Dr. Shi, a professor of internal medicine of traditional Chinese medicine in Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province and chairman of the Nutrition and Dietotherapy Branch of Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, reminded that Houttuynia cordata Thunb, as a kind of health food, often appears in medicated diet, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and eliminating dampness. It is also suitable for eating in summer, but it needs to vary from person to person, especially those with deficiency and cold constitution. A few days ago, he had a patient who drank several bowls of Houttuynia cordata soup for three days in a row, and the whole body was cold.
It is said that summer is suitable for eating houttuynia cordata.
She picked a big bag of cooked soup to drink up the hill.
Aunt Wang, 72, usually likes to cook some medicinal meals. More than two weeks ago, she heard a friend say that Houttuynia cordata is suitable for summer, so she ran to the mountain and picked a big bag. "There is always half a catty. I haven't eaten it before, and I don't know how to make it. I just wash it and drink it directly with boiled soup. My son didn't drink them because they stink. I think it's ok. After drinking several bowls, I almost drank the pot. " Aunt Wang said.
Soon after eating, Aunt Wang began to feel cold, weak, disgusting and trembling. As soon as the cold wind blows, she coughs. She quickly ate some cephalosporin and Chuanbei loquat cough syrup for three days. When her family saw that something was wrong, they sent her to a nearby hospital to hang salt water. After hanging salt water for three days, the symptoms of cold, fatigue and nausea have eased a lot, but I still cough, expectoration, dry mouth and frequent defecation. When I went to the hospital for examination and found nothing, Aunt Wang came to Professor Shi for recuperation. After conditioning with traditional Chinese medicine, Aunt Wang's body slowly recovered.
Houttuynia cordata clearing away heat and toxic materials
But people who have a bad stomach should not eat it.
Professor Shi said that Houttuynia cordata grows vigorously in spring and summer, grows everywhere and is easy to obtain. Pharmacologically speaking, the toxicity of Houttuynia cordata Thunb is not high, and its harm to human body is mainly due to its cold nature. Aunt Wang's constitution is already cold, and drinking so much at a time is undoubtedly worse, which leads to the damage of yang in the body. As a result, she developed symptoms of chills and coughing in the wind.
He reminded that Houttuynia cordata is indeed a good medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating carbuncle and discharging pus, and inducing diuresis to relieve stranguria. It is suitable for eating in summer, but the following three points should be paid attention to before eating:
1. According to the choice of symptoms, the symptoms are suitable for phlegm-heat and not for deficiency-cold Phlegm heat is mainly manifested as yellow sticky phlegm, frequent dry mouth, bitter taste, yellow greasy tongue coating, red tongue and so on. Deficiency cold is mainly manifested as: frequent stomach discomfort, such as easy diarrhea, stomach discomfort when eating raw and cold food, fear of cold and so on.
2. Master the dosage. If it is dry, try to control it within 30 grams; If it is fresh, it can be increased to 100g.
Don't eat many times in a row, just eat 2-3 times a week.
Recommend five kinds of Houttuynia herb meals that can be cooked at home on weekends.
There are many medicinal diets of Houttuynia cordata Thunb. The roots are cylindrical, each about 20-35 cm long, and the surface is brown. There are residual fibrous roots on the lower nodes, which are fragile and easy to break. When mixed with different ingredients, the efficacy is slightly different. Professor Shi recommended five kinds of medicated diets in combination with seasons.
He reminded that the amount of raw materials for these medicated diets is eaten by a family as a dish. If you eat alone, you should reduce the amount as appropriate. Proper addition of shredded ginger and shredded garlic can neutralize the coldness of Houttuynia cordata Thunb. In addition, dried houttuynia cordata is commonly used here and can be bought in Chinese medicine shops.
Houttuynia cordata mixed with lettuce
Ingredients: 50 grams of Houttuynia cordata, 250 grams of lettuce, ginger, onion, garlic, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and sesame oil.
Practice: 1. Remove old roots from Houttuynia cordata Thunb., clean and cut into sections, blanch in boiling water 1 min, then take out, add salt, stir and pickle for later use; 2. Peel and shred lettuce, marinate with salt and drain; 3. Put lettuce and houttuynia cordata together in a bowl, add onion, ginger and minced garlic, mix well with soy sauce and vinegar, and drizzle with sesame oil.
Efficacy: Houttuynia cordata eliminates phlegm and detoxifies, and lettuce clears away heat and benefits the lungs. This diet is suitable for patients with cough due to lung heat, sticky phlegm, yellow urine and urinary tract heat pain.
Stewed pork tripe with houttuynia cordata
Ingredients: Houttuynia cordata 1 .20g, pork tripe1,salt.
Practice: 1. Wash pork belly with salt and boiling water according to the eating method; 2. Put the washed Houttuynia cordata into the pig's belly, tie it up, stew it with slow fire until the belly is cooked, season it with salt, eat the pig's belly and drink soup.
Efficacy: Pork tripe can tonify the spleen and stomach, and can be used together with Houttuynia cordata Thunb, which can strengthen the stomach and clear the lung, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.
Houttuynia cordata pig lung soup
Ingredients: 30g of Houttuynia cordata Thunb, 4 red dates, 250g of pig lung, and proper amount of salt.
Practice: 1. Wash pig lungs repeatedly, cut into pieces, put them in a pot to drain water, then rinse them with clear water and squeeze out the water; 2. Wash the red dates and soak them in water for half a day; 3. Houttuynia cordata. Decoct in water for 2 time, 20 minutes each time, and filtering to obtain juice; 4. Put the pig lungs and red dates into the pot, pour the medicine juice instead of water, cook with slow fire until the pig lungs are cooked, and season with salt.
Efficacy: This dietotherapy has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and relieving pain. Acute bronchitis, lung abscess, pneumonia with intense heat toxicity, chest pain, fever, cough and yellow and thick phlegm can be eaten.
Stewed Sydney with Houttuynia cordata
Ingredients: Houttuynia cordata 100g, Sydney 250g, and proper amount of sugar.
Practice: 1. Wash Sydney, peel and cut into small pieces, and discard the pear core for later use; 2. Wash Houttuynia cordata and cut into small pieces; 3. First put Houttuynia cordata into a casserole, add a proper amount of water, boil it, fry it for 30 minutes with low fire, and filter the residue with gauze; 4. Put the Houttuynia cordata medicinal juice back into the pot, add small pieces of raw pears, add water, add sugar, simmer on low heat until the pears are crisp and rotten, and eat pears and drink soup.
Efficacy: Houttuynia cordata. Pungent and cool, especially clearing lung heat. It is a Chinese herbal medicine with obvious curative effect. Sydney is cool, sweet and slightly sour. It has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and is good at treating fever, body fluid injury and phlegm-heat cough. This diet can clear lung, relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and clear heat, and is suitable for cough due to lung heat.
Houttuynia cordata perilla mung bean porridge
Raw materials: fresh houttuynia cordata 50g, perilla leaf 15g, mung bean 60g, japonica rice 60g and rock sugar 30g.
Practice: 1. Put Houttuynia cordata Thunb. and Folium Perillae in a casserole, add water for 20min to get juice, add water for 30min to get juice, * * * take 300ml of concentrated juice, and filter to remove residue; 2. Put the medicine juice into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, add mung beans and glutinous rice to cook porridge, and add rock sugar to dissolve and mix well when cooked.
Efficacy: This diet can clear lung and relieve cough, and can be used to treat wind-heat cold, cough, sneezing, runny nose, fever and other symptoms.