Do friends know what fennel is? In fact, it is a commonly used seasoning, and it is a must-use product when roasting fish stew and making marinated food.
Because they can remove the odor from the meat and make it re-flavor, they are called "fennel".
Fennel: The first place in green leafy vegetables
to tonify the kidney, raise the yang and drive away cold evil
Leafy greens tend to be cool, while fennel is lukewarm. The warming effect of fennel can be said to rank first among green vegetables.
Leeks, coriander, green onions, these greens are also warm, but fennel is superior to them.
Why? Because fennel mainly enters the kidney meridian, it directly warms and replenishes the yang energy of the kidney.
People with yang deficiency, that is, people who are physically deficient and cold, and who are usually more afraid of cold, are most suitable for eating more fennel, which can tonify the kidney and help yang. Fennel can not only regulate the deficiency cold, but also the solid cold. When you feel cold and evil outside, eating fennel can diffuse the wind and cold.
Fennel has a health care and conditioning effect on all cold syndromes. Anyone who has cold symptoms in part or as a whole of the body, such as cold hands and feet, cold stomach, hot food, or cold pain in the lower abdomen, eating fennel is good for the body.
Fennel is also a stomach problem nemesis
Fennel also enters the stomach meridian, which can warm the stomach, open the stomach, nourish the stomach, and regulate various stomach cold stomach diseases.
People with stomach cold and stomach pain can eat fennel to warm the stomach and relieve pain, people with loss of appetite can eat fennel to appetize, people with indigestion can eat fennel to help digestion, and people with depression can eat fennel to lift their spirits.
Fennel smells spicy, so it also has a strong effect on regulating qi, and can regulate diseases caused by qi stagnation and qi reversal, such as chest tightness, hiccups, intestinal spasms, abdominal bloating, hernia, bad breath, and even cold and wet athlete's foot.
Eat almonds mixed with fennel
to supplement yin and yang, prevent colds
When eating raw fennel, it is best to add a little sweet almond to it, which not only balances yin and yang, but also enhances the effect of fennel, and can also prevent gastrointestinal colds.
Directions: Boil sweet almonds in water for 10 minutes. Chop the fennel, add the sweet almonds, add the soy sauce and vinegar in a 2:1 ratio and mix well.
Be careful not to add sugar to the fennel, otherwise it will affect the efficacy of the dish. Use sweet almonds, not bitter almonds. Bitter almond is a very good traditional Chinese medicine, but it is slightly toxic, and it can only be used as medicine, and it can not be eaten more.
Efficacy: Fennel can diffuse wind and cold, and almonds can moisten the lungs and relieve asthma. Fennel can warm the stomach and eliminate food, and almonds can warm the stomach and dissolve phlegm. Fennel is smooth and can stop vomiting, and almonds are gassing and can stop coughing. Fennel sterilizes and relieves diarrhea, almonds moisten the intestines and laxative, and the two can maintain the balance of intestinal function. Moreover, fennel helps yang, almonds nourish yin, and when paired together, it is a double complement of yin and yang.
Cumin boiled water: warm and replenish kidney yang
Fennel is the stem and leaf of the medicinal plant fennel. The seeds of fennel, fennel seeds, are what we usually call cumin, which is a commonly used spice for making braised vegetables, and the famous five-spice powder is equipped with cumin.
Cumin is a seed, and its warming effect is much more natural than that of stems and leaves. It can greatly tonify kidney yang, and people with kidney yang deficiency usually put some cumin in cooking, which is equivalent to eating kidney tonic medicine.
Cumin greatly invigorates the kidney yang, so it can warm the lower coke and regulate qi, so doctors in the past generations especially respect its efficacy in treating hernia.
In fact, it can regulate all the symptoms of cold and dampness, qi stagnation, and pain, such as kidney deficiency and low back pain, intestinal spasm, dysmenorrhea, enuresis, etc.
If you suddenly have pain in the lower abdomen and are afraid of cold and warmth, immediately grab a handful of cumin and boil water, add a little salt and drink it to relieve the symptoms.
Fennel is not only a master of tonifying the kidneys and nourishing yang, but also a stomach disease nemesis! Remember to recommend such good food!
