How to eat dried perilla leaves

Perilla leaves are rich in various nutrients, especially cellulose. Cellulose can make people feel full and help people lose weight. In addition, it can also treat nasal congestion, constipation, hemorrhoids, cough, high blood sugar, diabetes and other diseases. Perilla leaves are generally dried, and there are many ways to eat dried perilla leaves, such as making them into beverages or using them to cook porridge.

How to eat dried perilla leaves

1. There are many different ways to eat perilla leaves after they are dried. You can usually make them into refreshing drinks for people to drink. When making them, you need to take 3 to 5 pieces of dried perilla leaves, wash them and put them in a teacup, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and directly pour in boiling water. Let it cool down after soaking, or put it in the refrigerator for a few hours, take it out and drink it. That is its taste, cool and refreshing, can strengthen the stomach and relieve heat, and can also promote digestion and increase appetite.

2. The dried perilla leaves are also very delicious when used to cook porridge. When cooking porridge, you need to prepare 15 grams of dried perilla leaves and 100 grams of rice. Wash the rice and the perilla leaves, put them into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water and cook into porridge. Add appropriate amount of brown sugar for seasoning before serving. After mixing well, take out and eat directly. It can dispel cold, strengthen the stomach and relieve heat.

Nutritional value of perilla leaves

Rich in fiber, it makes people feel full and helps lose weight. It can stimulate the gastrointestinal tract after eating and can prevent and treat diseases such as constipation and hemorrhoids.

Suitable for people: Suitable for people suffering from wind-cold symptoms such as severe aversion to cold, fever, no sweating, headache and body pain, nasal congestion and runny nose, thin white tongue coating, and floating and tight pulse; suitable for symptoms such as excessive sputum, thick sputum, and cough; suitable for patients with high blood sugar and diabetes.

The therapeutic effect of perilla leaves

1. Diaphoresis and relieving exterior symptoms: Mainly to dispel wind and cold, suitable for wind-cold exterior symptoms such as severe aversion to cold, fever, no sweating, headache and body pain, nasal congestion and runny nose, thin white tongue coating, and floating and tight pulse.

2. Nourish the stomach: warm the stomach and treat stomach cold.

3. Expectorant and cough relieving: It has a good moisturizing and physical therapeutic effect on the throat, is beneficial to the healing of local inflammation, and can relieve local itching, thereby blocking the cough reflex. It can dilute the viscosity of respiratory inflammation and secretions, making them easier to cough out, which is beneficial for relieving cough and removing phlegm.

4. Laxative: Cellulose can promote the peristalsis of the intestinal wall, help digestion and prevent dry stools. It can lubricate the intestines and stimulate bowel movements. Keep the stool in the intestine moist to facilitate bowel movements.