In the upcoming Lantern Festival, glutinous rice will appear on everyone's table in different "postures". Whether it is glutinous rice balls or Yuanxiao, glutinous rice is the most important ingredient, which is soft and sweet and deeply loved by people.
Sticky glutinous rice can always find the most timely way to warm people's spleen and stomach.
Eating glutinous rice often brings benefits!
Glutinous rice is rice from which glutinous rice is shelled. In China, it is called glutinous rice in the south and glutinous rice in the north.
Different from the rice we usually eat, glutinous rice starch contains more amylopectin and less amylose, so it is more sticky than other rice.
Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice is sweet and warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and lungs. It is a mild tonic, which has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi, warming the middle energizer, replenishing blood and stopping sweating.
If you often eat glutinous rice, you will get four benefits-
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1 Buzhong Qi
Glutinous rice is a kind of warm and tonic food, which has the effects of warming the spleen and stomach, tonifying the middle warmer and stopping sweating, so it has a good nourishing effect on people with spleen and stomach deficiency, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea.
Applicable to:
Nausea, loss of appetite and diarrhea caused by deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach;
Symptoms such as insufficient sweating, shortness of breath, fatigue and abdominal distension caused by qi deficiency;
Night sweats, blood deficiency and dizziness caused by "physical weakness" can also be improved.
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2 regulating qi and blood
Because glutinous rice has the effect of enriching blood and invigorating qi, regular consumption can also regulate our gastrointestinal function.
Many female friends often have symptoms of bad complexion, which is caused by deficiency of both qi and blood. We might as well eat porridge cooked with glutinous rice.
In addition, it can also relieve postpartum spleen and stomach weakness, postpartum hyperhidrosis, dysentery and other symptoms, and can improve postpartum physical weakness.
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3. Relieve frequent urination and hyperhidrosis.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that glutinous rice has the function of astringent and antiperspirant. Therefore, friends who urinate frequently and sweat can insist on eating glutinous rice, which can prevent diseases and strengthen the body.
If constipation is caused by the astringency of glutinous rice, you can drink radish soup to solve it.
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4 Supplementary nutrition
Glutinous rice is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, calcium, iron and phosphorus.
Among them, phosphorus can assist starch and fat metabolism, provide heat and restore physical strength; Rich B vitamins can promote appetite and improve the nervous system.
Special reminder: although glutinous rice has nourishing effect, it is not suitable for people with damp heat and excessive phlegm fire; People with fever, yellow cough, jaundice and abdominal distension should not eat it; People with diabetes need to eat less.
How to eat glutinous rice is easier to digest?
When it comes to eating glutinous rice, the ancients thought it could nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, but many people usually thought it was "indigestible". Why?
In fact, glutinous rice is not difficult to digest. The reason why I feel uncomfortable after eating glutinous rice is because I didn't choose the right way to eat it.
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1 Select the appropriate temperature.
After cooking and heating, the amylopectin of glutinous rice will gelatinize and be very easy to digest. Once cooled, amylopectin will age and grow again, and the coagulation between molecules will be strengthened, which is not easy to digest.
This means that freshly cooked glutinous rice and glutinous rice porridge are easy to digest, so the ancients thought it could nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen.
Take dumplings as an example. When it is hot, not only the glutinous rice skin is soft, but also the oil in the stuffing is liquid, which is easier to digest and more comfortable to eat in the stomach.
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2 Choose the right cooking method
It is not difficult to digest freshly cooked, warm glutinous rice food with little oil and sugar, such as glutinous rice and glutinous rice porridge. This is the traditional theory that glutinous rice can "tonify deficiency" and "stop diarrhea".
The glutinous rice products such as snowballing usury, fried cakes and rice cakes will be seasoned with a lot of stuffing such as animal fat, salt, sugar and bean paste during processing;
Others need to be beaten and kneaded repeatedly to make them sticky, tough and dense;
In addition, many glutinous rice products need to be fried repeatedly in a high-temperature oil pan during the production process.
This makes it difficult for them to be fully mixed with digestive juice in the gastrointestinal tract, and it is also difficult to be digested into a finely divided state, which leads to abdominal distension.
Therefore, in order to give full play to the nourishing function of glutinous rice, it is necessary to choose glutinous rice food which is simple in practice and returns to the original, which is not only nutritious and nourishing, but also easy to digest and absorb.
And you should try to eat it while it is hot, pay attention to chewing slowly, let the food be fully "decomposed" in your mouth before swallowing, and reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Don't eat too much at a time.
The dumplings in the bowl are a family reunion.
The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month is the last important festival in China's Spring Festival custom, also known as "Little January".
Dr. licorice wishes everyone a happy Lantern Festival and a happy family!
When it comes to the most important custom of Lantern Festival, many friends will struggle: Is jiaozi in the south the same as Lantern Festival in the north?
In fact, the raw materials and shapes of glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao are basically the same, but the practices are different.
Eating Yuanxiao and Tangyuan on the Lantern Festival and holding various celebration activities not only symbolize celebration and family reunion, but also have the health-preserving effects of resisting the cold of spring, nourishing the spleen and stomach and benefiting the lungs.
