Gui Yuan, also called Longan in Chinese medicine, how to eat to make the effect play better? Then we first need to explain what all the health benefits of cinnamon are.

The health benefits of cinnamon

If from the health benefits, cinnamon can be said to be the king of fruits. Because although the pear, apple, watermelon and other fruits, have health effects, but these fruits basically will not be used by the Chinese medicine for treatment, more for health. But cinnamon is different, it is a number of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of classic formula in the composition, such as strengthening the spleen and nourish the heart, beneficial to the blood, tranquilize the spirit of the blood of the spleen soup, etc., are used to the cinnamon.

Therefore, in the eyes of Chinese medicine practitioners, cinnamon is definitely a good medicine!

According to Chinese medicine, cinnamon is sweet and warm, and enters the heart and spleen meridians, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the heart, replenishing qi and nourishing blood, and calming the spirit and helping people to sleep, etc. It can be used for the regulation and treatment of heart and blood insufficiency, heart qi deficiency, spleen qi deficiency, and all kinds of bodily discomforts resulting from qi and blood insufficiency certificates.

For example, loss of appetite due to spleen deficiency; panic and shortness of breath due to heart qi deficiency; dizziness, panic and restlessness due to heart blood deficiency; and weakness and fatigue due to insufficient qi and blood, forgetfulness, insomnia and dizziness.

Best Uses for Cinnamon

To maximize the effect of cinnamon, it is important to combine different other herbs for the different conditions being regulated, so that the cinnamon's medicinal effects can be maximized.

1. Spleen deficiency, with ginseng, atractylodes, poria, licorice, tangerine peel, yam, lotus seed and other herbs to strengthen the spleen and nourish the spleen, in order to make the best effect of cinnamon to strengthen the spleen and benefit the qi, and to improve the deficiency of the spleen, lack of appetite, abdominal bloating, indigestion, fatigue and weakness and so on.

2. Heart qi deficiency: can be combined with American ginseng, schizandra, maitake, etc., in order to replenish the heart qi, astringent and stop sweating, to prevent the dissipation of the heart qi, and more helpful to the effect of gui yuan nourishing the heart qi play.

3. Heart and blood deficiency, can be combined with sour jujube nut, Yuan Zhi, Colla Corii Asini, etc., in order to enhance the effect of replenishing blood, nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind.

It should be noted that, cinnamon medicinal temperature, so if you eat too much at once, it is easy to trigger the phenomenon of fire, but will trigger insomnia, irritability and other physical discomfort, this time can be combined with raw licorice, light bamboo leaves, etc., in order to clear the mind to remove the annoyance and eliminate the side effects, leaving the nourishment of the efficacy of the medicine.

In short, want to let the cinnamon of the medicinal effect to play better, in fact, collocation is very important, with the appropriate, in order to let the cinnamon of the medicinal effect to play better.

How should I eat cinnamon to get the most out of it?

My hometown is in Guangxi, my grandmother's house is in Bobai, Guangxi, which is the geographic landmark origin of cinnamon, I grew up loving cinnamon, and I am too familiar with it. After becoming a nutritionist and learning Chinese medicine, my knowledge of cinnamon has been further enhanced. Cinnamon can be combined with different foods to achieve a variety of wonderful uses. How can we make the best use of cinnamon? Today, I will share some tips and experiences with you.

What are the benefits of cinnamon?

Longan and lychee are both specialties of Guangxi, but lychee is famous, not only Yang Guifei's "a ride on the red dust, no one knows it is lychee." There is also Su Dongpo's "Three hundred lychees a day, do not quit long as a Lingnan people."

The "star effect" is not just a patent of modern times, but has been practiced since ancient times. There are celebrities "endorsement", lychee fame. But I love longan more, and I'm not the only one.

Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "food to lychee is expensive, and the resource benefit is longan for good. Cover lychee hot, and longan sex and peace."

When dried, longan is generally called cinnamon, or more commonly known as "round meat" to us locals. Longan can be eaten as a fruit, while steamed or dried cinnamon can be used as medicine.

How can I eat cinnamon?

• 1、Eat as a snack

Cinnamon can be eaten as a snack, just stuff it directly into your mouth, no need to learn, everyone can do it. And cinnamon is so sweet and tender, it's so delicious that you just can't stop eating it.

Although the nature of cinnamon than lychee and calm, but nourishing things to eat more, will produce stagnation, and cinnamon sweet, it is easy to nourish the spleen and stomach, so eat more will produce phlegm and fire.

The most important thing to keep in mind when eating as a snack is to control yourself and not to crave too much.Usually a few capsules a day is good, no more than 20 or 30 at the most.

• 2, Boiling water extortion

Qing Dynasty famous doctor Wang Mengying authored the "with the rest of the house dietary spectrum" said, cinnamon "is not easy to melt, it is appropriate to decoction juice to drink". Although cinnamon is good, but sweet things on the spleen and stomach requirements are relatively higher, not easy to digest, it is best to boil water to drink.

