Southerners like to make soup. Adding some Chinese herbal medicines to the soup becomes a nourishing and health-care medicated diet. In fact, you can add some health Chinese medicine to stir-fry and cook porridge. Today, I will introduce you to four kinds of summer health medicated diets.

Which traditional Chinese medicines are suitable for cooking?

The so-called "homology of medicine and food", in the concept of traditional Chinese medicine, food can sometimes become medicine, which has the function of health care, and medicine can sometimes be made into food, which has the function of preventing and treating diseases.

Traditional Chinese medicines have been used in dishes since ancient times, such as lily, lotus seed, gorgon euryale seed, yam, poria cocos, Amomum villosum, ginkgo, dried tangerine peel, rose, American ginseng, walnut, sesame, longan pulp, medlar, jujube, mulberry, cogongrass rhizome, coix seed, angelica, clove and cordyceps sinensis.

How to choose a prescription that suits you? It can be distinguished according to individual physical needs and seasonal changes. In the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, regulating the liver and spleen in spring, clearing heat and relieving summer heat in summer, nourishing yin and moistening lung in autumn, warming yang and tonifying kidney in winter. It changes with the seasons, which is a major principle in the selection of medicinal diet. In addition, you can also distinguish between physical fitness and carry out targeted medicated diet conditioning. For example, the land of South Guangdong is generally considered to be a place with heavy moisture, so it is recommended to choose more formulas to eliminate moisture. However, some investigations and studies have found that there are not a few people with yang deficiency among modern people. For these people, it is suggested that a medicated diet that warms and tonifies yang is appropriate.

Besides making soup, what other cooking methods are there?

Traditional Chinese medicine can be not only decocted, but also processed by other cooking methods. Such as cooking porridge. Classic porridge recipes are as follows: Hu Aishan lotus seed porridge, Hu Aishan glutinous rice porridge, yuba ginkgo porridge, lotus leaf wax gourd glutinous rice porridge, glutinous rice red bean porridge and so on.

Some traditional Chinese medicines can also be used for cooking, which has certain health care functions, such as Amomum villosum ribs, dried tangerine peel bones, fresh yam fried with auricularia auricula and lily, pork belly stewed with ginkgo in Zhi Zhu, duck/chicken with cordyceps sinensis, and duck with clove.

Others add traditional Chinese medicine to desserts and sugar water to make the taste more popular. Lotus seed lily tremella soup/sugar water, black sesame walnut paste, imperata bamboo cane carrot horseshoe (sugar) water, Fritillaria cirrhosa stewed Sydney, brown sugar ginger tea, angelica jujube Qi brown sugar water and so on. Others such as Hu Aishan Lotus Seed Cake, Hu Aishan Euryale Semen Steamed Bun, Rose Tea, American Ginseng (Lycium barbarum) Tea, Mulberry Juice, Motherwort Boiled Eggs, etc.

Can medicated diet be eaten every day?

It depends on the body's reaction.

The so-called "homology of medicine and food", medicinal materials are eaten as ingredients, usually for certain health care, disease prevention and treatment purposes. As the saying goes, it is a three-point poison. After all, medicinal materials are not ordinary ingredients. Even if some Chinese herbal medicines with less flavor are used, they cannot be eaten dialectically.

He Yingxi said that the key is to look at the user's physical reaction. If there is no obvious discomfort, you can take it for a long time. For example, Lu, a master of Chinese medicine, insists on being jealous and soaking ginger every day. If the medicated diet is specially designed for certain disease states or constitutions, it needs to be judged according to the disease states or constitutions. When the constitution or illness changes, it needs to be adjusted, otherwise the disease will stop.

Recommendation of health medicated diet in summer

1, red bean paste syrup

Suitable for people: people with poor appetite caused by high temperature in summer.

Preparation materials: 50g mung beans, 50g red beans, 50g white lentils, half dried tangerine peel, and appropriate amount of brown sugar/rock sugar.

Mung beans are sweet and cool, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat; Adzuki bean tastes sweet and slightly cold, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying; White lentils are sweet in taste, flat in nature, invigorating the spleen, eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat. The combination of three kinds of beans makes the syrup have obvious effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Adding dried tangerine peel with the functions of eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm and strengthening spleen neutralizes the coldness of mung beans and red beans, and the dried tangerine peel is fragrant and spleen-strengthening, and can also stimulate appetite.

When the temperature is high in summer, people feel uncomfortable and have poor appetite, and the amount of food per meal is not more suitable than the temperature, this sweet bean paste syrup is suitable for summer and summer. If the sugar water is frozen in the refrigerator, the effect of cooling off summer heat will be more obvious. While clearing away heat, removing dampness and relieving summer heat, several kinds of beans are used in the recipe, which are rich in starch, minerals and vitamins, and at the same time enhance satiety and replenish body minerals lost due to excessive sweating.

2. Five kinds of scented tea

Suitable for people: people with colds and heatstroke in summer.

Preparation materials: honeysuckle, chrysanthemum morifolium, bean curd, egg flower, kapok 15g, fresh Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae and Coicis Semen 50g.

Honeysuckle in the prescription is sweet and cold, clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispelling wind and dissipating heat; Chrysanthemum morifolium tastes bitter and slightly cold, dispelling wind and clearing heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight; Flat bean curd brain is slightly warm, clearing heat and relieving summer heat and dampness; Plumeria is sweet, moistening lung and detoxifying, clearing heat and promoting diuresis; Kapok is dull, clearing heat, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness; Smilax glabra promotes diuresis, detoxifies and facilitates joints; Coix seed can strengthen the spleen, induce diuresis and clear heat.

Can be used for preventing dizziness, headache, stuffy nose and runny nose, heavy limbs, sore throat and loss of appetite caused by pathogenic factors invading human body in hot summer, and preventing heatstroke in summer.

3. Kapok bean porridge

Suitable for people: people with heavy humidity and poor appetite.

Preparation materials: kapok 8- 10, lentils 50g, japonica rice 50g(2-3 people).

Kapok has the function of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and lentils strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis. The combination of the two has obvious effect of relieving summer heat and promoting diuresis. Boiling porridge also takes care of people's loss of appetite in bitter summer, and they prefer to eat porridge that is easy to digest and absorb. Porridge also has the function of strengthening the spleen and stomach, which is beneficial to those with weak spleen and stomach.

4. Pogostemon kudzu porridge

Suitable for people: people with damp-heat cold, vomiting and diarrhea.

Preparation materials: Pogostemon rugosa 10g, Radix Puerariae 10g (fresh Radix Puerariae 10g), Poria 10g, and 50g of japonica rice.

Pueraria lobata is one of Guangzhou people's favorite ingredients, which is often used in soup and cooking. Pueraria lobata has the functions of relieving muscle, relieving fever, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst and stopping diarrhea; Huoxiang has the functions of eliminating dampness, harmonizing stomach, stopping vomiting, dispelling summer heat and relieving exterior syndrome; Poria cocos and poria cocos have the functions of eliminating dampness, strengthening spleen and regulating stomach. The combination of the three drugs makes this porridge have the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, eliminating dampness, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst and stopping diarrhea.

It is suitable for people with gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea due to damp-heat cold in summer.

In summer, you should eat more foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and you can also add some Chinese medicine when cooking. You can also try the four summer medicated diets introduced above.