It’s New Year’s Day in a few days. Are you guys excited? Despite the excitement, we still have to pour cold water on us. We must pay attention to safety during the Spring Festival travel period. Returning home is important, but personal safety is equally important! In addition to paying attention to safety, I also have to remind you to take your time when eating during the Chinese New Year!
Many people shake their heads. The Chinese New Year dinner is both painful and joyful. Although they often eat too much, there are not many opportunities to feel this atmosphere. It’s not that we don’t understand this feeling, but we still feel that we should put our health first, but you don’t have to be so entangled. Today’s protagonist can perfectly solve this problem. Please-Hawthorn!
When it comes to hawthorn, everyone must swallow secretly. After all, who doesn't like sweet and sour food? Although hawthorn is a small one, together with its old partner Bingtang, it has always been with us when we were children, so it has always been a very subtle existence.
Having said that, its functions are not comparable to those of ordinary fruits. Hawthorn has many medicinal effects. "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that it has the effect of "entering the Yangming and Taiyin Meridians", and "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that it has the effect of "entering the Yangming and Taiyin Meridians". "The Pharmacopoeia of Traditional Chinese Medicine" is more comprehensive. It bluntly states that hawthorn can: "eliminate food accumulation, disperse blood stasis, and expel tapeworms. It can treat flesh accumulation, lumps, phlegm, fullness, acid swallowing, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain, and hernia after childbirth." The child has pillow pain, endless lochia, and the baby's milk and feeding are stagnant." It seems to have quite a lot of effects. Such a simple appearance has so many complicated medical identities.
When it comes to hawthorn, the first thing that comes to mind is digestion. Hawthorn is sour and sweet, slightly warm in nature, and enters the spleen and stomach meridian. It is good at digesting food and removing accumulation, especially meat accumulation. That is to say, if you eat too much fish and meat, eat some Hawthorn is the best.
In fact, you may know more about digestion than I do, so I won’t show off, but let me talk about the question that everyone is more concerned about: What is the difference between raw hawthorn and fried hawthorn?
Before talking about this issue, I have to talk about Jiao Sanxian. Jiao Sanxian includes Jiao hawthorn, Jiao Shenqu, and Jiao malt. Why do these three herbs have a collective name? This is because these three herbs all have good functions of eliminating accumulation and stagnation, but they have different characteristics. Jiao hawthorn is good at treating food stagnation caused by too much meat or greasy food; Jiao malt is especially suitable for stasis caused by starchy foods such as rice, noodles and potatoes; Jiao Shenqu is naturally found in various digestive agents. its shadow. The combination of the three medicines can significantly enhance digestive function. Therefore, clinical doctors often combine the three medicines and call them "Jiao San Xian".
So why "burn"? It turns out that coking is just a processing method of traditional Chinese medicine. Commonly used gastrointestinal drugs in clinical Chinese medicine, such as hawthorn, malt, Shenqu, etc., are fried to partially coke the medicinal materials to enhance their spleen-strengthening and digestive effects. However, these three methods are now used in clinical Chinese medicine. The decoction pieces of traditional Chinese medicine are basically fried, so everyone only needs to remember the difference between fried hawthorn and raw hawthorn.
Why should we emphasize this little digestive medicine again and again? This is because it’s a small matter if you eat too much, but it’s a big deal if you eat too much! Give a few examples and you will understand the stakes here: When a person's spleen and stomach are not in harmony, it will first affect sleep. There is a saying that "if the stomach is not in harmony, then sleeping will be restless." When a person's spleen and stomach are damaged, the stomach will not be able to sleep well. Qi will inevitably be at odds, and it is reasonable to cause phlegm and heat. Phlegm and heat will block the middle burner and disturb the mind. Once the mind is affected, insomnia, palpitations, etc. will come to you. Over time, People's quality of life will decline.
