The therapeutic efficacy of red amaranth and white amaranth is different.
Careful readers may find that some amaranths sold in the market are very red, others are green, and the roots are not red, but white. Are there any differences between the two kinds of amaranth in nutrition and diet?
Dr. Wang Dongxu, director of the Department of Geriatrics, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, introduced that these two kinds of amaranth have been studied in the first local monograph of Chinese materia medica and the Ming Dynasty's "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "White people enter the qi, and red people enter the blood. White phlegm and red blood. Treating big, urinating impassability, can dredge blood vessels and remove blood stasis. " What do you mean? Amaranth can expel congestion, so patients with congestion can eat more in moderation. Amaranth (with white leaves and green leaves) can regulate qi, and patients with excessive phlegm, especially those with phlegm heat, can eat more. Generally speaking, people with constipation can eat some, which is helpful for defecation. To prevent atherosclerosis, people who are afraid of hyperlipidemia should eat more amaranth, because it can "dredge blood vessels, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis".
It is worth noting that Wang Dongxu reminded that red amaranth is easy to have children because it has the function of breaking blood, so pregnant women should try not to eat more. Anyone with weak spleen and stomach should avoid eating, for fear of losing stomach qi. In addition, avoid eating with turtles.
Plum helps to quench thirst, stimulate appetite and relieve depression.
Plums can be eaten fresh, made into plum tea, plum wine, plum preserves, etc., and can also be used as ingredients for various snacks or dishes. However, there are not many people who eat green plum wine raw now, and supermarkets generally sell green plum wine.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw ebony can quench thirst, stimulate appetite and relieve depression; Salted mu can relieve fever and cold; Dried chrysanthemum can treat lung dryness, cough, typhoid fever, dysentery, tuberculosis, alcoholism and epigastric pain; Chrysanthemum juice can help treat enteritis and dysentery. Used for patients with lung deficiency, chronic cough, asthenic heat, polydipsia, chronic diarrhea, chronic malaria, dysentery, ascaris abdominal pain, etc. It is advisable to eat green plums.
Xia said that people with hyperacidity should use plums with caution. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "acid dominates convergence", plum acid and damp-heat stagnation should not eat more. Besides, eating more plums is bad for your teeth.
Pea cake nourishes qi, protects skin and prevents summer sickness.
For pea cakes, there is such a record in the book Jinling Years, which records the folk custom of Nanjing in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China: "It is not summer to ask children to ride on the threshold to eat pea cakes in the long summer." It means to let children eat pea cakes, and it is expected that they will be anorexia all summer.
Pea is rich in crude fiber, which can promote large intestine peristalsis and improve constipation symptoms. It contains high-quality protein, which can enhance immunity, improve disease resistance and rehabilitation. Compendium of Materia Medica records that peas have the effect of "removing black spots and making their faces shiny". Modern research has found that peas are rich in provitamin A, which can be converted into vitamin A in the body, and vitamin A has the function of moisturizing the skin. Therefore, Xia suggested eating some pure pea cakes after long summer skin care.
Correspondent Yang Pu
Tuyuan vision china
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