In our daily diet, we often throw away some unpalatable "leftovers", but there are actually many treasures with medicinal value among them. Doctors tell you: You might as well turn waste into treasure, which can add points to your health!
Huang Suiping, Director of the Spleen and Gastroenterology Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Corn silk is neutral in nature, sweet and light in taste, and belongs to the bladder, liver and gallbladder meridians. It has the functions of diuresis, swelling, and dampness. The role of yellow is generally used for urinary system infections, difficulty in urination caused by urinary tract stones, edema caused by kidney disease, jaundice caused by liver disease, etc.
The most prominent function of corn silk is to diuresis and reduce swelling. Corn silk can be used alone to decoct it in large doses, or it can be used with diuretics such as winter melon peel, adzuki bean, and coix seed. To treat edema caused by spleen deficiency, it can be used with Codonopsis pilosula, Codonopsis pilosula, and Codonopsis pilosula. Atractylodes macrocephala, poria cocos, etc. can be used together; corn silk can be used equally with plantain to treat damp-heat in the bladder, short, red, astringent and painful urination; for treating liver and gallbladder damp-heat, it can be used equally with sea golden sand and money grass.
Modern research has found that corn silk preparations can promote bile excretion and reduce its viscosity, so it can be used as a choleretic drug for patients with cholangitis.
Usage
Usually when we buy unpeeled corn, we can leave the corn silk to dry in the sun for use when the above situation occurs. When making corn soup, you can also directly wash it and cook it together with the corn to play a health-care role.
Corn cobs are the remaining cobs after corn threshing. Cantonese people call them "corn cobs". According to the records of "Chinese Materia Medica", corn cobs are flat in nature, sweet in taste, and travel through the spleen, kidney, The bladder meridian also has the effect of strengthening the spleen and removing dampness.
Huang Suiping, Director of the Spleen and Stomach Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Winter melon skin is cool in nature and sweet in taste, and returns to the spleen and small intestine meridians. Compared with winter melon meat, winter melon skin is a diuretic and reduces swelling. It has a stronger effect and can be used for symptoms such as edema, fullness, and difficulty in urination.
When the heat is unbearable in summer, drinking winter melon soup has a very good effect of relieving heat and diuresis; in winter, when excessive supplementation produces dampness and heat, drinking winter melon soup in an appropriate amount can clear away heat and diuresis. Therefore, if you keep the skin of winter melon when making soup, the diuretic effect will be enhanced.
I would like to recommend a dietary therapy to everyone, winter melon, kelp and pork bone soup.
Ingredients
500 grams of winter melon with skin, 100 grams of kelp, 3 slices of ginger, 500 grams of pork spine. (Serves 2)
Method
①Soak kelp;
②Wash the winter melon and cut into pieces;
③Pork bones Blanch the water;
④Put all the ingredients into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to medium heat and simmer for 1 hour.
Suitable for people with spleen and stomach dampness and heat accompanied by obesity. Common symptoms include obesity, strong muscles, shiny face, bad breath, red tongue, and yellow and greasy coating.
Winter melon kernel is also a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine in clinical practice. It has the functions of clearing the lungs, resolving phlegm, and draining pus. It is suitable for cough due to lung heat, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, rhinitis, sinusitis, and discharge of yellow phlegm. , leaving yellow nasal discharge, etc. all have good effects. Winter melon kernels are used in the famous prescription "Qianjin Wei Jie Decoction" to treat pneumonia and lung abscess.
Wang Ping, doctor of traditional Chinese medicine at the Jingfang Research Office of the Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine:
This is the time when oranges are on the market, and the streets are full of orange, orange-red, and blue-yellow colors. The oranges are mouth-watering.
Oranges are full of treasures. The pulp is sweet and sour and rich in nutrients. It is no exaggeration to say that one orange can meet the vitamin C content required by the human body throughout the day.
Orange peel, also known as tangerine peel, has the effect of regulating qi, neutralizing dampness and reducing phlegm. It can also remove tea rust, deodorize and beautify the skin; The vitamin P content in the collaterals is high, so it can also effectively prevent high blood pressure; orange core can relieve pain and can be used clinically to treat testicular swelling and pain.
In addition to the above, orange leaves are often ignored by everyone. Now when we buy oranges, farmers often bring a lot of leaves with them to keep them fresh. We should not throw away these orange leaves at will. After washing them Dry in ventilation and store well. It's good to take it out and make tea when needed.
Usage
For example, when we are angry and have stagnation of liver and qi, and feel breast swelling and pain, we can take orange leaves to make tea, take two or three pieces at a time, and heat them with Just brew it with water.
