Everyone knows that Sichuanese like spicy food. Some people say that because Sichuan is very humid, it is necessary to eat spicy food to dehumidify. There are also some mountainous areas that eat spicy food to get rid of moisture, just like many mountainous areas in Lishui, Quzhou, eat spicy food because they want to get rid of moisture. It seems that if you want to get rid of moisture, you must eat spicy food.
In fact, what we usually call "spicy" is called "spicy" in Chinese medicine. Spicy has the function of warming and dispersing, and can dispel cold and eliminate dampness. Therefore, people with cold, dampness and yang deficiency can eat spicy food properly, which can dispel the damp and cold qi in the body.
But not everyone is suitable for spicy food. People with damp-heat and yin deficiency will get angry when they eat spicy food, such as some young people with acne, sore throat, oral ulcers and so on. People with allergies, bad stomachs and asthma are also not suitable for spicy food. Even if you like spicy food and are suitable for spicy food, you should be moderate. Chinese medicine pays attention to "moderate diet" and can't eat anything, otherwise the yin and yang will not be harmonious, but will get sick.
Traditional Chinese medicine has always believed that moisture entering the body is the main cause of many diseases in the human body. Once too much water enters the human body, a series of abnormal reactions will occur in the human body, which will affect our health. So today Xiaoqing will recommend several foods with good dehumidification effect.
First, white lentils
When it comes to eliminating dampness, Xiaoqing's first push is the big white lentil, which is known as the "longevity bean".
White lentils are mild, sweet and nutritious: apart from carbohydrates, each100g contains 28g of protein, 0/16mg of calcium, and many other nutrients. It has the functions of regulating stomach, eliminating dampness, invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, and relieving diarrhea. It is mainly used to treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, nausea and vomiting, anorexia, leucorrhea with red and leucorrhea.
White lentils have an ideal effect of invigorating spleen and removing dampness, but they are not easy to cook, so they can be pressed in a pressure cooker. If they are soaked in advance, they are more likely to be soft and rotten.
Second, corn silk leaves
Pick clean corn whiskers and boil water with corn leaves, and cook for a while before drinking. But it is best not to drink it before going to bed, because the beneficial effects of moisture are easily repeated in the body because of sleep, which makes the moisture worse, rather than being removed. When planting corn in autumn, you can take more whiskers and drink them for a year after drying, so you can't get them in the season without corn.
Third, mushrooms
Lentinus edodes is one of the "four great delicacies", known as "the queen in plants" and "the meat in vegetarian diet", and it is a highly respected medicinal diet. Mushrooms are sweet in taste and flat in nature, belonging to liver meridian and stomach meridian, and have a conditioning effect on qi and blood deficiency and fatigue resistance. Especially for wild mushrooms, the effect of invigorating qi and eliminating dampness is more obvious. Because wild mushrooms mostly grow in wet places on hillsides, they have strong defense ability against moisture, and their dehumidification function mainly comes from this. In addition, shiitake mushrooms also have the effects of benefiting qi and nourishing yin, nourishing stomach and moistening lung, treating wind and resolving phlegm.
Fourth, kohlrabi
Kohlrabi, also known as turnip, mustard and mustard knot, is a variety of mustard and is used for root. Compact texture, less water, more fiber, strong mustard flavor, a little bitter. Mustard vegetables have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resisting bacteria and swelling, preventing infection and diseases, inhibiting the toxicity of bacterial toxins and promoting wound healing.
Chinese medicine believes that kohlrabi is flat, bitter, pungent and sweet. Entering the stomach, liver and kidney meridians can promote dampness and promote the balance of water and electrolyte in the body, and has the functions of appetizing, purging qi, eliminating dampness and detoxifying. It is suitable for treating dyspepsia, thirst quenching, toxic heat and wind swelling. Kohlrabi is delicious, and can be used as a substitute for grain, or for cooking or pickling.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Chili
Pepper has high nutritional value and is rich in carotene, protein, fat, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus and iron. In addition, pepper also contains a substance called capsaicin, which can make people's heart beat faster, pores open, skin capillaries expand and thicken, and blood flows to the body surface, so the whole body feels warm.
If you are wet, you might as well eat more peppers, supplement vitamin C and dehumidify, killing two birds with one stone. It's best to eat the kind that is not very spicy, or you will be in trouble if you get angry. Green pepper or ordinary red pepper will do. Don't eat Chili sauce. Not only chili peppers are added, but other things may be added to enhance the spicy taste.
Finally, Xiaoqing will share with you two TCM health-preserving prescriptions that are beneficial to eliminating dampness:
Traditional Chinese medicine health prescription 1: Preparation materials: crucian carp, adzuki bean 150g, dried tangerine peel 2g, onion, ginger slices, salt and cooking wine. Wash adzuki beans and soak them in 150g water one night in advance. Then slaughter the crucian carp, clean it, smear a little salt and cooking wine on the fish, and slice the ginger for later use. Turn on a small fire, put a little vegetable oil in the pot, sprinkle with salt and ginger slices and cook until fragrant. Add crucian carp and fry until golden on both sides. Add garlic cloves and stir-fry together. When frying fish, put the red beans in a casserole and bring to a boil. Put the fried crucian carp into the boiling water of red beans and continue to boil over high fire; Turn to low heat, stew for more than 40 minutes (don't turn over crucian carp when stewing, the fish is tender and fragile), sprinkle with black pepper, and finally sprinkle with a little salt to taste according to your own taste. Decorate the fish with coriander and serve.
Efficacy: Crucian carp and red bean stew soup can achieve the effect of strong combination, which is more helpful to discharge accumulated dampness in the body and prevent a series of symptoms such as poor spleen and stomach transport, loss of appetite and indigestion caused by dampness.
Traditional Chinese medicine health prescription: prepare 20 grams of agastaches and 20 grams of lotus leaves, and then brew with boiling water for half an hour before drinking. This kind of tea feels very "refreshing" in summer, which can help to remove moisture from the body.
Efficacy: Lotus leaves are fragrant and loose, and have the functions of clearing heat, expelling wind and removing dampness. Pogostemon can relieve summer heat and remove dampness. If you take 30 ~ 50g of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, the effect will be better.
As many people know, the number one killer that harms health is moisture! Moisture is called dampness evil in Chinese medicine, which is very harmful to people and will affect their health. Therefore, we must pay attention to conditioning and let ourselves have a healthy body.
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