The healthiest food in winter
1. Hawthorn
Hawthorn is the most medicinal and edible fruit with the effect of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion in this season. It is recorded in Materia Medica Xuan Tong in the Ming Dynasty that hawthorn can "eliminate the accumulation of grease"; Compendium of Materia Medica says, "Change diet and eliminate meat accumulation"; "Herbal Rejuvenation" records that hawthorn can "treat spleen deficiency and damp heat, promote digestion, and facilitate urination and defecation". Modern research shows that citric acid in hawthorn can obviously improve the activity of pepsin and enhance the function of digesting protein such as meat. It should be reminded that hawthorn has the function of promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and stimulating uterine contraction. Pregnant women should not eat hawthorn too much to avoid inducing abortion.
2. Chinese yam
Chinese medicine believes that yam is sweet and flat in taste, which can replenish qi without stagnation, nourish yin without dampness, and nourish greasy. It is the most peaceful product for nourishing middle-aged qi, and has always been praised by many doctors, and it can be called the first medicine for strengthening the spleen. Compendium of Materia Medica records "strengthening spleen and stomach and stopping diarrhea". "Jing Yue Quan Shu" says that yam can "strengthen the spleen and tonify deficiency, treat all deficiency and damage, and treat five strains and seven injuries". Modern pharmacology reveals that yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is helpful to enhance the digestion and absorption function, and can be eaten by people with spleen-yang deficiency or stomach-yin deficiency.
3. chestnuts
Among the five internal organs, the kidney controls water, which belongs to the viscera of yin, and the cold passes through the kidney qi, while the winter is the main order of the kidney qi. At this time, the qi and blood of the human body begin to converge, and the essence needs to be preserved. Therefore, winter health care places special emphasis on nourishing the kidney. This time is especially suitable for eating chestnuts for tonic. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty who is known as the "King of Medicine", recorded in Qian Jin Fang: "Chestnuts are also the fruit of kidney, and kidney disease is suitable for eating." Li Shizhen, a pharmacist in Ming Dynasty, recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Chestnuts can cure kidney deficiency and weakness of waist and legs, and can tonify kidney and replenish qi."
4. Lily
Chinese medicine believes that the cold in autumn and winter is easy to hurt the lungs. Lily is sweet, slightly bitter, has the function of moistening the lungs, and has a good therapeutic effect on lung dryness and cough. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "the role of lily is to benefit qi and nourish yin, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil spirits", so lily is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly friends to eat regularly.
5.almonds
When pathogenic dryness invades the lungs or the temperature difference is large, the human body is susceptible to pathogenic wind and cold, which induces upper respiratory tract infection and produces symptoms such as cough and asthma. Almonds are the best medicine and food for relieving cough. It can not only relieve cough, but also help to resolve phlegm. "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" says that almonds "have various smells, so the lung meridians are all cold, but they can cure asthma, cough, constipation, irritability and headache."
6. Jujube kernels
Huangdi Neijing records: "In winter and March, this is called closing Tibet. Get up early and go to bed late, be sure to wait for the sun. " Wang Dongxu, deputy director of the dietotherapy and medicated diet clinic of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that after the start of health preservation in winter, we should pay attention to "keeping good storage", especially to sleep well. Near the end of the year, office workers are often stressed at work, easily upset and insomnia, affecting their physical and mental health, leading to illness in a winter. Ziziphus jujuba seed, also known as Ziziphus jujuba seed, has the effect of calming the heart and calming the nerves, and is a classic medicine for insomnia in traditional Chinese medicine. Modern research shows that Ziziphus jujuba seeds can inhibit the excitement of the central nervous system and help improve the quality of sleep.
The healthiest recipe in winter
1. Yam shrimp skin sauce
Wash yam, scrape off the skin, chop it into paste and put it in a bowl for later use. Set the pot on fire, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over medium heat, add washed shrimps, yellow wine, chopped green onion and Jiang Mo, and simmer for 10 minute. Then add yam paste and simmer until boiling. Add refined salt and serve. In the morning and evening. It can nourish blood vessels, strengthen kidney and lower blood pressure, especially suitable for hypertensive patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency. Shrimp skin is rich in calcium. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, it also has the effects of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, regulating qi and appetizing, and is especially suitable for eating in winter.
