Medicinal celery is one of the most common and favorite vegetables in Yangzhou. In Yangzhou, many farmers also grow medicinal celery. For example, Shijing Village in Qujiang Street, many farmers have medicinal celery fields at home. Herb celery can also be used to cook many dishes, such as cold salad, stir-frying, making jiaozi, and making sesame cakes. "Although celery has not been used as medicine, its medicinal diet effect is still very effective for many diseases." Yuan Yuan, an otolaryngologist at the Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said.
Yangzhou has always had a tradition of growing celery.
Li Guilan, a 65-year-old grandmother, lives in Lanyuan. She goes to Shita Farmers' Market by bus at least twice a week to buy many fresh vegetables, including celery.
Huo, a member of China Calligraphers Association, is a village cadre in Shijing Village, Qujiang Street. Shijing village has always had a tradition of growing celery. With the development of the city, farmers have become citizens, but they still miss the celery field with unique fragrance. To this end, Huo, who is good at writing, also wrote an article "Medicinal Qin" and posted it in a circle of friends.
"Celery drinking water, it's amazing. It must be watered every day for a week. The seeds of celery woke up and poked their heads out of the soil ... Ten days and a half later, celery will be transplanted, and the seedlings of one acre of land can be transplanted to half an acre of land ... connected with the golden wind for thousands of years. In the morning, before the sun rises, men get up and ride tricycles to work in the fields. Herb Qin has grown up, today is the first time to go public ... "
Plain words and delicate descriptions make farmers' special love for medicinal celery jump from the page. Huo said that local farmers have made a lot of money by planting celery, and their pockets are slowly bulging.
To make stuffing, cold salad and stir-fry, Yangzhou will make medicinal celery delicious.
Medicinal celery is delicious and there are many ways to eat it. When you meet Yangzhou people who can eat and cook, it can become a delicious food. Chen Jinlong, an 80-year-old Yangzhou native, still remembers that when he was a child, he lived in a teaching area where there was a biscuit shop selling shortcakes. There are many kinds of crispy sesame cakes, one of which is called celery pea, which is very delicious.
Sun Yuemei, who lives in Four Seasons Garden, is a busy office worker and doesn't cook much at ordinary times. But her shrimp skin mixed with celery is very delicious. "Is to burn the celery, drain, cut into pieces. Boil the soaked shrimp skin in oil, then add salt, soy sauce and sesame oil, and you can eat it. "
Huo introduced the cooking method of fried celery. He said, put cooking oil in the pot, heat it, add dried incense or shredded pork, stir fry, add medicinal celery, stir fry quickly for a while, and add appropriate amount of salt and a little sugar. "Generally, when cooking, there is little or no boiling water, and the lid is not covered, so that the fried celery does not lose its taste or change its color, just like it has just been picked from the ground. Whether it is celery fried dry incense or celery fried shredded pork, it is delicious with rice. "
His favorite food is cold celery snails. The meat is tender and delicious, sweet and delicious, with good color and fragrance. "One came from the field, the other from the water, and collided on the tip of the tongue. It's two dumb people sleeping together and can't say anything. "
Maya is a hardworking and capable retired teacher. She likes to wrap jiaozi with wild celery. "Wash the picked celery, blanch it, tear it into filaments, chop it up and squeeze it dry. Dice and add minced meat, fungus, shrimp, etc. Mix to make stuffing. It tastes crisp, tender, fragrant and sweet. "
Celery has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, expelling wind and diuresis, and is a good medicinal diet material.
"Medicinal celery is a particularly good medicinal dietary material," said Yuan Yuan, an otolaryngologist at the Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Celery contains protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, cellulose and other nutrients. "At present, some medical scientists are studying the extraction of a substance from celery to make medicine."
Yuan Yuan said that in traditional Chinese medicine, celery tastes sweet, bitter and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, expelling wind and promoting diuresis, lowering blood pressure, treating dizziness, brain swelling, dysuria and hematuria.
Therefore, eating celery often can relieve cough and resolve phlegm; Can be used for the adjuvant treatment of patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis and neurasthenia. In addition, because of its high iron content, it is also the best vegetable for patients with iron deficiency anemia; Because it contains a lot of crude fiber, it can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and promote defecation.
Medicinal celery is delicious, but it also has its taboos. Yuan Yuan introduced that people with poor gastrointestinal function and peptic ulcer, especially some children with gastrointestinal dysfunction, should not eat more.
Chinese medicine recommends celery recipes.
Fried celery
Practice: blanch celery with water, cut it into small dices, add dried fragrant or diced carrots and cooked peanuts, and mix well with soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and sugar.
Efficacy: celery should be eaten in cold salad, which can preserve nutrition to the maximum extent, improve eyesight and benefit qi, enrich blood and strengthen spleen, relieve cough and diuresis, lower blood pressure, and calm the nerves.