Tempeh is both a very common food seasoning or meal, and a Chinese medicine, almost every family has its shadow on the dinner table, my family often use tempeh steamed fish to eat.
There are tempeh sales on the market, and of course you can make your own. However, homemade tempeh may be made from soybeans, but tempeh as a traditional Chinese medicine is usually made from black beans, and the method of preparation may be different.
Tempeh, also known as edamame, is pungent, sweet, slightly bitter, cold, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. The efficacy may be different depending on the method of preparation.
If you use black beans and perilla leaves, ephedra and other warming medicines as raw materials made of tempeh, the medicinal properties of the pungent and warm, the efficacy of dispersal of wind-cold, often paired with scallion white, used for the treatment of external wind-cold fever, malignant cold, headache, no sweating, nasal congestion and other evidence.
If you use black beans and mulberry leaves, artemisia and other cold medicines as raw materials made of tempeh, the medicinal properties of the cold, have the effect of dispersal of wind-heat, often with mint, honeysuckle, forsythia and other cold medicines, used in the treatment of externally induced wind-heat or the beginning of the warm disease, the symptoms of fever, thirst, headache, sore throat and so on.
In addition, tempeh is pungent, light and floating, with the nature of the evacuation and propagation, in addition to the annoyance, the efficacy of propagation and development of the heat, applicable to the surface evidence of fever, headache, no sweat, or the evil heat of the internal depression of the chest due to the heart and chest tightness, false annoyance and insomnia, i.e., the heat of the disease tightness.
Tempeh is not strong sweating power, but contains fat, protein and digestive enzymes, has the role of stomach digestion.