In the cold winter when the temperature continues to drop, Hakkas living in the northeast of Guangdong, such as Shaoguan, Heyuan and Meizhou, often eat some warm food to increase their body heat. Among them, Danggui red date mutton soup is the favorite tonic soup of Hakka people in northeast Guangdong. Drinking a bowl of mutton soup with angelica and red dates in cold winter has the dietotherapy effect of warming the middle warmer, strengthening the stomach, invigorating the spleen and benefiting qi, nourishing blood and enriching blood. This nourishing soup is the favorite winter health soup of local Hakka women, especially suitable for patients with weak constitution, cold stomach, indigestion due to kidney deficiency and postpartum women with blood deficiency.
The method of mutton soup with angelica and red dates is simple and easy to learn. Wash the mutton and lamb chops first, cut into pieces, blanch them in boiling water, skim off the floating foam with a spoon, and then take out the mutton or lamb chops for later use. After that, the ginger is washed, peeled and sliced, the red dates are pitted, and the angelica is washed with water for later use. Finally, put all the processed ingredients into the soup pot, add a proper amount of water, bring them to a boil with strong fire, then simmer them for about 1 hour, add a proper amount of salt to taste, and then take them out of the pot for drinking.
2. Drink a cup of clove warm stomach tea in winter to prevent stomach damage.
Ingredients: 3 grams of clove, 5 grams of Amomum villosum and 2 slices of ginger.
Practice: put the above three medicines into a teapot and soak them in boiling water. Do not make tea. Or add 300 ml of water and decoct to 150 ml, and take it after meals.
Efficacy: Warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, promoting qi circulation, relieving pain, lowering adverse flow and stopping vomiting.
Avoid: It is suitable for patients with epigastric pain, abdominal distension, hiccup and vomiting after catching cold. It is contraindicated for patients with insufficient stomach yin or accumulated heat in spleen and stomach. (If the symptoms are not relieved after taking it, be sure to seek medical advice in time. )
Pay special attention to the warmth of the stomach in winter and add clothes in time to prevent the stomach from catching cold and causing stomach pain or aggravating old diseases; "Clove warming stomach tea" can warm the middle warmer, dispel cold, promote qi circulation and relieve pain, and prevent cold from hurting the stomach.
Cloves are pungent and warm, and enter the spleen and stomach. It can not only warm the middle warmer, dispel cold and relieve pain, but also be good at reducing adverse reactions and stopping vomiting. It is an important drug for treating deficiency-cold vomiting. Modern pharmacological hints can promote gastric juice secretion, anti-ulcer, antidiarrheal and anti-hypoxia.
Amomum villosum is pungent and warm, and enters spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. Function of eliminating dampness and appetizing, warming spleen and stopping diarrhea. Modern pharmacology suggests that Amomum villosum has the functions of anti-ulcer, inhibiting gastric acid secretion and enhancing intestinal peristalsis.
3. Various foot baths
Radix Rehmanniae Preparata soaking feet to prevent tinnitus: decoct Radix Rehmanniae Preparata 15g in water for 20 minutes, pour the decoction into a basin, and add cold water to make the water temperature appropriate, soaking feet for 20 minutes each time, once a day 1 time.
Perilla foot bath for preventing asthma: Perilla 15g, mashed, boiled in water for 20 minutes, adjusted to a proper temperature with cold water, and soaked for 20 minutes, once a day/kloc-0.
Prevention of insomnia by soaking feet with Semen Platycladi: pulverize Semen Platycladi 25g, add water to boil for 20 minutes, pour the medicinal juice into a basin, add appropriate amount of water to make the temperature appropriate, and then soak feet for 20 minutes, once a day/kloc-0.
Soak the feet of Amomum tsao-ko to prevent stomachache: put 30g of Amomum tsao-ko in water and boil for half an hour, then remove the residue and take the juice and pour it into a basin, add a proper amount of warm water to make the water feel slightly hot, and then soak the feet for 20 minutes.
Mulberry branches soak feet to prevent leg cold: boil 25 grams of mulberry branches in water for half an hour, remove residues, take juice and pour it into the footbath, first fumigate, then soak for 20 minutes when it is not hot, every other day 1 time, which can be persisted for a long time.
Ginkgo biloba leaves soak feet to prevent sugar foot: 30 grams of Ginkgo biloba leaves are boiled in water for 20 minutes, and appropriate amount of cold water is added to the medicine juice. The water temperature is 37℃, and the feet are soaked for 20 minutes each time, every other day 1 time.
Soak cinnamon feet to prevent diarrhea: decoct 20 grams of cinnamon in water for 20 minutes, remove residues, pour the medicine juice into a basin, first fumigate feet with medicinal gas, and then soak feet when the temperature is suitable, 20 minutes each time, once a day 1 time.