The efficacy of chicken soup
In our food culture, there is a "no chicken is not a feast," eating chicken "great luck" said. Chicken belongs to the white meat, is one of the best sources of protein, per 100g of chicken containing protein about 23.3g, significantly higher than beef, mutton and so on. "Better to eat no meat, not eat no soup", "eating meat is not as good as drinking soup", "singing the cavity of the opera, the chef's soup" and so on shows that the people of China's favorite soup. Chicken soup is rich in short peptides and amino acids that can be easily absorbed and utilized by the body, colloid substances, vitamins and minerals and other nutrients, with rich nutrition, delicious flavor, increase appetite, help digestion and absorption and other characteristics.
China's traditional Chinese medicine believes that chicken is warm and sweet, is a warm tonic spleen and stomach, qi, blood and kidney products. The Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded that "chicken is the main treatment for diarrhea, frequent urination, to remove heat to remove boredom, treating children's food disease, treating adult gonorrhea and regurgitation, eliminating the disease of alcohol, treating the throat closed breast moth, all mouth sores, tongue sores sores." In foreign countries, as early as the twelfth century, the Jewish physician proposed chicken soup can be used as a prescription for asthma and colds, the Jews more chicken soup as "penicillin" with.
(1) Chicken soup has the effect of reducing the symptoms of colds and flu, reducing the stress response. Consumption of hot chicken soup, the steam emitted by the hot chicken soup helps to quickly and effectively clean the respiratory tract, remove respiratory viruses in a timely manner, to promote coughing, dry throat, sore throat and other symptoms of relief. Chicken soup has a high content of cysteine, which is very similar to the chemical structure of ethylphthalocysteine, and it contains a luciferyl group that can break the disulfide bonds in the protein polypeptides in phlegm, thus reducing the viscosity of phlegm and promoting the elimination of phlegm. A larger concentration of chicken soup significantly inhibits the ability of neutrophils to travel, and the pro-secretory effect of neutrophils is the main cause of upper respiratory symptoms such as coughing and nasal congestion in patients with colds. Chicken soup inhibits the vitality of that neutrophil, thus achieving the effect of reducing cold symptoms. Drinking chicken soup can also make the body due to stress load after the excessive cortisol level down, reduce the stress response.
(2) chicken soup has the effect of improving the body's immunity and anti-fatigue. Research has found that chicken meat contains two strong antioxidant substances, Aselin and Coltsinol, which can effectively remove reactive oxygen species in the body. The meat of most animals does not contain or only contains one of them, while chicken meat is rich in both antioxidant substances. In mouse experiments, continuous gavage of chicken broth resulted in high levels of T-cell subpopulations and CD4+/CD8+ ratios in the peripheral blood, which led to strong activation of the immune system and increased and maintained high immunity in the mice, and immunity was sustained for a longer period of time. Nutritive chicken soup increased the intensity of delayed-type allergic reactions and promoted the formation of hemolytic vacuoles in mice induced by DNFB, suggesting that chicken soup has enhanced cellular immunity and enhanced humoral immunity in mice. Herbal chicken soup can promote the secretion of norepinephrine, which can nourish blood and replenish qi, enhance physical strength and eliminate fatigue.
(3) Chicken soup can improve anxiety? Nutritional studies have shown that high protein and a variety of amino acids can affect and improve brain function, improve anxiety. Some reports have suggested that chicken soup with dietary supplements has the effect of improving anxiety.
(4) Other effects of chicken soup? Chicken soup has many bioactive substances, but also to promote the body's metabolism, improve anemia, improve hyperglycemia, lower blood pressure, antioxidant activity and other physiological effects.
Tea Tree Mushroom
Tea Tree Mushroom (Agrocybe aegerita) is a kind of edible and medicinal dual-purpose fungi, rich in nutrients, with significant health benefits. It contains a large number of nutrients and active substances, such as proteins, polysaccharides, phenols, flavonoids, vitamins and alkaloids, etc. It has a variety of medicinal effects, such as antioxidant, antiviral and immunomodulatory.
Tea Tree Mushroom Stewed Chicken Soup
1, Tea Tree Mushroom Stewed Chicken Soup, made many times at home, the whole family loves to drink, every time you drink this chicken soup, there is a kind of dry yellow earth, pour a dipper of water feeling, squeaking sound, sweet taste penetrate the whole body.
2, the following is a simple and easy tea tree mushrooms stewed chicken soup:
1) raw materials: this chicken, tea tree mushrooms, ginger, salt, sugar;
2) chicken cut into pieces, chopped chicken oil into the pot refining, the pot only stay in a moderate amount of chicken oil, under the chicken pieces stir-fried dry vapor;
3) pot with enough water, chicken pieces and water into the pot, high heat, add tea tree mushrooms and ginger slices, low heat, slow simmer, tea tree mushrooms and water. Ginger, slow simmer, this time set the alarm clock, you can rest assured to do other things, or nap for a while;
4) Stew for an hour (depending on the size of the chicken, some need 2 hours,), add half a spoonful of sugar, a sufficient amount of salt, you can fill the bowl to enjoy. A pot of delicious, fragrant, immunity-enhancing, cold prevention and treatment of love chicken soup is completed.
5) Sheng bowl, slowly enjoy.
3, practice points: chicken, tea tree mushrooms and other fresh, cooking do not add other materials, the whole process to maintain the original flavor of chicken and tea tree mushrooms. Water should be added once enough, do not add water in the middle, soup should be more, a gas, to stew out of the original flavor of raw materials.
4, key words: simple, easy to do, original flavor, sweet and fresh, time, patience, enhance immunity.
5, the concluding words: confidence plus patience, then a great success.
Note: Although chicken soup is delicious, it is not suitable for everyone. For people with excessive stomach acid, biliary tract disease, hypertension, high blood pressure patients, patients with high blood fat, etc. with aggravating circumstances, it is advisable to follow the doctor's advice.