Find the medicinal properties in the banh chung

Banh chung is a traditional food, rich in national identity, rich in nutrients, indispensable during the Lunar New Year in Vietnam. In terms of medicine, all the ingredients that make up banh chung are folk remedies, very close to everyday life.

Dong leaves:Sweet and slightly cold in taste, has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, cooling, diuretic, astringent. Cure drunkenness: 100g fresh dong leaves, wash, crush, squeeze to get the juice to drink. Use alone or in combination with young kudzu leaves. Can also use dong leaf stems. Cure poisoning: 50g dong leaf shoots, wash, crush, add water, filter to drink. Do 2-3 times a day.

Treating wounds: 100g dong leaves, wash clean, crush, apply bandage. If the wound is bleeding, it will stop immediately. Treating digestive disorders, frequent bowel movements during the day: burn dong leaves, leave as is, drink 20g each time with cooled boiled water. Drink 2-3 times a day.

The ingredients in banh chung are all folk medicines.

Glutinous rice (ngach me):Sweet, aromatic, soft, warm, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach. To cure persistent vomiting, Tue Tinh (Nam Duoc Than Hieu) used 20g of fried sticky rice, 3 slices of fresh ginger, boiled with 200ml of water until 50ml remains, and drank during the day.

With the same effect, folk experience uses 12g of sticky rice combined with 12g of Ophiopogon japonicus, 12g of Codonopsis pilosula, 6g of processed Pinellia ternata, 4g of licorice, boiled in water to drink. Roasted rice water is used to prevent diarrhea.

Plain sticky rice porridge is called flower porridge and has the effect of "cooling the intestines", used for cases of "heavy stomach". If cooked well with pig's trotters, it is a classic and popular dish and medicine that increases milk secretion.

Green beans.The edible part of the seed contains 22-23.4% protein, 1-2.4% lipid, 53-60% carbohydrate, amino acids, vitamins A, B1, B2, PP, B6 and trace elements. The medicinal herb has a sweet, slightly fishy taste, cool properties, has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing thirst, and regulating the five internal organs.

The ancients knew how to prevent heat-related diseases in the summer by boiling water with 3 types of beans: green beans, black beans, and red beans (equal amounts). Green beans cooked with sticky rice to make porridge, add sugar, eat daily to treat heat, heartburn, frequent urination, nausea during pregnancy. Green beans crushed very finely, mixed with vinegar to apply to treat swelling, heat rash, pain.

To detoxify, take green beans with skin, 2 parts; licorice 1 part, boil to get water to drink. Green bean skin (green bean skin or green bean skin), traditional medicine uses green bean skin combined with raw rehmannia, scrophularia, gypsum, scrophularia, licorice, each 10g, dry, grind, boil with 400ml of water until 100ml remains, drink twice a day to treat high fever, delirium, convulsions.

According to folk experience, dried green bean pods are stuffed into cloth bags and used as pillows to create a cool, comfortable feeling and prevent headaches, especially in hot and humid seasons.

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Green bean sproutsis a special vegetable in the form of color, very rich in protein, glucid, vitamins, especially vitamin E, which is very necessary for people with infertility and women who have had miscarriages. The common form of use is eating raw bean sprouts. When coughing with phlegm, dry throat, hoarse voice, take raw bean sprouts mixed with a little water, squeeze the juice and gargle many times a day. To treat food and metal poisoning, urinary retention, drunkenness, drink raw bean sprout juice mixed with sugar.

In addition, pork and aromatic spices such as pepper and cardamom are also familiar folk remedies.