2. Roasted Chinese cabbage with chestnuts
Raw chestnuts 10 or so, 200 grams of Chinese cabbage, appropriate amount of sugar, appropriate amount of wet starch and appropriate amount of peanut oil. Boil chestnut until half cooked, take it out, peel off the shell and cut it in half; Wash Chinese cabbage and cut it into long strips. Leave a little base oil in the pot and heat it. Stir-fry chestnuts slightly, remove and drain the oil. Stir-fry the cabbage, add chestnuts when cooked, cook slightly and thicken to taste. Cabbage is also a seasonal vegetable in winter, which is rich in nutrition and has the effect of relaxing bowels. Although chestnut is good for tonifying kidney, it is not easy to digest if eaten too much. Eating with Chinese cabbage can make up for this deficiency.
3. Lily Sydney soup
Choose 30 grams of lily, Sydney 1, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Soak the dried lily in clear water for one night. The next day, pour the lily together with clear water into a casserole, add half a bowl of clear water and cook for one and a half hours. After the lily is cooked, add peeled and pitted Sydney slices and appropriate amount of rock sugar, and cook for another 30 minutes. Sydney has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening lung after being cooked, and the effect is doubled when eaten with lily.
4. Stewed lean meat with almond and fritillary bulb
Bitter almond10g, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae 5g, lean pork 350g and ginger 3 slices were selected. Clean lean pork, cut into pieces, clean bitter almond and Fritillaria cirrhosa, put them in a stew pot with ginger, stew for 1 hour, and add salt. Fritillaria cirrhosa also has the function of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Compatibility with almond not only has the effect of moistening lung and relieving cough, but also adds a layer on clearing heat and resolving phlegm.
5. Millet and red date porridge
Add water to millet and cook porridge until it is 80% mature. Add Ziziphus Spinosae seeds, stir well and bring to a boil. Once a day in the morning and evening, take it with honey. Millet itself has the functions of calming the heart and nourishing the stomach, nourishing yin and nourishing blood, and is especially suitable for people with deficiency and cold constitution who are afraid of cold in winter. Its rich B vitamins also have the effects of preventing indigestion and sores in autumn and winter.
6. Mung bean and red date porridge
Mung beans 100g, red dates 15g, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Wash mung beans and red dates, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and cook until the beans are rotten into brown sugar. Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, invigorating spleen and protecting liver. It is suitable for heatstroke, anemia, fatigue syndrome, scurvy, peptic ulcer, chronic hepatitis, malnutrition and edema.
7. Fried shredded pork with bitter gourd
50 grams of pork, 300 grams of bitter gourd, and the right amount of seasoning. Shred pork, add yellow wine and starch, mix well, and stir-fry in a hot oil pan. Leave a little base oil in the pot, add bitter gourd slices, add salt and pour shredded pork and stir fry; Finally, add sugar and monosodium glutamate and stir fry. Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, stimulating appetite, eliminating dampness, invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney. Suitable for fever, red eye, sore poison and dysentery.
8. Banana mung bean porridge
60 grams of mung beans and 2 bananas. First, remove the stalks of bananas, then clean them and even chop the banana skins. Therefore, people use a juicer to whip them quickly at home and filter them to get juice for use in cups. Wash mung beans, put them in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high fire, leave the fire, let them cool, take mung bean soup, add it to banana juice and mix well. Drink separately every morning and evening. Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving restlessness, inducing diuresis and lowering blood pressure. It is suitable for summer heat, anorexia, malnutrition and edema.
9. Lycium barbarum yam soup
0/50g of yam/kloc-,25g of medlar, 50g of gordon euryales, 4 strips of pork loin and 5 slices of ginger. Cut open the pork tenderloin, cut off the white film, and rinse with clear water to remove the smell of urine. Wash yam, yam and Euryale ferox, put them into the pot together with the cut pork tenderloin, add a proper amount of water, boil over high fire, and simmer for 2 hours to get soup. 1 twice a day, morning and evening. It can tonify kidney and stop leukorrhagia. It is suitable for leukorrhagia, reddish and leukorrhagia, slightly sticky and tasteless, dizziness, vexation, fever, insomnia, dreaminess, red tongue with little coating, and rapid pulse.