang, so it can warm the lower focus, but also to rationalize the gas, so successive generations of doctors especially respected its efficacy in the treatment of hernia.

In fact, all the lower jiao have cold, damp, stagnant qi, pain evidence, such as kidney deficiency lumbago, intestinal cramps, dysmenorrhea, enuresis, etc., it can regulate.

If you have a sudden pain in the lower abdomen and are afraid of cold and like warmth, immediately grab a handful of cumin boiled water, add a little salt and drink it, you can relieve the symptoms.