Zhu Qingjun, Department of Traditional Therapy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Peanut skin is also called peanut red. Although Chinese and Western medicine have different understandings of blood replenishment, they say it There is nothing wrong with replenishing blood.
In Western medicine, replenishing blood in a narrow sense refers to increasing red blood cells and hemoglobin, but in a broad sense, increasing blood platelets also replenishes blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen governs blood, and peanut red can replenish spleen and stomach qi, so Traditional Chinese medicine believes that peanut clothing can replenish blood.
Generally speaking, there is no one who cannot eat peanut clothing. Just because peanut clothing can increase blood coagulation function, it cannot be said that people with thick blood are not suitable for eating peanut clothing.
People with thick blood, such as those with high blood lipids, are related to their own metabolic disorders. Peanut coating can promote platelet production and prevent platelet aggregation.
Peanut clothing replenishes blood, which does not mean that eating peanut clothing will increase blood lipids. It's not like eating a handful of peanut clothes. After half an hour, these peanut clothes will turn into red blood cells. Therefore, don’t worry too much about the unhealthy problem of eating peanut red clothes, because no one only eats peanut clothes by the handful.
Usage
When eating peanuts normally, there will be no problem if you eat them with the red skin. However, people with high blood lipids should eat less peanuts.
Huang Suiping, Director of the Spleen and Stomach Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine:
In addition to its delicious taste, longan has high medicinal value. Folks have said "Southern Longan and Northern Ginseng" since ancient times. Its nourishing properties The functionality is obvious.
Moreover, a small longan contains three traditional Chinese medicinal materials - longan meat, longan shell and longan core.
Longan meat, also known as longan, is a tonic Chinese herbal medicine that can nourish the heart and spleen, nourish blood and calm the nerves. It is recommended as an important medicine for treating heart and spleen deficiency syndrome. It is suitable as a long-term supplement. It can be chewed as a daily snack or made into soup.
Longan shell has the effect of dispelling wind and evil, astringing sores and promoting muscle growth. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that longan shell: "treats dizziness due to heart deficiency, dispels wind and clears away evil spirits, improves ears and eyesight." Longan shell can be decoctioned and taken orally to treat dizziness and urticaria caused by wind evil, prevent senile hearing loss, etc. Longan shell is mainly used for external use to reduce sores and promote muscle growth. It is suitable for burns and carbuncles that have not been healed for a long time.
Usage
Longan meat can be chewed as a daily snack or made into soup. Longan shell can be decoctioned and taken orally to treat dizziness and urticaria caused by wind evil, and to prevent senile hearing loss.
Like longan shells, longan cores are mostly discarded. In fact, longan cores can also be used as medicine. Longan core has many functions such as promoting qi and dispersing stagnation, stopping bleeding, and relieving pain. It can be used for various diseases such as hernia, scrofula, traumatic bleeding, pain, and diarrhea.
Yang Zhimin, Vice President of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine:
After eating too much, we usually think of hawthorn stewed with wheat germ and malt. In fact, grapefruit peel is also very good in regulating qi and digestion. . According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", grapefruit peel has the effects of "digesting food quickly, dispersing anger and resolving phlegm".
Autumn and winter are when grapefruit is on the market. After eating the grapefruit flesh, using the remaining grapefruit peel for cooking can relieve gastrointestinal pressure.
Ingredients
Prepare 300 grams of pork belly, 1 grapefruit peel, 10 grams of wolfberry, appropriate amount of green onions (flowers), salt, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, and peanut oil.
Method
① Chop the pork belly into puree, mix with light soy sauce, oyster sauce, peanut oil, green onions, and marinate for about 15 to 30 minutes;
② Make a cross on the bottom of the grapefruit, separate the skin and flesh, remove the yellow part of the grapefruit skin, cut it into triangular pieces, and make a small opening on the side;
③ Put the grapefruit skin into boiling water and boil until soft, then Wash with cold water 3 to 4 times, squeeze out the water, and remove the bitterness in the grapefruit peel;
④ Stuff the opening of the grapefruit peel with an appropriate amount of meat filling, place it on a plate, put it into a pot, and cover it with cold water pot, steam for 20 minutes and serve.
Reminder: If you find the grapefruit peel bitter, you can boil the grapefruit peel and then wash it with cold water to remove most of the bitterness.
This article was first published on 2020-11-10 Health Times Issue 1744, Page 06 "These Chinese medicines are often thrown away, what a pity!" 》