One cold and one hot, which should I choose?
Speaking of eating this thing in summer, it is estimated that everyone is struggling to eat watermelon, or is it better to drink ginger jujube tea promoted by Chinese medicine health number?
Everything seems reasonable. Who should I listen to? This cold and hot, many people wonder, which one should I eat? Which one suits my physique?
Let's start with watermelons. It's hot every day in summer. Eating a sweet watermelon, from the tip of your tongue to your stomach, is refreshing and comfortable.
Watermelon tastes sweet and cold, and is good at quenching summer heat and quenching thirst. Can be used for treating summer heat, vexation, body heat, thirst, chills, Huang Chi in urine, and sores caused by mouth heat.
Nowadays, many people are afraid at the sight of watermelon, saying that it is cold and wet, hurting the yang and afraid to eat it. But in fact, it is completely beneficial and harmless for healthy people to eat some watermelons in summer.
But you can't eat more watermelons often. As the saying goes, "If you have a cold in your heart, you dare not eat watermelon." . People with cold constitution, cold spleen and stomach and weak digestive ability are generally uncomfortable to eat a cold stomach. Some people will have abdominal pain, diarrhea, anorexia and loss of appetite. If you are such a person, eat less or don't eat watermelon.
But on the whole, watermelon is actually a good fruit. It is good for healthy people when they are thirsty in summer. It also has a good reputation: "natural white tiger soup."
Why is there such a statement? Ben Feng Jingyuan explained: "Watermelon can cause pericardial fever and be excreted in the small intestine and bladder. It can relieve yang, stagnation of Yangming, fever and thirst, so it is called natural white tiger soup. 」
Whether this view is right or not, let's put it aside for the time being and discuss this topic with you later. Let's see who White Tiger Soup is first.
White Tiger Decoction comes from Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases. Baihu decoction can clear away heat and promote fluid production. If there is a serious shortage of body fluid, thirst and cold water, or the pathogenesis of heatstroke, adding more ginseng will become Baihushen decoction.
Baihu decoction and Baihu ginseng decoction are widely used. For example, our most common heatstroke in summer is called "the sun in the sun" in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. Symptoms are fear of heat, cold, dizziness, thirst, and a special desire for water. They can drink 200-300 ml of water in one breath. People who urinate less have a chance to use it.
Another example is Yangming fever, which is known as the "four major symptoms". It is characterized by excessive sweating, great annoyance, great thirst, inability to quench thirst by drinking water, and strong pulse, so this situation also belongs to the category of White Tiger (Ginseng) Decoction Syndrome.
White Tiger Decoction, White Tiger plus ginseng soup have many symptoms, so I won't list them here.
Therefore, Zhao Ben's Treatise on Febrile Diseases has such a sentence after Bai Hu Tang, "This party can serve Xia Hou and beginning of autumn, but not beginning of autumn." In the first month, February and March, it's still cold. Don't eat it, and then you will vomit and have abdominal pain. The family with blood deficiency can't be reconciled, and those who get it can benefit from abdominal pain, which can be cured by warming up. 」
What does this passage mean? It literally means that White Tiger Soup can be drunk after the long summer, before beginning of autumn, but not after beginning of autumn. It's still cold for three months in spring, so you can't use white tiger soup. It will cause nausea and abdominal pain.
So is this really the case? Can't you use white tiger soup when it's cold?
In fact, it is not because of the cold weather, but because this person has internal cold. White tiger soup itself is heat-clearing. If the cold gets worse after use, there will be symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain.
If this person has a white tiger soup certificate in cold winter, can he use it? You can use it. If this person has Sinitang syndrome in midsummer, can it be used? You can use it.
Whether it can be used does not depend on whether the weather is cold or hot, but on your current physical condition, depending on whether your constitution is cold or hot.
This truth is the same as eating watermelon in summer.
We say that watermelon is a seasonal fruit in summer and a good summer product. How about eating some? Yes, it can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. However, if you have severe cold and dampness in your body and the spleen and stomach are not well transported, then try to eat less or not, otherwise it will easily lead to stomach pain and diarrhea, resulting in the accumulation of cold and dampness.
