Plant morphology: the algae is brown, long and leathery, generally 2-6 meters long and 20-30 cm wide. Algae are clearly divided into fixators, stalks and leaves. The fixator is pseudorhizoid, the handle is thick and short cylindrical, and the upper part of the handle is a wide and long strip-shaped blade. There are two parallel shallow grooves in the center of the blade, and the middle part is the middle belt, which is 2-5 mm thick, and the two edges of the middle belt are thin and wavy. It is also an algae plant. The root-like part is only a root that plays a fixing role, and the leaf-like part is called a thallus.
[Origin, season] China's Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and the northern coast of Guangdong Province are all cultivated, and wild kelp is found on rocks with a depth of 2-3 meters below the low tide line. Due to the influence of temperature difference and light from north to south, the growth and maturity of kelp are early and late, and the maturity of kelp in the same sea area or on the same seedling rope is also sequential, so the harvest period lasts from mid-May to early July.
[Economic Value] Kelp is a kind of vegetable with high nutritional value. Every hundred grams of dried kelp contains: crude protein 8.2g, fat 0. 1 g, sugar 57g, crude fiber 9.8g, inorganic salt 0/2.9g, calcium 2.25g, iron 0.15g, and Compared with spinach and rape, except vitamin C, the contents of crude protein, sugar, calcium and iron are several times and dozens of times higher. Kelp is a kind of seaweed with high iodine content. Generally, the iodine content of cultured kelp is 3 ~ 5% 0, up to 7 ~10 flood season. Iodine and alginic acid extracted from it are widely used in medicine, food and chemical industry. Iodine is one of the essential elements for human body. Iodine deficiency can cause goiter, and eating kelp can prevent and treat this disease. It can also prevent arteriosclerosis and reduce the accumulation of cholesterol and fat.
Kelp can be made into kelp soy sauce, kelp sauce and flavor powder. Japanese people use kelp to grind into powder, as an additive for foods such as sausage, and use kelp tea as a noble food to express happiness.
In industry, kelp is used to extract potassium salt, alginate and mannitol, which are used to replace flour sizing and sizing cloth, as clarifier in wine making and as medical supplies.
Sodium alginate in kelp can prevent leukemia and osteopathy; It also has hemostatic effect on arterial bleeding, and oral administration can reduce the absorption of radioactive element strontium -90 in intestine. Sodium alginate has antihypertensive effect. Kelp starch has the effect of reducing blood lipid. In recent years, an extract of kelp has been found to have anticancer effect. Kelp mannitol is effective in treating acute renal failure, brain edema, encephalitis B and acute glaucoma. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should eat less.
Kelp is an export variety, its English name is sea belt, and it is exported to countries and regions: Japan.
The homophonic word for kelp is "waiting for the sea", which refers to people who have worked abroad and cannot adapt to the domestic environment after returning home and have to wait for a job. Kelp with pine nuts
food therapy
The performance is salty and cold. Liver, stomach and kidney meridians entered. It can diminish inflammation, soften hardness and promote diuresis.
app; application
1. Used for gall and dysentery. Use this product alone or in combination with kelp and Undaria pinnatifida to enhance the actions of eliminating phlegm, softening and resolving hard mass.
2. Used for choking diaphragm, unable to eat. Amomum villosum can be ground into powder, and milk can be taken. * * * can play the role of resolving phlegm, dispersing stagnation and benefiting the stomach.
3. Used for hernia, testicular cyst. Compatible with seaweed and fennel.
4. Used for edema and beriberi. Can be compatible with other diuretics.
In addition, modern medicine is also used for hypertension, coronary heart disease, tumor and so on. Use this product alone, or drugs with appropriate compatibility.
Usage: decoct soup, cook it, salad it, soak it in sugar, or make pills or take it in powder.
Pay attention to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and it is not suitable for those who are thin.
Laminaria japonica is a thallus of Laminaria japonica, a plant of Laminariaceae. Shandong, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong coastal distribution or artificial breeding. Harvest in summer and autumn, and generally dry for later use.
It is salty in nature and cold in nature.
Functions: eliminating phlegm, softening hard mass, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving cough and asthma, removing fat, lowering blood pressure, resolving hard mass and resisting cancer. Can be used for treating carbuncle, scrofula, hernia, cough and asthma, edema, hypertension, coronary heart disease and obesity.
