According to Chinese medicine, beginning of winter is already a place where the sun hides, the shade flourishes, plants wither, insects hide and all activities tend to stop. It accumulates energy during hibernation to prepare for the vigorous development in the coming spring. As far as the human body is concerned, metabolism is also at a relatively slow level, so it is advocated that winter health care should avoid cold and warm yang, protect yang, and make yin and yang relatively balanced.

After winter, human physiological activities need more heat energy to maintain. Tonifying in winter is a tradition of preventing diseases and strengthening the body in China for thousands of years. Tonifying in winter can store the energy transformed by nutrients in the body to the maximum extent and nourish the five internal organs.

Remind everyone that you can pay proper attention to your diet recently and eat some foods that nourish yin and lower yang in a targeted manner to resist the invasion of cold air.

Edible beginning of winter health care essential recipe 1: tomato and sugar lotus root.

[Ingredients] 2 tomatoes, lotus root 1 section, and appropriate amount of sugar.

"Practice" Peel the tomatoes, cook the lotus roots (3 to 5 minutes), put them together on a plate and sprinkle with sugar.

"Efficacy" strengthens the spleen, stimulates appetite, produces sperm and quenches thirst.

The second essential health-preserving recipe for eating winter: steamed old duck with cordyceps sinensis

Ingredients: 5 Cordyceps sinensis, 1 old duck/kloc-0, yellow wine, ginger, onion and salt.

"Practice" The old duck is depilated, eviscerated, washed, boiled in a water pot until the water bubbles, fished out, split the duck head along the neck, added with Cordyceps sinensis, tied with thread, put in a large bowl, added with appropriate amount of yellow wine, ginger, onion, salt and water, and then steamed in the pot for about 2 hours. (Steam can also be used)

"Efficacy" can replenish deficiency and essence, nourish yin and help yang.

This prescription is mainly composed of Cordyceps sinensis, which helps kidney yang to replenish blood. Supplemented by old ducks, nourishing yin and tonifying deficiency. The prescription emphasizes tonifying yang and yin, and the combination of the two makes * * become the authoritative medicated diet for tonifying deficiency and essence, nourishing yin and helping yang.

Note: people with unknown exogenous pathogens should not eat it.

Eat beginning of winter health essential recipe 3: black sesame porridge.

[Ingredients] 25g of black sesame and 50g of japonica rice.

"Practice" Black sesame seeds are fried and ground for later use, polished round-grained rice is washed and cooked in a pot together with black sesame seeds. After boiling with strong fire, cook with slow fire until porridge is formed.

"Efficacy" nourishes the liver and kidney and nourishes the five internal organs.

Note: This prescription is more suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with weak constitution and has the function of preventing premature aging.

Source: Family Doctor Online

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