Goose meat, besides delicious, Li Shizhen once praised its medicinal efficacy. In addition, it is worth mentioning that goose blood, as a kind of food, is not widely eaten, but its magical curative effect has been circulated among the people. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, we can know the geese on the table.
Goose, a kind of duck, is also called domestic goose. There are two kinds of geese: white geese and pale geese. There are many ways to eat goose, which can be braised, roasted and fried. It is a delicious dish at the banquet and is deeply loved by people. Different parts of geese have different therapeutic effects.
● goose
Goose meat is suitable for people with weak body, malnutrition and deficiency of spleen and stomach, but goose meat belongs to hair, so some patients need to eat less.
Goose is sweet and flat in nature, and belongs to spleen, lung and liver meridians. Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Goose benefits five internal organs, relieves the heat of five internal organs, and cooks juice to quench thirst." "Life Taste Diet Spectrum" records: "Goose can tonify deficiency and benefit qi, warm stomach and produce fluid, and can relieve lead poisoning." Goose meat is suitable for people with physical weakness, malnutrition and spleen and stomach qi deficiency; It is also suitable for people with body fluid deficiency, thirst and body fluid deficiency, including Sjogren's syndrome and diabetes.
Goose meat is delicious, but ancient doctors found from clinical experience that goose meat belongs to hair. Therefore, patients with intractable "persistent diseases" and "chronic diseases", including lymphoid tuberculosis, cancer, lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, chronic eczema, carbuncle and furuncle (including hemorrhoids), should not eat more; Goose meat is moist and greasy, which helps to clear away heat and promote diuresis. Usually, people with phlegm dampness, thick and greasy tongue coating, chest tightness, nausea and indigestion should not eat more. People suffering from cholecystitis, gallstones, obesity, fatty liver, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis should not eat more, so as not to aggravate the condition.
● Goose blood
Ancient books recorded that goose blood can cure esophageal cancer and gastric cancer, and modern medicine also found the anti-cancer effect of goose blood. But Chinese medicine advises other cancers to eat carefully.
Goose blood has a high medicinal value in medicine, which was valued by ancient Chinese doctors and believed that it could enrich blood, promote blood circulation and detoxify. Zhang Lu, a great medical scientist in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, said in his book Ben Feng Jing Yuan: "Goose blood can pour out the blood stasis in the stomach, open the blood diaphragm and vomit, making food inedible, and drinking it hot can spit out the root of the disease." The treatable diseases recorded in the above goose blood are esophageal cancer and gastric cancer.
Modern pharmacological research has proved that goose blood contains high concentration of immunoglobulin, which can inhibit Ehrlich ascites cancer by more than 40%, enhance the immune function of the body, increase white blood cells and promote the phagocytosis of lymphocytes. Goose blood also contains an anticancer factor, which can enhance human humoral immunity and produce antibodies. Because the immune function is closely related to the onset of tumor, the immune function of most patients with malignant tumor is obviously decreased, and the active substances such as immunoglobulin and anticancer factor contained in goose blood can enhance the immune system of human body through the intermediary of the host, so as to achieve the purpose of treating cancer.
Although the above modern pharmacological studies have proved that goose blood has the efficacy of treating cancer, from the clinical practice, the clearly treatable diseases recorded in ancient Chinese medicine books are esophageal cancer and gastric cancer, and most doctors think that goose blood is wool and it is not recommended to eat it. Here, the author conservatively suggests that except for esophageal cancer and gastric cancer, it is not recommended to eat any part of the goose for other cancers, so as not to aggravate the condition.
The general treatment of esophageal cancer and gastric cancer is to drink half a cup of white goose blood 1 ~ 2 times a day. Boiled goose blood is also effective for patients who dare not drink fresh goose blood. In addition, there is another method: take all the white goose feathers, burn them into ashes, grind them fine, mix them with rice soup and stew them with goose meat. Eat a goose for 3 ~ 7 days.
● Goose oil
Goose oil is sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic. It can benefit qi, make people fit, resist aging, keep healthy and make people fat and white.
Goose oil is sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic. It can benefit qi, make people fit, resist aging, keep healthy and make people fat and white. Can be used for treating wind contracture, wind-heat upset, weakness of waist and legs, deafness, carbuncle, ear carbuncle, chest heat fullness, vomiting, etc.
Low goose egg
Goose eggs can tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi, and are mainly used to treat postpartum weakness and emaciation.
Goose eggs are coarse in texture and have a strong grassy smell, so they are not as delicious as eggs as cooking materials. It is warm in nature, non-toxic and sweet in taste, belonging to spleen and kidney meridians. This product can tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi, and is mainly used for postpartum asthenia and emaciation.
Chicken, duck and goose are the three kinds of poultry that people eat most often, which can replenish qi and deficiency, and the taste of goose is stronger than that of chicken and duck. However, the nature and taste of the three are different. Chicken is warm, duck is cold, and goose is between chicken and duck, so it is flat.
The biggest disadvantage of goose meat is its strong smell and wind-induced sores (Compendium of Materia Medica). Especially, it can "cause chronic diseases" (said Meng Yan, a food doctor in the Tang Dynasty), and it is a famous hair product. No wonder Wang Mengying, a famous health care practitioner in the Qing Dynasty, lamented: "Goose, if you have a minor illness, can you have a try?" "Therefore, all patients should not be careless!"
Note: Goose can be divided into white goose and light goose. In contrast, white goose is the best, fat goose is the best, and You Mei is roasted. Goose gizzards and goose feet are peaceful and suitable for people who are weak after illness.