Wild rice stem

2017-01-20

Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine

  Jiangnan famous dishes out of the top three,

  Facilitating thirst quencher.

  Help hangover drug help buck,

  Spleen stomach cold eat it.

  It is China's specialty vegetables, and Brasenia schreberi, perch and known as the "Jiangnan three dishes." The ancients called it "wild." Before the Tang Dynasty, was cultivated as a food crop, is the "six Valley" (稌, millet, millet, sorghum, wheat, wild) one. It was later infected with powdery mildew and the formation of spindle-shaped fleshy stems, but the "blessing of disguise" from the "Cock silk" reversal into the "white Fu-mei" has become rare cuisine; it grows in the Yangtze River area, suitable for fresh water . It is a lot of food to eat the wild rice stem.

  The Tang Dynasty well-known Chinese medicine dietitian Meng on the evaluation of the wild rice stem is relatively high, saying it can "benefit the five internal organs evil", for the adjuvant treatment of "red eyes, poisonous atmosphere, heartache" also has good results, but also introduced and Daily condiment with diet recommendations: "salt, vinegar cooking." Qing Dynasty famous Chinese medicine works "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements" which for the effectiveness of wild rice is recorded in more specific, such as wild rice can be "to Fanre, only Thirst, in addition to head yellow, Lee urine, only heat dysentery, drug hangover. "So, often drink people who have entertainment may wish to eat some wild rice-based material dishes.

  From the nutritional point of view, wild rice stem contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin E, carotene and more amino acids. If you want to lose weight, may wish to eat it, because 100 grams of fresh wild rice stem contains only 23 calories, is a low-energy, low-fat light food. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease may wish to eat it, Zizania high potassium and sodium, helps blood pressure and help protect the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular.

  Eat wild rice stem also taboo crowd, renal insufficiency should eat less, because it contains more oxalic acid. Deficiency stomach have enteritis, love belly should not eat, "Materia Medica words" clearly states: "Spleen and stomach for cold diarrhea do not eat cold."