How to eat red yeast rice, cooking instructions to understand

The therapeutic value of red yeast rice is very high. It can lower blood pressure and blood lipids. However, many people do not know how to eat red yeast rice. Red yeast rice can be used to cook dishes, porridge, pasta, and pastries. Let’s take a look at the cooking instructions of red yeast rice.

1. Red Yeast Rice Cooking Instructions

1. In cooking, red yeast rice is widely used and can be used to color dishes, such as the production of Jiangsu famous dishes cherry meat and Wuxi spareribs;

⒉It can be used for roast meat, marinated food, such as Guangdong barbecued pork and some brine;

⒊ It can be used to color sausages such as red sausages, and to adjust the color when preparing complex flavors such as sweet and sour, and western sauces;

⒋ Red yeast rice is also often used in the production of porridge, pasta, fermented bean curd, cakes, candy, candied fruit, etc.

2. Medicinal Value

In recent years, pharmacologists have discovered that red yeast rice is an excellent natural medicine for lowering blood lipids and blood pressure. In the magnum opus "Compendium of Materia Medica: Monascusales" edited by Li Shizhen, there are several effective prescriptions for treating diseases containing red yeast rice ingredients. "Lezhiping", a new lipid-lowering drug developed by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences using red yeast rice as raw material, has efficacy comparable to that of statins developed by American companies and is called "Chinese statin" abroad. In addition, Monascus derivatives have strong antioxidant and anti-cancer effects. As scientists gain deeper understanding of the physiological and pharmacological effects of Monascus, the ancient red yeast rice is expected to become an important source of new drugs.

3. Prescriptions from Ancient Books

⒈To treat heart and stomach pain: take equal parts of red koji, angelica rotundus and frankincense. Grind into powder and take with wine. (From "Zhai Yuan Fang")

⒉ To treat children's head sores, which are caused by water poisoning due to injury and dampness, and the pus does not stop: mash red yeast rice and apply it to the sores. ("One Hundred and One Prescriptions")

⒊ Postpartum blood stasis and abdominal pain in women: 3-12 grams of red yeast rice, add yellow wine to the decoction, and drink it while it is warm.

⒋ Warm-heat diarrhea (acute enteritis): 15 grams of red yeast rice, stir-fry and grind into fine powder, mix with Liuyi powder (composed of 6 parts of talc and 1 part of raw licorice) in equal parts, take 2 to 9 grams each time, with rice soup, 3 times a day.

5. For children’s head sores and impetigo: fry red yeast rice and grind it into fine powder, mix with sesame oil and apply to the affected area, twice a day.