Cold dew ranks seventeenth among the twenty-four solar terms, and is celebrated every year1October 8-9. According to historical records, "war refers to cold armor as cold dew, and cold is cold and cold, which will condense, hence the name cold dew." "Dew is cold and will condense." Due to the arrival of cold dew, the climate changes from hot to cold, and everything is born with cold, which is a season of alternating hot and cold. In nature, the qi of yin and yang begins to change, the yang is gradually declining, and the yin is gradually born. Our physiological activities should also adapt to the changes in nature to ensure the physiological (yin and yang) balance in the body.
In late autumn, due to the sudden invasion of cold wind and cold air, the resulting dryness is cool-drying. The main symptoms of cold dryness are cough with thin phlegm, dry throat and dry lips, stuffy nose without sweat, aversion to cold, headache and slight fever. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the yang is weak and the yin is long, which is also a time when people are more frequent, especially the elderly and children should pay special attention.
Cold dew diet should take nourishing yin as the basic principle, and eat more moist foods, such as black-bone chicken, pig lung, turtle meat, bird's nest, tremella, honey, sesame, walnut, lotus root and autumn pear. These foods are more effective when used in combination with traditional Chinese medicine. Old people with bad stomachs can eat porridge in the morning, such as lily lotus seed porridge, tremella rock sugar glutinous rice porridge, almond fritillary bulb glutinous rice porridge, black sesame porridge and so on. Drink more soup at night to moisturize the skin. In addition, we should eat more sour fruits and vegetables and less spicy food, which is of great benefit to protecting the liver and benefiting the lungs.
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One: jujube peanut yam porridge
Raw materials: red dates 10, peanuts 45g, yam 1 segment, rice 100g.
Exercise:
1. Wash yam, peel and cut into pieces, and wash peanuts and red dates. Add the right amount of water.
2. Cook the yam, peanuts and red dates first, then put the rice in and stir it with a spoon to prevent it from sticking to the pot. Just cook for 10 minutes.
Efficacy: Jujube has the function of invigorating qi and blood and strengthening stomach; Eating peanuts with red clothes can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish and regulate qi, but also enrich blood; Yam tonifies the spleen and stomach, and tonifies the middle and qi. This porridge nourishes the spleen, blood and beauty.
Recipe 2: Shenmai Sydney lean broth
Ingredients: 500g of lean meat, 30g of Pseudostellaria heterophylla, 4 Sydney, 0/5g of Ophiopogon japonicus/kloc, and 30g of almond.
Exercise:
1. Wash Radix Pseudostellariae and Radix Ophiopogonis (remove the heart), wash Sydney, cut the skin into 4 pieces, and remove the core; Blanch almonds with boiling water and undress; Wash lean meat and cut into pieces.
2. Put all the ingredients into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, and season with slow fire 1 ~ 2 hours.
Efficacy: autumn dryness and high wind will clear dryness, benefit qi and promote fluid production. Stewed Sydney lean meat with Radix Pseudostellariae, Radix Ophiopogonis and Nanxing has this effect. Pseudostellaria heterophylla and Ophiopogon japonicus are both drugs for nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Nanxing is flat and sweet, and has the effect of relieving cough and moistening dryness. Sydney moistens the lungs and produces fluid, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. It is believed in the book that it has the functions of "moistening lung and cooling heart, resolving phlegm and reducing fire".
Recipe 3: stir-fried lily with celery and pumpkin
Ingredients: pumpkin, lily, celery, salt, chicken essence, vegetable oil.
Exercise:
1. Wash and peel celery, remove old tendons and cut into sections, peel pumpkin and cut into thin slices. Boil the water in the pot, add the boiled pumpkin, take it out after the water is boiled, and control the boiled pumpkin to dry.
2. Put oil in the pot and add celery and stir fry. Stir-fry celery until it breaks, then add pumpkin and stir-fry. When the pumpkin and celery are cooked, add the lily, add salt and chicken essence to taste, stir well and take out the pot.
Efficacy: Celery has the functions of lowering blood pressure, calming, invigorating stomach and diuresis. Lily is a good product for moistening lung, removing dryness, relieving cough and resolving phlegm in autumn. Pumpkin strengthens the spleen and nourishes the stomach, which is not only an ideal food for protecting the liver, preventing gastritis and treating night blindness, but also can neutralize carcinogens, make the skin tender and prevent and relieve diabetes.
Recipe 4: Lotus root and peanut sparerib soup
Ingredients: a section of old lotus root, a sparerib, two slices of ginger, 50g of peanuts in red and 30g of lotus seeds (you can put more lotus seeds if you want to soothe your nerves).
Exercise:
1. Wash the lotus root skin first, cut it into hob pieces, and soak it in light salt water or trace white vinegar water. Soak fresh ribs in running water directly, or soak them in water for three times.
