Healthy and mild food supplement in spring
A year's plan lies in spring, everything recovers, and the human body's yang is getting longer. We should choose a light diet. First of all, we should abide by the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer" put forward in Huangdi Neijing. In other words, it is advisable to eat more foods that can warm and tonify the yang. Specifically, eating less sour food and eating more sweet diet will benefit the spleen and stomach; In addition, after winter, people generally suffer from a serious shortage of vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements, such as stomatitis, angular stomatitis, night blindness and some skin diseases in spring, all of which are related to the nutritional imbalance caused by eating less fresh vegetables. Therefore, when spring comes, people should eat more fresh vegetables.
Nutritionists believe that people with the following symptoms are suitable for spring tonic: middle-aged women with premature aging; People who suffer from various chronic diseases and lose weight; Those with backache, dizziness, sallow complexion and listlessness; People who have a big climate change in spring and are prone to catch a cold after catching a cold; There was a history of asthma attack in spring before, but now there is no author; There are people with low fever in summer. Anyone who belongs to the above situation can make use of this season of spring to choose the appropriate food supplement method according to their own physique and illness, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. Therefore, middle-aged women can take a balanced diet and eat more cereals such as buckwheat and coix seed, bean products such as soybean milk, kumquat and apple, sesame seeds and walnuts. If you have yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency, you can also choose to eat it. If middle-aged women suffer from internal heat due to yin deficiency, they can choose the method of clearing and nourishing, and eat more foods that are cold in nature and have the effect of clearing heat and removing fire after eating, such as pears, lotus roots, shepherd's purse, lilies and turtles, which will help improve their bad physique.
Cheats of healthy eating in summer
In hot summer, the most common feeling is that you are sleepy, have no appetite, and just want to pick something cold to eat. This feeling is due to the high temperature in summer, drinking more water, diluted gastric acid, relatively reduced secretion of digestive juice, weakened digestive function, poor appetite, and gastrointestinal dysfunction caused by overeating and cold food in hot days. In summer, light, bitter, cold, nutritious and digestible food is better. Don't be too full and hungry, pay attention to strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach to promote digestion and absorption. In hot summer, you can add some bitter food appropriately. Because the alkaloids contained in bitter food have pharmacological effects such as relieving summer heat, promoting blood circulation and relaxing blood vessels. Eating bitter foods such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetables, beer, tea, coffee and cocoa in hot weather can not only clear the heart and relieve annoyance, but also stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach. Here are some foods suitable for cooling off in summer.
Tea can be regarded as the best cold drink to relieve summer heat, while green tea or scented tea is most suitable for drinking in summer, which can clear the heart, induce diuresis, clear away heat and relieve annoyance, quench thirst and relieve summer heat. Practice has proved that the cooling effect of tea is obviously better than all kinds of cold drinks. The most suitable food for relieving summer heat is mung bean, because mung bean tastes sweet and cold, and has the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, quenching summer heat and quenching thirst, and clearing heat and detoxifying. Mung bean soup is the most commonly used folk medicine to relieve summer heat and detoxify, and it is best to eat mung bean porridge to relieve summer heat and nourish the stomach in summer. The most suitable fruit to eat in summer is watermelon, which tastes sweet and cold and has the effects of relieving summer heat, relieving boredom, quenching thirst and diuresis. It is a good summer product and is known as "natural white tiger soup". All symptoms caused by heat, such as polydipsia, thirst, irritability, dysuria, body fluid injury and alcohol injury, are suitable for eating. The best summer vegetable is bitter gourd, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away heat and improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure, and preventing and treating heatstroke, dysentery and malignant sores. Bitter gourd contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Bitter gourd, if cooked properly, is one of the favorite vegetables in summer, with faint fragrance and unique flavor. I often don't want to eat meat in summer, so I might as well try duck meat, because ducks are waterfowl and cold. According to the treatment principle of "heat is cold" in traditional Chinese medicine, in hot summer, if there is heat in the body, it is easy to get angry, which is characterized by low fever, fatigue, eating less or edema. Eating duck meat can not only supplement high-quality protein, but also "clear" and "replenish" the effect. In addition, you can eat more ginger and vinegar, which also has the effect of relieving summer heat. As the saying goes, "Three slices of ginger a day in summer keeps the doctor from prescribing." Ginger and vinegar can not only flavor, but also sterilize. In addition, ginger has the functions of warming stomach, dispelling cold, reducing adverse reactions and stopping vomiting. Vinegar can help digestion and absorption and increase appetite. When eating cold dishes in summer, adding ginger, vinegar and garlic properly is not only light and delicious, but also can prevent diseases such as dysentery and enteritis. Finally, lotus leaf is a medicine that can relieve summer heat. Lotus leaf tastes bitter and flat, and its breath is fragrant. Fresh people are good at clearing away summer evil, and they are most used in clearing away heat and relieving summer evil. In summer, if steamed rice is wrapped with fresh lotus leaves, or tea is made with fresh lotus leaves, it has a good effect of clearing away summer heat and promoting dampness.