Selected kelp therapeutic prescriptions
1, cure gall and scrofula: 50g of kelp and 50g of lean pork are fried. Twice a day. Or 50 grams of kelp and 30 grams of kelp, decocted in water twice a day.
2, treatment of skin dampness and itching: 50 grams of kelp, 50 grams of mung beans, 50 grams of brown sugar boiled in water, daily 1 time.
3, summer heat, hypertension, hyperlipidemia: 30 grams of kelp, melon 100 grams, 30 grams of coix seed with soup. Add appropriate amount of sugar to eat, daily 1 time.
4, treatment of testicular swelling and pain: kelp 1 5g, seaweed15g, fennel 6g, decoction, daily1time.
5, treatment of hypertension, arteriosclerosis and chronic bronchitis cough and asthma: kelp 15 grams, japonica rice 100 grams, 50 grams of lean pork, cooked with porridge, seasoned with appropriate amount of salt or sugar.
6, cure liver fire headache, eye conjunctivitis: 20 grams of kelp, 30 grams of cassia obtusifolia, decoction, eat kelp and drink soup. Twice a day.
7, treatment of iodine deficiency and adolescent goiter: kelp 25 grams, Nostoc flagelliforme 10 grams, oyster sauce 100 grams, with soup, often eaten.
8, treatment of chronic pharyngitis: 500 grams of kelp, washed and cut into small pieces, cooked and removed, add 200 grams of sugar and mix well, pickled 1 can be eaten in the future. Take 50g twice a day.
9, treatment of obesity: 2 grams of kelp powder, plum 1 capsule, soaked in boiling water, twice a day.
10, for treating skin heat rash, cervical lymphadenitis and simple goiter: 60g kelp, 70g mung bean, 0g japonica rice 100, and dried tangerine peel 1 tablet. Cook porridge together and season with appropriate amount of sugar.
1 1, candied kelp: 500 grams of water-soaked kelp, washed and cut into small pieces, cooked, taken out, mixed with 250 grams of white sugar, and pickled for one day. Take 50g twice a day. Has the effects of softening and resolving hard mass, and can be used for treating chronic pharyngitis.
12, seaweed porridge: kelp10-15g, japonica rice100g, appropriate amount of lean pork, cooked with porridge, seasoned with appropriate amount of salt (or sugar). It has the effects of softening hardness, lowering blood pressure and diuresis, and is suitable for hypertension, arteriosclerosis and chronic bronchitis with cough and asthma. Sclerosis and chronic bronchitis, cough and asthma.
13, kelp, winter melon and glutinous rice soup: 30g of kelp (or seaweed), 0g of winter melon100g, and 0g of glutinous rice10g, all boiled together, and seasoned with appropriate amount of sugar. Has that effect of lowering blood pressure, reduce blood lipid, clearing away summer heat and relieving fever, promote diuresis and invigorating spleen, and preventing cancer.
14, oyster drum seaweed soup: oyster drum100g, kelp 25g, Nostoc flagelliforme10g, cooked together, often eaten, can cure iodine deficiency and adolescent goiter.
15, kelp mung bean syrup: 60 grams of kelp, shredded, mung bean 150 grams, cooked with soup, seasoned with appropriate amount of brown sugar. It has the effects of tonifying heart, diuresis, softening and hardening, eliminating phlegm and eliminating gall. It is suitable for hypertension, beriberi edema, cervical lymph node tuberculosis, simple goiter, children's heat furuncle in summer, phlegm-heat cough and so on. Kelp medicinal diet prescription
16, kelp in moderation, often cooked in soup, can cure hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity, hyperlipidemia, and has anti-cancer effect.
Usage and dosage: decoct soup, cook it, and cool it. 15-50g each time.
Should avoid spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
Composition and medicine
This product contains a variety of organic substances, iodine, potassium, calcium, iron and other elements, as well as protein, fatty acids, sugars, vitamins and niacin. It can prevent and treat endemic goiter and significantly reduce cholesterol. Eating kelp regularly can increase iodine intake and calcium absorption, which is considered to be one of the factors with anti-cancer effect. It has certain preventive and adjuvant therapeutic effects on hypertension, arteriosclerosis and hyperlipidemia.
