Spring health spinach porridge

DingZhaoPing shandong university of traditional Chinese medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        During the spring, everything initiation, is a good time to improve the body. Medicine on the four seasons is different, spring fill completely to feed liver should be first. In many of the vegetables in, suitable for a liver has spinach. Spinach for spring timely vegetables, with the function, dryness liver-discharging effect such as blood.

        Liang shiqiu "elegant abandon talking about eating" talked about spinach, opens with said: "we often eat spinach, the increase of the earth, I come from the western when emperor taizong.... spinach tasty and rich iron." Spinach is parked to product, during the tang dynasty was introduced into China. The tang would want "load:" (tang) too when Nebuchadnezzar, Baltic countries offer Leng dishes, fire canceled the fruits, can benefit taste." Written in tang dynasty is zhen 'guan 21, Nepal nalati wave from the west to a vegetable tribute to the emperor taizong, so their name "pineapple Leng food", today known as spinach.

        Spinach vegetables leaf green green, edible orange roots segong is colourful, also called red root vegetables. There are pointed leaves, who have round the leaves, and the leaves it such as spinach pointed song dynasty poet LiuZi Hui poems by the similar to JianZu: "because of the shape, the gold arrowheads strip, are thinking when hair jianmen compilation, chu guest mo pelosi valley aram." (the greens of the ten chorale ")

        Most often is so common, spinach but is a kind of "food every product". As every article of spinach is how to eat a lot of, that is common cooking porridge solution. Spring health can be used to cook porridge spinach.

        Spinach porridge is the specific method, raw materials for spinach 100 grams, 100 grams of japonica rice. Even take root fresh spinach, wash with hand after open. Japonica rice tao net, add water to m cooked porridge lousy soup thickening, face the ripe add spinach, add salt to taste. Daily early dinner to eat.

        Spinach porridge special suitable for old people, children, and the patient. If the baby eats spinach to add crumbled cooking porridge, already rich nutrition and easily absorbed. Spinach porridge with blood, hemostatic, and blood, runchang utility. Suitable for iron deficiency anemia, actions, having blood in one's stool, blood and SeZhi impassability shit from scurvy signs of supplements. Spinach in the content of vitamin K in leafy vegetables in is the highest, and the role and the bleeding. Spinach are rich in iron, women in this period can be feed more porridge. Compendium of materia medica are: "wave Leng food porridge, and dryness." "The reason things close" : "spinach porridge to move bowels impassability and long illness SeZhi ZhiLou, appropriate is often feed." Spinach is sex slippery, slip can: tqbyp has good effect on allergic, all that long illness and ZhiLou constipation defecate difficulty, to eat spinach porridge is very beneficial. Because of the sexual slippery, for cold empty stomach, loose stools diarrhea and not use the enuresis.

        Cooked spinach porridge attention is, appropriate chooses fresh spinach, become angry or place too long will not fit eat; Spinach containing oxalic acid with acerbity, first to water Chao once, to the removal of oxalic acid, immediately bails out, cooked porridge, namely no acerbity.

        Spinach this "Chao", it is worth to advocate. The old man and the child's table, spinach has more and more rare. This is due to a lot of people think, the old man and the child is need calcium group, and spinach containing oxalic acid, oxalic acid is calcium conquerors, how can make appearances spinach! In fact, only need to Chao once, can remove most oxalic acid (have information by the boiled water spinach have Nao can be removed more than 52% of oxalic acid), to remove its is quite unpleasant acerbity, and do not break the green colour and lustre and spinach smooth and delicate taste. Note that in Chao spinach, the water to more, in boiling water Chao 12 minutes.

        Lack of folic acid (vitamin B11) will lead to brain serotonin reduce, also can cause depression, dementia praecox even mental illness. If people can't absorb normally enough folic acid, for five consecutive months above, can appear unable to fall asleep, forgetfulness, anxiety and other symptoms. Although almost all of the green vegetables, fruits contain folic acid, but spinach containing folic acid and vitamin B10 is the most. So, we choose to eat spinach and happy.