What effect does leek have? What are the common categories?
Leek, is one of our common vegetables, usually everyone's table will often see its figure. With high nutritional value, delicate taste and unique flavor, there is a great demand in the market. Leek is also called "lazy vegetable", because leek belongs to persistent root plant, it can be planted for several years at a time, and the planting method is relatively simple. So what is the effect of leek? What kinds do you have? Let's take a look at it together with the editor of Nongxun Network.
First, the efficacy of leek
1. Tonifying the kidney and warming yang
Chives warm, taste pungent, with the role of tonifying the kidney and Yang, so it can be used for the treatment of impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation and other diseases.
2. Increase appetite
Leek contains plant aromatic volatile oil, with the role of appetite, the elderly, children, pregnant women, such as appropriate to eat some spring leek, beneficial to improve health.
3. Invigorate the stomach and eliminate food
Leek has the effect of keeping warm and invigorating the stomach. the crude fiber it contains can promote intestinal peristalsis and help human digestion. Leek can not only prevent habitual constipation and bowel cancer, but also wrap up some sundries in the digestive tract and discharge it with the stool, so it is also known as "intestinal lavage grass" in the folk.
4. Dispelling blood stasis and activating blood circulation
Leek has the effect of dispersing blood stasis, promoting blood circulation and detoxification, which is beneficial to reduce blood lipids, prevent and cure coronary heart disease, anemia and arteriosclerosis.
5. Sterilization and anti-inflammation
The sulfur compounds contained in leek have certain bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects and can inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dysentery, typhoid, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.
6. Regulating menstruation and dispelling cold
Leek sex is warm, women often eat chives can regulate menstruation and relieve cold, treat dysmenorrhea, but breast-feeding women are prohibited, there is the role of milk.
Second, the species of leek
1. Root leek
Root leek is mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Xizang and other places, also known as leek, broad-leaf leek, big-leaf leek, mountain leek, chicken foot leek and so on. Mainly edible roots and bolts. The root system is stout, fleshy, pungent and can be processed, pickled or cooked. The flower stem is fat and tender, can be fried and eaten, and the tender leaves can also be eaten. Root leek is mainly asexual reproduction, strong tillering ability, vigorous growth and easy cultivation. Mainly to harvest in autumn.
2. Leaf leek
The leaves of leek are broad, thick and tender, and the bolting rate is low. Although they can bolt for food in the reproductive growth stage, they are mainly eaten by leaves and leaf sheaths. It is widely cultivated all over our country. This kind is mainly used in softening cultivation.
3. Leek
It is specially used to harvest the flower stalks of Chinese chives for food. It has short leaves, rough texture, strong tillering ability and high bolting rate. The flower stem is tall and thick, the quality is brittle and tender, the shape is similar to the garlic bolt, the flavor is especially beautiful. There are more cultivation in Lanzhou City and Taiwan Province of Gansu Province in China. Shandong and other places also have sporadic introduction and cultivation. There are many varieties of leek, such as small leaf species: strong bolting and tillering, narrow and short leaves, dense color, thin and greenish leaf sheath, hard leaf and leaf sheath, early maturity, both leaf and flower, medium quality; young leek: bolting is very strong, flower stem grows, leaf width is wide and long, dark green, leaf sheath is large, yellowish red. The leaves and leaf sheaths are hard, the bolting period is long, they can bolt all the year round, and the leaves are not suitable for eating, mainly bolting. Nianhua No. 2: the flower stem is thick, good quality, low temperature tolerance.
4. Leek for both leaves and flowers
The leaves and bolts of leek are well developed and can be eaten. At present, most of the leek varieties cultivated in China belong to this type. This type can also be used for softening cultivation.
The above is the introduction of leek, which is native to southeastern Asia. It has been widely cultivated in the world and in China. Leeks are very popular in the market because of their inexpensive price and unique flavor.
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