Post Date December, 03 2023
Almonds are both medicinal and edible. In the field of medicine, it is an antitussive and antiasthmatic drug; In the field of food, it is a nutritious health food.
Variety
Almonds are sweet and bitter, and can be divided into north and south. It is generally believed that sweet almonds are southern apricots and bitter almonds are northern apricots.
Drug properties
Bitter almond is mainly used as medicine, which can reduce qi, calm asthma, relieve cough, and relieve constipation. If you want to eat bitter almonds, you must first go through soaking, rinsing, boiling and other methods to detoxify, but even so, you cannot eat more.
Sweet almond has a weak antitussive effect, but it has a good effect on chronic cough due to lung deficiency, and is more suitable for snacks.
Stewed duck with almond and scallop
Ingredients: half a duck, 6 grams of bitter almond, 6 grams of scallop, 15 grams of codonopsis pilosula and 15 grams of cooked ground.
Method: Wash all kinds of materials, add water and boil them properly, and cook them for 2~3 hours under mild heat, then taste them.
Efficacy: Nourishing yin and moistening the lung, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. This Tonic Diet prescription can be used as an auxiliary treatment for lung cancer patients who have weakness, dryness, cough, chest pain, yellow and purulent sputum, etc.
Almonds are warm in nature, and too much can cause fire. People with yin deficiency and excessive fire should not eat them; Almond has lubricating effect, and overeating can cause diarrhea, so it is not suitable for people with gastrointestinal weakness and diarrhea; Mothers, children, people with solid heat constitution and diabetes patients should not eat almonds and their products.