In addition, overeating will not only make you go further and further on the road to weight loss, but also lead to diabetes. "Suwen: Treatise on Strange Diseases" says: "The cause of this fatness is that the person must eat sweet food and be fat. Fatty people make people feel hot inside, and sweet things make people feel full, so their qi overflows and then causes symptoms. Diabetes." This refers to the fact that damage to the spleen and stomach can lead to failure of transportation and transformation, accumulation of heat, dryness and body fluid consumption, thus causing thirst. Although diabetes itself is not terrible, what is terrible is the complications. I think the names of diabetic foot and diabetic ketoacidosis should have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone must keep it in mind.
Regarding the effect of hawthorn, there is one more thing that I have to mention, that is, it promotes qi and dissipates blood stasis. I didn’t expect it~ Regarding this effect, it is not written just to make up for the number, but because hawthorn has a great reputation for digestion, which leads to this The point was ignored.
Can hawthorn also promote qi and disperse blood stasis?
Hawthorn not only returns to the spleen and stomach meridians, but also to the liver meridian. When it returns to the liver meridian, it enters the blood system, so it is good at activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. However, hawthorn has a characteristic that it removes blood stasis without damaging new blood. Therefore, hawthorn and angelica root are commonly used in clinical practice. Cyperus cyperus, safflower and other herbs can be used to treat postpartum blood stasis and pain, persistent lochia, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea and other gynecological and peripartum syndromes. It can also be combined with Chuanxiong, peach kernel, safflower and other blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing herbs to treat blood stasis. In recent years, more and more doctors have used hawthorn to treat coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc.
After reading so many introductions about the effects of hawthorn, do you want to eat it quickly? Having said that, for some people, hawthorn is so sour that they can't even eat it. Don’t worry, here are some delicious and simple dietary prescriptions for you.
Regarding hawthorn, the most famous one is the candied haws. It’s hard to say where the candied haws is the most authentic. Beijing calls it Tanghulu, Tianjin calls it Tangdun'er, and Anhui calls it Sugar Ball. Each has its own name. The only thing that’s certain is that this candied haws on ice is a snack with a history.
The most common candied haws on a stick is to use sweet hawthorn in late autumn, and then use good rock sugar, and then dip it in it until it can be stringy. If there is a secret method for making candied haws, they will also work hard on hawthorn and rock sugar. How to choose? There is a need to pay attention to how to make rock sugar look good without being sour or bitter.
This candied haws first appeared in the Song Dynasty. It was because the emperor’s favorite concubine fell ill (commonly known as loss of appetite), so he asked a miracle doctor to treat it. A charlatan saw that this was not a serious illness. She was obviously anorexic due to eating too much, so he gave her a prescription, which was to boil rock sugar and hawthorn together. Eat a few pills before meals as an appetizer and keep them. The medicine cures the disease. Later, this recipe indeed cured the imperial concubine's illness, and this practice spread.
When the candied haws on a stick became popular among the people, a sign was added to string the candied haws on a stick. In fact, it’s clear who would walk around in a bowl carrying a candied haws on a stick? At that time, porcelain was worth several dollars, but the sign was different. It could be seen everywhere, the cost was low, and it was easy to hold.
The candied haws on ice is good, but it contains too much sugar, so let’s try hawthorn cinnamon soup.
●Hawthorn cinnamon soup
Ingredients: six qian of hawthorn, two qian of cinnamon, one tael of brown sugar.
Method: Fry hawthorn and cinnamon in water, remove residue, add brown sugar and fry briefly.
Efficacy: Hawthorn and cinnamon soup is very suitable for men to drink, especially for men with kidney deficiency. In winter, men with kidney deficiency can drink hawthorn and cinnamon soup to help warm the kidneys and strengthen yang. Hawthorn and cinnamon soup is also suitable for women to warm the meridians and activate blood circulation. It has the effect of removing blood stasis, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and is most suitable for women who are afraid of cold.
Of course, you can also use it yourself. Tomato stewed beef brisket, I believe every family can make it. If you put less tomatoes and add some dried hawthorn when making it, you will definitely have a different flavor, and it is healthy and delicious!
That’s it for Little Hawthorn. I would like to wish you all a happy New Year in advance. I hope you all have all the best and good health in the new year!