Cinnamon can be boiled in water alone, or paired with other ingredients or teas to make tea. For example, I really like to use jujubes and cinnamon to boil water together. Jujubes and cinnamon complement each other and have a stronger, more layered flavor than if they were boiled in water alone.

• 3, Deposition stutter

The most famous representation of cinnamon steamed and eaten is also from Wang Mengying.

Since the peeling of good longan, Sheng bamboo tube type porcelain bowl, each meat one or two, into the white sugar a money, vegetarian body fire, and then into the Western ginseng pieces, such as the number of sugar. Bowl power to a layer of silk, day after day in the rice pot on the steam, steam to a hundred times. --With the rest of the house dietary recipes

Some of you may have already seen that this is the "Jade Spirit Cream".

Yes, this is the original version of Yu Ling Cream, from Wang Mengying's Dietary Recipes of Sui Xi Ju. Nowadays, for Yu Ling Cream, the sugar is usually omitted, and the ginseng is ground into powder, and the cinnamon and ginseng are mixed in a ratio of 10:1, and steamed for 40 hours.

Long time steaming, cinnamon has become black, this time the cinnamon, eating is no longer sweet, will not have greasy throat feeling, not easy to produce phlegm, not easy to fire, but its nourishing nature has not weakened.

• 4、Beat soybean milk to drink

When eaten at retail, some people can't control themselves; boiled in water, some people think it's a pity to throw away the round meat, but it doesn't have much flavor when eaten; and steaming the Jade Spirit Paste is too time-consuming.

I like to use it to make soymilk, such as jujube, cinnamon and lotus seed soup, blood nourishing soup, cinnamon and three red soup. Even other soybean milk, as long as the nature does not conflict, I like to add a handful of cinnamon and a few dates, for flavor, can be much better than icing sugar, white sugar, fragrant and sweet.

• 5. Make soup to drink

Guangxi people love to make soup, we locals like to throw a few grains of cinnamon into the soup with the pot, the soup, there is a hint if not a sweet taste.

But cinnamon flavor is very sweet, don't throw a big handful of it in Oh, the soup is too sweet, but the clamor, usually add 3, 5 grains on the good.

Finally, let me share a few more of my favorite cinnamon recipes that are a snap to learn.

Lotus Seed Congee with Jujubes and Cinnamon

Ingredients: 5-6 jujubes, 30 cinnamon balls, 30g lotus seeds, 30g brown rice, 1-2 pieces of brown sugar.

Practice: 1, brown rice rinsed, soaked for 2 hours, into the rice cooker.

Brown rice can be replaced with black rice, and those with cold stomachs but normal digestion can replace it with glutinous rice.

2, jujube cleaned, torn; cinnamon, lotus seed cleaning, three materials are put into the rice cooker.

Jujubes must be torn open, in order to bring out the role of jujube better. Jujube core can be removed can not be used, jujube meat sex temperature, jujube core sex cool, with the core of cooking together, more difficult to get on fire. If in order to eat convenient, you can also remove the date core.

3, add 2 bowls of water, put brown sugar, choose "porridge" button.

Dates and cinnamon are relatively sweet, if you do not like to eat too sweet, you can not add brown sugar. If you want to eat as breakfast, you can go to bed at night, the material is ready, put into the rice cooker, select "porridge" button, and then booking timer, choose a good time, in the morning, once you get up, there is a hot and sweet breakfast. Then with some eggs, sliced bread, tofu brain, etc., breakfast is very rich.

Blood Nourishing Soup

Ingredients: 5-6 jujubes, 30 cinnamon balls, 45g of wild kudzu powder.

Practice: 1, jujube wash, remove the core, shredded, together with cinnamon into the soybean milk machine or wall machine, add water to the highest level - the lowest level of water between, select "soybean milk" button.

While the soy milk machine is working, go ahead and wash up or do something else.

2, the wild Pueraria lobata powder into a small saucepan, first with a little water to melt. When the soy milk machine stops working, pour the jujube and cinnamon juice into the small milk pot while it is still hot, stirring quickly while pouring, and it becomes a paste.

If the temperature is not hot enough to make a paste straight away, heat a small saucepan over an open fire and bring to the boil to make a paste. One pot of soymilk can serve 2-3 people. If you like it thinner, the kudzu powder can be reduced appropriately; if you like it thicker, the kudzu powder can be increased appropriately.

My favorite thing to cook and drink when I'm up late is this soup, it's easy and delicious.

Yuanzhi Pork Heart Soup

Ingredients: 10 cinnamon balls, 5g ganoderma lucidum, 10g lily, 10g lotus seeds, 15g poria, 2 jujubes. 1 pig heart, 1 pork chop, 5g black fungus, 5g silver ear.

Practice: 1, respectively, black fungus, silver fungus soaked, lily, lotus seeds, Poria soaked for more than 2 hours.

2, ribs chopped into small pieces, pig heart clean, blanch, standby.

Adding pork ribs will give the pork heart soup a more robust flavor. You can also choose bar or fan bones.