An eventful autumn for health and food supplements.
In autumn, the climate is cool, and people's emaciation caused by "summer" gradually recovers and their taste is enhanced. People usually have a big appetite. Although you can "paste autumn fertilizer", you can't eat too much fish and meat, especially fat meat, so as not to raise blood lipids and induce coronary heart disease and cancer. The principle of autumn diet should be "mainly sweet and flat, less spicy and sour, and prevent autumn dryness". In autumn, you should eat less greasy and thick, and try to eat less spicy products, such as onions, ginger, garlic and peppers. , and should not eat more barbecue, so as not to aggravate the symptoms of autumn dryness. Proper consumption of sour food in autumn can protect the liver and prevent lung qi from damaging the liver. But don't overdo it, especially vinegar and ebony. Its sour taste will stimulate the stomach, and it is easy to get diseases such as gastric ulcer and gastritis, which is not good for the body. You can eat more fruits and vegetables to supplement vitamins and minerals in the body, neutralize excess acidic metabolites in the body, and play the role of clearing away fire and detoxifying. Vegetables should choose fresh radish, cucumber, wax gourd, tomato and so on. Fruits should be eaten with products that nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as grapes, watermelons, pears, bananas, oranges and coconut juice. Drinking plenty of water and proper amount of water in autumn is an indispensable maintenance measure for moistening and preventing dryness in autumn. Pay attention to drinking water, too: take a few mouthfuls slowly and moisten your mouth, nose, pharynx, larynx and esophagus. Drinking light salt water during the day and honey water at night not only supplements the body's water, but also is a good diet for health preservation and anti-aging in autumn. As the saying goes, "autumn melons spoil your stomach." The temperature drops in autumn, and the spleen and stomach are yang-deficient, so it is not advisable to eat more fruits and vegetables that are cold in yin, so as to avoid diarrhea and abdominal pain caused by insufficient yang.
Here is an autumn refreshing soup.
1. material
(1) 20g of Yali pear: Eating pears raw can clear the heat of six internal organs, and eating pears cooked can nourish the yin of five internal organs, which means that the effect of clearing heat will be better if eaten raw, and the effect of nourishing yin will be better if eaten cooked.
(2) Almond 12g: It has high nutritional value, is rich in protein and carbohydrates, and also contains some trace elements, such as phosphorus, calcium and iron. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, almond has a good effect of moistening lung, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
(3) Lily 15g: rich in nutrients, including protein and amino acids. And there are many records in Chinese medicine. As recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica, lily can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, calm the heart and soothe the nerves, and tonify the middle energizer.
(4) 20 grams of loquat fruit: rich in pectin, carotene, malic acid, citric acid, trace elements and vitamins A, B and C, cool in nature, sweet in taste, and effective in moistening lung, relieving cough, quenching thirst and regulating stomach.
(5) 50 grams of japonica rice: sweet, flat, nourishing and strong, with the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. The porridge cooked by japonica rice is the most nourishing and suitable for all ages.
