Traditional Chinese Medicine Class: Buckwheat

Confucius said: "Eat from time to time", which means that the selection of ingredients should be in season and according to the natural growth characteristics of all things. What you eat should be in order to have the best taste, the most nutrients, and achieve the purpose of health preservation. Therefore, "not eating from time to time" is the embodiment of folk dietary wisdom. This view is especially suitable for vegetables.

Different vegetable varieties, due to different genetic characteristics, are adapted to grow in different seasons and environments. They grow strongest and taste the freshest and most delicious under suitable conditions, so vegetables are also called seasonal vegetables. , referred to as seasonal dishes. Although with the development of cultivation technology, many off-season vegetables can be eaten by people all year round, there are still some vegetables that are only on the market for a short period of time. If you are not careful, you will miss the appreciation period. Buckwheat is one of the most popular vegetables. Good example.

Buckwheat is a special vegetable in spring. It usually goes on the market quietly after the Spring Festival. However, after more than a month of spring rain, buckwheat is the most delicious and delicious during the Qingming Festival. , the best eating period is crisp, tender and without residue. In May, buckwheat will quietly bid farewell to everyone and see you again next year.

Buckwheat looks like both leeks and shallots, but its taste is not as overbearing as leeks, nor as pungent as shallots, but has a unique spicy aroma with a bit of sweetness. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that buckwheat is pungent, sweet and warm in nature. It has the effects of regulating qi and widening the chest, unblocking yang and dispersing stagnation. It can relieve chest tightness, chest pain and other symptoms caused by phlegm and blood stasis and blockage of the heart pulse. Modern pharmacological research has found that buckwheat acid contained in buckwheat also has pharmacological effects such as lowering blood pressure, stopping bleeding and coagulation, and delaying aging.

Today’s recommendation - Stir-fried roasted pork with buckwheat

Ingredients:

250g buckwheat, 250g roasted pork, ginger, garlic, peanut oil, salt, Appropriate amount of white sugar.

Method:

(1) Wash the buckwheat, cut the green and white joints into sections; cut the roasted meat into small pieces; prepare minced ginger and garlic.

(2) Heat oil in a pan, add minced ginger and garlic and sauté until fragrant, then add roasted pork and stir-fry, finally add buckwheat and stir-fry for a while, season with appropriate amount of salt and white sugar, stir well Ready to plate.

Professor Yang Zhimin, a special health expert for the column and deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Expert comments:

"It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die." , during the Qingming Festival that just passed, did you rush to worship your ancestors and miss your relatives? Every time after the Qingming Festival to worship ancestors, there is always a dish of "Stir-fried Roasted Pork with Buckwheat Vegetables" on the dining table of the Lao Guang people. It is made of fresh and green buckwheat vegetables and stir-fried with the roasted pork used to worship ancestors during the Qingming Festival. This dish has both " The meaning of "old people going west in sedan chairs (buckwheat), and descendants eating buckwheat to offer sacrifices to each other" fully embodies the dietary wisdom of the old people of "not eating from time to time", and it also has certain health-preserving and therapeutic effects.

Tips:

Buckwheat should not be overcooked.

Pharmacist on duty for this issue:

Xiang Jun, clinical pharmacist at Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Specializes in: traditional Chinese medicine consultation, including methods of decoction and consumption of commonly used traditional Chinese medicines, incompatibility contraindications, rational medication consultation, identification of commonly used traditional Chinese medicine pieces, research on commonly used toxic traditional Chinese medicines, consultation on the use of proprietary Chinese medicines, etc.

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