The cold winter emphasizes warm tonic. As far as drinks are concerned, brown sugar water is the best warm tonic. Brown sugar has the reputation of "oriental chocolate" and has the advantages of "warming it, warming it and dispersing it". It has the effects of removing blood stasis, warming stomach, strengthening spleen and relieving pain, and is rich in minerals and trace elements necessary for human body such as calcium and iron. Brown sugar water must be boiled. Boiling brown sugar into brown sugar water is easier to absorb the nutrients in it than brewing it directly with hot water, and it has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the spleen and stomach and warming the stomach.
2. Hawthorn
Winter is the marketing season of hawthorn, which is both food and medicine, and has the effects of appetizing, promoting digestion and promoting blood circulation. Modern medical research has proved that hawthorn contains organic acids such as citric acid, malic acid and ascorbic acid, which can increase the secretion of digestive enzymes.
The most outstanding benefit of hawthorn is that it can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, because hawthorn contains flavonoids, which has certain effects on preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, and calming the nerves. Boiling hawthorn soup or making tea with hawthorn in winter, preferably cassia seed, can reduce blood fat.
Step 3: peanuts
After late autumn, peanuts are ripe. Eat peanuts, peanut oil, peanut butter, peanut drinks and other peanut products in moderation after autumn and early winter. Peanut is sweet and flat, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, and replenish qi and stop bleeding. It can be used for spleen deficiency, emaciation, anorexia, dry cough and excessive phlegm, and postpartum milk deficiency. The fat in plums and peanuts can decompose the cholesterol in the liver into bile acids and promote excretion, thus reducing the cholesterol content in the blood and preventing atherosclerosis. Peanuts should not be fried because they are not well digested and absorbed.
4. chestnuts
Chestnut has the reputation of "king of thousands of fruits" and is also a "tonic" for tonifying kidney and benefiting qi. Chestnut has the main functions of nourishing stomach, strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, and is suitable for people of all ages in Xian Yi. Modern medical research has found that chestnuts contain unsaturated fatty acids and multivitamins. Chestnut stewed chicken is suitable for people with spleen deficiency and cold, and has the effect of benefiting qi and tonifying kidney.
5.medlar
Generally speaking, the principle of health preservation in winter should be to replenish qi and yang, nourish yin and tonify kidney, and Lycium barbarum is a good choice for tonic in winter. Lycium barbarum is an excellent tonic, which contains many nutrients necessary for human body. Among them, protein accounts for about 20%, fat accounts for about 10%, sugar accounts for about 40%, and the remaining 30% is inorganic salts and multivitamins. Mainly used for treating yin deficiency of liver and kidney, soreness of waist and knees, asthenopia and diabetes (endocrinology).
6.sweet potato
Eating a hot sweet potato in winter is the most pleasant thing. Sweet potato is rich in carbohydrates, dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins and many trace elements such as potassium, magnesium, copper, selenium and calcium 10. In addition, sweet potato is rich in potassium, which can effectively prevent hypertension and stroke.
Although people are used to eating baked sweet potatoes, steaming sweet potatoes is actually a healthier choice, which can not only reduce the loss of nutrients, but also reduce the harmful substances produced by baking.