According to Chinese medicine: beef has the function of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, nourishing the spleen and stomach, strengthening the muscles and bones, transforming phlegm and resting the wind, and quenching thirst.
It is suitable for people who are under the sinking of the middle qi, shortness of breath, weakness of muscles and bones, and anemia and long illness and yellow face and eyesight.
Cao Guo has a special rich spicy flavor, can remove the fishy, enhance appetite, is a good cooking, is known as food flavoring "one of the five spices".
Grass berries are used to cook dishes, can remove fishy and dingy, enhance the flavor of the dishes, cooking fish and meat, with the grass berries its flavor is better.
When stewing beef and mutton, put some fruits of grass, not only to make the mutton fragrant and delicious, but also to avoid the smell of sheep.
The modulation of fine brine and cooking meat, dishes to increase the aroma, such as grass-fruit beef; Yunnan specialties, such as sealing chicken is also used to increase the aroma of grass-fruit.
Contraindications: gas deficiency or blood deficiency, no cold and wet real evil, should be avoided eating grass fruit.
The reason why the grass fruit is more expensive, in addition to its unique effect, but also because of its long growth cycle.
Grass fruits to 3~4 years flowering and fruiting, 6~7 years into the fruitful period.
When the fruit becomes reddish-brown and not cracked when harvested, dried in the sun or a slight fire drying, drying 5~7 days, so that it gradually become brown, flavorful, solid fruit, that is, for the best goods.
The quality of dry, even and full, brownish red color, pungent taste, short handle is good.