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Chinese medicine believes that "the heart governs the summer, and if the heart is slow, you should eat sour food urgently to harvest it". Therefore, eating more sour food in summer can not enhance the digestive function, nourish the liver, but also help to lower blood pressure, soften blood vessels and protect the heart.

In the hot summer, it's the season when a large number of bayberries are on the market, and the bright red bayberries are mouth watering.

Myrica rubra:

There is a set for relieving summer heat and stomach

In terms of nutritional components, the pulp of Myrica rubra contains 12%~13% of sugar and .5%~1.1% of acid. It is rich in cellulose, mineral elements, vitamins, a certain amount of protein, fat, pectin and 8 kinds of amino acids beneficial to human body. Its fruit contains calcium and phosphorus.

Modern medicine has found that Myrica rubra contains a lot of fruit acid, which can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, thus promoting appetite and helping digestion, and can also inhibit the transformation from sugar to fat, which is helpful to lose weight. Flavonoids and anthocyanins with structures similar to flavonoids contained in fruits have the functions of antioxidation, blood lipid regulation, cholesterol and blood sugar reduction.

In addition, Myrica rubra is rich in potassium. Modern medical research has proved that potassium has obvious effects in maintaining heart function, participating in metabolism and lowering blood pressure.

from the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, Myrica rubra is sour, warm in nature, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, harmonizing the stomach to promote digestion, and stopping vomiting and diarrhea.

if you have gastrointestinal fullness, you can use bayberry to marinate salt for later use, and take a few pills to soak in boiling water when using.

Myrica rubra has high medicinal and edible value. Its fruit, kernel, leaves and peel can be used as medicine, and the fruit is moderately sweet and sour. It can be eaten directly, processed into dried Myrica rubra, jam, candied fruit, etc., and used for wine making.

However, it should be noted that eating too much bayberry will damage teeth and tendons, cause fever, and cause sores and phlegm. People with phlegm dampness and skin sores should not eat more. The content of fruit acid is high, and eating too much may hurt the spleen and stomach and cause bloating. Therefore, patients with hyperacidity, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and diabetes should not eat more.

There is a need to pay attention to the selection and preservation of bayberry.

When choosing bayberry, pay attention to the following points:

1 Look at the color

You should choose the one with dry fruit surface and bright red color. Blue and blue red bayberry is not mature, so it should not be bought.

2 Touch

3 to see the pulp

It is preferred that the grains are convex, and the shriveled ones are generally not fresh.

4 Taste

5 Smell the fragrance

How to clean the bayberry after picking it?

Some consumers find that the bought bayberry shows "small white spots" and even white bugs. Can you still eat it?

Myrica rubra has no peel and many cracks on its surface, so it is easy to collect dust and may contain bugs. Most of these insects are larvae of fruit flies, mainly composed of protein, and usually do not carry bacteria.

If you care about bugs, you can soak them in clear water for a while before eating, and then soak them in salt to let them emerge, and then wash them with clear water.

The preservation methods of Myrica rubra are also particular.

Myrica rubra has low freshness and is easy to deteriorate, so it should be eaten fresh in time to prevent gastrointestinal diseases caused by deterioration.

if you really can't finish eating, don't wash the fresh bayberry, pack it in time and refrigerate it, and it can be stored for 3~7 days. Or directly frozen, can be stored for about 1 month.

try eating bayberry like this.

besides being washed and eaten raw, bayberry can also be made into sweet and sour soup or drink:

#1

iced bayberry juice

materials: 5g fresh bayberry, half a lemon, a handful of dried hawthorn and a proper amount of rock sugar.

practice: wash bayberry, soak it in light salt water for 15 minutes and then rinse it off. Cut a few lines on the bayberry with a knife to fully expose the pulp. Lemon (half) juice. Add lemon juice and a little rock sugar to Myrica rubra, mix well and marinate for about 1 hour. Put all the ingredients into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, dried hawthorn and crystal sugar, and boil over high fire. While cooking, remove the floating foam and squeeze the bayberry until all the juice is squeezed out. After boiling for 15 to 2 minutes, turn off the fire, filter the pomace, and let it cool and refrigerate.

#2

Yangmeibing for relieving summer heat

Material: 25g of Myrica rubra, 1g of hawthorn, 2g of dark plum, half a lemon, 1g of dried osmanthus fragrans, 5g of dried tangerine peel, 5g of licorice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

practice: add bayberry, hawthorn, dark plum, dried tangerine peel and licorice into the pot, pour in about 4 liters of water, boil for 1 minutes on medium fire, add appropriate amount of rock sugar (depending on personal taste), add dried osmanthus after the rock sugar melts, cover the pot, cook for 15 minutes on low fire, squeeze in lemonade (half), and turn off the fire after 5 minutes. Let it cool and refrigerate, or pour it into the popsicle grill for freezing.

#3

Yangmeilian Stewed Duck Soup

Ingredients: 15g of fresh Myrica rubra and fresh bamboo shoots, 3g of lotus seeds and gordon euryales, 1g of tangerine peel, 1 duck (about 75g) and 25g of lean meat.

Practice: The ducks are viscera-removed, washed and chopped into large pieces, and then put into boiling water with dried tangerine peel (or orange, tangerine or pomelo leaves) together with the washed and chopped lean pieces, and then take out and rinse with cold water; Wash bayberry with clear water, soak it in salt water for 3 minutes, take it out and rinse it with clear water; Wash the spring bamboo shoots, cut them into thick slices, boil them in boiling water for 5-1 minutes, take them out and soak them in cold water for about 1 hour. Then, put it in a casserole together with other washed ingredients, add 25 ml of water and a little white wine, boil it with strong fire, then cook it with slow fire for 1.5 hours, and season it with refined salt.

comments: the taste is sour and sweet, the soup is cool and refreshing, and it has both the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, relieving vexation and quenching thirst, stimulating appetite and digestion, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and also tonifying spleen and kidney, nourishing qi and blood, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production. It is suitable for general people in hot summer and hot summer.

Reminder: Don't swallow bayberry kernels

"Eating bayberry kernels together has the effect of clearing intestines and detoxifying"-is this statement true?

Myrica rubra does have many therapeutic effects, but there is no theoretical basis that Myrica rubra can clear intestines and detoxify when eaten together with kernels.

From the perspective of Chinese medicine, the efficacy of Myrica rubra mainly focuses on quenching thirst, eliminating phlegm, stopping vomiting and so on. Myrica rubra nucleolus can also be used as medicine, which is beneficial to water and swelling. However, many Chinese medicine works have not mentioned the efficacy of bayberry in clearing the intestines and detoxifying, and have not recommended the practice of swallowing together with the nucleus.

Excessive consumption of Myrica rubra kernel may not only cause intestinal obstruction, but also cause gastrolithiasis. In particular, if children eat the core, once the gastric mucosa is punctured, it may cause gastric bleeding. It is more dangerous for people with weak spleen and stomach to eat bayberry like this, so it is not advisable to eat bayberry together with the core.

Integrated from Guangzhou Daily, Health About

According to People's Daily, China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, WeChat official account, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Gourmet World.