The medical value of cowpea

Cowpea grows in summer and is one of the common dishes. Here is an introduction to the medical value of cowpea:

Pharmacology

Sweet, neutral. ① "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Normal taste." ② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet and salty, neutral, non-toxic." ③ "New Materia Medica": "Sweet and astringent, neutral." Meridians enter the spleen and kidney meridians. ① "Depei Materia Medica": "Enters the qi of the foot taiyin meridian." ② "Bencao Qiuzhen": "Enters the kidney and also the stomach.

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Function and indications

Strengthens the spleen and kidneys. Treats spleen and stomach weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, thirst, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, leucorrhea, and frequent urination.

Dosage

Internal use: decoct soup, cook porridge, and in the north, it is mostly used to make sticky cakes and bean curd fillings; in the south, it is mostly used for cooking, stir-frying, cold salad, stir-frying with auxiliary ingredients such as green pepper, and also as a condiment for various soups and noodles. It can be dried and mostly used as a dried vegetable in the north, which can be stir-fried with meat or made into hot and sour soup alone.

Practical options

1. Treat abdominal distension and belching caused by food stagnation: chew and swallow an appropriate amount of raw cowpea, or mash and dissolve in cold water. Selected from (Chengdu "Common Herbal Treatment Manual")

Medicinal Diet

4. Cowpea stewed with chicken: 100g cowpea, 30g vine vegetable, 100g chicken, cooking wine, scallion, ginger, salt, and MSG. Wash the chicken and cut it into small pieces. Rinse the cowpea and vine vegetable, cut them into sections, put them into the pot with the chicken, add water, cooking wine, scallion, ginger, salt, etc., boil over high heat first, then simmer over low heat. When the chicken and cowpea are cooked, add chicken essence (MSG is also OK) to season and serve as a dish.