It's sultry in summer, which makes people sweat and lose appetite, which makes many old people unable to eat? Suffering? . So, how should the elderly make up for it in summer? What problems should we pay attention to?
Principles of health-preserving medicated diet in summer
Principle one:
Eat lightly, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach
First of all, summer should be clear, diet should be light, and eat less greasy and indigestible food. Eating meat in summer is mainly based on stew. You can also add peanuts, soybeans, kelp, lotus root, radish and so on when stewing soup.
Secondly, pay attention to strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and eat more digestible food. In summer, porridge is a good food for the elderly. It can not only replenish the water needed in the body, but also nourish and protect the stomach.
In hot summer, if you add some milk, soybean milk, red dates, white lentils, lilies, medlar, coix seed, duck meat, rabbit meat, mung beans, corn flour and so on. Cooking porridge can not only replenish energy, but also replenish a lot of water lost by sweating.
Third, it is advisable to clear the heart, relieve summer heat and detoxify, promote fluid production and quench thirst, balance the consumption of body fluids and avoid heatstroke. Eat more foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat and all kinds of fruits and vegetables, such as mung beans, watermelons, bitter melons, cucumbers, corn, apples, pears, mangosteen, sugar cane and tremella. On the one hand, it can relieve summer heat, on the other hand, it can supplement a lot of body fluids and minerals lost due to sweating.
Principle 2:
Clearing heat and promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness
Due to the rainy summer and humid climate, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort. At this time, you should choose porridge soup such as Pogostemon, Eupatorium, Coicis Semen and Chenpi to eat.
Enough water should be replenished. Inflammation in summer, because the brain and nerves of the elderly are slow to respond, it is difficult to send it out. Do you want some water when you are thirsty? If you don't drink water in time, it will often lead to dehydration, and it will easily lead to an increase in blood concentration and poor blood circulation, which will lead to a stroke, so you should replenish water in time.
In addition, people suffering from hyperhidrosis and deficiency of both qi and yin should nourish yin and benefit qi, and can eat Polygonatum odoratum, Radix Adenophorae, American ginseng, Radix Pseudostellariae, duck, milk and bird's nest. , the effect is better.
Those who are upset and insomnia due to overheated weather should properly eat foods that have the effects of calming the heart, calming the fire, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, such as bitter gourd, lily, wheat, jujube, longan, jujube, arborvitae seed, etc.
People with poor perspiration should eat more cool and sweaty foods, such as mint, mulberry leaves, kudzu root, lotus plumule and sugarcane.
The above is excerpted from "A Quick Survey of Medicated Diet for the Elderly"