(1) barley and red bean porridge
Ingredients: Coix seed 20g, red bean 20g, Euryale seed 5g, Lycium barbarum 2g.
Practice: if you want to get rid of dampness, you must first fry. After frying, put all the ingredients into the pot. Add a proper amount of water, cook until barley and red beans are cooked, then add brown sugar, stir the sugar until it melts, and then take it out of the pot.
(2) Coix seed yam porridge
Materials: Coix seed 50g, Lycium barbarum 15g, Chinese yam 50g, Radix Puerariae 10g.
Practice: put all the materials into the rice cooker, and then put 2 bowls of water. The function is set to the state of "porridge cooking", and it can be eaten out of the pot. You can add some salt to taste when eating.
2. What should beginning of autumn pay attention to in health care?
(1) Nourishing liver and moistening lung
Chinese medicine believes that rising heat in autumn is easy to hurt body fluid. Therefore, the diet should nourish yin and moisten the lungs. You can eat some soft foods such as sesame, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey, loquat, pineapple, dairy products, etc. to benefit your stomach and promote fluid production. Suitable for patients with internal heat, cough due to lung heat, sore throat and dry stool. In addition, eat more beans and other foods, and eat less greasy and sticky foods.
(2) Eliminating summer heat
After the attack of high temperature in midsummer, human immunity has declined. After beginning of autumn, the temperature difference between day and night became larger. In addition, when the seasons alternate, germs breed, and people with poor physical fitness such as the elderly and children are difficult to adapt and are prone to colds and fever.
At this time, it is necessary to replenish vitamins and minerals in the body in time, neutralize the redundant acidic metabolites in the body, and play the role of clearing away fire and detoxifying, so as to increase the function of the liver and resist the invasion of excessive lung qi.
First of all, you can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables to supplement the nutrients needed by the human body and the potassium lost through perspiration. Secondly, you can drink more ginger tea, ginger vinegar, mung bean soup, lotus seed porridge, mint porridge, etc. to cool off the heat.
(3) Prevention and treatment of "air conditioning disease"
In summer, the human body sweats a lot, the muscle pores are slack, the air conditioner is blown for too long, and the cold is concentrated in the legs. When autumn comes, it hurts if you don't work, and there will be symptoms of joint swelling and pain. In severe cases, people will feel uncomfortable even walking, especially middle-aged people. It is prone to symptoms such as bone pain and waist and shoulder pain.
(4) Eat less autumn melons after beginning of autumn.
After beginning of autumn, we should remember that "autumn melons are bad for our stomachs". No matter watermelon, cantaloupe or cabbage, you can't eat more at will, otherwise it will damage the spleen and stomach yang. Eating a lot of melons in summer will not cause diseases of the spleen and stomach, but will reduce the disease resistance of the stomach and intestines. After beginning of autumn, eating a lot of fruits and vegetables raw will definitely help damp evil, damage spleen yang, and acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea and dysentery will follow.
(5) beginning of autumn should prevent colds.
After beginning of autumn, the high temperature in the daytime will start to cool down at night, so the temperature difference between morning and evening is too large, which will easily lead to frequent colds. Experts remind that in terms of clothing and rest at home, we should pay more attention to preventing colds at night.