Some people will ask whether watermelon is sweet and cold, so if I dip some warm pepper, will it balance cold and heat? So you can eat with a bad spleen and stomach, right?
I advise you to calm down. The spleen and stomach are weak and the digestion ability is weak, and the intestinal tract often reacts to cold and spicy things. Watermelon is cold and pepper is spicy. Under the double stimulation, it is often easy to have abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Another thing about eating watermelon is that you can't eat chilled watermelon. You can't say you can open the refrigerator and take it out as soon as you get home and stutter. Eating like this will damage the spleen and stomach, watermelon is cold, and eating too much will hurt the spleen and help damp. Frozen watermelon can also irritate the throat, causing problems such as pharyngitis or toothache.
Including watermelon is sweet, with high sugar content and water content, so if you are a diabetic with hyperglycemia, you should pay attention to avoid it as much as possible. If you have kidney diseases such as chronic nephritis and renal insufficiency, you should also eat less or not eat watermelon.
So here, we have a general understanding of eating watermelon:
Watermelon is a good summer product, which can relieve summer heat and quench thirst, and produce body fluid to quench thirst. Healthy people and people suffering from summer heat are suitable for eating, but they should eat sparingly. If it is cold inside, try to eat less or not, otherwise it will lead to the accumulation of cold and dampness in the body, which is not conducive to the transport of spleen and stomach.
Let's talk about ginger jujube tea first and see why so many people pursue ginger jujube tea. How is it explained in Treatise on Febrile Diseases?
The ingredients of ginger jujube tea are very simple, that is, a few slices of ginger, a few dates and a health pot can be cooked. People with a bad cold can change ginger into dried ginger.
Ginger and jujube are widely used in Treatise on Febrile Diseases, so we can disassemble their respective uses.
Ginger is familiar to everyone. Ginger can cure colds. If you catch a cold, just drink a bowl of ginger soup, cover the quilt and sweat a little. This is the effect of ginger on relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold.
Ginger can not only treat colds, but also stop vomiting. It is known as the "holy medicine for stopping vomiting" and is mostly used for vomiting caused by stomach cold and excessive phlegm.
Like summer, it is most likely to happen. If you accidentally eat cold food, your stomach will be bad. Spitting clean water and containing a few slices of ginger in your mouth will also have a good effect.
Pregnant women are sick and uncomfortable, with severe pregnancy reaction, stomach deficiency and fear of cold. Using ginger can also relieve discomfort.
Ginger is pungent, slightly warm and pungent, which can relieve exterior symptoms, treat colds, typhoid headaches, nasal congestion, cough and asthma, dispel dampness, and treat severe pain and numbness of limbs.
In addition to understanding the exterior, ginger is actually a medicine that takes both exterior and interior into consideration. In case of stomach cold, you can drink stomach cold or use ginger, like the stomach cold vomiting mentioned earlier.
If you often stay in an air-conditioned room, you will have a headache, be afraid of the cold, have a heavy body and limbs, strong shoulders and neck, and have a stiff back, and be afraid of being blown by the wind. The superficial symptoms are more obvious. Compared with dried ginger, you can choose ginger.
Dried ginger is warmer than ginger and is used in the case of heavy internal cooling. If you are obviously deficient in spleen and stomach, your stomach is afraid of cold, and you want to go to the toilet to have diarrhea when a cool breeze blows, or it is a little cold. If you eat something cold or greasy, you can't digest it and have diarrhea (that is, you can pull whatever you eat). You can use dried ginger instead of ginger.
Note that both ginger and dried ginger are warm. If you are damp heat constitution and have constipation, bad breath, fear of heat, cold, upset and high fever, it is not suitable for use.
As for jujube, many people want to ask whether it is jujube or black jujube, candied jujube or grey jujube.
