"Food is the first thing for the people and taste is the first thing for food." Seasoning is an indispensable thing for people to eat with three meals a day. In the eyes of many people, many traditional seasonings only add flavor to dishes, but they do not know that the essential oils, enzymes and so on contained in these seasonings have medical and health functions. Aromatic smell can improve people's mental state, adjust emotions, stimulate the vitality of human physiological functions, enhance the body's immune system function, and even dominate behavior.
The health benefits of flavorings and spices.
✵Welsh Onions: Its full name is Allium fistulosum L. var. giganteum Makino. The scallions are large, thick and tender, with a strong fragrance, which is a good seasoning. It can not only increase the fragrance of dishes, remove the fishy smell, and enhance people's appetite, but also has quite a high medicinal value. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, scallion is pungent in taste and slightly warm in nature, and has the functions of activating Yang, detoxifying and flavoring. Modern medical science proves that scallion can not only strengthen the stomach but also reduce blood lipid and blood sugar. Because it contains trace elements-selenium and germanium, it has the effects of preventing and resisting cancer. In addition, allicin contained in scallion can effectively kill and inhibit diphtheria bacilli, dysentery bacilli, tuberculosis bacilli, staphylococcuses aureus, streptococcus and other bacteria.
✵Ginger: Ginger is an important seasoning widely used in daily life. Ginger has a unique spicy taste, which can be enhanced when cooking. Ginger contains gingerol, gingerol, gingene, etc. It can stimulate secretion of digestive juice, stimulate appetite, help digestion, reduce cholesterol in serum, relieve fever, relieve pain, aid recovery from fever, prevent and treat the common cold, dispel a cold and relieve cough, etc. For external use, smashing and applying on the affected part can diminish inflammation and relieve pain; drinking ginger soup can prevent colds. Applying a ginger slice to the navel can prevent carsickness and seasickness. Once the ginger rotten, although the smell and taste have not changed much, the strong carcinogenic substance is produced, so the rotten ginger must Not be eaten. At the same time, gastric ulcer patients should also eat less.
✵Zanthoxylum bungeanum: Zanthoxylum bungeanum, also known as prickly ash, has the functions of removing the fishy smell, peculiar smell and enhancing the fragrance. Zanthoxylum bungeanum contains various volatile oils and aromatic substances such as limonene and the like and has good effects of removing odor and smell, relieve arthralgia, a toothache, warming the middle and dispelling cold. As prickly ash is a hot seasoning, it will cause people to suffer from excessive internal heat and cause diseases of the digestive tract and urinary system, so should eat less in summer.
✵Foeniculum vulgare Mill: Foeniculum vulgare Mill is pungent in taste and warm in nature. It can stimulate appetite, regulate Qi and dispel a cold, and has the effects of relieving swelling and pain. The volatile oil can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and secretion, so it can expel intestinal gas accumulation and eliminate phlegm.
✵Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae: Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae is a dry pericarp obtained by drying the pericarp of citrus fruits. Its skin can be stored for a long time after drying, so it is called tangerine peel. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae tastes bitter and has the faint scent of oranges. Therefore, it is often used to cook some dishes with a special flavor, such as dried orange peel beef, dried orange peel chicken, etc. Bitter substances in the dried tangerine peel are limonoid represented by limonin and bitterant. This limonoid is mild in nature and taste, easy to dissolve in water and helpful for food digestion. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae contains volatile oil, hesperidin, vitamin B, vitamin C, and other components. The volatile oil contained in Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae has a mild stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract, can promote the secretion of digestive juice, eliminates intestinal gas accumulation, and increase appetite. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae is also a common Traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of ventilating and invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness and phlegm, resolving greasy and lingering fragrance, lowering adverse Qi and stopping vomiting. It is suitable for people with inappetence, abdominal distension, phlegm, and cough. It is contraindicated for patients with internal heat, Qi deficiency, dry cough, and vomiting blood. Dried orange peel can be flavored with sugar when eaten. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae can also be used to make tea.
✵Illicium verum: star anise, which is star-shaped and reddish-brown when mature, has a strong flavor and has the functions of warming the middle and strengthening the spleen, regulating Qi and relieving pain. Illicium verum and beef and sheep meat can be fried together to remove the fishy smell of the meat and enhance its fragrance, which can be used for medicinal purposes. However, those with excess heat and deficiency fire should not use fennel and anise as a seasoning.
