Now there are many "new dietary concepts", one of which includes the principle of eating vegetables instead of staple food. There are two kinds of people who hold this view: first, women who want to lose weight; Second, some Buddhists. In clinical practice, the author found that many women who lose weight only eat vegetables and fruits in order to control calorie intake. Over time, sallow or dull complexion, or pale complexion, mental and physical weakness, loose stool fatigue, resulting in less menstrual flow, or even menopause, came to the outpatient clinic to treat gynecological diseases, hoping to regulate menstruation.
2 qi and blood biochemistry: whole grains
Chinese medicine believes that "the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood biochemistry". If you don't eat staple food, Shui Gu can't be absorbed in subtlety, qi and blood can't be biochemical, and the foundation will fail the day after tomorrow, leading to less menstrual flow, irregular menstruation and even amenorrhea. Therefore, in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with such diseases, I usually ask them to return to a normal diet to ensure the source of qi and blood. In addition, I suggest drinking millet porridge and brown sugar to nourish the spleen and stomach and recover quickly. In the north, women give birth to children and have confinement, and old women usually make millet porridge with brown sugar to nourish their bodies. Millet is a good product of tonifying kidney, strengthening spleen and promoting diuresis in traditional Chinese medicine. In ancient marching wars, millet was often used as military food. Eating millet can not only resist hunger, but also eliminate spleen and stomach moisture and avoid gastrointestinal diseases caused by acclimatization.
A handful of millet, planted in the ground, is a crop. Millet is a highly concentrated "vitality". After giving birth to a child, the vitality is very high, so the people use millet to help them recover. Many girls, drinking millet porridge and brown sugar, not only have smooth menstruation, but also have rosy faces, which really proves the truth that whole grains nourish the body.
Some Buddhist monks and laymen eat vegetables instead of staple food, but as far as I can see, most people who follow this diet are sallow and emaciated, tired and gloomy over time. The reason is that simple vegetables can't maintain the source of qi and blood. Vegetables are mostly stems and leaves of plants, which have relatively strong dredging power, but relatively weak nourishing power. Although qi and blood can be dredged, they can't be nourished, especially the spleen and stomach can't be moistened by Shui Gu, which will lead to the pathogenesis of spleen and stomach qi deficiency over time.
Full of anger, regardless of food.
The above discussion is aimed at ordinary people, and there are exceptions to everything. Since someone put forward the principle of eating vegetables instead of staple food, it shows that someone is the personal beneficiary of this principle. So, what kind of people are suitable for this dietary principle? My conclusion is that people who are "pure and energetic" can go beyond the general principle of health preservation. People with successful practice are pure in heart, persistent in being indifferent, and consume little energy. They rely on the energy obtained by practicing meditation (eating meditation) to supplement and be full of vitality. The ancients said, "energetic people don't want to eat." People who are really energetic don't want to eat. So just eat one meal or even a bowl of porridge a day. For example, Guangqin, a famous old monk in Taiwan Province Province, has not eaten staple food for decades, but only eaten fruit to maintain his physical strength. He lived to the age of 95 and died without pain.
In the Buddhist classic Zeng Yi Agama, "Zen-pleasing food" is one of the five secular foods. In Za Agama, it is pointed out that all sentient beings enter the first meditation, "being happy, moist everywhere, acceptable everywhere, full of body, without any dissatisfaction." "Anyone who really practices to the realm and works hard will feel full of power. There is such a passage in the second volume of Buddhist Zen written by Buddhist Mao Lingyun, which is now extracted as follows:
Qing * Zhu Feng, master, surnamed Yao, from Deqing. Becoming a monk at the age of 30, bound by precepts, intact. Be good at etiquette, and make up your mind to take the pure land of death as your volunteer. Don't be an animal, don't live in a monastery, and always rely on people to fix it, so as not to be distracted. If you don't have a fixed address, you will stay. If you don't agree, you will leave. Your spirit will degenerate, you won't insist, and you won't be willing to work with others. Always keep quiet, cover a pass and read the ceremony in parallel. If you don't read the ceremony, you must read it. You're welcome if you don't look. If you don't rest, you won't participate in other methods, and that's it in the end. Try knocking on fish and chanting Buddha at noon until the next day (3 ~ 5 pm), when people see it, they can't stop, shout loudly, and then stop, calling themselves like ears for half a day. Ask him if he is hungry? Then he said, "My mouth is as sweet as honey. I often swallow it, and the benefits are infinite. I don't want to eat." People who have been threatened for decades rarely dream, occasionally dream, and are not divorced from manners and ideas. There is no difference. There are common activities of Buddha and Bodhisattva in dreams, such as fate, occasional reward, or guiding Buddha to recite scriptures. I suddenly realized that it was time, and chanting Buddha died. Sixty-four years old, warm weather.
Master Rong Yuan studied Buddhism day and night, but he didn't feel hungry. On the contrary, I feel that my saliva is sweet and useful, which just shows that Dharma happiness is full, and Zen happiness will replenish energy without relying on general diet.
