Sexual taste and meridian tropism: bitter and cold. Enter spleen, stomach, heart and liver meridians.
Efficacy:
Clearing away heat and heart fire, detoxifying and improving eyesight, invigorating qi and essence, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, and treating carbuncle.
Clinical application:
1. Used for upset, thirst, heatstroke, etc.
Hot thirst: 1 fresh bitter gourd, pulp cut, sliced and decocted in water;
Heatstroke: Take 1 fresh bitter gourd, cut off the pulp, add it to tea, then add it, hang it in a ventilated place and dry in the shade, 6-9g each time, and take it with water or soak it in boiling water instead of drinking tea.
2. Used for carbuncle and dysentery.
Carbuncle swelling: take fresh bitter gourd and mash it and apply it to the affected area;
Dysentery: take fresh bitter gourd juice and take it with boiling water; Or a fresh bitter gourd, mashed to get juice, washed with boiling water or dried with bitter gourd vines and ground into powder, 3g each time, once every 6 hours, washed with boiling water.
3. Used for liver heat, red eyes or pain.
Boil soup or juice for drinking;
Or dry bitter gourd 15g, chrysanthemum 10g, decocted in water.
4. Used for cold and fever, body pain and bitter taste in summer.
Dry bitter gourd 15g, onion 10g, ginger 6g, decocted in water.
5. Used for stomachache.
Bitter gourd is burnt into charcoal and ground into powder, each time 1g, washed with boiling water, 2-3 times a day.
Dosage and usage:
6- 15g。 Boil soup, wring juice or stir fry.
Appropriate amount for external use, tamping.
Bitter gourd ball
Materials:
One bitter gourd, one pork belly, two ginger, two onions and two red peppers.
Prepare:
Cut Momordica charantia into 10 cm long pieces and remove the pulp;
Pork belly, ginger and onion are ground into powder, and mixed with salt and soy sauce (dry Chili powder can be added if you like a little spicy);
Fill bitter gourd with minced meat for later use.
Cut red pepper into small pieces, chopped green onion leaves and shredded ginger;
Steps:
When the oil is hot, put one side of the soaked bitter melon balls into the oil and fry them until cooked. Pay attention to the heat, and switch to medium and small heat. First, slightly fry the bitter gourd skin into golden brown, then slightly fry both sides of the meat, and simmer. The longer the frying time, the more fragrant the meat will be. (be patient ~)
After the "whole body" of bitter melon balls is fried yellow, put shredded ginger and minced red pepper into the pot and stir-fry in oil for a while, add salt;
Cover the bitter gourd balls with pepper, spray some water (only one spoonful), cover the pot and let stand for 3 minutes. Sprinkle with chicken essence and chopped green onion and take out.
Bitter gourd with sauce
500 grams of bitter gourd, 30 grams of red pepper, 2 teaspoons of sesame oil, half a teaspoon of soy sauce, a little bean paste, a little garlic paste, a little salt and a little monosodium glutamate.
1. Remove the pedicel and pulp of bitter gourd, cut into strips, blanch in a boiling water pot, remove and cool with cold boiling water, drain and put in a dish for later use.
2. Remove the pedicels and seeds of red pepper, wash it, cut it into filaments, marinate it with salt for 5 minutes, and squeeze out the water; Mix mashed garlic with shredded red pepper, add soy sauce, bean paste, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, pour on bitter gourd and mix well.
Dawnrain: Bitter melon can be blanched with boiling water to remove bitterness; Pickling peppers with salt can get rid of some spicy taste. And be sure to use ice water, so that bitter gourd looks green and has a very good color.
Recipe Name "China Yishou Recipe" Longevity Recipe (4) Jianfei Changshou-Clear Soup Bitter Melon
Other cuisines belonging to this cuisine
Types of healthy recipes
Basic characteristics: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, refreshing and relieving sore throat.
The basic materials are 500g bitter gourd, 500g lean ham, clear soup1250g, pepper, monosodium glutamate and salt.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lung controls breathing and its function is normal, so it inhales clear gas (oxygen) and exhales turbid gas (carbon dioxide) to meet the needs of life activities. If the lung function is abnormal, there will be symptoms such as cough and asthma. Long-term cough and asthma consumes lung function, affects normal breathing, and then affects other visceral functions, shortening life expectancy. Therefore, protecting lung function is an important link to prolong life.
The principle of dietary health care for lung is: 1. Quit smoking and don't work and live in smoking places. 2. Allergic people should avoid allergic foods such as shrimp, crab, milk and bamboo shoots. 3. People with cold and cold should eat Schizonepeta, perilla leaves, onions, ginger, peppers and other foods. 4. People with wind-cold, wind-heat, dry cough and less phlegm should ban spicy and irritating foods, and should eat foods such as mint, loquat and pear. 5. Those who suffer from yin injury due to high fever, dry cough with little phlegm, or blood in sputum, or hemoptysis should eat pears, sugar cane, lily, loquat, watermelon, water chestnut, tremella, fresh vegetables, clear away heat and promote fluid production, nourish yin and stop bleeding.
Method: firstly, wash bitter gourd, cut it open, remove seeds and slice it; Sliced ham; Take 250 grams of clear soup and add a little salt and monosodium glutamate for later use. Boil the water, blanch the bitter gourd, put it in the cold clear soup with salt for half an hour and take it out. Boil the remaining clear soup, add salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper, put bitter gourd into the soup bowl, and add the boiled clear soup and shredded ham.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, refreshing and relieving sore throat.
Usage: Take with meals.
Uses: Suitable for health care in summer.
How to fry bitter gourd without losing money?
Ingredients: 3 bitter melons and 2 shallots; Salt12 spoon, monosodium glutamate12 spoon, sugar 3 spoon, sesame oil13 spoon.
Practice: 1. Firstly, the bitter gourd was washed and cut in half longitudinally to form two semi-cylindrical shapes. 2. Buckle the bitter gourd cut in half on the chopping block. Note: At this time, when cutting into pieces with a knife, you must cut obliquely, the more oblique the better, so that the skin and meat of bitter gourd are basically on the same plane. 3. Cut the shallots into sections, saute in the oil pan, add bitter gourd and stir fry quickly. At the same time, add salt and sugar, stir fry for about 1 minute, add monosodium glutamate, stir fry for half a minute, turn off the heat and sprinkle with a little sesame oil. Serve.
Key points: 1. Bitter gourd is cut obliquely to expose the meat, so that the sugar flavor can fully penetrate into the bitter gourd meat and neutralize the bitterness. 2. Stir-fry this dish. Put more sugar first, then bitter gourd is not bitter, salty and sweet. 3. The temperature must be well controlled. Generally, the time from cooking to cooking should not exceed 4-5 minutes. Bitter gourd is delicious only when it is raw. Generally, it is better to be half-cooked turquoise.