In spring, Chinese medicine has a saying that "six evils cause disease". The so-called "six evils" are wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire.
In spring, colds are often the main cause, so people are prone to head wind, headache and cervical pain during this period, and feel afraid of the wind and the cold. Stewed fish head with gastrodia elata, Ligusticum Chuanxiong and Angelica dahurica is delicious, has the effects of promoting blood circulation, expelling wind and dispelling cold, is mild in nature and has high nutritional value, and is a spring medicated diet health-preserving soup, especially suitable for women to drink.
Gastrodia elata is a traditional Chinese medicine for calming wind and relieving spasm. Its greatest effect is to treat colds, so it is most used in the spring of cold season, and it is also a commonly used medicinal material in Guangdong folk medicated diet. Traditional Chinese medicine says that it is flat and sweet, belongs to the liver meridian, and has the effects of expelling wind and relieving spasm, calming the liver and relieving convulsions. Commonly used for dizziness, numbness of limbs, language disorder, convulsion, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia and other symptoms. Modern medicine also believes that it has sedative, spasmolytic and anticonvulsant effects. Chuanxiong rhizome is a traditional Chinese medicine for regulating blood, which is warm and pungent, enters the liver, gallbladder and pericardium meridian, and has the effects of expelling wind and relieving pain, regulating qi and promoting blood circulation. Commonly used for headache, chest pain, irregular menstruation, rheumatic joint pain, traumatic swelling and pain, etc. Angelica dahurica is a pungent traditional Chinese medicine with warm nature and pungent taste, which has the effects of expelling wind, removing dampness, expelling pus and relieving pain. Can be used for treating common cold, headache, nasal congestion, carbuncle, swelling, sore, skin itching, and leucorrhea with red and white discharge. Guangdong folk so-called big fish head, that is, silver carp head. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is warm and sweet, and has the functions of warming stomach, nourishing blood and tonifying, and various materials are used together. This soup, combined with ginger to dispel wind and cold, has the functions of expelling cold, removing arthralgia and treating cold.
Ingredients: Gastrodia elata 12g, Ligusticum chuanxiong 3-9g, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae 6-9g, half or one big fish head, 50g lean pork and 4 slices of ginger.
The preparation method comprises cleaning the microbubbles of Rhizoma Gastrodiae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong and Radix Angelicae Dahuricae; Wash the big fish head, remove the gills, or cut it in half; Cut the lean pork into pieces, wash it, stew it with ginger, add 1000- 1250 ml (about 4-5 bowls) of hot water, cover it and stew it for about two hours. Only add salt when eating. This amount is for 3-4 people.
In spring, the temperature is changeable, especially in the morning and evening, it is hot at noon, and the temperature difference alternates. It is impossible to prevent colds. I hope that friends who travel in Wenhai can adjust their biological clocks, arrange their trips, stay up as little as possible and take care of themselves.
After sharing, if anyone needs it, please take it away, and don't leave a message saying thank you.
It is said that health is the same, and everything behind is zero. None, all dreams are zero. After writing this, I also put down my mobile phone and bought fish heads.