Especially in the early spring, the focus of spring health care is the rise of yang, but at the same time, we should avoid rising too much.
In order to suppress the exuberance of the liver and spleen, the spring diet should "add sugar to replenish the spleen". Most of the zongzi eaten in the Lantern Festival contain delicious and sweet products such as longan, black sesame, red bean paste, jujube paste, walnuts and peanuts, which are suitable for eating at this time.
"A year, a year, a reunion.
Black sesame: tonify liver and kidney, nourish five internal organs, nourish essence and blood, moisten intestines and relieve constipation;
Peanut: Coagulation and hemostasis, nourishing blood and promoting lactation, promoting development, enhancing memory and delaying human aging;
Walnut: tonifying kidney, solidifying essence, warming lung and relieving asthma, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels, nourishing blood, nourishing brain cells and enhancing brain function;
Rose bean paste: roses can regulate qi and relieve depression, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis; Soybean paste has the functions of diuresis, dehumidification, blood circulation and pus discharge, detoxification and swelling reduction;
Jujube paste: tonify the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and promote fluid production, adjust camp and health, and detoxify.
However, for the excessively large Yuanxiao (glutinous rice balls), symptoms such as gastrointestinal discomfort, chest tightness and abdominal distension are prone to occur due to eating too much at one time. Therefore, I suggest you:
Because the stuffing of glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao not only contains sugar and solid fat, but also glutinous rice contains a lot of starch, which has high energy. Therefore, if you eat glutinous rice balls, you must reduce the intake of oil and staple food at dinner or on the same day.
In addition, when eating Yuanxiao, you can properly mix some fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins to balance nutrition and reduce the burden on the stomach.
Glutinous rice recipe recommendation
Regular consumption of glutinous rice can warm the body, nourish and strengthen the body. Besides the Lantern Festival, we can also eat at ordinary times. Here are some dietary remedies based on glutinous rice.
0 1 | jujube glutinous rice lotus root
Ingredients: 30g jujube, lotus root 1500g, 300g glutinous rice, 60g rock sugar and 60g brown sugar.
Exercise:
1. Soak glutinous rice for one night after elutriation; After washing the lotus root, cut off about 2-3 cm at one end of the lotus root with a knife and leave it as a cover.
2. Fill the soaked glutinous rice into the lotus root slowly, and poke it firmly with chopsticks while filling; Close the lotus root cover and fix the seal with a toothpick.
3. Put the rock sugar, brown sugar, red dates and raw lotus roots into the pot, add water, and cover the lotus roots with fire.
4. After the fire boils, turn to low heat and cook for half an hour, and take out the red dates to prevent the broken skin from affecting the appearance; Switch to low heat and continue to simmer.
5. Stew until there is not much marinade. When the lotus root is cooked, add cooked red dates and turn to high fire to collect concentrated juice, and turn off the fire; Finally, soak it in cold boiled water for one night, then take it out and take off the toothpick; Slice and plate.
Efficacy: This medicated diet can invigorate qi and spleen, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and is suitable for patients with spleen and stomach weakness, deficiency of qi and blood, early and frequent menstruation, epistaxis and constipation.
02 | Rice with black beans and chestnuts
Ingredients: 20g of black beans, 20g of chestnuts10g, 20g of glutinous rice.
Exercise:
1. Stir-fry chestnuts, remove shells and cut chestnuts into small pieces.
2. Wash the black beans, soak them in warm water overnight, then boil them in the soaked water until they are half cooked, and then add glutinous rice and chestnut meat to cook.
Efficacy: Eating black beans often can tonify kidney and nourish blood, blacken hair and improve eyesight, and delay aging; Chestnuts can nourish the stomach and strengthen the spleen, tonify the kidney and strengthen the tendons, and regulate the spleen and stomach; Glutinous rice can warm the spleen and stomach. Especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach and thin constitution.
03 | Chinese yam and red dates glutinous rice porridge
Materials: Chinese yam 100g, red dates10g, glutinous rice 100g, and appropriate amount of white sugar or rock sugar.
Practice: Wash yam, peel and cut into pieces. Wash glutinous rice and red dates, put them in a pot with yam, and add water to cook them. Cook with strong fire first, then turn to slow fire. When the porridge is ready, add some sugar or rock sugar.
Efficacy: glutinous rice porridge with Chinese yam and red dates can tonify spleen and qi, nourish blood and replenish blood, nourish stomach and balance middle energizer, and can tonify spleen and stomach if taken frequently.
04 | Yam Sweet Tangyuan
Ingredients: yam150g, glutinous rice flour 250g, brown sugar150g.
Practice: Peel the yam, pound it into powder, put it on a plate, steam it over water, and then mix in brown sugar as the stuffing of the dumplings. Glutinous rice flour is heated with water and kneaded into dough, kneaded into jiaozi with yam stuffing, and cooked in a clear water pot.
Efficacy: This dessert is suitable for men, women and children, especially for people with kidney essence deficiency and spleen deficiency who eat less.
Lantern Festival, sincere blessing, needless to say.
May those who come all the way in early spring,
Safe and healthy, everything goes well.
May I be with you all the year round.
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