✵Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici: Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici can be used in season dishes, but it is not strong enough for medicinal uses. It contains cinnamaldehyde, clove oil and other ingredients, which can improve the aromatic flavor of dishes. Cortex cinnamomi japonici has the functions of warming the middle, dispelling cold, warming channels, relieving pain, invigorating stomach, etc., and can promote appetite. However, eating too much cinnamon can cause dry mouth, sore throat, listlessness, insomnia, and other symptoms in mild cases, hypertension, gastroenteritis and other diseases in severe cases, and even cell malformation and cancer. Therefore, try to eat less in your daily diet.
✵Pepper: There are black, green and white pepper. Black pepper can be used for stewing meat and chafing dish. Green pepper tastes soft after pickling or freeze-drying and can be used for cooking mutton and beef. White pepper is made by peeling and drying mature pepper. It tastes softer and more fragrant than black pepper. It is an ideal seasoning for cooking fish and braised dishes. Pepper is pungent in taste and hot in nature. Because of its fragrance, it stimulates the spleen and is good in appetizing and eating. Pepper is not as fragrant as Sichuan pepper, but its warm and dry nature is slightly better. It can warm and neutralize the stomach, dispel cold and dry dampness, and can be used to treat abdominal pain, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach.
✵Cinnamon bark: Cinnamomum cassia has a rich flavor and tastes slightly different due to different shades of color. Light brown cinnamon bark has a soft taste and dark color cinnamon is strong. Cinnamon can be used to make cakes, sweet crystals or stews. Cinnamomum cassia contains volatile oil components, which can obviously enhance human immune function. Although cinnamon can be used as a seasoning in daily life, it is not suitable to be taken in excess or for a long time because of its pungent taste and hot nature, which easily damages yin and aid to produce internal heat fire. People suffering from internal heat and excessive internal heat, cough due to phlegm and heat, wind-heat common cold, hemorrhage due to blood heat and women in menstrual period should not take it, so as not to cause new diseases or aggravate the disease.
"Food is the first thing for the people and taste is the first thing for food." Seasoning is an indispensable thing for people to eat with three meals a day. In the eyes of many people, many traditional seasonings only add flavor to dishes, but they do not know that the essential oils, enzymes and so on contained in these seasonings have medical and health functions. Aromatic smell can improve people's mental state, adjust emotions, stimulate the vitality of human physiological functions, enhance the body's immune system function, and even dominate behavior.
✵Welsh Onions: Its full name is Allium fistulosum L. var. giganteum Makino. The scallions are large, thick and tender, with a strong fragrance, which is a good seasoning. It can not only increase the fragrance of dishes, remove the fishy smell, and enhance people's appetite, but also has quite a high medicinal value. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, scallion is pungent in taste and slightly warm in nature, and has the functions of activating Yang, detoxifying and flavoring. Modern medical science proves that scallion can not only strengthen the stomach but also reduce blood lipid and blood sugar. Because it contains trace elements-selenium and germanium, it has the effects of preventing and resisting cancer. In addition, allicin contained in scallion can effectively kill and inhibit diphtheria bacilli, dysentery bacilli, tuberculosis bacilli, staphylococcuses aureus, streptococcus and other bacteria.
✵Ginger: Ginger is an important seasoning widely used in daily life. Ginger has a unique spicy taste, which can be enhanced when cooking. Ginger contains gingerol, gingerol, gingene, etc. It can stimulate secretion of digestive juice, stimulate appetite, help digestion, reduce cholesterol in serum, relieve fever, relieve pain, aid recovery from fever, prevent and treat the common cold, dispel a cold and relieve cough, etc. For external use, smashing and applying on the affected part can diminish inflammation and relieve pain; drinking ginger soup can prevent colds. Applying a ginger slice to the navel can prevent carsickness and seasickness. Once the ginger rotten, although the smell and taste have not changed much, the strong carcinogenic substance is produced, so the rotten ginger must Not be eaten. At the same time, gastric ulcer patients should also eat less.
