What are the common spices? Introduction of 27 kinds of common spices

Spices, we can't do without it. You need it for cooking, for soup, and sometimes even for medicine. So do you know what our common spices are? Let's get to know each other today.

Common spice plants:

1. Star anise, also known as fennel, wood fennel, big material, is a woody plant. Flavors, spices. It tastes sweet and sweet. It is beautiful either alone or in combination with other medicines (fragrances). Mainly used for burning, stewing, stewing and other animal raw materials. Sometimes it is also used in vegetarian dishes. Such as stewed radish, stewed dried beans and so on. Star anise is the main seasoning in five-spice powder. It is also the most important spice in brine.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Functions: treating abdominal pain, leveling vomiting, regulating stomach, treating hernia, dispelling cold and dampness, soothing liver and warming stomach.

2. Fennel (fennel seed), also known as cumin, grass fennel. Belongs to vanilla herbs, taste spices. It tastes sweet and fragrant, either alone or in combination with other medicines. The tender leaves of fennel can be used as dumplings, but they are rarely used for seasoning. Fennel seed is mainly used in brine, boiled livestock dishes or beans, peanuts, bean products and so on.

The taste, attribute and function are basically the same as star anise.

3. Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, is the bark of cinnamon trees. It belongs to the woody plant of incense wood. Flavors, spices. Taste sweet, fragrant, are generally used with other drugs, rarely used alone. Mainly used for stewed, roasted, boiled, simmered livestock and wild animals and other dishes. It is the main seasoning in brine.

Attribute: sexual heat, dryness. Functions: tonifying the liver, promoting menstruation, promoting blood circulation, dispelling cold and dehumidification.

4. The twig of cinnamon, that is, the twig of cinnamon, has the same taste, use, attribute and function as cinnamon, but not as strong as cinnamon.

5. Incense leaves, that is, the leaves of osmanthus. The taste, use, attribute and function are the same as cinnamon, but the taste is lighter.

6. Sand ginger, also known as Shannai, mountain spicy. It belongs to vanilla herbs. Ben food spices. It tastes pungent and fragrant. You can eat cooked food raw. It is better to use it alone or in combination with other drugs. Mainly use roast, stewed, simmered, roasted and other animal dishes. It is often processed into powder and is widely used in Cantonese cuisine.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: enter the spleen and stomach, open depression knot, open evil qi, treat stomach cold pain and other diseases.

7. Angelica sinensis, which belongs to vanilla herbs and tastes spices. Taste sweet, bitter, fragrant. Mainly used for stewing and cooking livestock or wild animal dishes. Because its flavor is very strong, so the dosage is very small, otherwise, it will defeat the dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: tonifying blood and activating blood, regulating qi and relieving surface, treating women with irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea, anemia and so on. It is a good medicine for gynecology.

8. Schizonepeta tenuifolia: a herb of vanilla, this food spice. Taste pungent, fragrant, not a wide range of uses, sometimes used for cooking, cooking meat, mainly for dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: enter the lung and liver, soothe the wind evil, clear the leader.

9. Perilla frutescens, a herb of vanilla, has dual use of this flavor. It tastes pungent and fragrant. It has not a wide range of uses. Can be used for fried snails, delicious taste, sometimes used to cook beef and mutton and so on.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: relieving the surface and dispelling cold, regulating qi and harmony, eliminating phlegm and asthma, menstruation and activating collaterals. Can treat cold, fever, asthma, nausea, vomiting, fish and crab poisoning and other diseases, stem can smooth qi and calm the fetus.

10. Peppermint is a vanilla herb. The flavor is dual-use. It tastes pungent and fragrant. It is not very useful, it is mainly used to prepare drinks and sugar water, and sometimes it is also used in sweet dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: clear leader, purge wind and cold, benefit throat, moisten heart and lungs, ward off bad breath.

11. Yellow Gardenia, also known as Gardenia jasminoides, is a woody plant, flavoring spices, but also a natural pigment, orange-red or orange-yellow. The taste is slightly bitter and slightly fragrant. It is of little use and is sometimes used for seasoning of poultry or rice products.

Attribute: cold in nature. Function: clearing heat and purging fire, clearing heat of heart and lungs, treating fever, dysphoria, red eyes, jaundice, hematemesis, purging blood, heat toxin, sores and other diseases.

Angelica dahurica It tastes pungent and fragrant. It is usually used in combination with other drugs. Mainly used for stewed, roasted, simmered livestock game dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: dispel cold and dehumidification, reduce swelling and pus, clear the head.

13. Cardamom, which belongs to vanilla herbs, tastes spices. It tastes pungent and fragrant. Used in conjunction with other medicines. Commonly used in roast, stewed, simmered and other livestock dishes.

Attribute: hot and hot. Function: entering the lungs, dispelling evil and breaking stagnation, and stomach to stop vomiting.

14. Cardamom, which belongs to vanilla herbs, tastes spices. Taste pungent, fragrant, slightly sweet. Combined with its medicine, it is mainly used for stewed, boiled, roasted, braised, simmered livestock, game and other dishes.

Attribute: sexual heat. Function: taste more white cardamom, warm stomach, cure heart and abdomen cold pain, spread chest and diaphragm, treat vomiting, dryness and dampness strengthen spleen, can relieve phlegm and internal toxin.

