The kitchen in summer is not only a place for fireworks, but also a natural treasure trove of traditional Chinese medicine. Take a few home-cooked ingredients and mix them a little to create a delicious and healthy seasonal dish. Today’s protagonist, the simple but extraordinary garlic paste slapping cucumber, is the exquisite embodiment of this summer health wisdom.
01 Ingredients Materia MedicaThe university in the side dish asked
Cucumber (the “hydration expert” that clears heat and water):
Taste returns to the meridians: sweet taste, cool nature. Enter the spleen meridian, stomach meridian, and large intestine meridian.
Health effect: Emerald green cucumber, sweet and cool, bite gently, the juice overflows, as if it can extinguish the heat in the heart. It enters the spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians, and is the “scavenger” on the summer table. Its effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, diuresizing water and diuresis can effectively take away the heat and moisture accumulated in the body and soothe the heart that is disturbed by the heat. A small plate before the meal, the heat disappeared by most of the time.
Garlic (the “health guardian” of natural sterilization):
Taste returns to the meridians: spicy taste, warm nature. Return to the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians.
Health benefits: Don’t look at the spicy garlic, it is a treasure of the same origin as medicine and food. Its nature is warm, and it enters the spleen and stomach, and the effect of warming the stomach, digesting food and regulating qi is remarkable. What’s even more precious is its excellent insecticidal and detoxifying ability, which can help us resist external evils and prevent colds. Among them, the purple skin garlic is particularly effective. Remember: the health essence of garlic is easy to lose when heated, and raw food shows its ability! However, those with liver disease, eye disease, spleen deficiency and diarrhea need to eat with caution or eat less.
02、Garlic paste slaps cucumbersCool health practice in summer
How to make it (extremely simple):★ A fresh cucumber, wash it and put it on the chopping board, pat it with the blade until it cracks slightly (more flavorful), and then cut it diagonally into palatable pieces;★ Take half of the high-quality purple-skinned garlic, peel off the coat, wash it, crush it, and chop it into a delicate garlic paste;★ Put the cucumber cubes in a bowl, add garlic paste and appropriate amount of salt, mix gently, let stand for a while to let the flavors blend and serve.★ Finishing touch: If you like sour aroma, you can pour a little balsamic vinegar, if you like spicy and fresh, add a few drops of soy sauce, and if you like hot and spicy, add a little chili oil to change the flavor as you like.
A seemingly ordinary plate of garlic paste and cucumbers actually embodies the profound wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine in the kitchen. It cleverly uses the sweetness and coolness of cucumber and the spicy and warm detoxification of garlic, and provides us with a natural barrier to fight heat and protect health through the most simple “raw food” way.