In fact, there are many varieties of jujube, all of which can be used, and the sweetness is suitable. If you really don't know how to choose, choose sweet, the sweeter the better (natural sweetness, candied fruit and other sweet processing are not counted).
Jujube, which is well known to everyone, is sweet and warm in nature, and can "calm the middle energizer", "calm the stomach", "tonify the body fluid" and "tonify the middle energizer".
In fact, jujube also has a certain diuretic effect, which can be used for mild cold water drinking with insufficient body fluid (not good for internal heat).
It nourishes body fluid, tonifies middle energizer, enhances function and realizes the function of removing water and drinking.
How to understand this? Let me give you a simple and rude example (it may not be appropriate, but I hope it will make you understand). You know that our body absorbs and transports energy, and the carrier of excreting metabolic waste is body fluid, right? When the body fluid is insufficient, the ability to transport these metabolic wastes out of the body will decrease. There is still so much work, but because there are not enough people, we are too busy.
Then use jujube to replenish body fluids, and give them to more people. People are in place, and there are people on every assembly line, which can help the metabolic waste of drinking water to be excreted.
Of course, what is the premise, but the main contradiction lies in the shortage of Tianjin and manpower, so dates can be used.
If there is a lot of work, especially a lot of water and drinks, mainly cold water and drinks, and there is no obvious loss of body fluids, then jujube can no longer be used at this time. Why? Because jujube rehydration will help water ward off evil spirits, it should be removed.
Experienced people will find that if your stomach is weak, your transport ability is reduced, your spleen and stomach are weak, and you eat a lot of dates at one time, will you feel abdominal distension, discomfort and indigestion? Therefore, jujube should not be used for stomach deficiency and fullness.
Jujube has strong bias. Generally speaking, there are still some taboos. Everyone should also pay attention to not eating more casually.
Why do you want to drink ginger jujube tea in summer? Many explanations are like this:
That is to say, the weather is hot in summer, and all the qi and blood go outside. Relatively speaking, the distribution of qi and blood in human viscera is relatively small. It is easy to be cold at this time. Then drinking ginger jujube tea can replenish yang, warm the middle and dispel cold.
Is that really the case? We can review the homeostasis mechanism of the human body.
It is hot in summer, and the temperature of the outside environment is high. We feel hot, sweat pores emit heat, and sweat to cool down. This is a matter of appearance, and we can see that sweating cools down.
Where's Li? Is it cold? Actually, it's not. The circulation of qi and blood continuously transports the heat energy in the body to the body surface, and regulates our body temperature through the increase or decrease of body fluid. Under this mechanism, our heat generation and heat dissipation are balanced.
It can be said that the heat energy in the internal position determines the temperature of the body surface. It will be influenced by the outside temperature, not decided by it, which is the self-regulation of our constant temperature mechanism.
Then why do some people often feel uncomfortable in summer, and when they eat cold food, they have stomachache and diarrhea?
In fact, it is uncomfortable for such people to eat cold things all year round. This is because he has the problem of internal cooling and insufficient internal heat energy. There is something wrong with the human body's ability to correct cold and heat. So you see that his hands and feet are hot when it is cold in winter, he is afraid of cold when it is cold, and he is afraid of heat when it is hot.
In summer, germs are more active. If you eat something unclean, the human intestine will produce an evil reaction, and the evil will be discharged through defecation. This is one of the reasons why it is easier to see intestinal infectious diseases and gastrointestinal diseases in summer.
So is ginger jujube tea suitable for everyone? Obviously, this is not the case. Let's look at the second half of the sentence, "Xin Gan diverges into Yang". What does this mean?
Ginger is pungent, jujube is sweet, and Xin gan is scattered into Yang. Is the "yang" here a traditional way to replenish yang?
Actually, it's not. Accurately speaking, this "Yang" is positivism. What is the meaning of eliminating evil here?
Ginger and jujube are warm and dispel cold evil. It can disperse exterior cold pathogens, warm the spleen and stomach, and eliminate interior cold pathogens. There is also a certain effect of benefiting water and dispersing water vapor. Of course, it can also tonify body fluids.
