Text/Sheng Zhu Ling

People have five elements, and food has five colors and flavors. Chinese medicine believes that people of various constitutions, if they can choose the right food for themselves and often take turns to match it, will help prevent diseases that their constitutions are prone to, or correct their slightly biased constitutions in time to keep their bodies in the best condition.

Chinese medicine doctor Zhuo Zibin pointed out that food, like medicine, has its own taste and sexual orientation. According to the five colors, turquoise food belongs to "wood", which helps to nourish the liver and improve eyesight. Red food corresponds to "fire" type, which has health care effect on heart, small intestine and tongue; Yellow food belongs to the "earth" type, which can protect the spleen and stomach; White food "gold" contributes to the health of lungs, large intestine and nose; Black food belongs to the "water" type, and eating more is good for kidney qi, bladder and bones.

According to the "five flavors", pungent and sweet belong to yang, while sour, bitter and salty belong to yin; According to the five elements, sour taste belongs to "wood" and has the function of convergence and convergence; Bitter taste belongs to "fire", which can clear away heat, dry dampness, relieve asthma and promote defecation. Sweet taste belongs to "earth", which can nourish deficiency, relieve physical pain and increase happiness; Pungent taste belongs to "gold", which can promote qi and blood circulation, dispel cold and moisten lung, and relieve cough; Salty taste belongs to "water", which can improve constipation and tonify kidney and qi.

Some foods may have two or more characteristics at the same time. For example, orange acid is sweet. Although it is earthy, it also tends to be wooden. Readers can still choose flexibly. As long as you are not paranoid about a single food, it is helpful to choose ingredients that meet your own attributes under multiple intakes.

If you want to use medicated diet, especially when choosing Chinese herbal medicine with strong curative effect, you'd better consult a professional Chinese medicine practitioner first, because besides the five elements, you should also consider what kind of physique you belong to. Such medicated diet is targeted, safer and more effective.

Wuxing Ren Hao Cuisine Shangzhuo

(provided by Dr. Zhuo Zibin)

wooden man

You can choose more green vegetables, such as green beans, Chinese cabbage, celery, leeks, cauliflower, Qingjiang vegetables, Chinese cabbage, sweet potato leaves, soybean seedlings, lettuce and so on. , which contains chlorophyll, vitamins and rich fiber, can help people detoxify, reduce blood fat and prevent fatty liver. At the same time, acidic foods, such as kiwi fruit and plums, also have the function of maintaining the liver. The meat part is suitable for eating chicken, shrimp and eel.

Green tea soup rice

Materials >

1 bowl of green tea, 2 slices of lettuce, 1/4 cauliflower, 1 celery and onion, 1 tablespoon (about 15g) of non-flavored nuts such as walnuts, cashews and almonds, 70g of chicken breast, 1 5g.

Practice >

1. Wash cauliflower, lettuce and chicken breast first.

2. Cut lettuce into filaments and spread it in a bowl, put rice and nuts on it, then peel the cooked chicken breast into filaments, spread it on the rice with cauliflower, sprinkle celery, chopped green onion and shredded seaweed, and finally pour warm green.

Tea soup, seasoned with a little salt.

Utility >

Green tea can help the liver to detoxify and prevent fatty liver, at the same time, it can also reduce the formation of low-density cholesterol, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and reduce body fat. Add lettuce, celery and chicken, and nuts rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, dietary fiber and vitamin B. This simple green tea soup rice is suitable for people who have a bad appetite when they are stressed, or who want to eat and drink. You can make it once in a while and enjoy it.

Fire type person

You can choose more red foods, such as red beans, carrots, red dates, impatiens, red onions, tomatoes, red bell peppers, lychees, pitaya, apples, watermelons and durians. Among them, carrots, tomatoes and other red fruits and vegetables are rich in β -carotene or lycopene, which is a natural ingredient to improve anxiety. At the same time, rich dietary fiber can also reduce blood lipid and maintain the health of cardiovascular system. In addition, bitter food, such as bitter gourd, mustard, lotus plumule, bitter tea and so on. It has the function of clearing the heart and relaxing bowels, but it is cold and suitable for people with deficiency fire constitution. The meat part is suitable for mutton, duck and eel.

Hong mutton soup

Materials >

1/3 carrots, half a cow tomato, 1/4 red onions, 60g oats, 70g mutton slices, 3 ginger slices, chopped green onion, pepper, a little salt and sesame oil.

Practice >

1. Wash carrots, beef tomatoes and red onions and cut them into dices.

2. Wash the slightly soaked oats, first add 2 and a half bowls of water and cook in a rice cooker for 15 minutes.

3. Stir-fry ginger slices and onion slices with a little oil at the same time, and add carrots, red onions, diced beef and tomatoes and mutton slices in turn. When cooking for 8 minutes, add the fried ingredients into the oatmeal soup, continue to cook in the rice cooker for 7 or 8 minutes, and simmer for a while. Sprinkle chopped green onion and a little pepper, salt and sesame oil to taste.

