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1, what is hair?
Hair refers to foods that are rich in nutrients or are particularly prone to induce certain diseases, especially old diseases or aggravate existing diseases. Hair taboo is of great significance in diet and dietotherapy. In general, hair is also food. Moderate consumption will not cause side effects or discomfort to most people, but will only induce some special constitutions and some related diseases.
2. Why is the Cold Food Festival not suitable for eating hair?
Qingming is a rare time for the growth of human yang. Chinese medicine believes that the liver qi in the human body reaches its peak at Qingming. As the saying goes, excessive liver qi will have adverse effects on the spleen and stomach, hinder the normal digestion and absorption of food, and also cause emotional disorder and poor execution of qi and blood, which will lead to various diseases. Hair is a product that can dispel wind and produce phlegm, send poison to help fire, and eliminate evil spirits. People with chronic diseases should avoid eating it.
3. What foods belong to hair?
In our daily food, there are the following categories of foods that belong to the hair category:
Vegetables mainly include bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkins and spinach.
Fruits, mainly peaches and apricots.
Livestock and poultry mainly include roosters, heads of chickens, pig heads, geese, chicken wings and chicken feet.
Seafood, mainly hairtail, yellow croaker, pomfret, mussel, shrimp, crab and other aquatic products.
Edible fungi, mainly mushrooms, mushrooms and so on.
In addition, hair products include roe deer, fermented bean curd, vegetable oil, distiller's grains, distiller's grains, white wine, peas, soybeans, tofu, tofu, silkworm chrysalis, onions, garlic and leeks.
Hair can induce or aggravate some diseases, but on the other hand, it is also used to treat some diseases in dietotherapy, such as early measles. Using hair such as mushrooms and bamboo shoots can help it penetrate hair and shorten the course of disease. Another example is to eat more fishy hair products to promote vaccination. , all use the hair penetration effect. Modern clinical research has also confirmed that avoiding hair is also of great significance to reduce postoperative wound infection and promote wound healing.
Three popular cold food taboos
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Cold Food Festival, has some taboos on Qingming cold food.
1, snails should be cleaned up.
During the Qingming period, snails did not breed. At this time, the snails are fat and full, and they have the reputation of "Qingming snails win geese" among the people, but you should pay attention to eating snails. Most snails grow in dirty places, and there are a lot of parasites in their bodies, which can easily lead to intestinal diseases such as cholera and hepatitis A. Snails bought from the market must be stocked for more than three days, dripped with a few drops of vegetable oil or sesame oil, so that the snails can discharge the mud in the intestinal cavity. Change the water several times a day, brush it with a brush, twist off the tail, blanch it, heat it at high temperature, and fry it thoroughly. At this time, you can cook. There are many ways to eat snails. You can fry them with onions, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar. You can also cook, pick snail meat, mix, drink, rot and simmer.
2, the stomach is not good, be careful to eat green balls.
The Qingming cold food is indispensable to the green ball, which is composed of sugar skin, green skin and white skin green ball. Green ball is mainly made of wormwood mixed with glutinous rice, which is a kind of indigestible food. People with poor gastrointestinal function should eat carefully, especially those with pancreatitis, gastritis, cholecystitis and gallstones, as well as the elderly and children. Eating green balls while they are hot, starch will age after cooling, which not only makes the taste worse, but also reduces the digestion and absorption rate, and is also prone to intestinal diseases. Green balls should not be eaten with a lot of fat or food, so as not to increase the burden on the stomach. It should be eaten with vegetables rich in dietary fiber, yogurt with intestine moistening function or hawthorn to help digestion.
Step 3 stay away from contaminated wild vegetables
During the Qingming Festival, many people will bring some roadside wild vegetables when they go hiking to worship their ancestors, which is very common in Jiangnan area. Wild vegetables are highly sought after in cities full of big fish and meat. Although wild vegetables look good, you can't eat them indiscriminately. Some wild vegetables are poisonous. If it is a potherb on the roadside or near a polluted canal, it will be poisoned if it contains heavy metals such as lead and mercury or other pollutants. In order to maintain the nutritional value of wild vegetables, experts suggest that it is best to eat them by steaming, scalding, making soup or stuffing, and pay attention to the hygiene of the processing links in the cold salad of wild vegetables.
At the same time, don't replenish the liver in this solar term. According to the theory of TCM health preservation, the liver belongs to wood, and the fire is the heart, so the heart will be too strong in this solar term, so this period is the prone period of hypertension, and patients with hypertension should attach great importance to it.
Tomb-Sweeping Day should eat more fruits and vegetables, especially leeks, shepherd's purse and other seasonal vegetables. During the Qingming period, it is also suitable for eating sweet potatoes, Chinese cabbage, radishes, taro and other foods to warm the stomach and eliminate dampness.