Traditional Chinese medicine snacks in life are a lot, widely recognized have poria cake, Guiling paste, ejiao jujube, and longan dried, which contains herbal medicine with beneficial ingredients, nothing to eat a mouth or two is good for health. However, TCM snacks also have contraindications and are not suitable for everyone.
Chinese medicine snacks that all people can eat?
1. Dried longan
Longan is dry warm, with nourishing blood and calming the mind and tonifying the heart and spleen effect, peaceful nature, with a good tonifying effect. People with insufficient Qi and blood can drink dried longan tea. Put 3~5 dried longan in a cup to make tea and drink. However, fever, body phlegm wet, cough phlegm, cold fever can not use longan dry.
2. Ejiao Jujube
The main components of ejiao jujube are ejiao, tangerine peel, and osmanthus flower, which can nourish Yin, nourish blood and relieve general weakness, pallor, and sleepiness caused by Qi and blood deficiency. Ejiao jujube is suitable for most people to eat, but the amount must be controlled, the maximum is 10, and especially those with indigestion should be careful. It is not recommended to eat ejiao jujube for toothache, abdominal distension and fullness, cold and fever, phlegm-dampness, and cough.
3. Poria cake
Poria cakes not only contain poria cocos, but also white sugar and rice flour, which can play the role of invigorating the spleen and stomach, calming the heart, and calming the mind, as well as improving water and dehumidifying. Usually, Tuckahoe cake is widely used, and suitable for every age group. However, tongue coating yellow, tongue red, and dry stool should be careful to eat; People with high blood sugar, cold, and fever are forbidden to eat.
4. Guiling paste
The raw material of Guiling paste is soil poria and hawk turtle, and add chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and dandelion and rehmannia, and other traditional Chinese medicine, can play the effect of clearing heat, and detoxify and nourish Yin and kidney, but also can moisten bowel, remove acne on the skin. However, the nature of Guiling ointment cold, spleen, and stomach weakness, easy diarrhea should be used with caution.
5. Ginger candy
Ginger can play a cold-warming stomach effect, and relieve cold, car sickness, and other problems. But ginger is warm, not suitable for dry stool knots, dry eyes, sore throat, and easy to get angry.
6. Mints
Mints can dissipate wind and heat and clear the throat, reducing the symptoms of sore throat, headache, cold, and fever. However, people with indigestion, frequent diarrhea, physical weakness, night sweats, and dry cough should be careful to use it, or it will aggravate the symptoms.
Warm reminder
Of course, can not drink herbal tea, herbal tea on the market is mainly composed of licorice withered grass, honeysuckle, and chrysanthemum, has the effect of nourishing Yin, removing fire and clearing heat and dehumidification, reducing dry stool, oral ulcers, and gum swelling pain and other problems, but is not suitable for fear of cold, stool thin and cold hands and feet, otherwise it will aggravate the original symptoms; Can not drink herbal tea as water, so as not to lose Yang Qi, resulting in insufficient Yang Qi.