As the hometown of tartary buckwheat, tartary buckwheat has three functions of "health preservation, health care and dietotherapy" and is known as "the king of five grains". The three healthy foods (blood pressure lowering, blood sugar and blood lipid) are called "natural gold" by the International Nutrition Association.
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The following focuses on the efficacy, function and eating method of tartary buckwheat.
Efficacy and function of tartary buckwheat
It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that tartary buckwheat tastes bitter, calms the cold, and is beneficial to strength, spirit, eyes and ears, lowering qi, widening intestines and strengthening stomach. Although bitter buckwheat is cold, it can strengthen the heart and brain, protect blood vessels and promote blood circulation.
Modern clinical observation shows that tartary buckwheat powder has the effects of lowering blood sugar, reducing blood fat, enhancing human immunity, treating stomach diseases, eliminating dampness and detoxicating, treating nephritis and eating bad meat in the body, and is effective for diabetes.
Patients with diseases, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, stroke and stomach diseases, all have auxiliary treatment.
Edible method of tartary buckwheat
Buckwheat is harvested in spring, and the edible parts are tender leaves and seeds. Tartary buckwheat kernel contains bioflavonoids, multivitamins, 18 amino acids, crude protein, chlorophyll and so on.
Cooking porridge with tartary buckwheat rice and rice at the ratio of 1:2 (2 tartary buckwheat 1 rice) is beneficial to promoting gastrointestinal blood circulation. Tartary buckwheat starch is amylopectin, which contains a lot of gel mucus. It is weakly alkaline after heating and has inhibitory effect on hyperacidity.