The best nutrition partner at the dinner table
Tofu with kelp
Tofu with kelp
Tofu is rich in nutrition and contains saponin, which can inhibit the absorption of fat, promote the decomposition of fat and prevent the generation of peroxide in arteriosclerosis. However, saponin will cause iodine deficiency in the body, and kelp is rich in iodine necessary for human body (24 grams of iodine per 100 grams of kelp). Because kelp contains more iodine, it can also induce goiter, and both of them can be eaten together, so that saponin in tofu can be excreted more, which can make iodine in the body in a balanced state.
However, it should be noted that kelp is cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency are forbidden to eat. Patients with hyperthyroidism should not eat kelp. Pregnant women and nursing mothers should not eat too much kelp, because iodine in kelp can enter the fetus (infant) with blood circulation, causing thyroid dysfunction in the fetus (infant).
Sesame with kelp
Sesame with kelp
According to modern nutritional analysis, sesame contains many nutrients needed by human body, and its protein content is more than meat, among which amino acid content is very rich, and calcium content is twice that of milk. Sesame contains more fat, up to 54%, and more lecithin, which can prevent hair from turning white or falling off prematurely. It contains vitamin E and other nutrients beneficial to the skin, which can improve blood circulation, promote metabolism and receive beauty effects.
Kelp is rich in calcium and iodine, which contributes to the synthesis of thyroxine. The combination of these two foods can not only beautify the face, but also delay aging.
Cold sesame kelp is a very nutritious and refreshing cold dish. First, remove impurities from100g sesame seeds, wash them clean, put them in a pot, and stir-fry them slowly with low fire. When the sesame seeds are fragrant, take them out of the pot and let them cool. 350g of wet kelp is washed and shredded. Steam kelp silk/kloc-for 0/5 minutes, then take it out of the pot and let it cool. Add monosodium glutamate, vinegar, sugar and olive oil and mix well. Put it on a plate, sprinkle with sesame seeds and mix well.
Second, 1. Treatment of diaphragmatic choking: one or two pieces of kelp (washed, baked and minced), one piece of fine chaff on the head of the pile pestle, and * * * grinded. One piece of old cow saliva, one piece of raw lily juice, slowly decocted with honey, and stirred into paste, and mixed with minced pills, such as medlar.
2. Treat the initial stagnation of carbuncle, stuffy throat, and gradually swell if it is not cured: betel nut 32, seaweed 22 (to wash away the salty water), kelp 32 (to wash away the salty water). Apply medicine, pound Luo as the end, and refine honey and pills, which are as big as marbles and often contain a pill of pharynx and fluid. (Taiping Shenghui Fang)
3. Treatment of qi stagnation, chest and diaphragm full, throat and neck getting thicker: two or two pieces of kelp (to wash the salty juice), one or two pieces of medulla tetrapanacis, two pieces of mutton (to bake), one or two pieces of sea clam (to grind), and one or two pieces of horsetail seaweed (to wash the salty juice). The first five flavors are honeyed pills like marbles, which contain the salty juice carefully. Avoid lettuce.
Compatibility effect:
Both kelp and seaweed have the effects of softening and resolving hard mass, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, but kelp is salty and cold, slippery, stronger in resolving phlegm and resolving hard mass than seaweed, and the fastest in descending qi; Seaweed is bitter, salty and cold, which can still promote diuresis and dispel heat, and tends to be tangible and empirical. The combination of the two drugs is more effective, and it is used to treat gall, scrofula caused by phlegm evil, cyst, breast swelling and pain, tumor and so on.
Third, the academic language of softening and resolving hard masses. Refers to the method of treating turbid phlegm and blood stasis with soft and hard drugs. Soft and hard medicine tastes salty. "Su Wen, On the Method of Dirty Qi": "The heart wants to be soft, and the salty food is urgent to soften it." For example, if the phlegm and phlegm are concentrated, it is appropriate to eliminate phlegm, soften and disperse the knot, and use Zhejiang Fritillaria, seaweed, kelp, oysters, etc. Long-term malaria and spleen, should be soft and hard to break the knot, soak turtle shell, Rhizoma Sparganii and Rhizoma Curcumae in vinegar. In addition, constipation caused by heat in the gastrointestinal tract is also within the scope of this law.