Chicken Bone Grass jigucao
Chicken Bone Grass, also known as yellow food grass, rhubarb grass, first seen in the "Lingnan medicinal record". Chicken bone grass taste sweet and bitter, cool, with heat and dampness, relieve liver pain, blood circulation and stasis of the efficacy of modern pharmacological research shows that chicken bone grass has the removal of free radicals, inhibition of nitrosation, prevention of fatty liver, prevention of hepatitis viruses, the chemical liver injury has a protective effect, and at the same time, there are anti-bacterial and immune enhancement effect, by the residents of Guangdong and Guangxi areas, is the favorite, is the two Guangdong areas commonly used in the food ingredients.
The origin of chicken bone grass
Speaking of the origin of chicken bone grass, and "soup culture" has a close relationship.
"Lingnan culture" is one of the important birthplaces of China's distinctive culture, which is different from the Xianggan-Yungui land, although only thousands of miles away, but unique. When it comes to the soup culture of the "Cantonese", everyone is full of praise.
A long time ago, due to the inconvenience of transportation, education, information dissemination is also limited, people's understanding of the disease there is a great lack of knowledge and insufficient, most of them are relying on the "word of mouth" experience to learn medicine to see the disease. Once the son of the family of the Wang family coercive ribs uncomfortable for many days, stomach and epigastric distension and pain do not think of tea and rice, yellowish face, body like orange. Spend a lot of money to invite the doctor, after checking the pulse and watching the color of the diagnosis opened a few medicines, ate also did not see a good, which can be anxious about the family outside the Wang family old and young. Wang sent his servants around to inquire about treatment methods, inside and outside the city to post a list, heavily to hire a doctor who can cure this disease.
A few days passed in a row, and did not see anyone unveil the list. Wang looked at his son increasingly emaciated, less gas lazy speech, eyes orange look, the heart is full of self-blame and guilt: they only know busy business, little care for their children. He thought to himself that he must have done something wrong, otherwise how could his son get sick? After the sadness, he came to the ancestral hall in front of the incense and candles, piously prostrate in front of the ancestral tablets for his son to pray.
Coincidentally, Mr. Wang burned incense not long ago, the family servant came to report that the door of the courtyard came to a beggar, he uncovered the list. The officer hesitated for a moment, and then smiled and said, please ask him to come in. The beggar then asked for a pen, ink, paper and ink stone, and wrote down the recipe for the soup: 60g of chicken bone grass, 250g of pig cross li, 250g of pig loin, 3 honey dates, 1 small piece of ginger, 1 teaspoon of salt, more than 1 liter of water, 3 doses.
The postman hurriedly instructed the servant to go down to catch the medicine and decoction, the beggar emphasized when he left that he wanted to make soup to serve. After serving a few bowls of soup, the condition of the children of the postman obviously improved, after serving 3 doses, it will be cured.
Since then, chicken bone grass in soup has become a good way to treat "jaundice", but also verified the "medicine and food" theory of Chinese medicine.
Application
Jaundice Chicken Bone Cao is sweet, bitter and cool, and has the function of clearing away heat and diuresis to reduce jaundice, treating jaundice caused by liver and gallbladder dampness-heat and vaporization, it can be used as a single flavour or used in conjunction with Herba Insectica, Dictyocarpus, and other medicines to strengthen the role of clearing away heat and detoxification, and diuretically reducing the effect of jaundice.
Carbuncle? Chicken bone grass has the function of clearing heat and removing toxins, treatment of breast carbuncle, can be used to fresh leaves of this product pounded and applied externally.
The plant can be used to treat breast cancer by applying the fresh leaves of the plant to the skin. Chicken bone grass enters the liver and stomach meridians, with the effect of liver pain relief, treatment of liver qi stagnation of coercion and discomfort, stomach and epigastric pain, often used in conjunction with the two-faced needle.
Dosage Decoction, 15-30g.