Utility >

Oats are rich in dietary fiber and are the best scavengers to maintain environmental protection in the body. It can help defecation, reduce blood lipid and prevent constipation, cardiovascular disease and abdominal fat accumulation. Red onions and beef tomatoes also contain beneficial ingredients, which can protect the cardiovascular system; Add carrots and mutton that are also suitable for the fire family to make a delicious and simple healthy food.

Locals.

Suitable for choosing more yellow foods, such as corn, millet, japonica rice, barley, lentils, yellow pepper, pumpkin, potato, citrus, orange, pineapple, mango, banana, etc., which can protect the spleen and stomach; At the same time, yellow fruits such as oranges are also rich in vitamin C and carotene, which is the best antioxidant, which can delay aging and moisturize the skin. In addition, sweet foods, such as sugar cane and candied dates, are also suitable for native people and can be eaten occasionally under the principle of not excessive. Beef, grass carp, perch and eggs are the best sources of protein for local people.

Orange vanilla fish steak

Materials >

80g grass carp, 1 orange, 1/4 apples, 2 pumpkins, 1 spoon of corn kernels (cooked) and raisins, 1 small celery, 50c.c sugar-free yogurt, corn flour, onion, ginger, oil and a little salt.

Practice >

1. Put the pumpkin with skin into an electric cooker and steam it.

2. After the grass carp is washed, marinate it with rice wine, onion, ginger and salt, then dip it in a thin layer of corn flour, take a non-stick pan and fry it in a little oil until both sides are golden and the inside is cooked.

3. Cut the orange in half, and mix half of the juice and yogurt into a sauce for later use; Take out the other half of the pulp, cut it into cubes with apples, then add corn kernels, raisins and chopped celery powder, add the sauce and stir well to become a fruit dipping sauce.

4. Put the fried grass carp slices and steamed pumpkin on the plate, and then pour the special orange juice dipping sauce, which becomes a delicious simple meal.

Utility >

Chinese medicine believes that grass carp has the effects of warming the spleen and stomach and nourishing qi and blood. However, from the perspective of modern nutrition, grass carp is rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as DHA and EPA, which can not only prevent cardiovascular diseases, but also improve memory and brain power. Only pumpkins contain

Rich in starch, it is advisable to replace some cereal staple foods to avoid obesity caused by excessive calorie intake.

Golden man

Suitable for eating white food, such as white radish, yam, bamboo shoots, lily, tremella, mushrooms, Flammulina velutipes, white sesame seeds, water chestnut, lotus seeds, pears, loquat and almonds. Has effects in nourishing yin, moistening lung, clearing away heart fire, tranquilizing mind, and resisting allergy. Spicy food, such as ginger, pepper, garlic, onion, pepper, etc. , has the function of dispersing blood and promoting blood circulation, and can also be added appropriately when cooking. The meat part is suitable for eating horse meat, goose meat and carp.

Lotus seed yam sweet soup

Materials >

50g tremella, 20g lotus seeds, 0/0g lily/kloc-0, 6 red dates, fresh yam 1 tablet, and a little rock sugar.

Practice >

1. The black fungus is pedicled, washed and soaked, and then cut into small pieces.

2. Add water to stew with washed lotus seeds and peeled red dates for 20 minutes.

3. After the tremella and lotus seeds are soft and rotten, add diced yam, continue to cook for 5~ 10 minutes, and finally add rock sugar to taste.

Utility >

This kind of diet is best eaten when it is warm, which can strengthen the spleen and moisten the lungs, nourish blood and replenish qi. It is a healthy dessert that can be eaten often for people with golden constitution who are prone to respiratory, gastrointestinal and skin diseases.

Water type person

It is suitable for eating more black foods, such as black beans, black sesame seeds, auricularia auricula, mushrooms, black dates, water chestnuts, water spinach, laver, blueberries, cherries, longan, mulberries, grapes, purple rice, etc., and can improve metabolism and reproductive system functions closely related to kidneys, bladder and bones. Salty foods, such as ebony and kelp, also have the function of maintaining kidney qi, so you can choose them appropriately at ordinary times. The meat part is suitable for eating pork, pigeon meat, tuna and so on.

Jiao Ling sparerib soup

Materials >

Hulled horseshoe 100g, 2 ribs, auricularia auricula 1, 2 mushrooms, carrot 1, 2 ginger, a little parsley, onion and salt.

Practice >

1. Blanch the ribs with boiling water to remove the blood.

2. Soak auricularia auricula and Lentinus edodes and cut them into filaments, and cut carrots into small pieces with a hob.

3. Add ginger slices and a proper amount of water to these ingredients, stew them in a rice cooker until the ribs are cooked, sprinkle chopped green onion and coriander before cooking, and add salt to taste, which is a delicious home health soup.