Grain is the traditional staple food in China, and hundred seeds also have a good health care function. Eating all kinds of grains and seeds is the essence of traditional health preservation. As early as 2,000 years ago, the medical book Huangdi Neijing put forward the principle that "five grains are the supplement, five fruits are the help, five animals are the benefit, five vegetables are the filling, and the smell is combined to replenish essence", and expounded the health care function of eating five grains and one hundred seeds. However, with the substantial improvement of people's living standards, the diet is increasingly rich and diversified, and a large number of refined foods are flooding our daily diet. Although refined food is exquisite and appetizing, it will cause excessive loss of nutrients during processing, which is not conducive to health for a long time.
The food with all kinds of grains and seeds is a natural food, which not only retains the natural taste and taste, but also retains its own nutrients, which can play a very beneficial role in human health and longevity. For example, rice buds can stimulate appetite and help digestion, wheat and corn can protect health and fight cancer, barley can regulate gastrointestinal function, buckwheat can strengthen heart and lower blood pressure, black sesame can tonify kidney and improve eyesight, black beans can nourish kidney yin, red beans can reduce swelling and blood, mung beans can diuresis and reduce swelling, clear heat and detoxify, and broad beans can lower cholesterol. In Zhou Li, it is mentioned that "five flavors, five grains and five medicines are used to support illness". In China, whole grains are the basis of daily diet and the basis of disease prevention. Therefore, a reasonable and balanced intake of various grains and seeds is the most practical choice for modern people's health care, and it is also a godsend gift for longevity.
Just as Chinese herbal medicine has a sexual taste and can act on different organs, the seeds of five grains also have a sexual taste and each has a "spleen". Therefore, it is necessary to understand the "specialty" of grains and eat them scientifically according to different constitutions, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing diseases and prolonging life. Foods such as wheat, lotus plumule and mung bean are cold, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat and dispel heat syndrome. Eat more if you have fever symptoms or Yang Canqiang; Coix seed, barley, millet, buckwheat and other foods are cold, which can reduce fire and relieve summer heat, and are also suitable for patients with fever; Walnut kernel, oat, jujube, Polygonum multiflorum and other foods are warm and have the effect of dispelling cold and tonifying deficiency. They are suitable for patients with cold symptoms, and hot cinnamon can also play a positive role in patients with cold symptoms. Foods such as soybeans, sesame seeds, medlar, japonica rice, gordon euryales, almonds, etc. are flat in nature, can tonify deficiency, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen, and are suitable for people of various constitutions.
Different "properties" of five-grain seeds are suitable for people with different constitutions, and different "tastes" indicate that they belong to different viscera and have different functions of nourishing the five internal organs. Such as black rice, jujube, soybean, yam and so on. Sweet, can enter the spleen, and has the functions of harmonizing the spleen and stomach, tonifying deficiency and relieving pain; Hawthorn, Ziziphus jujuba seed, etc. It tastes sour, enters the liver, and has appetizing, astringent and antiperspirant effects; Barley, millet, walnut kernel, etc. It has salty taste, and can relieve constipation, reduce swelling, soften hard mass and disperse hard mass after entering the kidney, and can be used for preventing and treating diseases such as dry stool and tumor. Peach kernel, almond, bitter buckwheat, etc. Bitter taste, into the heart, can clear away heat, detoxify and relieve annoyance; Perilla seed, celery seed, onion seed, etc. It is pungent, enters the lungs, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation and qi circulation and dispelling cold. In order to keep healthy, we need to know the nature and taste of all kinds of things, aim at them and avoid misuse, so as to achieve better health care effects.
China's traditional health preservation has always paid attention to following the laws of nature and adapting to the four climatic seasons, such as "spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that spring is "the birth of old age", everything is thriving, "live without killing, give without taking", and keep in good health according to the breath of spring, which is what we often call "spring life"; Summer is a "beautiful show" and everything is flourishing. It is in the heyday, "Do it without anger, and Huaying is a show", as we usually say, "Summer is long"; Autumn is "forbearance", paying attention to "calming the heart, delaying punishment in autumn, astringing qi and calming autumn", and the most important thing is convergence; Winter is "closed", "if you hide your ambition, if you have private intentions", the main purpose is to hide, "except the cold, you will be warm and not show your skin". The Huangdi Neijing said: "The four seasons of Yin and Yang are the end of all things and the foundation of life and death, and its opposite is disastrous, so we can't be harsh from it." It shows the importance of keeping healthy when the weather is fine.
Then, good health is very particular about diet, and eating whole grains and melon seeds should also obey the season in order to better play the role of health. Huangdi Neijing thinks that spring is "sour" and you can eat some acidic foods such as hawthorn. Summer is "bitter" and you can eat more bitter foods such as almonds and peach kernels. In the long summer, "sweet", you can eat sweet foods such as jujube and yam; Autumn is "pungent" and you can eat spicy food such as perilla and celery seeds; Winter is "salty", so it is better to eat salty food such as barley and walnut kernel. Therefore, choosing the right food to eat in different seasons and eating whole grains in sunny days is also an important aspect of health preservation.
A person's life, through carefree childhood, full of longing teenagers, diligent middle age and happy old age, will have better health care effect if he chooses appropriate whole grains and seed foods at different ages.
Children are in the stage of growth and development, with delicate viscera, insufficient qi and blood and weak digestive function. Chinese medicine believes that children's spleen is often insufficient. Therefore, it is best to eat more foods that can strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, such as millet, pumpkin and yam. Young and middle-aged men are busy with work, which is the most likely to hurt their kidneys. Therefore, black rice, black beans and other foods with the functions of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, benefiting qi and strengthening the body are ideal nutritional and health foods for young and middle-aged men. Young and middle-aged women care most about beauty and want to stay young forever. Choosing food such as coix seed, black sesame seed and walnut kernel can not only regulate the five internal organs, but also have the effect of beauty beauty. The elderly are getting weaker and weaker, and their digestive function is weakened. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat more indigestible foods, eat some rice or brown rice that tonifies the spleen and clears the stomach and lungs, or choose other ingredients with good health care effects, such as medlar and Polygonum multiflorum, to make easily digestible porridge, which has a good effect on the health care of the elderly.