Use opportunely mint to help stave off the desert heat

Wang Haiting Shandong college of traditional Chinese medicine

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        Mint, aka mint, mint, Sue for labiatae perennial root perennial herbaceous plants.

        Doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, mint flavour sheen, cool, into the liver, lung, have evacuated heat wind, clear leader, nourish and rash, is often used in the treatment of wind hot cold, wind WenChu, headaches, eye red, sore throat, mouth sores, opaque measles, rubella qi SAO is urticant, liver stasis, MenZhang chest pain, etc. The cold-induced febride yue: "mint smell XinWen non-toxic, Lord evil wind typhoid fever, sweating evil spirit, heart abdominal distension full, cholera, lodge needless, gas, boiling juice, as well as raw." "Compendium of materia medica" said: "cool mint, can radiate, can clear, Yu Qingfeng heat dissipation. So have a headache, head, eyes, throat, tongue the wind to medicine." Pharmacological studies have shown that contains volatile oil, the water decoction of mycobacterium tuberculosis, typhoid bacillus have inhibition, naphtha small internal and has the effect of diaphoresis, antipyretic and excited central, external use to paralysis of the nerve endings, diminish inflammation, pain, itching, and has the feeling of cool and refreshing.

        Summer mosquito is more, by the window in the bedroom where put mint grass, every evening to spray some water, mint to fully release, unbearable smell of mosquitoes will escape. Such as mosquito bites, usable mint juice itching, cool and refreshing and comfortable after use. But mint cool, not long, and this product is aromatic and sweating, take gas, the dry Yin blood, liver Yang partial port, table do not taken better odds. In addition, due to the mint contain volatile oil, when taken too long curative effect is reduced.

        Hot summer, the mint is cooling purposes. Here is a brief introduction a few mint dietotherapy square:

        Fresh mint mint porridge 15 grams, 30 grams, or one with 1 liter water, use medium heat to fry into a 500 ml, cools remove mint sauce. Another 150 grams of stalks meters water boiled, to porridge will become, add mint soup and a little rock sugar, boiled. Can call, off-dry, good heat dissipation.

        Mint 2 piece of tofu tofu, 50 grams of fresh mint leaves and fresh green 3, add 2 bowls of water, stay till serve hot water in half. Can treat a cold conditions such as nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose.

        Mint shredded chicken chicken breast meat 150 grams, cut into filaments, add egg white, starch, salt, mix well. Rinse mint terrier 150 grams, cut the same long period. Pour mixed food into 5 into a pan of hot oil, oil over it. Under the other dish up, add oil, onion ginger, charging wine, mint, shredded chicken, salt, monosodium glutamate slightly fry, pour the prickly ash oil can. As a food and drug, lowering has soared.

        Mint soup will mint Ye Qing washed, chopped, blanch in boiling water, put a little salt, balm, refreshed, relieve inflammation or internal heat detoxification efficacy.

        Mint wine ready to peppermint oil 10 grams, rice wine 50 ml and 50 ml of Chinese rice wine, mint oil and rice wine, rice wine against the together, drinking on an empty stomach in the morning and evening can, have clear heat, detoxification, the effect of jianwei, qing pharynx.

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