Post Date December, 03 2023
Every time I see fresh fennel in the supermarket, I buy one back. The dumplings filled with fennel are really delicious. Fennel can also be used for stir frying, soup making, and cold dressing. Most of our fennel vegetables are eaten raw. Wash and chop fresh fennel, mix with soy sauce and vinegar to make a fragrant and appetizing cold dish.
Most green leafy vegetables tend to be cold, while fennel is warm. The warm effect of fennel can be said to rank first among green vegetables. Leeks, coriander, and scallions, these green vegetables are also warm, but fennel is better than them. Because fennel mainly enters the kidney meridian, directly warming and tonifying the yang qi of the kidney.
People with yang deficiency, also known as those with a weak and cold constitution, are most suitable for eating more fennel, which can tonify the kidney and help yang. Fennel can not only regulate deficiency cold but also regulate solid cold. When exogenous cold pathogens occur, eating fennel can dissipate wind chill.
Fennel has a health regulating effect on all cold syndromes. For those who experience cold symptoms locally or overall, such as chills in their hands and feet, a cold stomach, a preference for hot food, or cold abdominal pain, eating fennel is beneficial for the body.
Fennel also enters the stomach meridian, which can warm, appetize, nourish the stomach, and regulate various stomach cold stomach diseases. Eating fennel can warm and relieve stomach pain for people with stomach cold and stomach pain, stimulate appetite for people with poor appetite, aid digestion for people with indigestion, and boost spirits for people with depression.
Fennel has a pungent aroma, so its qi regulating effect is also strong. It can regulate diseases caused by qi stagnation and inversion, such as chest tightness, hiccups, intestinal spasms, abdominal bloating, hernia, breath, and even cold and damp foot qi.
Fennel is beneficial for yang, so it is not suitable for people who are particularly afraid of heat due to yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity. Fennel has a slight sweating effect, and people who love sweating should not eat too much. For people with a slightly hot constitution, if they must eat dumplings filled with fennel, they should not be paired with hot lamb, but with cold meat such as pork. If you eat vegetarian filling, it's best not to pair it with eggs, but with tofu because tofu tends to be cooler.
The fragrance of fennel can detoxify and dissolve turbid qi. Eating unclean food in summer can easily cause diarrhea, and eating some fennel can prevent it.
Almond mixed with fennel can cure summer colds
Gastrointestinal cold is caused by external cold combined with overeating raw, cold, or greasy foods. The main symptoms are headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, or diarrhea. Most colds in summer are of this type, especially those who like to sleep with the air conditioning on and eat a lot of raw and cold food are the most likely to get them.
Fennel can dispel wind and cold, while almonds can moisten the lungs and relieve asthma; Fennel can warm and digest the stomach, while almonds can soothe the stomach and reduce phlegm; Fennel is smooth in qi, can stop vomiting, almonds can lower qi, and can stop coughing. Fennel can kill bacteria and relieve diarrhea, while almonds can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation. Both can be used together to maintain intestinal function balance. Moreover, fennel helps yang, almonds nourish yin, and when combined, it forms a dual tonifying effect for yin and yang.
Method: Boil sweet almonds in water for ten minutes. Chop the fennel into small pieces, add sweet almonds, and mix well with soy sauce and vinegar in a 2:1 ratio. Pulse moxibustion reminds you not to add sugar to mixed fennel, as it may affect the effectiveness of this dish. Almonds should be sweet, not bitter. Bitter almonds are a great traditional Chinese medicine, but they are slightly toxic and can only be used as medicine. They should not be consumed excessively in daily life.
