What are the common spices: 27 kinds of common spices
Release time:
2023-09-18 10:35
Spice, we can't do without it. You need it for cooking, soup, and sometimes even medicine. So do you know what our common spices are? Let's meet together today!
What are the common spice plants?
common spice plants:
1, star anise, also known as anise, wood fennel, aniseed, is a woody plant. Taste food spices. The taste is sweet and fragrant. Both are used alone or in combination with other drugs (incense drugs). Mainly used for burning, marinating, stewing, simmering and other animal raw materials. It is also sometimes used in vegetables. Such as stewed radish, dried marinated beans and so on. anise is the main spice in spiced powder. It is also the most important spice in brine.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: treat abdominal pain, relieve vomiting, manage stomach, treat hernia and mass, dispel cold and dampness, soothe liver and warm stomach.
Octagonal
2, fennel (that is, fennel seeds), also known as cumin, grass fennel. It is a vanilla herb and tastes spices. The taste is sweet and fragrant, and can be used alone or in combination with it. The young leaves of fennel can be used as dumpling fillings, but are rarely used for seasoning. Fennel seeds are mainly used for marinated, boiled livestock dishes or beans, peanuts, bean products, etc.
The taste, attribute and function are basically the same as the octagonal.
Fennel
3, cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, namely the bark of laurel. It is a fragrant woody plant. Flavor spices. The taste is sweet and fragrant, which is usually used together with its medicine, and rarely used alone. It is mainly used for dishes such as marinated, burned, boiled and simmered livestock and wild animals. It is the main seasoning in brine.
Attributes: sexual fever, dry fire. Function: benefiting liver, passing meridions, blood, dispelling cold and dehumidification.
tangerin peel
4. Cinnamon branch, namely the twig of cinnamon, has the same taste, use, attribute and function as cinnamon, but it is not as strong as cinnamon.
Guizhi
5, fragrant leaves, namely the leaves of laurel. The taste, use, attribute, function and cinnamon are the same, but the taste is lighter.
fragrant leaf
6, sand ginger, also known as shannai, mountain spicy. It is a vanilla herb. This food spice. The taste is pungent and fragrant. Cooked food can be eaten raw. It is better to use it alone or in combination with it. Mainly with roast, marinated, simmer, roast and other animal dishes. It is often processed into powder and is used more in Cantonese cuisine.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: into the spleen and stomach, open depression, open evil qi, cure stomach cold pain and other symptoms.
sand ginger
7, angelica, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. Sweet, bitter and fragrant. Mainly used for stewing, cooking livestock or beast dishes. Because of its extremely strong taste, so the amount is very small, otherwise, anti-defeat dishes.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: blood circulation, qi solution table, treatment of women with irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea, anemia and other diseases. For gynecological medicine.
Angelica sinensis
8. Schizonepeta tenuifolia: It is a vanilla herb and is a spice. The taste is pungent and fragrant, and it is not widely used. Sometimes it is used to burn and cook meat, mainly for vegetables.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: into the lung and liver, dispelling wind and evil, clearing the head.
Schizonepeta tenuifolia
9. Perilla frutescens is a vanilla herb with dual-use flavor. The taste is pungent and fragrant. Not widely used. But used for fried snail, taste wonderful, sometimes used to cook beef and mutton.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: relieve the surface and dispel cold, control qi and middle, eliminate phlegm and relieve asthma, and activate meridians. It can treat cold, fever, averse cold, cough, asthma, nausea and vomiting, fish-eating crab poisoning and other diseases, and can relieve the fetus.
Perilla frutescens
10. Mint is a vanilla herb. Taste this dual-use. The taste is pungent and fragrant. It is not very useful, mainly for the preparation of beverages and sugar water, and sometimes for sweet dishes.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: clear the head, xuanfeng cold, good throat, moisten heart and lung, make bad breath.
Mint
11. Gardenia jasminoides, also known as Gardenia jasminoides, is a woody plant with delicious spices and natural pigment, orange red or orange yellow. Taste slightly bitter, light fragrance. Small use, sometimes used for poultry or rice products seasoning, generally to color.
Attribute: Sexual cold. Function: clearing heat and purging fire, clearing the heat of heart and lung, treating fever and upset, red eyes, jaundice, hematemesis, epistaxis, heat and toxin, sores and ulcers.
Gardenia jasminoides
12, Angelica dahurica, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. The taste is pungent and fragrant. It is usually used with medicine. Mainly used for marinated, roasted, simmered livestock and wild dishes.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: dispelling cold and dehumidification, reducing swelling and discharging pus, clearing the head.
Angelica dahurica
13, white cardamom, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. The taste is pungent and fragrant. Use it with medicine. Commonly used in burning, marinated, simmering and other livestock dishes.
Properties: sexual heat, dry fire. Function: into the lungs, to promote evil and break stagnation, and stomach to stop vomiting.
cardamom
14, grass cardamom, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. The taste is pungent, fragrant and slightly sweet. It is used in combination with its medicine and is mainly used for dishes such as marinated, boiled, burned, braised and simmered livestock and game.
Attribute: Sexual heat. Function: Taste is stronger than cardamom, warms the stomach and warms the middle, cureds cold pain in the heart and abdomen, publicens the chest and improves the diaphragm, cureds vomiting, dampness and strengthens the spleen, and can relieve depression and phlegm and internal toxins.
