Taro is also a medicine
Taro is a food containing many nutrients such as: starch, protein, lipid, galactose, Ca, P, F; vitamins A, B, C and many amino acids necessary for the body. Dishes made from taro also have medicinal properties.
According to traditional medicine, taro has a sweet, slightly spicy, smooth taste, neutral properties, has the effect of nourishing qi and kidney, regulating internal organs, replenishing damage, eliminating phlegm and reducing swelling. Often used to treat physical weakness, tuberculosis, poor appetite, insomnia, etc.
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Some medicinal dishes from taro
- Pork bone stewed with taro: 60g taro, 100g pig shank or spine. Peel and wash taro, chop pork bone into short pieces, add salt, water, and spices. Simmer for 2 hours, eat twice a day, has the effect of expelling wind and dampness. Used for cases of allergic rash, pain in arms and legs.
- Taro and yam porridge: 200g taro, 50g yam, 50g rice, cook porridge to eat during the day. Regularly eating this porridge has the effect of increasing physical strength, strengthening the spleen and stomach (enhancing digestive function), used to treat weakness, fatigue, poor appetite, and thirst.
- Taro and pork soup: 100g taro, 50g lean pork, cook soup and eat with meals. Has the effect of nourishing yin, preventing thirst, benefiting qi, nourishing the stomach, and preventing fatigue. Can be used to nourish cases of body weakness and thirst after illness.
- Taro and jujube sweet soup: 250g taro (peeled and cut into small pieces), 50g jujube, 50g brown sugar, simmer to make a sweet soup, divide into 3-4 meals a day. Used to nourish those with weak body and thirst after recovering from illness.
- Crab soup with taro and water spinach: 200g field crab, 60g taro, 1 bunch of water spinach. Wash the field crab, remove the apron and shell, keep the crab fat, crush, filter the water, add fish sauce and salt to taste; Peel the taro, wash and cut into bite-sized pieces; Pick the leaves and young stems of the water spinach, remove the roots and wicks, wash. Put the taro in the crab water, cook until the taro is soft, add the water spinach, cook until done. This dish is very good for people who are restless, have poor appetite, and sleep poorly.
- Taro and mung bean soup: 300g taro, 100g mung bean, cooking oil, enough spices. Peel taro, wash, soak in salt water to remove slime. Wash mung bean, soak in water until soft, boil. Heat oil in pan, stir-fry taro, then add water and cook for about 10 minutes. Add mung bean to stew. When the beans and taro are soft, add spices, eat hot. Eating this dish regularly is very good for the brain and improves memory loss, suitable for people with physical weakness, nervous breakdown, and people who have just recovered from illness.
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