White lotus is used as medicine, red lotus as medicine.
When buying lotus seeds, people easily spend their eyes. Why? Because there are too many varieties.
First of all, from the origin, lotus seeds are mainly produced in Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, among which Xianglian, which is produced in Hunan, is more famous. Looking at the subdivision of Xianglian, it can be divided into three types: white lotus, red lotus and wax gourd lotus, and the common ones are white lotus and red lotus.
Lotus root is the largest and bears the most and densest lotus seeds. Lotus seeds are spherical, and the lotus meat is fat and good in quality. Mostly used for food, usually used as lotus seed soup, lotus seed soup, eight-treasure porridge, lotus seeds in syrup and other foods, as well as stewed chickens and ducks.
However, the lotus seeds of Honglian vary in size, and the lotus seeds are smaller and longer, which tastes a little astringent and are generally used as medicine. The amount of lotus seeds used as medicine should be well controlled, generally 5 ~ 10g is appropriate.
Lotus seeds remove heart fire, and southerners are careful of stomach cold.
Why can pure natural bitter foods such as lotus seeds get rid of fire? Because bitter food contains amino acids, bittersweet, alkaloids and so on. It has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, summer-heat relieving, refreshing, and fatigue relieving effects. However, it should be noted that most bitter vegetables are bitter and cold, and you can't eat too much at a time. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should eat less.
It is hot every day in summer, and southerners generally think that it is most appropriate to drink more sugar water and soup to get rid of fire. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding.
For the same diet, southerners suffer much less than northerners. Why is this? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the climate in the south is hot and humid, with warm weather in the majority, and the body lacks the ability to store yang. Southerners who grew up in this climate generally have much weaker spleen and stomach functions than northerners.
Therefore, when eating strategies and cutting in, we should choose carefully. Unless it reaches the point of long aphtha, dry mouth and sore throat, it is not appropriate to carry out frequent fire-removing diet therapy in a healthy state at ordinary times.
Middle-aged and elderly people have weak spleen and stomach, so concentric lotus seeds should be used.
We also see the package descriptions of "Tongxin Honglian" and "Tongxin An Baili" in the market. What's so particular about these?
Concentric lotus seeds, also known as andrographis paniculata seeds, are removed by merchants with machines. The bitter taste of lotus seeds comes from lotus plumule, which is the tender germ in the center of lotus seeds and is green. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus plumule has the effects of clearing away heart fire, calming the liver and stopping bleeding, and consolidating semen, and can be used to treat symptoms such as irritability, insomnia, dizziness, hematemesis and nocturnal emission. It can also treat sores on the tongue and help sleep.
Whether it is bribing lotus seeds or ordinary lotus seeds, everyone can sit in the right place.
For example, middle-aged and elderly people, especially friends with bad spleen and stomach, suggest using lotus seeds to make soup and porridge; If you feel uneasy about MUBI and suffer from insomnia, use lotus plumule alone with a little salt, decoct it with water, and take it every night before going to bed.
Because of its strong efficacy, plumula Nelumbinis is generally recommended for adult men or people with severe internal heat such as oral ulcer, while children, female friends and the elderly should eat plumula Nelumbinis together, because plumula Nelumbinis has the function of strengthening the spleen and can cushion the harm of plumula Nelumbinis to the body.
Lotus seed diet
Steamed pork with lotus seeds
Ingredients: dried lotus seed 100g, pork belly 100g, plum, ginger, onion, garlic, soy sauce, oyster sauce and honey;
Exercise:
1. Wash lotus seeds for 3 hours, wash plum vegetables for 3 hours, blanch them with boiling water, remove them for later use, and cut onions, ginger and garlic into powder for later use;
2. Boil the water in the pot, cook the pork belly until it is 78% mature, take it out, and marinate it with soy sauce and honey for 15 minutes;
3. Heat the oil in the pot, fry the marinated pork belly until the epidermis bubbles, and then take it out;
4. Slice the pork belly, wrap the lotus seeds in it, tie it tightly with shredded onion and put it in a bowl;
5. Put a little oil in the pot, add onion, ginger and garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, add plum vegetables, put plum vegetables on lotus seeds, and steam in a steamer 1 hour;
6. After steaming, pour the lotus seed meat into the plate and pour it with oyster sauce.
Cooking skills: Summer and autumn are good seasons to eat lotus seeds. How to peel fresh lotus seeds quickly and well, even lotus seeds in the lotus? You can peel off the whole face along the edge of the shower head with honeycomb protrusions, so that only a layer of lotus seeds wrapped in white fiber film is left, and then pick the lotus seeds one by one, and peel off the white fiber film and green shell in turn to get fresh lotus seeds. This dish tastes better.
Lotus seed dessert store
Ingredients: 50 grams of dried lotus seeds, rock sugar 10 grams;
Exercise:
1. Wash all dried lotus seeds with clear water and soak them in cold water for about 1 hour;
2. Take a soup pot, put the drained soaked lotus seeds, and then add water;
3. Add rock sugar, then put it in the rice cooker, add 4 cups of water to the outer pot, and put it in water to cook for about 2 hours.
Cooking skills: Some people use lotus seeds to make soup and porridge, and like to remove the skin of lotus seeds, which tastes better. In addition to buying peeled products, you can also peel them at home-wash the lotus seeds, put them into the freshly boiled water, add a proper amount of edible alkali, stew for a few minutes, then pour them out and rub them hard with your hands, and the lotus seeds will soon fall off, and then you can make delicious drinks.