🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Cauliflower, also known as flower cabbage, may seem ordinary, but from a health-preserving perspective, it is truly a rare dietary remedy.
Mild nature, sweet flavor, clears heat and detoxifies
Cauliflower has a mild nature and sweet taste, benefiting kidney strengthening, bone fortification, brain nourishment, spleen health, and lung moistening. It is suitable for those with congenital or acquired deficiencies, chronic illness-related weakness, spleen-stomach deficiency, or cough and hoarseness.
Green cauliflower also has certain heat-clearing and detoxifying effects, particularly beneficial for those with spleen deficiency and stomach heat, oral odor, and thirst.
Nutrient-rich, cancer-preventive
Cauliflower is highly nutritious, with thick texture and abundant protein, trace elements, and beta-carotene. Each 100g contains 2.4g protein and 88mg vitamin C.
Cauliflower is an excellent functional food for cancer prevention and treatment. Its various vitamins, fiber, beta-carotene, and trace element selenium all contribute to anti-cancer and cancer-prevention effects. Green cauliflower contains even more vitamin C. Combined with its protein and beta-carotene content, it enhances cellular immunity. Extracts from cauliflower, such as glucosinolates, activate enzymes that break down carcinogens, thereby reducing malignant tumor development.
Foreign research has found that cauliflower contains multiple indole derivatives that lower estrogen levels, helping prevent breast cancer. Patients with gastrointestinal or breast cancer due to spleen-stomach deficiency are encouraged to eat more cauliflower.
Warning: It is generally not recommended to stir-fry or stew cauliflower with cucumber, as cucumbers contain vitamin C-degrading enzymes that easily destroy vitamin C in cauliflower. However, since cauliflower is white and cucumbers green, combining them visually enhances presentation. Best practice is to sauté separately and mix before plating.
Simple Culinary Remedies Using Cauliflower
Yin-Nourishing and Toxin-Removing Formula: For symptoms caused by heat-toxin injuring yin, such as stomach heat, bitter taste, dry mouth and throat, loss of appetite, headache, red eyes, or qi-yin deficiency after radiotherapy.
Use 250g green cauliflower, broken into small pieces and washed; soak 50g white fungus; add a small amount of chrysanthemum flowers and a little rock sugar. Simmer gently for about half an hour, remove chrysanthemum, cool down, then serve.
Kidney-Strengthening and Body-Toning Formula: Suitable for symptoms like weak waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, poor appetite due to spleen-stomach deficiency, or pale complexion and fatigue after chemotherapy/radiotherapy.
Use one pair of pig or lamb kidneys, split open and remove membranes, soak in cold water for half a day. Soak 100g black fungus in cold water until soft. Break 200g cauliflower into small pieces, wash, and blanch in boiling water. Cut kidneys into small cubes; stir-fry with black fungus, adding minced ginger and garlic and salt. When cooked to 80% done, add cauliflower and stir-fry until fully cooked.
Qi-Boosting and Cough-Relieving Formula: For symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath, weak phlegm, dry cough, and fatigue due to lung qi deficiency and kidney failure to retain qi.
Use 200g cauliflower, 100g lily bulbs, 50g apricot kernels, and 10g Cordyceps sinensis to make soup. Just before serving, beat in 2 eggs, add a small amount of wet starch, and season appropriately.