Dietary taboos for Bawang flower

People with special physiques should eat with caution as needed, and do not eat it with a large amount of cold ingredients of the same nature. Other rumors about "competition" and "poisoning" that have been spread are basically rumors, so don't take it seriously.

I have been living in western Guangdong for almost ten years. The local neighbors use Bawang flower almost every now and then when making Laohuo soup. Fresh stir-fried and dried stewed pork bones and chicken are all home-cooked dishes. Over the years, there are also cases of problems caused by eating Bawang flower. They are all eaten without knowing their own constitution. It really has little to do with the ingredients themselves. The last time we went to a suburban farm for a department team building, the signature dish was Bawang Flower Pork Bone Soup. A male colleague who usually had diarrhea after drinking iced milk tea drank two large bowls of it. He started running to the toilet that night and went to the community hospital because his legs were weak. An old Chinese doctor took a pulse and said that he had deficient spleen yang. But for a person who usually suffers from sore throat and cough due to lung heat, drinking two bowls of it makes him feel very comfortable. This is not a general taboo. To put it bluntly, it is just not suitable for him.

Oh, by the way, the most frequently asked question is whether pregnant women and menstrual periods can eat it. There is actually no unified conclusion in the industry. Most traditional Chinese medicine doctors recommend that pregnant women with unstable fetuses in early pregnancy and a history of habitual miscarriage should avoid it as much as possible. Girls who have cold hands and feet during menstruation and severe dysmenorrhea should also avoid it to avoid cold stimulation aggravating symptoms. ； But now many Chinese medicine practitioners and nutritionists who pay attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment believe that as long as you do not eat more than 200g of fresh Bawang flowers or more than 20g of dried Bawang flowers at one time, and there are no symptoms of deficiency and cold, even if you have a cough due to lung heat in the second and third trimester of pregnancy, drinking a small amount of half a bowl of Bawang flower fig soup is much safer than taking medicine. I have a sister who is 6 months pregnant. She doesn’t dare to take medicine when she has a cough during the season. She followed the doctor’s advice and drank half a bowl of Bawanghua Snow Pear Soup each time for two days. Her cough has gone away without any problems. There is really no need to treat her in one size fits all.

The only real pitfall to avoid is not to cook the Overlord flower with a bunch of similarly cold ingredients. I have seen the "super heat-clearing and fire-reducing soup" shared by netizens before, which involves throwing Bawang flowers, Houttuynia cordata, bitter melon, raw water chestnuts, and cold bacteria into a pot. Some people also eat ice-drunk crabs as the main dish during the Bawang flower banquet. Not to mention people with weak spleen and stomach, even young men with strong firepower can easily suffer from stomach cramps when eating this. My aunt's cousin did this last summer. He ate Bawang flower bitter melon soup and ice crabs together. He was so painful that he rolled in the middle of the night and went to the emergency room to get fluids. The doctor said that the combination of cold food and stomach irritation was entirely his own doing.

There is another point that is easily overlooked. People with pollen allergies should be careful. Overlord flowers are flowers of the cactus family. Whether they are fresh or dried, a small amount of pollen will remain. I have a best friend who suffers from allergic rhinitis every spring. The last time I helped her mother handle the freshly picked flowers, she sneezed more than ten times on the spot. Her eyes were swollen like walnuts. She took anti-allergic medicine for a long time before she recovered. If you are allergic to pollen or cactus plants, it is best to try a little bit first, and then eat if there is no reaction. Don't show off a big bowl, as you will suffer the consequences.

As for the myths that are so popular on the Internet that "Bawang flower cannot be eaten with eggs" and "cannot be eaten with pork, it will cause poisoning", these are just old rumors, okay? In my hometown, I have been making Bawang flower fried eggs since I was a child. The Bawang flower pork bone soup in Cantonese restaurants has been a signature dish for decades. If it was really poisonous, it would have been found out and there would be no residue left. I really don’t believe this theory that there is no trace of it.

Speaking of which, our family has a little habit of making Bawang flower soup. Every time, we put 3 slices of ginger or 2 pitted red dates to slightly neutralize its coldness. We can only put 1 dried Bawang flower at a time, which is enough for three or four people, and only half a flower for fresh ones. No one has ever felt uncomfortable after drinking it for so many years. To put it bluntly, there are no absolute dietary taboos. It always depends on the physique of the person who eats it and how they eat it. There is no need to think of Ba Rex flower as "dangerous". As long as you avoid situations where your body is intolerant, it is a delicious and delicious food that can also moisturize the lungs.