○ Text/Zhao Yanan/Yuan Yue
Sohu Health interviewed Sun Lihong, an associate professor at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Sun Lihong said: The internal organs have different angry behaviors and need different "fire-clearing meals".
Why does it get angry easily in spring?
Neijing said: "Spring is March, which means Chen Sheng, heaven and earth are born, and everything is glorious".
Spring is a season of vigorous growth, the sun is the spirit, and the internal heat accumulated in the five internal organs in winter is slowly emitted. Coupled with the dry and windy spring, the human body is prone to spring dryness.
Judging from the five elements, spring belongs to wood and should be the liver in the five internal organs. The rising of yang in spring is easy to manifest as hyperactivity of liver fire, thus causing symptoms of getting angry.
In addition, the early spring is warm and cold, and some people still maintain the habit of eating spicy and warm food such as pepper and mutton in winter; Even in the "spring cover", it is easy to cause the fire to be heavier and excessive.
What are the manifestations of getting angry?
Different people have different behaviors of getting angry. Generally speaking, they usually have symptoms such as oral ulcer, swollen gums, sore throat, short and red urine, irritability, poor sleep, dry mouth and bitter taste, and burning face.
There are real fire and virtual fire when getting angry.
Excess fire belongs to excess syndrome, with acute disease and short course of disease, which is common in high fever, flushing, Huang Chi in urine, constipation, or sores on the mouth and tongue. Deficiency fire belongs to deficiency syndrome, with slow onset and long course of disease, which is more common in five aspects: upset fever, night sweats, insomnia, dry mouth and throat.
How should internal organs clear fire?
1 stomach fire
People with strong stomach fire often have stomachache, bad breath, dry mouth, swollen gums, dry stool,
Yellow urine, easy to get hungry, should clear stomach fire and relieve pain.
Clearing stomach fire can use Chinese herbal medicines such as Coptidis Rhizoma, Fructus Forsythiae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Cortex Moutan, Fructus Gardeniae, Gypsum Fibrosum, Cortex Phellodendri, Trichosanthis Radix, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, etc.
Spinach and tangerine peel are recommended for dietotherapy dishes.
Ingredients: 200g spinach, 80g fragrant dried fruit, 0/0g dried tangerine peel/kloc-,appropriate amount of pepper oil and salt.
Exercise:
(1) Wash spinach, cut into sections, blanch in boiling water for 20 seconds, remove and squeeze dry;
(2) fragrant dried shredded; Wash and soak Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae until soft and shred;
(3) add oil to the pot. When the oil is 70% to 80% hot, stir-fry the spinach and put it on a plate.
(4) Heat the oil in the pan, add shredded fragrant dried fruit and dried tangerine peel and stir fry, then pour in the fried spinach and stir fry until cooked, and add salt and monosodium glutamate to taste.
Tip: Adding salt and oil during blanching can keep vegetables green. Don't fry the dried incense for too long, just fry it a little.
Efficacy note:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that spinach has the effects of enriching blood, stopping bleeding, helping digestion and cleaning up gastrointestinal heat toxin, and has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on epigastric pain and gastrointestinal heat accumulation caused by liver-qi invading the stomach.
Modern research has found that spinach contains high B vitamins, which plays a positive role in preventing angular stomatitis caused by vitamin deficiency. Spinach contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can prevent constipation if eaten regularly.
Spinach is not only fragrant and dry, but also rich in high-quality protein. Its protein amino acid ratio is close to human needs, and its nutritional value is high. Dried tangerine peel can regulate qi and strengthen the spleen, and can treat qi stagnation of spleen and stomach, abdominal distension and pain, nausea and vomiting.
This product is especially suitable for patients with fullness of spleen and stomach, stomach heat and constipation. Spinach contains more oxalic acid, which hinders the body's absorption of calcium. Therefore, when eating spinach, you should first blanch it with boiling water and then fry it.
Lung fire
Lung fire is also called lung heat. People with lung heat and excess fire will have cough, yellow and thick phlegm, asthma, heavy breathing and deficiency fire.
There may be bloodshot sputum, accompanied by hoarseness and night sweats.
There are many ways to clear stomach fire, such as Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Fritillaria thunbergii, Platycodon grandiflorum, Radix Peucedani, Trichosanthis Radix, Radix Adenophorae, Polygonatum odoratum, Radix Ophiopogonis, Pear and Lily.
Dietotherapy dishes recommend mushroom, bamboo shoots and Yuzhu chicken soup.
Raw materials: native chicken 1 bird, Polygonatum odoratum 20g, Lentinus edodes 10g, bamboo shoots 250g, salt, ginger, onion and vegetable oil.
Exercise:
(1) Boil the chicken with boiling water first, and then wash it with clear water;
(2) Soaking the dried Lentinus edodes to be soft, removing pedicels and cutting into pieces; Wash bamboo shoots and cut into pieces; Slice Polygonatum odoratum for use.