15. Nutmeg is a vanilla herb that tastes spices. It tastes pungent, sweet and bitter. Combined with other medicines, it is used for stewed livestock dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: Wenzhong San reverse, enter the stomach to eliminate evil, lower qi for phlegm, thick intestine to stop diarrhea.

16. Grass and fruit, which belongs to vanilla herbs and tastes spices. It tastes pungent and fragrant. Used in conjunction with other medicines, for burning, stewing, boiling, simmering and other meat dishes.

Attribute: sexual heat and dry heat. Function: break the qi of miasma, send the cold of spleen and stomach, intercept malaria and eliminate phlegm.

Turmeric, which belongs to vanilla herbs, tastes spices. It tastes pungent, sweet and bitter. It is a spice for both color and taste, not only a spice, but also a natural pigment. Generally give priority to color blending, used in conjunction with other medicines, for cattle and sheep dishes, and sometimes for chicken, duck, fish and shrimp dishes. It is also the main ingredient in curry powder and salsa sauce.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: break qi and remove blood stasis, dispel wind and cold, reduce swelling and relieve pain.

18. Amomum villosum, which belongs to vanilla herbs, tastes spices. It tastes pungent and fragrant. Used in combination with it, it is mainly used for burning, stewing, simmering, cooking and other meat dishes or bean products.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: chasing cold and quickening qi, stopping vomiting, treating stomachache, relieving stagnation and resolving phlegm.

19. Alpinia officinarum, a herb of vanilla, tastes spices. It tastes pungent and fragrant. Combined with other medicines, it is used for burning, stewing, simmering and other dishes.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: dispelling cold, relieving heartache, dispelling salivation and vomiting.

20. Cloves, also known as chicken tongue incense, belong to fragrant wood woody plants, taste spices. It tastes pungent, sweet and bitter. It can be used alone or in combination with other drugs. Often used for steaming, roasting, simmering, cooking, stewing and other dishes. Such as clove chicken, clove beef, clove bean curd skin and so on. Because its taste is extremely rich, so do not use more, otherwise, it will be counterproductive.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: Xuanzhong warms the stomach, tonifies the kidney and strengthens yang, and treats vomiting.

21. Zanthoxylum bungeanum, also known as Sichuan pepper, is not unique to Sichuan, nor is it produced in Sichuan. There is production in North China, Northwest China, Central China, East China and other regions. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a woody plant that tastes spices, pungent, hemp and fragrant. All animal materials can be used. It is suitable to be used alone or in combination with its medicine, but it is mostly used for fried, boiled, stewed, roasted, fried and other dishes. Both meat and vegetarian, in Sichuan cuisine, the use of pepper, more widely.

Attribute: warm the middle to dispel cold. Function: epigastric cold pain due to deficiency of spleen and stomach; ascariasis abdominal pain; vomiting and diarrhea; lung cold cough and asthma; lung cold cough and asthma; dental caries and toothache; Yin itching belt; eczema skin itching.

22. Cumin, taste spices, taste pungent, fragrant. Usually used alone, mainly used for roast, fried, fried mutton, beef, chicken, fish and other dishes. It is a common and favorite spice in Northwest China. The flavor of cumin is extremely strong and special. It is difficult for southerners to accept this taste, so there are very few cumin dishes in southern cuisine.

Attribute: sexual heat. Function: Xuanfeng dispelling cold, warming stomach and dehumidifying.

23. Pepper is a vine that tastes spices. It tastes spicy and fragrant. All animal materials can be used. Both soup and vegetables are suitable. Because its taste is extremely strong, so the dosage is very small. Often research into powder and use it. Pepper is widely used in Cantonese cuisine.

Attribute: sexual heat. Function: dispelling cold, breathing, broadening, dispelling wind, eliminating phlegm. Note: pepper can cause sores and help fire, injure yin, and those with hot stomach should avoid eating.

Licorice, also known as sweet grass, belongs to herbs, taste spices, taste sweet. Mainly used for pickled meat products and stewed vegetables.

Attribute: sex is flat. Functions: Harmony, detoxification, tonifying qi and moisturizing lungs, relieving cough, purging fire, stopping all pain, treating deficiency of qi and weakness, loose stool, cough, asthma, sore throat, sore poisoning, epigastric and limb spasm pain and other symptoms. Note: eating too much makes people vomit.

25. Siraitia grosvenorii is a vine that tastes spices. It tastes sweet. Mainly used for stewed vegetables.

Attribute: cool. Function: clearing heat, detoxification, tonifying qi, moistening lung, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, relieving summer heat, promoting fluid, clearing liver, eyesight, moistening intestines, soothing stomach, it can treat a variety of diseases of respiratory system, digestive system and circulatory system, especially for bronchitis, acute and chronic pharyngitis, asthma, hypertension, diabetes and other diseases.

26. Citronella is a vanilla herb with a taste of spices. It tastes fragrant and sweet. It is usually used for grinding powder. Mainly used for barbecue dishes. It is also used to prepare compound sauce.

Attribute: cold in nature. Function: reducing fire, promoting diuresis and clearing lungs.

Orange peel, that is, dried orange peel. It's a woody plant. Flavors, spices. It tastes bitter, bitter and fragrant. It is suitable to be used alone or in combination with other drugs. Mainly used for roasting, steaming, steaming, simmering and other meat dishes. It is also used to prepare compound sauce.

Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: dispelling cold and dehumidification, regulating qi and dispersing adverse reactions, relieving cough and phlegm.