Decocting is the most commonly used method in diet therapy, and it is also the most commonly used method in diet therapy in Lingnan area.
Skills to be mastered in cooking Xiaoer soup.
Xu Wen said that the prescription principle of Xiaoer Tang should be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment, and the principle of "simplicity" should be adopted.
First, it should be simple, and the soup should not be too complicated. Usually three or four kinds of ingredients or herbs can be used. If you put a lot of food and herbs, the taste will be mixed, which will be difficult for children to accept, and the herbs selected for soup should be light and easy to eat. In addition, the dosage of medicinal materials should not be too large, which is generally 1.3 of the therapeutic dosage. After all, soup is not used for treating diseases, but for health care or adjuvant treatment.
Second, it is convenient, the ingredients are easily available, rare products are not used, and commonly used ingredients are the main ones.
Third, quick results. For example, a bowl of ginger soup can relieve the cold symptoms in the early stage of a cold. Accurate syndrome differentiation is very important. The food is hot, cold and flat. Cold soup should be used for heat syndrome, warm soup for cold syndrome and tonic soup for deficiency syndrome. Don't be too hasty, abuse the tonic of cold and warm, and avoid committing the "false and true" precept.
Fourth, the taste is sweet and light, so it should not be too strong. Chicken and poultry meat ingredients should be peeled to prevent greasy. It is not advisable to use bitter, spicy and greasy products in soup, such as ginger, vinegar, pepper, pepper and mutton. It is not conducive to children's weak stomach, nor is it suitable for children's tastes, and the advantages of soup cannot be fully exerted.
Fifth, the soup should be clear, not too sticky, the quality of ingredients should be excellent, and the principle of "less but better" should be followed. Try not to use condiments, such as chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and oyster sauce. And add peanut oil to the soup with meat.
These Chinese herbal medicines are suitable for children to make soup.
The traditional Chinese medicines commonly used in children's soup are: Radix Adenophorae, Radix Panacis Quinquefolii, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, Radix Ophiopogonis, Fructus Lycii, Ganoderma lucidum, Radix Puerariae, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Lotus Seed, Lily, Fructus Jujubae, Coicis Semen, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, Fructus Siraitiae Grosvenorii, Dendrobium candidum, Arillus Longan, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Wheat, Malt, Lithospermum, Prunellae Spica, Chrysanthemum and Kapok.
As early as Huangdi Neijing, there was a health theory that "the method is based on yin and yang, the technique is based on numbers, the diet is moderate, the daily life is regular, and if you don't fake it, you can be in harmony with the gods and make the best use of it". Conforming to the laws and characteristics of yin and yang changes in nature is the primary method of health care.
Therefore, it is very important to carry out health care and diet therapy for children according to the climate characteristics. For example, if the moisture is heavy in spring, you can cook lotus seed lentil trotter soup and five-finger peach barley with lean meat; The weather in summer is hot, mostly damp, mainly damp and hot, and it is suitable for cooking cucumber flower bean spine soup, festival melon light vegetable soup and lotus leaf lean broth; When the weather is dry in autumn, you can cook dried apricot vegetables and pork lung soup, coconut chicken soup and lotus root and mung bean spine soup to moisten the lungs and dryness. In the cold winter, when the climate is cold and the wind is dry, you can cook Huai Shan Qi Zi lean broth, tomato and potato oxtail soup, Hua Jiao chicken feet soup and so on.
In this way, the human body can adjust according to the changes of climate and environment, so as to achieve the state of harmony between man and nature.