The weather has been changing a lot lately, cold and hot, making it hard for the body to adapt and often giving birth to some problems. The most common symptoms are feeling dry mouth, blisters at the corners of the mouth, and tiredness all day long.
"Materia Medica" that: mint flavor, cool, non-toxic. Long-term dishes eaten raw or cooked, can get rid of evil poisons, in addition to turbid gas, to relieve sleepiness, so that people's breath fragrant and clean.
Mint stems and leaves have a special flavor, with the evacuation of wind-heat, clearing the head, eyes, throat, through the rash, liver detoxification effect. Modern medicine is often used in the treatment of wind-heat colds, headache, sore throat, mouth and tongue sores, rubella, measles, chest and abdominal distension and anti-early pregnancy. In addition, mint also has anti-inflammatory and pain relieving effects. More surprising is that from 2003, the medical profession proposed the use of "starvation therapy" to cure cancer, scientists have studied a large number of drugs, found that mint leaves can prevent the growth of blood vessels at the cancer lesions, so that the cancer does not get blood supply, and ultimately "starvation "
So it seems, life can indeed often use mint to make some food, both delicious, but also conducive to health.
Summer health of the soup tea
★ mint tea
Materials: dry mint 4 money, rock sugar, green tea a little.
Practice: pot with 2000 ml of water boiling, put the mint leaves and green tea, turn off the heat until the water cools, filter out the leaf residue can be added sugar to drink. Dried mint leaves can be bought at herbal stores, and it is better if you have fresh mint leaves. The brewing ratio is 1 money mint leaves with 500 milliliters of water.
Effects: Cool mint can eliminate summer fire and gastrointestinal depression, and it's a great drink if you have a summer heat and cold.
★Mint and green bean soup
Ingredients: 5 grams of mint, 30 grams of barley, 60 grams of green beans, 1-2 spoons of sugar.
How to do: Wash barley and green beans, soak in water for 3 hours and set aside. Pour 800 ml of water into the pot, add barley and green beans to boil on medium heat, change to low heat and simmer for half an hour, add mint and sugar, continue to cook for 5-10 minutes, and serve in a bowl.
Effects: Clear heat and detoxification, especially suitable for people with acne.
★Mint tofu
Ingredients: tofu 2 blocks, 50 grams of fresh mint leaves, fresh green onions 3
Practice: add 2 bowls of water to decoction, to be decocted until the water is reduced to half of the time when the heat is consumed.
Effects: can cure cold nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose and other conditions
★Through the lungs and cough - mint chrysanthemum sugar tea
Raw materials: mint 6 grams, 10 grams of chrysanthemum, rock sugar or sugar, appropriate amount.
Practice: soak the mint and chrysanthemum in boiling water, or cook on a gentle fire for 5-10 minutes, remove the dregs, and add the right amount of rock sugar to drink.
Effects: Expelling wind and clearing heat, promoting lung qi, and relieving cough. It is suitable for the beginning of external infection, symptomatic wind-heat headache, fever, cough and so on.
★ mint porridge
Source "medical Yu Lu"
Raw materials mint 5 grams, 50 grams of round-grained rice.
The production of first boiled polished round-grained rice porridge, near cooked, into the mint, and then boiled a few boiled, hair aroma that is.
The use of empty stomach to take food.
Therapeutic effects evacuate wind-heat. Treatment of wind-heat cold, and see fever and evil wind, head and eyes unclear, sore throat and thirst.
Take 15 grams of mint, decoct the soup once cold. To 60 grams of polished round-grained rice porridge, when the porridge will come to an end, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and then boil one or two can be. It can be served warm for breakfast and dinner. Mentha piperita is a kind of lip-shaped plant, Chinese medicine use mint as a sweating antipyretic. Ming Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "Mint, pungent can disperse, cool can clear the benefit, specializing in clearing the wind and dissipating heat. Therefore, headache, head wind, eyes and eyes, throat, mouth and mouth diseases for the key medicine." According to the "Medical Yu Xing" records: "Mint passes through the customs, good throat, so that the mouth is fragrant." Middle-aged and elderly people eat some mint porridge in the spring, can clear the mind, wind dispersal, enhance appetite, help digestion.
★ mint porridge
Raw materials: fresh mint 30g (dry 15g) decoction, 100g of polished round-grained rice porridge
Practice: porridge will be into the mint soup with the right amount of rock sugar, cook for another 1-2 minutes, cooled and eaten.
Effects: heat relief, wind dispersal, clearing the throat, suitable for wind-heat colds, resistance to summer, headache, eye red, sore throat and so on.
★ fresh mint crucian carp soup
Live crucian carp 1, dissected and washed, boiled with water, add 1 white onion, ginger 1 slice, 20 grams of fresh mint, the water can be boiled to put seasoning and oil and salt, soup and meat to eat together. Eat 1 time a day, eat 3 to 5 days.
Effect: can cure pediatric chronic cough.
★ mint lemon honey
Introduction:
Do a good job of mint honey into the refrigerator to freeze well, every day to dig 1-2 teaspoons of warm water with the right amount of soak and drink, colds and headaches, sore throat discomfort weight loss and skin care has a complementary therapeutic effect!
Materials:
2 lemons, 100 grams of icing sugar, honey, mint leaves (dry)
Practice:
1. lemon clean and peeled off the skin (the outermost) shredded or chopped, digging the meat crumbled standby, mint leaves whacked standby.
2. 300ML of water with 100G of icing sugar boiled over low heat, add the lemon meat and lemon rind shredded in turn and cook until thickened (about 30 minutes).
3. Add chopped mint leaves and stir well and cook on low heat for 3-5 minutes.
4. Let it cool down and add the right amount of honey and stir well.
Precautions
1.Yin deficiency fever, blood deficiency vertigo people should be careful to take mint; surface deficiency of spontaneous sweating is prohibited to take mint; pregnant women do not overdose of mint. In addition, mint decoction tea drinking, do not boil for a long time;
2. Gastric ulcers, gastric acid secretion, suffering from dental caries and diabetic patients should not eat lemon;
3. Honey is not suitable for diabetic patients, spleen deficiency diarrhea and dampness obstruction in the middle jiao of the epigastric distension, moss thick and greasy people to eat; and honey should not be used with boiled water, not to mention the decoction, lukewarm water can be put into the honey; honey is not suitable for the The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products in the world.
The mint leaves are small and slightly sweaty, with smooth veins.
Mint leaves are small and slightly sweaty, with smooth veins.