Clove is warm and pungent, and enters spleen, stomach, lung and kidney meridians. Has the effects of warming middle warmer, reducing adverse reactions, dispelling cold, relieving pain, and warming kidney.

First of all, cloves help prevent gastric ulcers and protect the stomach. Because the volatile oil and eugenol can promote the secretion of gastric mucus, but the acidity will not increase.

Secondly, cloves also have the effect of preventing and treating diarrhea. The water extracts of clove and eugenol can effectively inhibit large intestine diarrhea and intestinal cavity effusion caused by senna or castor oil. Recommend a method of treating diarrhea with cloves: prepare 15g cloves and 3g cinnamon, then put them together, grind them into fine powder, then pour in a proper amount of cold boiled water, and stick them on the navel after stirring, which can effectively relieve diarrhea symptoms.

Thirdly, clove has antibacterial and degerming effects, among which clove oil and eugenol have broad-spectrum antibacterial effects.

Fourth, cloves can also help to remove bad breath, because its fragrant gas can effectively inhibit bad breath caused by rising stomach fire and other reasons. Here's a simple recipe for removing bad breath: prepare 5g of Aquilaria Resinatum, 5 g of clove, 8g of Asari, 8g of Ligusticum, and 8 g of Cimicifuga rhizome, then put them in a pot, rinse their mouths with their soup, and rinse their mouths after meals every day, which can effectively improve the problem of bad breath for a week.

Fifth, cloves can also lower blood pressure.

Pay attention to eating cloves.

1, people with yin deficiency and body heat are not recommended to take cloves, which will aggravate the internal heat phenomenon in the body.

2. Don't eat a lot of cloves.

3, people with stomach heat and stomach fire are not recommended to eat cloves, so as not to aggravate symptoms.

4, infants and young children are not recommended to eat clove tea.

5, the collocation of cloves is also exquisite, such as cloves and turmeric, can not be used together.

Cloves are mainly used to prepare condiments such as meat, cakes, pickled food, roasted seeds and nuts, candied fruit and drinks.

Lilac chicken practice

Materials:

Chicken (as food)

light purple

Dried orange peel

ginger slice

verdant

Light soy sauce

Cooking wine

dark soy sauce

salt

step

Boil the chicken pieces in cold water and ginger slices for a while, then take them out and rinse them for later use;

Put base oil in the pot, add clove and tangerine peel into the pot and stir fry, then add onion and ginger, and then stir fry the chicken pieces evenly;

Add cooking wine and light soy sauce, heat the submerged chicken pieces, add appropriate amount of salt to taste, bring to a boil with high fire, and simmer for 45 minutes.

Collect juice over high fire, add appropriate amount of soy sauce, stir well, and serve.