As the saying goes, "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer", and many health-related folk proverbs also belong to this kind of "old man's words". The old saying is old because it makes sense and can be tested. If it doesn't come true, it won't reach our ears.
Folk proverbs are always just folk proverbs. They have their effects, because they are simple and come from the first-line experience of practice, and they also have their uncertainties, because many of them have been misinformed or even changed due to some intentional or unintentional reasons in historical inheritance, such as "excessive husband" in historical period being misinformed as "non-toxic husband", and Mr. Wu Ben's eggplant absorbing oil and so on. Let's analyze it carefully from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine in order to better guide our health.
Spring covers and autumn freezes, and there are no miscellaneous diseases.
Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer makes the doctor angry.
Credibility:
Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
1 "Eat radish in winter" is a folk proverb with the characteristics of the times. Because every family has a vegetable cellar to store vegetables in winter, at that time, unlike the prosperous vegetable market now, we could only eat the old three kinds of "potatoes, cabbages and radishes" If we can eat all kinds of vegetables in winter now, there will be no such sentence.
We eat more fatty foods in winter, and the exercise is relatively reduced. In addition to eating radish in winter, it is the main reason why we eat vegetables, but also because radish has a good effect of reducing blood fat, eliminating greasy and clearing intestines.
Compared with winter, summer is the season when we are more likely to catch a cold. In winter, there is heating everywhere, and even if you go out, you will be wrapped up in heavy clothes; In summer, we are afraid that we are not cold. We not only eat cold drinks, but also have cold air everywhere in offices, transportation, houses and shopping malls. When we enter these environments from the outdoor high temperature, it will inevitably become cold. Ginger has the function of warming the middle warmer and dispelling cold. If eaten in moderation, it will drive away all cold pathogens that have invaded our bodies. It is reasonable to eat ginger in summer.
Winter supplements, spring kills tigers.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
1 this is in line with the theory of "winter storage essence" in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that winter is the most suitable season for tonic all the year round. In winter, due to the cold weather, the human body needs to consume a lot of energy to generate heat to resist the cold. Therefore, winter tonic can not only supplement these consumption, but also reserve enough energy to use when the green and yellow crops are not connected early next year. The so-called "killing tigers" only refers to energy.
However, there is another problem that needs attention, that is, what should be supplemented in winter? Otherwise, we would have made up for the anger, but we haven't made up for it yet. Generally speaking, winter tonic needs proper heating. The main foods are mutton, beef, chicken, yam, jujube, walnut, longan, animal kidney, liver and leek.
If you want to be healthy, you must be hungry and cold.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
1 Chinese medicine pays attention to "self-doubling of diet, that is, spleen and stomach injury", that is, the diet of each meal should not be too full. If the intake of food exceeds what the spleen and stomach can bear, the spleen and stomach will be damaged because they exceed their workload.
2 If you can eat seven-point full regularly, with the decrease of food intake, blood sugar, blood lipid and uric acid will decrease in the long run, and seven-point full will also reduce the absolute intake of salt, thus indirectly preventing blood pressure from rising.
Tips: For every 2g increase in salt intake, blood pressure will increase 10mmHg.
3 "Cold" not only refers to appropriately reducing clothes to stimulate the body's own heat-producing function; Especially a cold diet. Modern people are prone to "getting angry" because of the pressure of work and life. Three-point "cold" can just help the body eliminate excess calories and prevent diseases caused by excessive internal heat.
Walking a hundred paces after a meal can live ninety-nine.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
1 Chinese medicine agrees with this view. It is not suitable for strenuous exercise after meals, but for a small amount of walking.
Since it is a "walk", it means that it is not a large-scale exercise, but a slow, rambling walk or other kinds of small-scale exercise.
3 "Hundred Steps" is the amount of exercise, that is to say, even if you walk slowly, don't walk too long. Generally speaking, it takes only 2-3 minutes to take the 100 step. This kind of exercise is not to metabolize blood sugar, but to promote gastrointestinal movement, relax and avoid sitting and lying down immediately after meals, which will affect digestion.
Fill in what you eat, and fill in the shape.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
The folk proverb 1 "What you eat makes up for what you eat, and shape makes up for it" is not fully recognized by Chinese medicine.
Chinese medicine believes that what is related to the "na-na-na-na" of the human body is only the "na-na-na" of some coincidental animals and plants. After eating the former, the latter improved, such as deer whip, sheep waist, chaigou kidney and so on. Therefore, it is wrong to think that the corresponding parts of the human body can be supplemented by eating. In fact, this is wrong. Those coincidences of 20% cannot be generalized.
