Shizhou healthy

Eating porridge has a long tradition in China. In ancient times, porridge was called "rice". Lu You, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote the poem "Eating Porridge": "All people in the world are elderly, but they don't know that many years are in the present; I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge for the gods. " Li Shizhen also admires porridge therapy, believing that porridge is the essence of five grains, which can calm stomach qi, promote fluid production and is easy to digest, especially suitable for the elderly and people with weak spleen and stomach. Compendium of Materia Medica praised porridge as extremely soft and greasy, compatible with the stomach, and the most wonderful formula for dietotherapy. And warned the world: "There is nothing profound and difficult to understand about health and happiness, just between sleeping and eating." Pretend to persuade people to eat porridge every day without laughing. "It is also the best to drink porridge to nourish the liver and protect the spleen in spring. For example, shepherd's purse porridge has the functions of clearing liver, improving eyesight, cooling blood and relieving stranguria, and is suitable for people with hypertension and red eyes and turbid urine; Pork liver mung bean porridge, mung bean and rice are cooked to eight points. When sliced pork liver is cooked together, add appropriate amount of salt after cooking, which can nourish the liver and nourish blood, clear away heat and improve eyesight.

Bean health

Bean food is a typical representative of "homology of medicine and food" in Chinese medicine. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Soybean is sweet, flat and non-toxic". Soybean has the highest content of protein among the existing crops, and also has the functions of benefiting qi and strengthening spleen, nourishing blood and strengthening brain, whitening skin and preventing osteoporosis. Red beans can not only nourish acacia, but also have high medicinal value. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that red beans can avoid plague, cure dystocia, remove fetal membranes and pass milk. Cooking with crucian carp can promote dampness and reduce swelling. White lentils have the function of strengthening spleen and stomach. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, white lentils can "stop diarrhea, warm spleen and stomach, remove damp-heat and quench thirst", so patients with dyspepsia, vomiting and chronic diarrhea can take them frequently. Mung beans are sweet in taste, cold in nature and non-toxic. They are not only good for relieving summer heat and benefiting qi in hot summer days, but also can clear away heat and toxic materials, quench thirst and relieve vexation, induce diuresis to relieve alcoholism, treat sores and swelling, and treat burns. In the folk prescription, stir-fry the mung bean powder until it is brown, and apply it with vinegar to cure the initial swelling poison.

In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen also mentioned that tofu has the functions of "soothing the middle energizer, invigorating qi, harmonizing the spleen and stomach, removing the tumor, reducing turbid qi in the large intestine, clearing heat and dispersing blood". Therefore, tofu is not only delicious food, but also delicious medicine. Scientifically verified, the vegetable fat contained in tofu can reduce cholesterol, prevent arteriosclerosis, and have an auxiliary treatment effect on hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.