Recipes tagged "Yinchen"

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Pan-fried yinchen cake

Around the Qingming Festival when the wormwood is at its tenderest, picking the stems and leaves of the wormwood and frying it into small cakes is a rare spring delicacy.

Staple food Home cooking
Yinchen Bean Porridge

In spring, drink some vegetable porridge, which is refreshing and delicious.

Porridge Home cooking
[Henan] Liver-nourishing wormwood noodles

Artemisia arborescens is also called white wormwood, so named because of the white hairs growing on the backs of its leaves. Yinchen is the name of traditional Chinese medicine. Freshly dug artemisia seedlings taste bitter, slightly pungent, and slightly cold in nature; they return to the liver, gallbladder, and spleen meridians; they have a refreshing fragrance and promote diarrhea; they have the effects of clearing away heat and promoting dampness, promoting gallbladder, and reducing jaundice. Liver-nourishing wormwood is a rare ingredient in spring. However, due to its slightly cold nature, those with weak constitution should eat less. Due to differences in temperature in various places, the harvesting time of artemisia varies in different places. We have a saying here: In the first month, the wormwood grows in the second month, and in the third month, it becomes firewood. This means that only the white artemisia seedlings collected in the first month can be called wormwood and have medicinal effects. After the first month, it becomes mugwort and cannot be used as medicine. Don't wait until it's out of season. Take advantage of the season to dig some and eat them. It will also nourish your liver in spring. The cellulose content of wormwood is high, and the taste is not particularly good, so today's noodles are mainly made with wormwood juice, which takes advantage of the medicinal and food effects of wormwood and tastes delicious. The lamb liver wormwood noodles have a light taste, which is also very suitable for eating at this time after the Chinese New Year.

Staple food Pasta
Steamed Yinchen

Among the spring fresh food, there is one delicacy that many people don’t know about, and that is Artemisia annua, also called wormwood. There is a legend about Yinchen. Legend has it that Hua Tuo was treating a patient with yellow tuberculosis, but he had no good medicine and could not be cured. After a while, Hua Tuo found that the patient suddenly recovered and hurriedly asked him what medicine he had taken. He said he ate a green weed. When Hua Tuo saw that it was Artemisia annua, he went to the field to collect some and gave it to other jaundice patients to try, but he tried several times without any effect. Hua Tuo then went to ask the recovered patient from which month the wormwood seeds had been eaten, and he said they were from March. Hua Tuo realized that in the third month of spring, the yang energy rises and the herbs sprout. Perhaps the mugwort in March has medicinal power. In the spring of the next year, Hua Tuo collected a lot of Artemisia annua from March and gave it to patients with jaundice. As expected, each one was better, but after three months, the Artemisia annua had no effect anymore. In order to find out the medicinal properties of Artemisia annua, Hua Tuo conducted classification experiments on roots, stems and leaves in the third year. Clinical practice has proved that only the young stems and leaves can be used as medicine to treat diseases, and they are named Yinchen. This is the legend of Hua Tuo’s three experiments with mugwort. He also compiled a song for future generations to learn from: "Yinchen in March and Artemisia in April", which should be passed down to future generations to remember. In March, wormwood is used to treat jaundice, and in April, mugwort is used as firewood. Yinchen has the functions of clearing away heat and dampness, reducing jaundice, promoting choleretics, and protecting liver. It also has antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure and other effects. Around the Qingming Festival, wormwood is at its tenderest and most suitable for picking and cooking. What I’m making today is a home-cooked dish.

Hot dishes Home cooking
Yinchen crucian carp soup

This wormwood is a wild wormwood picked by my aunt in the wild. It has high nutritional value. When cooked with crucian carp, it tastes delicious and removes moisture.

Soups Home cooking