(6) A little honey: honey tastes "sweet and flat" and has the effects of nourishing the middle warmer, moistening dryness, relieving pain, clearing away heat, detoxifying and beautifying. It has a good curative effect on cough due to lung dryness, constipation due to intestinal dryness, epigastric pain, aphtha, scald due to soup and fire, etc.
2. Practice
First, put a proper amount of boiling water in the pot, then pour the washed almonds, lilies and japonica rice into the pot in turn, and cook with high fire while stirring. Porridge should always be kept slightly boiling, so as to avoid the overflow of fire-dried soup or soup. Cook until the rice grains begin to swell, wait until the rice grains are mixed with water and then switch to low heat. Then start preparing other ingredients, peeling pears and dicing loquat. Then add loquat diced, stir slightly, add pear diced, and cook while stirring. When the porridge is cooked, put it in a bowl, put it at a slightly cooler temperature, add some honey, and a delicious porridge will be ready.
Keeping healthy in winter conforms to nature.
Winter is a cold season. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter tonic is closely related to balancing yin and yang, dredging meridians and harmonizing qi and blood. Tonifying in winter can also regulate the metabolism of substances in the body, so that the energy converted from nutrients can be stored in the body to the maximum extent, which is helpful to the rise of yang in the body and lays a good foundation for health in the coming year. As the saying goes, "three nine make up one winter, and there will be no disease in the coming year", which is the truth. Middle-aged women have to take supplements in the cold season because of their decreased physical function and low resistance. This can improve the nutritional status, enhance the immune function of the body, promote the recovery of the sick body and so on, showing the irreplaceable role of drugs.
Tonifying in winter should conform to nature, pay attention to nourishing yang and give priority to nourishing. According to the principle of "deficiency is tonic, cold is warm" in traditional Chinese medicine, we should eat more warm food, especially warm and kidney-yang food, in order to improve the cold tolerance of the body. In winter, "food supplement" should provide food rich in protein, vitamins and easy to digest. You can eat cereals such as japonica rice, indica rice, corn, wheat, soybeans and peas; Leek, coriander, garlic, radish, day lily and other vegetables; Mutton, dog meat, beef, chicken, eel, carp, silver carp, hairtail, shrimp and other meats; Oranges, coconuts, pineapples, lychees, longan and other fruits.
You can also choose to eat porridge for winter tonic. In cold temperatures, drinking a bowl of hot and delicious porridge is an excellent tonic choice. Porridge is generally cooked with rice, which is sweet and flat, while other rice, such as millet, millet and barley, is sweet and slightly cold, so it is more beneficial to eat rice in winter. Rice has the effects of regulating stomach qi, tonifying spleen deficiency, strengthening bones and muscles and regulating five internal organs. Besides cooking rice porridge, you can also cook yam porridge: 50g of yam, 50g of rice, and appropriate amount of honey and edible oil. Cut the yam into small pieces, stir-fry with oil and add honey, cook the rice into porridge, add the fried yam and cook it. Yam has a nourishing effect. A good product for invigorating kidney and spleen. Chestnut porridge: 50 grams of chestnuts, 50 grams of rice and a little salt.
Cook raw chestnuts in a pressure cooker (less water), peel them, mash them, put them in washed rice, add water to cook porridge, and add salt to taste. Chestnuts can tonify the kidney and have a dietotherapy effect on waist and knee pain caused by deficiency of kidney qi.
Sesame porridge: sesame 10g, 50g of rice, and appropriate amount of honey or salt. Stir-fry sesame seeds, wash rice and cook it into porridge. Add sesame seeds and honey or salt to serve. Sesame is divided into white sesame and black sesame, and white sesame is good for intestines and lungs; Black sesame can enter the kidney and strengthen the bones and muscles.
Almond porridge: 2 almonds (about 1), 50 grams of rice, a little sugar or salt. Wash rice and cook porridge. When it is almost cooked, add almonds and continue to cook until it is cooked. Add some sugar or salt. Almonds can relieve cough, asthma, phlegm and dryness. Walnut and wolfberry porridge: 30g walnut kernel, washed and mashed, medlar 15g, washed, 50g rice, washed and boiled with appropriate amount of water. It is a good dietotherapy for neurasthenia and unclean urine.