(3) Add clear water into the casserole, then put it into the local chicken pot and cook for about 50 minutes, then add Polygonatum odoratum, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, onions and ginger to stew together, and add salt to taste when cooked.
Efficacy note:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Polygonatum odoratum has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, and can be used to treat diseases such as yin injury caused by fever, dry cough caused by deficiency heat, hoarseness and thirst quenching. Polygonatum odoratum is often used as high-grade nourishing food and delicious food, which has health care function.
Bamboo shoots can be found all year round, but only bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots taste the best. When cooking, whether it is cold salad or soup, it is fresh, tender and fragrant, and it is a common food at home.
Lentinus edodes is a kind of nutritional health food with high protein and low fat. Chicken has high protein content and high digestibility, which is easy to be absorbed and utilized by human body, and has a good nourishing effect on malnutrition, fatigue, anemia, physical weakness and so on.
This product is especially suitable for patients with yin injury due to lung heat, cough and loss of appetite. People who are afraid of cold due to yang deficiency should not eat it.
3 liver fire
People with hyperactive liver will have blurred vision, red eyes, tinnitus, dizziness, headache, irritability, dry stool and other symptoms.
Dry, high blood pressure and other manifestations.
Clearing liver and purging fire can be taken with chrysanthemum, medlar, honeysuckle, mulberry leaves, selfheal, gastrodia elata, gardenia, etc.
Gastrodia elata and Angelica dahurica stewed fish head are recommended for dietotherapy dishes.
Raw materials: 6 grams of Gastrodia elata, 0/0 gram of Angelica dahurica/kloc, 6 grams of Ligusticum chuanxiong, 250 grams of fish head, vegetable oil, ginger and salt.
Exercise:
(1) Wash fish heads with clean water, remove blood stains and chop them up for later use; Slice ginger for later use.
(2) Put a little oil in the saucepan, wash Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and Rhizoma Gastrodiae, put them in the saucepan, add fish head and ginger slices, add appropriate amount of water, stew in the saucepan for about 2 hours, and add fine salt to taste.
Summary of efficacy
In spring, the common cold is on the high side and the liver yang is hyperactive, so many people will feel headache, dizziness and discomfort.
Gastrodia elata enters the liver meridian, which can calm the wind and soothe the nerves, and treat dizziness, headache due to head wind, numbness of limbs and hemiplegia. It has a good effect on headache caused by cold in spring and dizziness and headache caused by hypertension. Angelica dahurica can dispel wind, eliminate dampness and relieve pain.
Angelica dahurica is mainly used to treat headache, eyebrow bone pain and toothache.
Chuanxiong has the functions of promoting qi circulation, relieving depression, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. Doctors often use it for wind-cold headache, dizziness headache and rheumatic arthralgia.
The fish head in this section has the function of "supplementing pollution with pollution". This diet can calm the liver, relieve convulsion and relieve pain, and is suitable for people with dizziness, headache, neurasthenia and hypertension caused by rising yang in spring and excessive cold.
This product is especially suitable for hypertension with headache and dizziness. Not suitable for people with yin deficiency and excessive fire.
4 heart fire
People with strong heart fire will be upset, insomnia, sores on their mouths, red urine and red tongue tip.
Heart-clearing fire can be made from lotus plumule, lophatherum gracile, honeysuckle and gardenia.
Dietotherapy dishes are recommended in Qian jiaozi.
Ingredients: elm root 300g, pork stuffing100g, onion, Jiang Mo, salt, soy sauce, sugar and cooking wine.
Exercise:
(1) Mix the noodles in proportion, cover them with a wet cloth, wake up, select and wash the elms for later use, mix the pork stuffing with minced onion and ginger and seasonings, and add the elms and mix well.
(2) Take out the woken dough, divide it into agents with the same size, roll it into a round dumpling skin with a rolling pin, and wrap a proper amount of stuffing on the dumpling skin.
(3) Boil water in a pot and put it into jiaozi to cook.
Summary of efficacy
Elm is the seed of elm. When spring comes, the golden elms are full of branches, which is very attractive.
Elm can be eaten or used as medicine. Chinese medicine believes that elm can strengthen the spleen and soothe the nerves, clear the heart and purge fire, and treat insomnia, irritability, cough and other diseases.
Modern research believes that elm is rich in nicotinic acid and vitamin C, which can prevent furuncle and scurvy. Elm root is rich in calcium, which is a natural nerve relaxant and sedative, and has the effect of calming emotions.
Another study found that calcium can help the brain use tryptophan to produce melatonin, which is an important hormone to regulate the "sleep-wake" rhythm and can treat neurasthenia and insomnia.
Besides jiaozi, elm money can also be used to make cold dishes and porridge. This product is especially suitable for people who are restless during sleep.
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