2, put enough water in the pot, put the ribs and safflower raw, boil the fire, and constantly skim off the floating foam. Add the chopped lotus root and simmer until the lotus root ribs are cooked. Finally add some salt to taste.
Efficacy: cooked lotus root can strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite, stop diarrhea and solidify essence. Put some lotus seeds in the soup. It can nourish blood, produce marrow, soothe the nerves and strengthen the brain; Women eating lotus root can achieve the effect of regulating blood, enriching blood and rosy complexion; Lotus root can also clear lung and stop bleeding, and it is the best food for people.
Recipe 5: Chinese yam chestnut porridge
Raw materials: each gram of yam, cooked chestnut100g, 40g of rice, 60g of glutinous rice, medlar10g, and 7 red dates.
Exercise:
1, peeled yam. Wash the red dates and peel the chestnuts. Yam is cut into small pieces of the same size. Put water in the pot, wash the rice and glutinous rice and put them in the pot. Add yam and red dates.
2. Cook for 40 minutes, add chestnuts and medlar, and cook for 10 minutes or more.
Efficacy: Chinese yam can strengthen the spleen and chestnuts can be used to cook porridge, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, regulate the intestines, not only cure low back pain, but also stop diarrhea.
Recipe 6: Fried chicken fillet with mushrooms and fungus.
Raw materials: chicken breast 200g, auricularia auricula100g (after soaking in water), Lentinus edodes100g (after soaking in water), onion15g, garlic15g (after peeling and mashing), salt, sugar, soy sauce and rice wine.
Exercise:
1. Wash and cut the chicken breast, mix well with salt, soy sauce and peanut oil, and fry in a pan for later use.
2. Boil the oil, stir-fry the chicken fillet over high heat, pour in a little rice wine, add mushrooms and fungus, continue to stir-fry with a little soy sauce, season with salt and sugar, and stir well.
Efficacy: Lentinus edodes is rich in vitamins, auricularia auricula is rich in iron, which is suitable for chicken, and chicken fillet is fried first and then fried, which makes it easier to highlight the flavor.
Recipe 7: Winter Mushroom and Winter Melon Ball
Raw materials: mushroom, chicken soup, starch, wax gourd, vegetable oil, refined salt, ginger, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.
Exercise:
1, wash the mushrooms after soaking; Peel and wash the wax gourd, and dig it into balls with a steel ball spoon for later use; Wash and shred ginger; Heat an appropriate amount of vegetable oil in the pot, add ginger and stir-fry until fragrant.
2. Stir-fry the mushrooms for a few minutes, then pour in a proper amount of chicken soup to boil; After the wax gourd pill is cooked in the pot, thicken it with water starch, stir fry a few times, add monosodium glutamate and pour sesame oil, and serve.
Efficacy: nourishing stomach, promoting fluid production, and relieving annoyance.
Recipe 8: Raw fish in carrot and fig pot
Ingredients: 500g carrots, 6 figs, 3 candied dates, raw fish 1 strip (about 600g), lean meat 150g, and 3 slices of ginger.
Exercise:
1, peeled carrots, washed and cut into horns; Wash figs and candied dates; Wash raw fish, fry until slightly yellow, and splash a little water.
2. Wash the lean pork, cut it into pieces, put it in a earthen pot with ginger, add 2500ml of clear water (about 10 bowl), and boil it with strong fire, instead of slow fire 1.5h, and add appropriate amount of salt.
Efficacy: this soup is moist and delicious, and both men and women can moisten dryness and nourish yin, benefit qi and promote fluid production.
Recipe 9: Purple Potato, Lily and Tremella Soup
Raw materials: purple potato 1, 2 lilies, tremella 1, rock sugar 10g, and appropriate amount of water.
Exercise:
1, purple sweet potato, fresh lily, tremella fuciformis 1, crystal sugar and tremella fuciformis are soaked in cold water, then the yellow root is removed and torn into small pieces. Add enough water to the casserole, add tremella, boil and simmer for about 1.5 hours.
2. Break lily into small petals, clean them and soak them in water for later use. Peel the purple potato and cut it into dices. The tremella is boiled until soft and rotten, and the soup is thick. Add lily, purple sweet potato and appropriate amount of rock sugar, cook for about 5 minutes, and then turn off the heat.
Efficacy: Lily has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, relieving asthma, clearing away heat, nourishing heart and calming nerves. Therefore, lily has a good effect on anxiety and insomnia, dry throat and sore throat, nosebleeds, fatigue, loss of appetite, mild insomnia, anxiety and thirst caused by autumn heat.
In addition to eating more healthy dishes, we should also pay attention not to eat or eat less spicy barbecue foods, such as peppers, ginger, onions, garlic, etc., because excessive consumption of spicy foods is easy to hurt people and easily get angry. Drink salt water during the day and honey water at night. This is a good way to replenish human body's water, and it is also a good diet for health preservation and anti-aging in autumn. At the same time, it can prevent constipation caused by autumn dryness and play a role in moistening and nourishing the lungs.