Note that the seeds of Chicken Bone Herb are poisonous, can not be used directly in medicine, you must remove all the pods.
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: This product contains Acacia alkaloids, Acacia saponins, flavonoids, amino acids, sugars, Acacia saponin alcohol, glycyrrhizic acid.
2. Pharmacological effects: Chickweed crude saponin has a hepatoprotective effect, the decoction can enhance intestinal peristalsis.
3. Clinical studies: It is reported that, take fresh chicken bone grass, add brown sugar, decoction, children halved, the treatment of various types of hepatitis, have achieved good results ("Zhejiang Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine", 1960, 4:166). It is reported that Tianji Huang (Dielsbane) injection, intramuscular injection, used for acute jaundice and non-jaundice hepatitis, prolonged hepatitis and chronic hepatitis, etc., is effective ("Pharmaceutical Industry",1972,5:26). Ground Earwort, decocted with water, is effective in the treatment of typhoid and paratyphoid fever ("Fujian Traditional Chinese Medicine",1964,3:96).
The following one is the fruit of chicken bone grass, I did not expect it to be so beautiful! Doesn't it feel very similar to acacia beans?
Food Recommendations
Guangdong summer weather is hot, rain is also more, hot and humid more obvious, is suitable for consumption of chicken bone grass season, the following recommendations for several commonly used therapeutic formula.
1, chicken bone grass red date soup
Chicken bone grass 50 grams, red dates 8, together with decoction.
Applicable people With the efficacy of clearing heat and eliminating dampness, can be used for jaundice or dampness-heat heavy people to eat.
2, chicken bone grass gold hawthorn drink
30 grams of chicken bone grass, 10 grams of chicken gold, 15 grams of hawthorn, put into a casserole, add the right amount of water, boil over high heat, cook over low heat for 30 minutes to become.
Suitable for people With the effect of clearing heat and inducing dampness, strengthening the spleen and eliminating accumulation, it is suitable for people with indigestion or fatty liver.
3, chicken bone grass pork bone soup
Chicken bone grass 50 grams, 200 grams of pork spine, 3 slices of ginger. Pork spine washed and cut into pieces, chicken bone grass washed and cut into sections, the above ingredients together into the casserole, add the right amount of water, large fire boiling, small fire simmering 40 minutes into.
For people With the efficacy of clearing heat and eliminating dampness and jaundice, it is suitable for people with damp-heat jaundice to take.
4, chicken bone grass pork soup
30 grams of chicken bone grass, 20 grams of red beans, 100 grams of pork, 5 jujubes, 3 slices of ginger. Pork cut into small pieces, other ingredients and pork wash into the casserole, back to the right amount of water, high heat to boil, simmer for 1.5 hours, put salt to taste.
Suitable for people With clearing heat and dampness, gallbladder and yellow, diuresis and swelling effect, suitable for urine yellow short, bitter mouth sticky, constipated stools of the crowd to take.
Tips Chicken Bone Herb Contraindications Chicken Bone Herb has a sweet taste and a cool nature, therefore, it is often discomfort in the two sides, stomach and epigastric distension, poor appetite, bitter mouth mucus, red face and eyes, constipation, yellow urine, yellow tongue red moss yellow greasy, damp-heat physique of the crowd is the most suitable to take. Usually, there are epigastric distension, fatigue, postural fatigue of the qi deficiency of the body should be used with caution, and usually afraid of the cold and like warmth, cold limbs, cold pain in the abdomen or waist and knee cold pain, loose stools of the yang deficiency of the body should be avoided to consume the chicken bone grass. The people with cold stomachs and cold bodies should also avoid consuming too much chicken bone grass.
Again, the seeds of the chicken bone grass contains toxic protein, toxic, after eating will appear burning mouth, swallowing difficulties, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and other symptoms of poisoning, consumption should be removed from the chicken bone grass pods or seeds, to avoid poisoning.
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