Celery, rapeseed greens, and cauliflower: a look at the value of medicinal vegetables in everyday life
In our daily lives we cannot do without "eating, drinking, excretion, and sleep, clothing, food, housing, transport, and work." This shows how important "eating" is to us. What to eat, how to eat it, and how to make better use of its nutritional value and medicinal value? The medical and medicinal value of vegetables and seasonings must never be overlooked.
Keep their pharmacology and medicinal properties firmly in mind, and at the crucial moment you too can become an excellent barefoot doctor!
Today we will talk about [celery, rapeseed greens, and cauliflower]
Celery has very high medicinal value, and celery root has even higher medicinal value; the root itself is a Chinese herbal medicine.
Celery is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and has effects such as clearing heat, promoting urination, lowering blood pressure, and reducing fat.
[Functions and indications]
Treats early-stage hypertension, hyperlipidemia, bronchitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, cough, headache, insomnia, excessive menstrual bleeding, functional uterine bleeding, difficult urination, accumulated heat in the lungs and stomach, measles in children, mumps, and other conditions.
[Usage and dosage]
Decoct in water and drink, or pound to extract juice for external application. Dosage 3~5 qian, external use as appropriate.
[Prescriptions]
1. Fever in children: 15 g celery, 15 g barley malt, 10 g plantain seed, add water, decoct, and take the liquid.
2. Diabetes: Grind celery into juice, boil it, and take it; it can lower blood sugar.
3. Coronary heart disease: Cook 150 g celery including the root together with 250 g glutinous rice into a thin porridge, and eat it in the morning and evening.
4. Nausea and vomiting: 30 g fresh celery root, 15 g licorice, and one egg. Decoct the medicines in water, crack the egg into it, and take it as a drink; usually one dose can bring recovery.
5. Hypertension: Pound tender celery into juice, add a small amount of honey, and take it orally.
6. Gout: Cook celery with fresh milk and eat it; it can neutralize uric acid and acidic substances in the body.
7. Jaundice-type hepatitis: 200 to 400 g celery, 50 to 100 g red dates, simmer in soup and take it in divided doses.
8. Treating insomnia: 90 g celery root, add 9 g wild jujube seed, decoct into soup, and drink before bed
9. Treating headache: Wash an appropriate amount of celery root, chop it, and stir-fry it with other vegetables
10. Treating bronchitis: 60-90 g celery root and 9 g tangerine peel, decoct in water and filter, add an appropriate amount of honey, mix well, and take
[Precautions]
Celery is incompatible with shrimp, dried small shrimp, vinegar, cucumber, pumpkin, clams, chicken, rabbit meat, soft-shelled turtle meat, soybeans, chrysanthemum, crab, small clams, and blood clams.
The vitamin C, carotene, and other important nutrients contained in rapeseed greens, as well as the whole plant, seeds, and rapeseed flower honey, are used as medicine
[Functions and indications]
Promotes stagnation relief and invigorates blood, reduces swelling, and resolves toxins. It can be used for carbuncles and erysipelas, blood ejection due to overexertion, heat sores, postpartum heart and abdominal disorders, retained lochia, postpartum diarrhea; roundworm intestinal obstruction, breaking qi and reducing swelling, bloody dysentery, stomach pain, neuralgia, and head congestion. It lowers blood lipids, resolves toxins and reduces swelling, relaxes the intestines and promotes bowel movements, supports beauty and health care, and enhances the body's immune capacity.
[Effects of the flower honey]
Rapeseed flower honey has the effects of clearing heat and moistening dryness, relaxing blood vessels, promoting blood movement and breaking qi, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, and harmonizing blood and tonifying the body. It is often used for patients with hepatobiliary system disorders, weak spleen and stomach, and patients with sores and heat boils.
[Nature and flavor]: Cool in nature, sweet in taste; the seeds are pungent and warm.
[Meridian entry] Enters the liver, spleen, and lung meridians
[Selected formulas]
1. Raw rapeseed seeds and roasted licorice 15 g each, pound together into a powder, take 6 g each time, decoct with one cup of water down to five fen, and take warm before meals; treats wind toxin in the large intestine and incessant bleeding below.
2. Grind rapeseed seeds into a fine powder, mix with sesame oil and apply to the affected area, or pound rapeseed leaves into juice and apply; treats erysipelas in children.
[Suitable and contraindicated combinations]
Golden combinations:
1. Rapeseed greens + shiitake mushrooms. 2. Rapeseed greens + shrimp. 3. Rapeseed greens + tofu. 4. Rapeseed greens + chicken
Contraindicated combinations:
1. Rapeseed greens + Chinese yam. 2. Rapeseed greens + pumpkin
Cauliflower is rich in nutrients, with thick, plump tissue, and its content of protein, trace elements, and carotene is all [high]. Cauliflower is an excellent health product for cancer prevention and anti-cancer effects; it can improve cellular immune function, lower estrogen levels, prevent breast cancer, and help sober one up.
[Formulas]
1. Formula for nourishing yin and resolving toxins: Used for stomach heat, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat and tongue, loss of appetite, headache, and red eyes caused by heat toxin damaging yin, or for qi and yin deficiency caused by radiotherapy, and other conditions. Take 250 g green cauliflower, break into small pieces and wash; soak 50 g white wood ear mushroom first; add a small amount of chrysanthemum and a little rock sugar; simmer over gentle heat for about half an hour, pick out the chrysanthemum, let cool, and it is ready to eat.
2. Formula for tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the body: Suitable for soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, poor appetite caused by weak spleen and stomach, or dull complexion, fatigue, and lethargy caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and other conditions. Take one pair of pig or sheep kidneys, cut open and remove the fascia, and soak in cold water for half a day. Soak 100 g black wood ear mushroom in cold water until softened; break 200 g cauliflower into small pieces, wash, and blanch in boiling water. Cut the pig or sheep kidneys into cubes, stir-fry quickly with the black wood ear mushroom, add ginger, minced garlic, and salt as appropriate; when about 80 percent cooked, add the cauliflower and stir-fry until done.
3. Formula for boosting qi and stopping cough: Used for cough and shortness of breath, phlegm, wheezing, and fatigue, dry cough with little phlegm, sore waist and weak legs, emaciation and fatigue caused by insufficient lung qi and the kidneys failing to grasp qi, and other conditions. Simmer 200 g cauliflower, 100 g lily bulb, 50 g apricot kernels, and 10 g Cordyceps sinensis in soup; when removing from the heat, crack in 2 free-range eggs, add a small amount of wet starch, and add seasonings as appropriate.
[Sobering-up effects]
1. Cut cauliflower into small slices, blanch in boiling water, add sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, salt, and other seasonings, mix well, and it can be served as a cold dish to counteract alcohol.
2. Cut cauliflower into small pieces, blanch in boiling water, then quick-fry with vinegar; it is mostly eaten while drinking alcohol and has the effect of being sweet and sour, appetizing, and promoting fluid production.
3. Slice cauliflower or cut it into small pieces, boil in soup and drink it as tea; it can treat body heat, restlessness, dry mouth, and thirst after drinking alcohol.
4. Pound cauliflower into juice, add white sugar, and take it; it can relieve alcohol and clear heat.
5. Take the flowers of cauliflower, dry them in the sun, and grind them into powder; before drinking alcohol, take about the amount of one fingernail.
Friends who often drink alcohol should remember this.
Keep their pharmacology and medicinal properties firmly in mind, and at the crucial moment you too can become an excellent barefoot doctor!