Drink more cold water, and health will come naturally.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
1 Drink more cold boiled water, which will keep our body fluids abundant, that is to say, there is enough yin in the body. "Yin" is the foundation of all things in human body, and its sufficiency can support all things.
Adequate body fluids are necessary for liver detoxification and kidney metabolism of toxins. All toxins that enter the body need to be diluted with water before they can be excreted normally.
Cold boiled water is better than drinks, bottled water and bottled water. You know, cold boiled water is boiled tap water, and tap water is tap water, which is a kind of fresh water. Many bottled water and bottled water are not as good as this. The mineral water of Nongfu Spring and Master Kong, which used to be in the limelight, is actually just minerals added to tap water. Cold boiled water is burned fresh every day, and fresh-keeping substances are added to those drinks and bottled water.
Liangbaikai is heated at high temperature, so that calcium ions and magnesium ions in the water become carbonate precipitates, thus reducing our risk of stones.
Practice for three days in winter and three days in summer.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
The folk proverb "1" only emphasizes that you must keep exercising, even in the most difficult days, don't give up. Because people are lazy, it is not easy to persist in exercising. It is easy to find an excuse to give up for a few days, but once you give up, it is difficult to persist.
In fact, for ordinary people who live at home, it would be better to make a short adjustment to the annual plan of physical exercise according to the actual weather at that time. Rainy days, snowy days, hot summer days, severe cold and heat, and the dog days are all harmful to people, so it is better to avoid them as much as possible, even if you exercise indoors.
Winter disease is cured in summer, and summer disease is cured in winter.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
The theory of "1" treating winter diseases in summer was first put forward by Tianjin in 1950s. In that crazy era, this kind of therapy was also crazy and incredible, although it has been hyped close to myth in recent years. According to the statistics of a Chinese medicine hospital in Beijing in 2008, the effective rate of treating asthma with "treating winter diseases in summer" is only 16%, and more people are blindly following.
Curing winter diseases in summer is equivalent to "spending money to buy food". To put it more popularly, I ate the food that I was hungry for next month this month in case I was hungry for next month. In fact, it is a principle, which is not reliable at all.
Different from western medicine, Chinese medicine is symptomatic medicine. Only when there are symptoms can we judge what disease, what syndrome type and how to treat it, but in asymptomatic summer, Chinese medicine cannot be used.
An eclipse on three dates keeps the doctor away from me.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
Jujube 1 is indeed a good tonic, which can improve many discomforts and diseases by strengthening physical fitness, but it has not reached the point of "curing all diseases". It only has a moderately weak function of invigorating qi and blood, and some of the discomfort and diseases caused by deficiency of both qi and blood will be improved to some extent after taking appropriate amount of jujube to replenish qi and blood.
And some diseases, such as tonsillitis, diabetes, acne and other common diseases, jujube can not be treated, but will aggravate the condition. People with dental caries, diabetes, abdominal distension, or people with thick and greasy tongue coating and wet body are not suitable for eating jujube, especially candied dates and ejiao jujube. If you take three pills a day under these circumstances, it will only add fuel to the fire.
Animal meat is inferior to poultry meat, and poultry meat is inferior to fish meat.
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Traditional Chinese medicine viewpoint:
The folk proverb 1 is mainly considered from the fat intake when we eat meat. The most common animal meats we eat are pork, beef and mutton, which are characterized by high fat content. Even if it looks like red meat, it will contain a lot of fat, and poultry meat mainly refers to chicken. If the skin can be peeled off and not eaten, the fat content of chicken can be ignored compared with animal meat. Similarly, this folk proverb is completely reasonable today when healthy eating is advocated.
But considering the current situation of food safety, this folk proverb is not suitable for the present era.
Reason one: The water system is seriously polluted now. Whether it's fresh water or seawater, the fish entering our table is like food soaked in poisonous water, and the residues of organic toxins and heavy metals are terrible. Even a big company like Nestle, some time ago, broke the news that the mercury content of raw fish in its baby food exceeded the standard.
Reason 2: Now, in order to increase the output of a fixed area, the owners of freshwater aquaculture and offshore aquaculture will add a lot of contraceptives and hormones to the feed to increase the output. If these fish containing hormones are eaten by us, we will indirectly become victims;
Reason 3: Even if the chickens purchased by international enterprises like KFC are "fast-growing chickens", the chicken procurement process and food inspection purchased by our ordinary market will definitely not exceed them. How dare such poultry be imported?
Reason 4: On the contrary, pork, beef and mutton are slightly safe, but of course they are only relatively safe, even if the fat content is higher.