April 20th is the solar term in Grain Rain and the last solar term in spring. As the temperature rises, the precipitation will also increase. Doing a good job of health preservation in Grain Rain is of great significance for the smooth transition to summer.
Focus on nourishing liver and eliminating dampness
Before and after Grain Rain, the spleen was in a vigorous period. Liver qi is full, and the heart is getting stronger. Spleen exuberance will make the stomach exuberant, and make the digestive function in an exuberant state, which is conducive to the absorption of nutrients. Therefore, this is a good time to make up the body. Eat foods that are beneficial to liver and kidney, and foods that contain more B vitamins, such as wheat germ powder, standard flour, buckwheat flour, naked oats flour, millet, barley, soybeans and other beans, black sesame seeds, etc. In order to adapt to the changes of yin and yang, it can not only improve physical fitness, resist the spring epidemic, but also lay the foundation for a safe summer. If you don't eat properly, it's easy to damage your stomach. In this sense, this period is prone to stomach diseases. Eliminating the causes is the key to treatment, such as quitting smoking and drinking, not overeating, not hungry, eating less and eating more meals, and avoiding food and drugs that irritate the stomach.
After Grain Rain, it means that spring is coming to an end. According to the viewpoint of "nourishing liver in spring" in traditional Chinese medicine, we should seize the opportunity to regulate liver blood. At this time, the main points of diet therapy focus on nourishing liver and clearing liver, and nourishing eyesight. Among many vegetables, spinach is the most suitable for nourishing liver. Chinese medicine believes that spinach is sweet, cool and enters the stomach. It has the effects of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, benefiting the five internal organs, dredging blood vessels, quenching thirst, moistening intestines, nourishing yin, calming liver, helping digestion and clearing stomach heat and toxin, and is often effective in the adjuvant treatment of stomach diseases due to stagnation of liver qi. It has a good therapeutic effect on hypertension, headache, dizziness and anemia caused by liver yin deficiency in spring. After Grain Rain, the humidity in the air gradually increased, which made people uncomfortable from the inside out. From the point of view of TCM health preservation, in such a humid environment, dampness is easy to invade the human body, leading to abdominal distension, loss of appetite, physical discomfort, joint pain and so on. If you already have various joint diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, it is also easy to induce in this solar term.
Therefore, Grain Rain should pay attention to eliminating dampness and cooperate in diet. The foods with good dampness eliminating effect are: white lentils, red beans, coix seed, yam, lotus leaves, gordon euryales, wax gourd, dried tangerine peel, white radish, lotus root, kelp, bamboo shoots, crucian carp and bean sprouts.
Three dietary remedies recommended.
1, kelp and tremella soup: 50g of kelp, 20g of tremella, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash and chop kelp, soak tremella, add water and kelp to simmer into thick soup, and add appropriate amount of rock sugar. 1 day after oral administration, can be taken frequently. It can soothe the liver, invigorate the spleen and tonify the kidney.
2, corn beard jujube black bean porridge: 60 grams of corn beard, 30 grams of jujube, 30 grams of black beans, 90 grams of carrots. Cook corn for half an hour, remove the beard, and use it to cook jujube, black beans and carrots (washed and cut into pieces) until the beans rot. Has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, and inducing diuresis.
3. Yam golden eel soup: 250g eel, 0/0g chicken gizzard-membrane, 0/0g yam/kloc, 4 slices ginger, appropriate amount of yellow wine, refined salt and monosodium glutamate. Kill Monopterus albus alive, wash and gut, cut into sections, and boil with water to remove bloody mucus. Wash chicken gizzards and yam. Stir-fry eel fish with ginger, add a little yellow wine, add a proper amount of water, transfer to a casserole, add Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and ginger, first boil with strong fire, then simmer for 1 hour, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate, and then boil to serve. It can strengthen the spleen, promote digestion and harmonize the liver and spleen.