In the countryside, people only know that the leaves of perilla can be eaten, but they don't know that it has so many uses!

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"In the countryside, people only know that the leaves of perilla can be eaten, but they don't know that it has so many uses. Let's learn together."

In our rural countryside in Guangxi, if you go to the vegetable garden of the villagers, you will find that many people have a few perilla trees in their vegetable gardens. It's different.

On weekdays, the villagers like to pick its leaves, wash them and rub them a few times, and then fry them with dried fish, or use them as soy sauce with meat, which is especially delicious. With the passage of time, the basil bears seeds, and people let it fall off naturally in the vegetable garden after it is fully ripe, and a lot of basil will grow in the next year. Fresh and delicious perilla leaves.

perilla

Perilla is also called Su Ye, Su Zi, Fragrant Su Ye, Wrinkled Su, etc. It is an annual upright herb of the Lamiaceae family, green or purple, with opposite leaves, round or broad oval leaves, and blunt rods. , with a touch of short purple fluff on it, up to a meter high. The flowering period is generally around August to November, and the fruiting period is August to December.

In China, perilla cultivation has a history of about 2,000 years. Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty recorded: "Perilla has leaves when it is young, and it is eaten with vegetables, or salt and plum brine are very fragrant. In summer, it is cooked in soup to drink." It can be seen that in ancient times, there was a habit of eating perilla, and perilla was used to cook delicious food.

Fried Fish with Perilla

In foreign countries, Bhutan, North Korea, Japan, South Korea and other countries are also cultivated, and some countries plant it as an oil crop; in Japan, perilla oil is processed into natural health care products and put on the market; in South Korea, people are more Love to eat it as kimchi.

The basil itself has a faint fragrance. Cooking fish and meat dishes can enhance the fragrance and freshness, and at the same time, it can also remove the "fishy smell" very well. Therefore, perilla is very common in the Chinese diet, and because it has a good deodorizing effect, people like to use it to eat fish and crabs. In our Guangxi side, everyone especially likes to use it to fry snails, dried fish, chicken and duck, etc. The dishes cooked include dried perilla fried fish, fried perilla, and perilla duck. In addition, perilla leaves have a wonderful effect on our side. Picking perilla leaves or its stems and placing them in a sour jar can prevent white bacteria from forming in the sour jar. If you have a sauerkraut jar at home, try it out. very good.

sour jar

Don't look at the ordinary appearance of perilla, but it has magical uses. It can be used for both edible and medicinal purposes. It belongs to the same origin as medicine and food. It can also be processed and used as a spice.

In modern times, the unique fragrance of perilla has attracted the interest of researchers. Research on it has found that the fat content of perilla is extremely high, accounting for as high as 11.9%, of which the proportion of crude fat and free fatty acids is appropriate. Its protein content is very low, only 0.2%, but it is very rich in amino acids. At the same time, perilla leaves and perilla stems contain a lot of dietary fiber; researchers also found potassium, sodium, calcium, zinc, copper, phosphorus, selenium trace elements in perilla. As a result, people extract oil from perilla seeds, and produce various perilla products such as edible oils, medicines, and cosmetics.

For the extracted su seed oil, it is rich in linolenic acid. Studies such as zhara have proved that it can control platelet aggregation in the human body, reduce neutral lipids in human blood, and remove cholesterol in the body, thereby preventing the human body. It has the functions of lowering blood lipids, preventing myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.

In the United States, an expert named watababe found in a study that saffron oil can significantly improve the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the cells, which can delay the aging function of the human body.

There are also studies showing that α-linolenic acid in suzi oil can have good anti-allergic, anti-cancer, liver and liver protection, brain-enhancing and intellectual-protecting effects.

perilla oil

The whole herb of Perilla frutescens is used as medicine, and its main functions are relieving the exterior and dispelling cold, promoting qi and stomach, and clinically used for the treatment of wind-cold cold, cough, pregnancy vomiting, fish and crab poisoning, etc.

Perilla leaves: pungent and warm in nature, it has the functions of releasing, dispelling cold, regulating qi, and harmonizing camp. It can be used for colds, aversion to cold, fever, asthma, cough, fullness of chest and abdomen, etc.

Perilla seeds: Pungent and warm in nature, it has the functions of lowering qi and eliminating phlegm and moistening the lungs. Can be used for phlegm, cough, constipation, etc.

Perilla terrier: Regulates Qi, relieves pain, relieves miscarriage and other effects.

Precautions:

Those with qi deficiency, chronic cough due to yin deficiency, and loose stools due to spleen deficiency should not eat. And it cannot be eaten with crucian carp and crab. Perilla and the two are easy to produce toxic substances, which can easily lead to abdominal pain and physical discomfort after eating. Secondly, people with high blood sugar should not eat perilla, which can easily lead to diabetes.

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