Grass cardamom
15, nutmeg, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. The taste is pungent, fragrant and bitter. It is combined with its medicine and used in marinated livestock dishes.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: warming the middle and dispersing the inverse, removing evil into the stomach, removing phlegm from the lower qi, and relieving diarrhea through thick intestines.
Nutmeg
16, tsao, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. The taste is pungent and fragrant. It is used in combination with its medicine for meat dishes such as burning, marinating, boiling and simmering.
Attribute: sexual heat and dry fire. Function: Break the miasma, send the cold of spleen and stomach, cut off malaria and remove phlegm.
Ao-fruit
17, turmeric, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. The taste is pungent, fragrant and bitter. It is a spice with both color and taste. It is both a spice and a natural pigment. Generally, it is mainly used for color matching, and it is used in combination with cattle and sheep dishes, and sometimes also used in chicken, duck, fish and shrimp dishes. It is also the main material used in curry powder and satay sauce.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: breaking qi and blood stasis, dispelling wind and cold, detumescence and pain.
Turmeric
18, Amomum villosum, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. The taste is pungent and fragrant. It is used in combination with its medicine, mainly used for burning, marinating, simmering, boiling and other meat dishes or bean products.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: fast cold qi, stop vomiting, treat stomachache, eliminate stagnation and reduce phlegm.
Amomum villosum
19. Liangjiang, a vanilla herb, tastes and eats spices. The taste is pungent and fragrant. It is used for cooking, marinating, simmering and other dishes.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: remove cold, stop pain in the heart and abdomen, disperse and treat saliva and vomiting.
Liangjiang
20, clove, also known as chicken tongue incense, is a fragrant wood woody plant, taste food spices. The taste is pungent, fragrant and bitter. It can be used alone or in combination with other drugs. Commonly used to buckle steamed, roast, simmer, boiled, halogen and other dishes. Such as clove chicken, clove beef, clove bean curd skin, etc. Because of its extremely strong flavor, it should not be used more, otherwise, it would be counterproductive.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: Xuanzhong warms stomach, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, and curing vomiting.
Clove
21. Zanthoxylum bungeanum, also known as Sichuan pepper, is not unique to Sichuan, nor is it produced well in Sichuan. China's North China, Northwest China, Central China, East China and other regions have production. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a woody plant, which tastes spice, pungent, hemp and fragrant. All animal raw materials can be used. It is appropriate to use it alone or in combination with it, but it is mostly used for fried, boiled, marinated, roasted, fried, roasted, fried and other dishes. Meat and vegetables are suitable, in Sichuan cuisine, the use of pepper, more widely.
Attribute: Warm and dispel cold. Function: abdominal cold pain caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold; Ascaris abdominal pain; Vomiting and diarrhea; Lung cold cough and asthma; Lung cold cough and asthma; Caries and toothache; Yin and itching; Eczema and skin itching.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum
22, cumin, taste food spices, spicy, fragrant. Usually single use, mainly used for roasted, fried, fried mutton, beef, chicken, fish and other dishes. It is a kind of spice commonly used and liked in the northwest region. The flavor of cumin is extremely strong and special. Southerners are more difficult to accept this flavor, so there are very few cumin dishes in the south.
Attribute: Sexual heat. Function: Xuanfeng dispelling cold, warming stomach and dehumidification.
cumin
23, pepper, is a vine, taste food spices. The taste is pungent and fragrant. All animal raw materials can be used. Soup, dishes are appropriate. Because of its extremely strong taste, the amount is very small. It is often ground into powder. Pepper is widely used in Cantonese cuisine.
Attribute: Sexual heat. Function: dispelling cold, reducing qi, widening middle, eliminating wind and phlegm. Note: Pepper can make sores to help fire, hurt yin, stomach heat and fire to avoid eating.
Pepper
24, licorice, also known as sweet grass, is an herbaceous plant, taste food spices, taste sweet. Mainly used for curing products and marinated vegetables.
Attribute: Sex flat. Function: Hezhong, detoxifying, invigorating qi and moistening lung, relieving cough, purging fire, stopping all pain, can treat qi deficiency and fatigue, loose stool, cough and asthma, sore throat and sore poisoning, abdominal and limb spasm pain and other symptoms. Note: Eating more can make you vomit.
Licorice
25, Luo Han Guo, a vine, taste food spices. The taste is sweet. Mainly used for marinated vegetables.
Attribute: Cool sex. Function: clearing heat, detoxification, replenishing qi, moistening lung, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, relieving heat, promoting body fluid, clearing liver, eyesight, moistening intestines, relieving stomach, and can cure various diseases of respiratory system, digestive system and circulatory system, especially for bronchitis, acute and chronic pharyngitis, asthma, hypertension, diabetes and other diseases.
Luo Han Guo
26, citronella, is a vanilla herb, taste food spices. Taste fragrant, slightly sweet. It is usually ground into powder. Mainly used for barbecue dishes. Also used for modulating compound sauces.
Attribute: Sexual cold. Function: reduce fire, improve water, clear lung.
Citronella
27, tangerine peel, that is, dried orange peel. It is a woody plant. Taste food spices. The taste is pungent, bitter and fragrant. It is advisable to use it alone or in combination with it. It is mainly used for meat dishes such as burning, marinating, steaming and simmering. Also used for modulating compound sauces.
Attribute: sexual temperature. Function: dispelling cold and dehumidification, dispelling qi and relieving cough and phlegm.
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