The cold winter is the time when fresh lotus roots are on the market. The weather is dry in winter, so eating lotus root can nourish yin and clear away heat, moisten dryness and quench thirst, and clear the heart and soothe the nerves.

The rhizome of lotus root is thick, tender, crisp and sweet, containing starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C and oxidase, and the sugar content is also high. Eating fresh lotus root raw can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, quench thirst and stop vomiting. If fresh lotus roots are squeezed into juice, the effect will be even worse. Cooked lotus root is sweet and warm, which can strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite, nourish blood and heart, and has the effects of digestion, quenching thirst and promoting granulation.

● The best way to eat: Seven-hole lotus root has high starch content, less water, glutinous but not crisp, and is suitable for soup; Nine-hole lotus root has high water content, crisp and juicy, and is most suitable for cold salad or stir-frying.

● Best match: black and white fungus. With tremella can nourish lung yin, with auricularia can nourish kidney yin.

The first fruit: pear

Pear is the first choice for winter fruits, which contains malic acid, citric acid, glucose, fructose, calcium, phosphorus, iron and various vitamins. Pear has the functions of moistening throat, promoting fluid production, moistening lung, relieving cough, nourishing stomach and moistening intestine, and is most suitable for patients with fever in winter and spring. It is especially suitable for cough due to lung heat, cough due to wind heat in children, dry throat and sore throat, and dry stool. In addition, pears also have the functions of lowering blood pressure, clearing away heat and calming the nerves. Patients with hypertension, if they have symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation and tinnitus, often eat pears, which can alleviate the symptoms. Pears are rich in sugar and vitamins, which can protect the liver and help digestion.

● The best way to eat

Eating raw pears can obviously relieve symptoms such as dry throat, itching, pain, hoarseness, constipation and red urine in patients with upper respiratory tract infection; Boiled or steamed pears, such as steamed pears with rock sugar, can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and have preventive and therapeutic effects on gout, rheumatism and arthritis, and are also good for cough and sore throat caused by lung heat.

● Best match: honey

Pear toffee, which is famous at home and abroad, is made of pears and honey and has obvious curative effect on patients with chronic cough due to lung heat.

The first nut: peanuts

Chinese medicine believes that peanuts are flat and sweet, and enter the spleen and lungs. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, moistening lung, eliminating phlegm, nourishing and regulating qi, clearing throat and relieving cough. Indications: malnutrition, anorexia, asthenia, dry cough, scanty sputum, hemoptysis, purple skin, puerperal lactation, and dry stool.

● The best way to eat

Preferably fresh peanuts with shells. Cooked peanuts are not only easy to digest and absorb, but also can make full use of the medical and health care functions of peanut shells and inner red clothes. Peanut red coat can inhibit the dissolution of fibrin, promote platelet regeneration, treat thrombocytopenia and prevent hemorrhagic diseases; Peanut shells can lower blood pressure and regulate cholesterol.

● Best match: red dates.

Using red dates can strengthen the spleen, replenish blood and stop bleeding. It has certain curative effect on anemia due to spleen deficiency, especially for women.

The first banquet: hot pot

In winter, my friend's favorite restaurant is hot pot restaurant! Although we are constantly warned that eating too much hot pot is easy to get angry, it is rich in purine, and the heat of hot pot is relatively high. But in fact, hot pot is indeed the first choice for nourishing in winter.

The only thing to note is that when choosing hot pot, don't choose thick soup or spicy pot bottom to avoid getting angry; In addition, when choosing hot-boiled vegetables, you must not eat more meat and meatballs. You can also choose some vegetarian dishes such as chrysanthemum and kelp to match meat and vegetables to prevent the problem of excessive calories and protein.

The first supplement: yam

Ugly yam has high nutritional value. Ancient books recorded that yam can keep people alert and hungry. Therefore, yam is a good health care product for women, and it is also a beauty sacred product. Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to digestion and absorption of spleen and stomach; Yam contains a lot of mucins, vitamins and trace elements, which can effectively prevent the deposition of blood lipids on the blood vessel wall, prevent cardiovascular diseases and prolong life.

● The best way to eat: steaming, making soup and cooking. Steamed food has the least nutritional loss.

● Best collocation: Lycium barbarum.

If you don't eat yam alone, you can cook medlar yam porridge with medlar, which can better play a nourishing role.

The first drink: yellow wine

Yellow rice wine is one of the oldest liquors in the world, containing 18 amino acids, which is rare in the world's nutritious liquors. Yellow rice wine also contains high functional oligosaccharides, which can improve immunity and disease resistance, which is incomparable to wine and beer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yellow rice wine is hot and bitter, and has therapeutic effects such as dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, warming spleen and stomach, moistening skin and eliminating dampness.

● Best drinking method: warm yellow rice wine, warm stomach and drive away cold. The appropriate temperature is 35℃ ~ 45℃.

● Best match: ebony.

In autumn, paying attention to diet is mainly based on "harvest", and matching with dark plum is just in line with the concept of "harvest". Dark plum has the functions of nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and protecting liver.

The first meat: cuttlefish

Regarding eating meat, there has always been a folk saying that "four legs are not as good as two legs, and two legs are not as good as no legs". Cuttlefish is rich in nutrition, with protein 13g per 100g of meat, only 0.7g of fat, and also contains carbohydrates, vitamins A and B, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other substances necessary for human body, so it is a nourishing food with high protein and low fat.

● The best way to eat: braise in soy sauce, stir-fry, stir-fry, stew, cold salad and soup, but it is more suitable for cuttlefish soup to prevent dryness.

● Best match: tofu. It is also a food for nourishing yin and promoting body fluid. Eating together can also play a complementary role in protein.

The first porridge: lily porridge

Lily tastes sweet and bitter, and its sex is flat. It is rich in nutrients, including protein, vitamins, carotene and some special effective components, such as starch, polysaccharide, pectin and various alkaloids, which has a certain effect on inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells. Lily has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves, and has become the top grade for winter consumption.

● The best way to eat: cook porridge.

Lily can be eaten as a dish, such as celery fried lily, lily fried beef; You can also cook porridge, such as lily porridge made of lily glutinous rice, and put a little rock sugar on it, which is not only delicious, but also can soothe the nerves and help sleep.

● Best match: almonds.

Almonds have the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves. Lily porridge is suitable for patients who are weak and have dry cough after illness.