Post Date December, 03 2023
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is an important organ in the human body, which plays a role in detoxifying the body. If there are kidney problems, your body may also have health risks. In daily health care, we need to tonify and nourish the kidneys. Experts have found that some common ingredients, such as bean sprouts, can have a kidney tonifying effect.
Bean leaves and bean seedlings are great for tonifying the kidneys
In ancient times, people referred to the five common types of vegetables as the Five Vegetables, which refer to leeks, scallions, sunflowers, scallions, and patchouli. The relationship between the Five Vegetables and the Five Elements is as follows: Chives belong to wood, Allium belongs to fire, Kui belongs to soil, Allium belongs to gold, and Huo belongs to water. Among the five zang organs, the kidney belongs to water, and Huo is similar to the kidney. Therefore, Huo is a kidney vegetable that can nourish the kidney.
Kui, Huo, and Xie, among the ancient five dishes, are no longer visible today, except for the chives and scallions, which are still popular today. So, what kind of vegetable is Huo? Why haven't you seen such vegetables for sale in the market? This is a question that most people have. Those who have read the Book of Songs, Xiaoya, Bai Ju, all know the ancient Chinese way of retaining guests, which is to first retain horses - Jiao Jiao Bai Ju, eat my farm seedlings... Jiao Jiao Bai Ju, eat my farm hops... If Ma Le doesn't miss Shu, the guests will naturally stay. The 'seedling' here should be a bean seedling, and the 'Huo' should be a bean leaf. It is also clearly stated in "Guangya Shicao" that "the beans are called pods, and their leaves are called cabins
It doesn't matter whether Huo refers to "bean sprouts" or "bean leaves". In ancient poetry and prose, Huo may have both "bean sprouts" and "bean leaves". Earlier on, the term 'huo' may have referred to bean leaves. Because it was not easy for the ancients to plant, there were few plants that could be eaten and tender. With the increasing demand for vegetables, it is also logical for people to switch from eating "bean leaves" to eating "bean seedlings". For Huo, my understanding is the tender shoots of beans, including the tender leaves. After the beginning of spring, pea seedlings appeared in the vegetable market. This delicate pea seedling can be used as an ancient patchouli. Today's pea sprouts can be seen as the cauliflower among the five dishes, and the cauliflower has also been passed down today.
Pea seedlings, also known as asparagus, refer to the silk fibers on the pods of pea seedlings. In ancient times, pea sprouts were highly regarded as a fresh and refreshing vegetable. Su Shi, who was fond of this flavor, wrote a poem called "Yuan Xiucai": "Pi Mei Jun's family dishes, spread green mushrooms in the fields. The bean garden is also small, and the locust buds are fine and abundant..." The Yuan Xiucai here is pea sprouts. The way Su Shi cooked pea seedlings back then was very different from today. Order salted soy sauce under the wine, and stir fry ginger and scallions with a wisp of orange. You know chicken and dolphin, but you want to empty the chopsticks. "It is to chop the ginger and scallions, add pea sprouts, season with wine and salt sauce, and cook them together into a vegetable soup, which tastes more delicious than chicken.
Because patchouli is a tender sprout of beans, it should have been very precious in ancient times. Until the Qing Dynasty, pea seedlings were still a rare vegetable in the market, priced at over thirty yuan per square meter. Ordinary people can only occasionally eat them at banquets. Due to the high price, people are not willing to pinch out the old parts, so each pea seedling is six or seven inches long, and a few are cooked in chicken soup, making it a very high-end seasonal dish. In modern society, pea seedlings have already become a common dish. Stir fry and consume pea seedlings, which have the effects of strengthening the spleen, tonifying qi, diuresis, and reducing blood pressure. It has therapeutic effects on hypertension, chronic nephritis, chronic enteritis, and malnutrition edema. The method is very simple, preparing 300 grams of fresh and tender pea seedlings, with an appropriate amount of vegetable oil, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, and refined salt. Wash the fresh and tender pea seedlings, cut them into small pieces, put them into an oil pot, stir fry them over high heat, and add seasoned wine, refined salt, and monosodium glutamate.
Common bean sprouts are excellent kidney tonifying ingredients. There are many dietary remedies for bean sprouts, and you can choose according to your own preferences. In short, using dietary therapy to tonify and nourish the kidneys is not only a simple method, but also has very good health effects. Therefore, when you are nourishing your kidneys in daily life, you can give it a try.