* So what kind of people are suitable for eating ginger jujube tea?
People with body cold, cold pathogen, weak qi and blood, and insufficient body fluid can eat it. Usually like to drink hot food, eat hot food, and feel uncomfortable when you touch a cold stomach. My stomach feels cold, so I like to press it warmly. Usually it is easy to be afraid of the wind and cold, and people are more likely to have no spirit, weak physical foundation, easy to catch a cold and poor resistance. Pale and dull, even pale and bloodless, relatively thin, trembling voice (qi and blood weakness).
If you meet the above-mentioned body cold, but the cold and dampness are also heavier, with drinking water as the outstanding performance, and the weakness is not obvious, then you should pay attention to reducing the amount of jujube, because eating too much is not conducive to transportation, but not good.
* What kind of people are not suitable for eating?
People who often drink, this is a relatively heavy damp-heat situation in the middle coke, with red tongue and greasy fur, dry mouth and bitter taste or peculiar smell in the mouth, bad stool, constipation and severe anal burning. You can't use ginger jujube tea, which will make people uncomfortable.
Wet and turbid, summer dampness is not suitable, manifested as general discomfort, no desire to eat, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and chest tightness, a little thirsty, but not very thirsty, dizziness, dirty and greasy face, and less urine. This situation is more likely to happen in summer, so you can't drink ginger and jujube tea.
The heat in the room is heavy, which is obviously a heat syndrome. Drinking it will cause trouble, manifested as fear of heat, cold, constipation, bad breath, dry mouth, thirst for cold water, redness on the face and acne. You can't drink this. If you drink it, it will add fuel to the fire, and the fire syndrome will be more serious.
Cold and heat are mixed. Don't drink those with upper heat and lower cold and complicated symptoms such as excessive internal heat, bad breath, bitter taste, acne, upset, vomiting, stomachache and loose stool. Do not need ginger jujube tea. In this case, it will be faster to see a doctor.
By the way, if it is suitable for drinking ginger jujube tea, generally speaking, it is best to finish it during the day. Drinking at night may affect sleep. But the specific situation varies from person to person.
Having said that, I'll ask you this question again: Is it better to eat watermelon or ginger jujube tea in summer?
My conclusion is: what to eat? Why do you eat everything? This is all based on your current physique, current cold and heat.
There is no absolute good or bad. What suits you is good if you eat comfortably.
Now everyone seems to have a misunderstanding. Whenever there is any discomfort, everyone thinks it must be caused by yang deficiency. The fruit is broken, the milk is broken, and the air conditioner is broken. It's all yin and cold, cold and dampness are heavy, and yang is damaged. Everyone is thinking about how to support Yang.
But in fact, you may find yourself afraid of the cold, seemingly yang deficiency and contradictory. Sometimes I'm afraid of heat, yellow urine, and sometimes I'm upset. Is it wet and hot?
There is something wrong with the body's thermostatic mechanism. For example, when it is cold in winter, the hands and feet are cold, and the waist and abdomen are like ice. When summer is hot, it is accompanied by irritability, fatigue, fever in hands and feet, dizziness, palpitation, loss of appetite, dry mouth, insomnia and other problems.
You see, the symptoms are complicated. You can't explain them clearly, and you also find that many symptoms are not all right. Not the yang deficiency advocated by many health articles can be explained clearly, and it is definitely not that everyone is suitable for supporting yang when it comes to summer health.
Traditional Chinese medicine is not a stick to see the problem, and it cannot be generalized. On the contrary, it should "distinguish" cold and heat from evidence and exterior and interior.
How to tell? This should be traced back to the constant temperature mechanism and the change of cold and heat mentioned in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. In fact, this is also a set of treatment methods in Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which is completely set according to the constant temperature mechanism of the human body.
If we want to restore the body's constant temperature mechanism, find out whether we are cold or hot, and understand the cold and heat of diseases, we must learn to treat cold and heat, exterior and interior, and excess and deficiency with the testimonies of Treatise on Febrile Diseases.