✵Zanthoxylum bungeanum: Zanthoxylum bungeanum, also known as prickly ash, has the functions of removing the fishy smell, peculiar smell and enhancing the fragrance. Zanthoxylum bungeanum contains various volatile oils and aromatic substances such as limonene and the like and has good effects of removing odor and smell, relieve arthralgia, a toothache, warming the middle and dispelling cold. As prickly ash is a hot seasoning, it will cause people to suffer from excessive internal heat and cause diseases of the digestive tract and urinary system, so should eat less in summer.
✵Foeniculum vulgare Mill: Foeniculum vulgare Mill is pungent in taste and warm in nature. It can stimulate appetite, regulate Qi and dispel a cold, and has the effects of relieving swelling and pain. The volatile oil can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and secretion, so it can expel intestinal gas accumulation and eliminate phlegm.
✵Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae: Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae is a dry pericarp obtained by drying the pericarp of citrus fruits. Its skin can be stored for a long time after drying, so it is called tangerine peel. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae tastes bitter and has the faint scent of oranges. Therefore, it is often used to cook some dishes with a special flavor, such as dried orange peel beef, dried orange peel chicken, etc. Bitter substances in the dried tangerine peel are limonoid represented by limonin and bitterant. This limonoid is mild in nature and taste, easy to dissolve in water and helpful for food digestion. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae contains volatile oil, hesperidin, vitamin B, vitamin C, and other components. The volatile oil contained in Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae has a mild stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract, can promote the secretion of digestive juice, eliminates intestinal gas accumulation, and increase appetite. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae is also a common Traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of ventilating and invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness and phlegm, resolving greasy and lingering fragrance, lowering adverse Qi and stopping vomiting. It is suitable for people with inappetence, abdominal distension, phlegm, and cough. It is contraindicated for patients with internal heat, Qi deficiency, dry cough, and vomiting blood. Dried orange peel can be flavored with sugar when eaten. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae can also be used to make tea.
✵Illicium verum: star anise, which is star-shaped and reddish-brown when mature, has a strong flavor and has the functions of warming the middle and strengthening the spleen, regulating Qi and relieving pain. Illicium verum and beef and sheep meat can be fried together to remove the fishy smell of the meat and enhance its fragrance, which can be used for medicinal purposes. However, those with excess heat and deficiency fire should not use fennel and anise as a seasoning.
✵Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici: Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici can be used in season dishes, but it is not strong enough for medicinal uses. It contains cinnamaldehyde, clove oil and other ingredients, which can improve the aromatic flavor of dishes. Cortex cinnamomi japonici has the functions of warming the middle, dispelling cold, warming channels, relieving pain, invigorating stomach, etc., and can promote appetite. However, eating too much cinnamon can cause dry mouth, sore throat, listlessness, insomnia, and other symptoms in mild cases, hypertension, gastroenteritis and other diseases in severe cases, and even cell malformation and cancer. Therefore, try to eat less in your daily diet.
✵Pepper: There are black, green and white pepper. Black pepper can be used for stewing meat and chafing dish. Green pepper tastes soft after pickling or freeze-drying and can be used for cooking mutton and beef. White pepper is made by peeling and drying mature pepper. It tastes softer and more fragrant than black pepper. It is an ideal seasoning for cooking fish and braised dishes. Pepper is pungent in taste and hot in nature. Because of its fragrance, it stimulates the spleen and is good in appetizing and eating. Pepper is not as fragrant as Sichuan pepper, but its warm and dry nature is slightly better. It can warm and neutralize the stomach, dispel cold and dry dampness, and can be used to treat abdominal pain, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach.
✵Cinnamon bark: Cinnamomum cassia has a rich flavor and tastes slightly different due to different shades of color. Light brown cinnamon bark has a soft taste and dark color cinnamon is strong. Cinnamon can be used to make cakes, sweet crystals or stews. Cinnamomum cassia contains volatile oil components, which can obviously enhance human immune function. Although cinnamon can be used as a seasoning in daily life, it is not suitable to be taken in excess or for a long time because of its pungent taste and hot nature, which easily damages yin and aid to produce internal heat fire. People suffering from internal heat and excessive internal heat, cough due to phlegm and heat, wind-heat common cold, hemorrhage due to blood heat and women in menstrual period should not take it, so as not to cause new diseases or aggravate the disease.
