Presumably, many people have heard the old man say that eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not bother the doctor to prescribe medicine. Presumably young people don't listen much. Most of them go in one ear and out the other. There is a wave of ice cream in summer, and I get high in a small hot pot in winter, and my body is fine. Is this just the old man's nagging?

I don't know that the influence of living habits on people is similar to subtle influence. One bite won't make you fat, and one more bite at a meal will make you fat. It doesn't matter if you eat ice cream occasionally, but you can't finish it in summer. Are you really afraid that your stomach will turn into an iced hairy belly? In this case, is it useful to eat radish in winter and ginger in summer for our daily health care?

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, when the weather is cold in winter, the dormant yang in the body is easy to stagnate. Coupled with the freezing weather, most people's eating habits will change with the weather. Eating a hot pot and drinking some wine will make them short, and northerners will feel comfortable cooking soup, which will make the imbalance of yin and yang, including dormant yang, more serious. Radish is cold and cool, and has the function of digestion and gas elimination. It should be eaten in moderation in winter.

Similarly, when summer is warm, the human body's yang is easy to leak out, and people's eating habits in summer like to be cold. Needless to say, watermelons, bitter melons, tomatoes, cucumbers and so on that people like to eat in summer are cool, while ginger is warm. Therefore, eating ginger properly in summer can help yang qi and avoid the harm caused by partial eclipse. In A Dream of Red Mansions, Xue Baochai recited crabs and said, "It is for this reason that cold accumulation makes ginger." .

So, it's right to eat radish in winter and ginger in summer?

This simple and rude takenism is obviously inappropriate. It is the most unreliable to talk about dietotherapy without physical fitness. If it is cold constitution, such as cold hands and feet, then eat less cold food no matter what season. If you are damp heat constitution, such as bitter taste, bad breath and sticky stool, you'd better try to avoid warm food.

Having said that, it makes sense to eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, but it cannot be put into practice directly. Isn't this sentence meaningless nonsense? In fact, although this statement can't be followed, it provides us with a reasonable diet idea. According to your eating habits, if you eat too much cold food, you need to adjust it with some warm food. If you like spicy food, it is also a good choice to choose some cool ingredients to match. Xue Baochai's ginger crab is a typical example.