3, the whole pig heart and ribs to the casserole, add black fungus, poria, ganoderma lucidum, jujube, cinnamon, jujube should be torn.

Lingzhi is a bit bitter in taste and is served with sweet jujubes and cinnamon to tone down the flavor of the soup.

4, add 2 tablespoons of cooking wine and moderate amount of water, boil over high heat and then reduce the heat, simmer for about 45 minutes, fish out the pork heart, slice, and put it back into the pot.

5, add silver fungus, lily, lotus seeds, and then stew for 20 minutes, before turning off the fire add a little salt to taste can be.

Silver fungus boiled for too long is easy to get out of the gelatin, so that the soup becomes sticky, the taste is not so good; Lily, lotus seed boiled for too long will be rotten, so that the soup becomes cloudy, so the silver fungus, lily, lotus seed can be put after.

concluding remarks

Cinnamon directly as a snack, boiled water, steamed, soybean milk, soup are good.

Today I shared three cinnamon dishes, jujube and cinnamon lotus seed congee, blood nourishing heart soup, Yuanzhi pig heart soup, easy to operate, nutritious and delicious, you may want to try.

There is a way to eat cinnamon that boosts the immune system and is especially good for the elderly. My nearly ninety-year-old mom must eat it every year, and now I will introduce the method to you.

There is a time to eat it, before breakfast, and it should be eaten from the first day of Yixiu until the last day of Yixiu. The first night the seven dry cinnamon steak, wash and soak in cool water for a night, the next morning after boiling (with the water of soaking cinnamon), and then beat an egg, boiled and ready to eat. If you can keep eating it every year, your complexion will become better and better and your body will become healthier and healthier!

Dried cinnamon can be eaten directly to play the role of supplemental nutrition, but the dried cinnamon belongs to the warm food, so you can not eat too much at once, so as not to cause fire. In addition, you can also use dried cinnamon to drink water, can also play the effect of supplemental nutrients.

Cinnamon has the effect of replenishing qi and blood, first of all, see if you are on fire, if on fire is not recommended to eat, this bubble water, porridge are available, the method is also very simple to eat any complementary food first need to look at their own constitution.

I'm the best person to talk to about this.

After all, that's what I do for my health program.

How to eat cinnamon to get the most out of it.

First of all, it depends on what your definition of cinnamon is?

To me, cinnamon is a sweet fruit.

So, eating with your mouth maximizes its value.

A lot of people say that cinnamon can nourish the body, cinnamon is a traditional Chinese medicine, and this and that, the whole thing is quite evil.

I've never heard of anyone losing it from eating cinnamon. I only know of one health expert who died in his 40s.

So yeah, never mind what all those health experts say, you're right to think of it as fruit and eat 'more' fruit in moderation, right?

Cinnamon is a commonly used ingredient to replenish qi and blood, especially favored by women. There are many ways to eat cinnamon, can be eaten directly, can be boiled in water, can be brewed wine, can also be boiled with paste. To know how to eat in order to maximize the effect, first of all, we need to understand the efficacy of cinnamon. Gui Yuan is sweet and warm in nature, belonging to the heart, spleen two meridians, its main role has two points: 1, tonifying the heart and spleen; 2, benefit qi and blood.

Gui Yuan with Ginseng is used to tonify the heart and spleen and has a mild effect on the symptoms of deficiency of the heart and spleen. Gui Yuan can nourish the spleen and stomach, nourish the blood and tranquilize the mind, ginseng can nourish and strengthen the body to improve the symptoms of physical weakness, chronic illness, such as Qi deficiency, gui Yuan and ginseng used together, the nourishing effect is more powerful. However, ginseng, cinnamon are warm, long-term use of water to drink easy to fire, so winter drinking is more appropriate, usually easy to fire body can also use American ginseng instead of ginseng, the effect is better.

Gui Yuan with jujube, beneficial to the blood, function and peace, used for qi and blood deficiency certificate. Two things can be used to drink water can strengthen the spleen and stomach, appropriate drinking helps digestion and absorption; for women due to insufficient qi and blood caused by yellow skin can be effectively improved, to play a nourishing skin, beauty and skin care role, but also can effectively alleviate insomnia, prevention of memory loss. But cinnamon jujube are warm, not suitable for easy to fire body to drink.

In addition to the deficiency of qi and blood with symptoms of kidney deficiency can be used with cinnamon and Chinese wolfberry drink; qi deficiency is obvious can be and Codonopsis, astragalus drink; appear liver and kidney deficiency, liver blood deficiency can be and chrysanthemum together drink water.

Peel off the shell of dried cinnamon, remove the core inside and take only the meat. The same amount of cinnamon meat plus the same amount of imported American ginseng, with a large stewing pot to mix it well. Stewed under water for 40 hours, and then eat about six grains of American ginseng and cinnamon meat every day to replenish qi and blood.

I eat cinnamon balls with one or two golden chrysanthemums and rock sugar.

Eat it with the skin and the core to get the most out of it