Harvesting and processing: Generally, yellow soybeans are soaked in water for about a day (which can be shorter in summer). After the beans become plump, they are ground with water and filtered
Remove the residue, boil it in a pot, and it becomes tofu paste. Then add salt brine or gypsum to solidify it into tofu pudding, wrap it with cloth, and press it off
Partial moisture, that's it.
Medicinal parts: processed products of soybean seeds
Origin: National
Family: Leguminosae
Original plant: Soybean Glycine max (L.) Merr
Tofu medicinal properties:
【 Source 】
From the Classic of Materia Medica.
1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": The method of tofu originated from Liu An, the King of Huainan in the Han Dynasty. Black beans, soybeans, white beans, mud beans, peas, mung beans, and the like can all be used.
2. Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica": When ordinary people first arrive in a place, they are not accustomed to the local conditions. They first eat tofu, and then gradually adjust.
3. "Suixi Ju Dietary Guide": Tofu is made from green and yellow soybeans, finely ground in a clear spring, raw and squeezed into a paste, and then cooked in a pot. The soft and lively tofu wins. If it is not pressed, it will be even softer, which is called rotten flower, also known as rotten brain; Made by squeezing and drying, it has a thousand layers, also known as louvers, and has dried meat, both of which are common dishes and can be eaten as meat or vegetables. And those who are rotten, dry, and firm.
【 Taste 】 Sweet; cool
[Gui Jing] Spleen; Stomach; large intestine
【 Indications and Functions 】 Relieve fire and detoxify; Generate fluids and moisten dryness; Nourishing Qi through Planting. Pain and swelling in the main professional staff; Pulmonary heat cough; Quench thirst; Resting diarrhea; Spleen deficiency and bloating
[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: Boil or decoct soup, 10-30g.
【 Discussions from Various Schools 】
1. Ning Yuan's "Shi Jian Ben Cao": It is broad and nourishing qi, harmonizing the spleen and stomach, reducing the turbidity of qi in the lower colon, and relieving bloating.
2. Compendium of Materia Medica: Clearing heat and dispersing blood.
3. "Essentials of Medical Forest Compilation": Clearing lung heat, relieving cough, and eliminating phlegm.
4. "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": Treating the impact of stomach fire, internal heat stagnation, and symptoms such as quenching thirst and bloating. And treat red eye swelling and pain.
5. "Seeking the Origin of Materia Medica": Resolving Sulfur Yellow Poison.
6. "Suixi Ju Diet Guide": Clearing heat, moistening dryness, generating fluids, detoxifying, tonifying the middle, widening the intestines, and reducing turbidity.
7. "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": Tofu is made by grinding beans and adding gypsum or brine, and its nature is not warm. Old books all record that the taste is sweet and salty, the qi is cold and non-toxic, and it is said that cold can move qi. The ability of clouds to harmonize with the spleen and stomach is precisely the language of peace and tranquility after the elimination of heat and fire, not the saying of emptiness and heat without fire and warmth supplementation. "
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① Treat rest dysentery: eat vinegar fried white tofu. (Pope Francis)
② Drinking too much soju can make one's body turn red and purple, almost dying. The heart is still warm: slice hot tofu, stick it all over the body, change it when it's cold, and stop when you wake up. (Yao Kecheng, Food Materia Medica)“