Lucky Fuyuan tea, fragrant sesame oil longan eggs, or longan honey in warm spring in bloom ... a small fruit with changeable names, has been loved by people since ancient times as a health food.
Longan, alias Longan and Fuyuan, belongs to the evergreen arbor plant of Sapindaceae and is one of the characteristic fruit trees in subtropical areas. It is cultivated in many areas. July and August are the fruit-producing periods every year, and dried longan is the common dried longan.
Chinese medicine believes that longan is sweet and warm, and is often used to nourish blood and soothe the nerves, and improve anemia and insomnia. In A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu was terrified out of her wits. After drinking longan soup, he slowly recovered.
As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Guipi Decoction in Jishengfang was strictly used by doctors, and longan pulp, ginseng, astragalus root and other medicinal materials were used to treat the symptoms of deficiency of both qi and blood caused by overthinking and strain of spleen, and it was perfected in Woman's Note in the Ming Dynasty.
Compendium of Materia Medica also records: "Litchi is the most expensive, and longan is nourishing." Li Shizhen, a doctor in the Ming Dynasty, believed that longan was nourishing and had better effect than litchi.
The gentleness of longan can soothe the nerves and make the thinking clearer.
Longan nourishes the heart and calms the nerves, which is suitable for people who are used to thinking, or people who need to make decisions at work and keep thinking about things, resulting in restlessness and insomnia.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the heart stores the spirit and the heart stores the blood", and the heart contains consciousness, the central nervous system of the brain and the blood circulation of the heart. Therefore, if you think too much and lead to insufficient efforts, it will affect your thinking and sleep, and your mind will be easily confused. Longan can nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, which is suitable for health care when symptoms are not serious.
In addition, longan can stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen, improve diarrhea, nourish and be mild, and is suitable for the elderly and infirm to eat after illness.
The simplest way is to use longan pulp, red dates and medlar, and boil them in water for drinking as tea. If you want to improve insomnia, you can drink a cup of 300ml longan tea one hour after dinner to help you fall asleep; But don't drink it before going to bed, because peeing is easy to wake up in the middle of the night.
Patients with nephropathy and diabetes should use it with caution.
However, the sweet taste of longan is increased, and the content of calories and potassium is also high, so patients with nephropathy and diabetes should use it with caution. According to the food ingredient nutrition database, each gram of longan meat contains 277 calories and 1235 mg of sodium.
Yang Shumei reminded that the average person's daily consumption is 1015g, which is about10g. If eaten in excess, it may cause bloating. Yang Shumei said that longan meat is sweet and thirsty, and drinking water can easily cause flatulence; Or cause damp heat and phlegm stasis, and the body will feel heavy. People with symptoms of excessive internal heat and inflammation, such as broken mouth and constipation, should also avoid eating.
In addition to controlling the amount, avoid eating before meals, but indigestion. If you are worried about overeating, you can make tea and dilute sugar and sodium ions.
Choose longan meat, which is thick, soft, brown, translucent and sweet. Yang Shumei suggested that when buying, you can smell it first to see if it has obvious fragrance. If the color is too dark, it may be overcooked. Purchase is not recommended.
After going home to Kaifeng, dried and shelled longan meat can be stored in the refrigerator. Because dried longan meat still has some moisture, it may be moldy at room temperature.
Three longan recipes you can't miss if you want to have a good sleep.
1. longan jujube tea
Ingredients: longan pulp 15g, 5 red dates, Lycium barbarum 10g, and proper amount of sugar.
Practice: After washing the medicinal materials, mash the red dates first. Longan meat, red dates and medlar are boiled in about 800 1000ml water for 10 minute, and then can be drunk with a little sugar.
Efficacy: Improve insomnia, anemia and dizziness. It is recommended to drink 300ml in the morning and evening.
2. longan black bean tea
Ingredients: longan pulp 15g, dried mulberries 10g, black beans 10g, and honey.
Practice: add longan pulp, mulberry and black beans to about 800 1000ml of water, simmer for 10 min, and finally add a little honey to taste.
Efficacy: longan nourishes blood and calms the nerves, mulberry nourishes yin and blood, and black beans tonify the kidney, which can improve anemia, alopecia and soreness of waist and knees. It is recommended to drink 300ml in the morning and evening.
3. longan lotus seed and jujube porridge
Materials: longan pulp 15g, lotus seed 10g, 5 red dates, white rice 1 cup, and 6 7 cups of water.
Practice: After cleaning all the ingredients, put them in a rice cooker and cook them into porridge.
Efficacy: longan and jujube can replenish qi and blood and improve anemia and insomnia; Lotus seeds strengthen the spleen to stop diarrhea, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves. However, the former has a high sugar content, so diabetics should be careful to eat it.