Recently, the weather has changed a lot, and it's hot and cold, which makes it difficult for people to adapt, and some problems often appear. The most common symptoms are dry mouth, blisters on the corners of the mouth and exhaustion all day.
Compendium of Materia Medica holds that mint is pungent, cool and non-toxic. Cooking and eating raw or cooked food for a long time can dispel evil spirits, remove turbid qi, relieve drowsiness and make people's breath fragrant and clean.
The stems and leaves of mint have special fragrance, which has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing the head, relieving sore throat and penetrating rash, soothing the liver and relieving depression. Modern medicine often uses it to treat wind-heat cold, headache, sore throat, sore mouth and tongue, rubella, measles, fullness in chest and abdomen, and anti-early pregnancy. In addition, mint has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. What is even more surprising is that since the medical profession put forward "hunger therapy" to treat cancer in 2003, scientists have studied a large number of drugs and found that mint leaves can prevent blood vessels from growing in cancer lesions, so that cancer can not get blood supply and eventually die of "hunger".
In this way, we can often make some food with mint in our life, which is delicious and healthy.
Summer health soup tea
★ Mint tea
Ingredients: dried mint 4 yuan, a little rock sugar, green tea.
Practice: add 2000 ml of water to the pot and boil, add mint leaves and green tea, turn off the fire and soak until the water is cool, filter off the leaf residue and add sugar to drink. Dried mint leaves can be bought in Chinese medicine shops, and it would be better if there are fresh mint leaves. The brewing ratio is 1 mint leaves plus 500 ml of water.
Efficacy: Cool mint can eliminate internal heat and gastrointestinal depression in summer. If you have a cold in summer, it is a very good drink.
★ Mint and mung bean soup
Ingredients: 5 grams of mint, 30 grams of coix seed, 60 grams of mung bean, 65438+ 0-2 spoonfuls of sugar.
Practice: Wash Coix seed and mung bean and soak in water for 3 hours. Pour 800 ml of water into the pot, add Coicis Semen and mung bean to boil over medium heat, then boil over low heat for half an hour, add mint and white sugar, continue to cook for 5- 10 minutes, and put into a bowl.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, especially suitable for people with acne.
★ Mint tofu
Ingredients: 2 pieces of tofu, 50g of fresh mint leaves and 3 pieces of fresh onion.
Practice: Add 2 bowls of water and stir-fry until the water is halved.
Efficacy: It can treat cold, stuffy nose, sneezing, runny nose and other diseases.
★ Tong Fei Zhi Ke-Mint Hangju Sugar Tea
Ingredients: 6 grams of mint, 0/0 gram of chrysanthemum/kloc, and appropriate amount of rock sugar or white sugar.
Practice: soak mint and chrysanthemum in boiling water, or simmer for 5- 10 minutes, remove residue, and add rock sugar to drink.
Efficacy: Dispelling wind and clearing heat, dispersing lung and relieving cough. It is suitable for symptoms such as wind-heat headache, fever and cough at the beginning of exogenous diseases.
★ Mint porridge
Source: medical records
The raw materials are 5g of mint and 50g of japonica rice.
To make glutinous rice porridge, cook it, add mint and cook it a few times to make it fragrant.
Usage: Take it on an empty stomach.
The effect of dispersing wind and heat. Treat wind-heat cold, but see fever, wind evil, unclear head, sore throat and thirst.
Take mint 15g and decoct it after the soup is cool. Cook porridge with 60 grams of japonica rice. When the porridge is ready, add some rock sugar and cook for another second. It can be used as a hot food for breakfast and dinner. Mint is a lip-shaped plant, which is used as a sweating and antipyretic agent in traditional Chinese medicine. Li Mingzhizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica said: "Mint, pungent and dispersible, cool and clear, it is specially used to cool down. Therefore, headache, head wind, eyes, throat and mouth teeth are the main drugs. " According to the medical disabled star, "mint is good for the throat and delicious." Middle-aged and elderly people eat some mint porridge in spring, which can clear the heart, dispel wind and dissipate heat, stimulate appetite and help digestion.
★ Mint porridge
Ingredients: fresh mint 30g (dried product15g) is decocted in soup, and japonica rice100g is boiled in porridge.
Practice: add mint soup and appropriate amount of rock sugar to porridge, cook for 1-2 minutes, and eat after cooling.
Efficacy: It has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, dispelling wind and cooling, and clearing throat, and is suitable for wind-heat cold, summer onset, headache, red eyes and sore throat.
★ Fresh mint crucian carp soup
1 live crucian carp, cut into pieces, washed, boiled, added with 1 onion, 1 sliced ginger, 20g fresh mint, boiled, and served with seasoning, oil and salt, soup and meat. Take/kloc-0 once a day for 3-5 days.
Efficacy: It can cure children's chronic cough.
★ Mint lemon honey
Introduction:
Put the prepared mint honey in the refrigerator, dig 1-2 teaspoons every day and soak in warm water, which has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on colds, headaches and throat discomfort.
Materials:
2 lemons, rock sugar 100g, honey, mint leaves (dry).
Exercise:
1. Wash lemon, peel off epidermis (outermost layer), shred or chop, dig meat and mash, and mash mint leaves for later use.
2. Boil 300ML of water with 100G rock sugar, then simmer on low heat, add lemon meat and lemon peel in turn and cook until it becomes sticky (about 30 minutes).
3. Add mint leaves, stir well and cook for 3-5 minutes.
4. After cooling, add some honey and stir well.
Matters needing attention
1. People with fever due to yin deficiency and dizziness due to blood deficiency should use mint with caution; Those who show sweating are forbidden to take mint; Pregnant women should not eat too much mint. In addition, using mint soup instead of tea should not be cooked for a long time;
2. Patients with gastric ulcer, hypersecretion of gastric acid, dental caries and diabetes should eat lemon carefully;
3. Honey is not suitable for people with diabetes, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, abdominal distension due to dampness, and thick and greasy fur; Moreover, honey is not suitable for drinking with boiled water, nor for decocting. Add honey to warm water. Honey should not be put in metal utensils.
The leaves of mint are small, slightly fluffy and the veins are smooth.