Another example is the famous Zen master Yongming Yanshou in history. According to historical records, he was enlightened at the age of 30. "He later lived in Yongming and had 180 classes every day. Go to other peaks in the evening and read Buddha in the street. "Every day from morning till night, there are 108 things to do in giving lectures and doing Buddha, and I have to go to other peaks to read Buddha in the evening. "Hong Juefan, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, said: A person has to do so many good deeds every day. If he eats for a long time, he must be skin and bones. Therefore, when he saw his portrait, he looked like an emperor with strong body and big ears. The workload of Zen master Yongming Yanshou in one day is huge, but the energy that needs to be supplemented is very little, which shows the depth of meditation. Meditation doesn't necessarily mean sitting on the wall. Walking, living, sitting and lying are all inseparable from meditation. Zen is natural and healthy.
Don't imitate blindly.
However, ordinary Buddhist laymen have no professional practice, or they still need to cope with their daily work because of lack of kung fu. Some dharma-protecting laymen are busy working for Buddhism and all beings, but they have not really entered the realm of practice certificates, which will inevitably consume a lot of spirit and physical strength. If they don't supplement it, it will lead to the sub-health state of spleen and stomach weakness and insufficient blood, which may lead to various diseases in the long run.
Therefore, any law has its scope of application, and everyone should refer to their own actual situation when accepting different views on health care, and consider adopting them in order to be as reasonable as the law.
5 dietotherapy methods for invigorating qi and blood
Millet porridge practice
Practice: appropriate amount of millet, slow cooking with small fire, and a little brown sugar can be added for those with insufficient qi and blood.
Efficacy: Xiaomi has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency, harmonizing middle energizer and benefiting kidney, and clearing away heat and toxic materials; It can also be used to treat deficiency-heat of spleen and stomach, nausea and vomiting, thirst quenching and diarrhea. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that Xiaomi "cooks porridge to benefit the abdomen, tonify deficiency and stimulate appetite. 」
Drinking millet porridge regularly can warm the spleen and kidney and enhance vitality, which is a good tonic for the weak.
Yin Guang's Dietary Advice:
1 advocate eating pasta.
After a few days of weakness, you should be good at maintenance. If you want to get nutrition through food, vegetarians should eat more wheat. The power of eating wheat is several times more than that of rice. Just eating spaghetti will make you energetic, energetic and loud. Rice can only be full, but it has no effect. Mai is several times higher than divine power. Rich people participate in ginseng, money is useless, pretending to waste their ears. You have to be able to make up for others. * "Three editions of printed banknotes, Volume II, Fucai Qi Cheng lay person Volume I"
2 advocate eating soybean oil
Grinding sesame oil can also make people make up. Small grinding incense fried burnt, strength halved. People know the fragrance, but it's actually burnt. The third edition of the printing master's banknotes, the second volume, Fucai Qi Cheng lay book one "
Soybean, soybean oil, the most tonic, should be eaten often. In the morning, you should eat worn-out soybeans for porridge. Ordinary edible oil and special soybean oil are more powerful than lard. "Printing the main paper money, repeating the package of Hengshixin"
3 supplemented by dried fruit diet therapy
Lotus seeds, longan, red dates, gordon euryales and coix seed can all nourish. Need flesh and blood nourishment? The third edition of the printing master's banknotes, the second volume, Fucai Qi Cheng lay book one "
4 Yin Guang dashi nourishing porridge
According to the suggestion of Master Yin Guang, combined with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the following dietotherapy methods are provided to achieve the effects of nourishing qi and blood and regulating the spleen and stomach, as follows:
Practice: Lotus seeds 10, longan 10 (peeled), red dates 12 (opened), one or two gorgon seeds (large supermarkets or pharmacies) and one or two coix seeds, and cook porridge together with low fire.
Efficacy: benefiting qi and eliminating dampness, strengthening kidney and solidifying essence.
Lotus seeds in porridge can strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, benefit the kidney and astringent essence, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves; Longan tonifies the heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the nerves; Jujube tonifies qi, nourishes blood and calms the nerves; Euryale ferox can stimulate appetite, invigorate qi, strengthen kidney, astringe essence, strengthen spleen and stop diarrhea. These four ingredients complement each other, warming spleen and kidney, nourishing blood and calming nerves. At the same time, with coix seed, it tastes sweet and slightly cold, and has the functions of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis and circulating moisture, which can control the heat of longan at the same time and warm yang without helping fire. It can also be used to supplement greasy red dates to make up for the deficiency without leaving them wet. The combination of various nourishing foods plays the role of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, strengthening kidney and benefiting essence.
"Medicine is better than food". Taking nourishing porridge for a long time has a good effect on common debilitating diseases in society, such as deficiency of qi and blood, chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, nocturnal emission, palpitation and insomnia, palpitation, forgetfulness, blood deficiency and chlorosis. Among them, increasing the amount of longan and jujube can be aimed at insomnia patients, increasing the amount of lotus seeds and Gordon Euryale, and increasing the amount of Coicis Semen for patients with spleen and stomach weakness and nocturnal emission, aiming at moisture.