The human body constitution is different in cold and heat, yin and yang, the ups and downs of viscera and qi and blood vary widely, and the history of diseases in past dynasties is also complicated. Therefore, the tonic plan should be tailored to suit the situation. Before tonic, regulate the spleen and stomach, or eat some "prescription" to make up. The following are the good contents collected by Bian Xiao about what food to eat in winter solstice, for reference only!

What food is good to eat in winter?

As the saying goes, "make up a winter in September, and there will be no disease in the coming year", and winter tonic has a long history in China. The ancients believed that winter is the season of "latent vitality and hidden yang", and it is the best time to maintain and accumulate energy. It is necessary to pay attention to the "hidden way" and make up in time, so as to better play the role of ingredients and medicinal materials and improve the body's disease resistance.

What do you eat on the solstice in winter? Different constitutions, different foods.

There are many foods suitable for tonic in winter, which can be roughly divided into three categories: flat tonic, warm tonic and nourishing. Generally speaking, warm tonic should use hot food for qi deficiency; Cold food should be used for nourishing blood deficiency; If there is no deficiency of qi and blood, it is advisable to use flat food, which is called flat supplement.

◆ Tonifying pork and its liver, kidney and lung, eggs, chickens, ducks and tofu, celery, radish, longan, mushrooms, honey and bee milk.

Nourishing soft-shelled turtle, crucian carp, mussel, kelp, jellyfish, pear, orange, apple, banana, lily, sesame, mung bean, red bean, pea, day lily, tremella, bird's nest, etc.

◆ Warm mutton, beef and its viscera, dog meat, rooster, goose, sea cucumber, squid, venison, jujube, walnut, lentil, potato taro, onion, garlic, leek, ginger, broad bean, wheat flour, wine, etc.

In addition to paying attention to the choice of food, we should also pay attention to cooking techniques: nourishing food should be stewed, steamed or soup, and the taste is light; Warm food should be braised or pickled with soy sauce, which has a strong taste; Pingbu cuisine has the best of both worlds, and its taste is mainly peaceful.

Seasonal food varies from place to place.

There is a folk proverb: "Winter supplements the sun, and spring kills the tiger." More than half of the seasonal food in winter solstice in all parts of China, whether it is jiaozi and wonton in the north, or glutinous rice balls and red bean porridge in the south, are related to the food supplement in cold weather.

1. jiaozi

According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Henan, set up a medical shed in the open space of Dongguan, Nanyang, on the day of winter solstice because he missed the poor villagers. He gave the poor people "Quhan Charming Ear Soup" ("Charming Ear" is now jiaozi), which made them feel warm.

Tips Quhan Joule Decoction

Practice: first put mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling herbs into the pot and boil. After cooking, pick them up and chop them up, make them into ear-shaped "charming ears" with flour bags, and then cook them in a pot. Everyone has a big bowl of soup and two pairs of charming ears.

2. wonton

There is a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodles". "Yanjing Years Old" says: "The shape of husband's wonton is like a chicken egg, which is quite similar to the chaos of heaven and earth, so it is eaten from winter to the sun." In addition to similar shapes, "wonton" is also homophonic with "chaos".

3. Tangyuan

In the south of the Yangtze River, glutinous rice balls are an indispensable food in winter solstice. This is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means reunion and perfection, and jiaozi eaten in winter solstice is also called "jiaozi in winter solstice". An ancient poem said, "Every family beats rice to make glutinous rice balls, knowing that it is the winter solstice of the Ming Dynasty." There are two kinds of glutinous rice balls, namely "rice balls" and "rice balls". Lu said: "The stuffing is rice balls, and the winter night sacrifice is the first product; The small ones without stuffing are pink, and the solstice in winter is also for the gods. "

4. Mutton

Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat and mutton from winter solstice. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the function of strengthening yang and tonifying deficiency. In fact, in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou people began to make up for it from the solstice in winter, and they ate the well-known Wuzhong mutton.

5. Little carrots

There is a folk proverb: "Radish on the winter solstice and ginger on the summer solstice, it doesn't hurt to eat at the right time." He added, "Radish is more delicious than ginseng in winter." On the solstice night in winter, it is just right to stew a pot of hot radish sparerib soup, and the whole family is reunited to celebrate this historic "Asian New Year" festival.

Winter solstice follows three basic principles.

1, living in winter, the climate is getting colder, and the human yang is hidden, which is the best time for the human body to recharge its batteries. In daily life, you should go to bed early and get up late. People who have the habit of doing morning exercises should pay attention to the fact that the time of doing morning exercises should not be too early, so as not to induce respiratory and cerebrovascular diseases or make the original diseases recur.

2, drug supplements At this stage, some people like the winter tonic of drugs. Like cream. A large number of sweet nourishing drugs are added to the ointment, which makes it feel smooth and refreshing when taken, which can not only nourish, but also cure diseases. Treating diseases, preventing diseases without diseases, so winter tonic cream has become a fashion in some places.

3, food supplements As the saying goes, medicine supplements are not as good as food supplements. In winter, if you can choose delicious and healthy food properly, it will undoubtedly be accepted by everyone. Among the foods suitable for tonic in winter, traditional Chinese medicine is divided into several categories.

Winter solstice tonic

At this time, it is the winter solstice, the sun is the weakest, and it is freezing cold, which is the season with the strongest yin and the weakest yang in a year. People with yang deficiency often have watery eyes, cold hands and feet, frostbite and nocturia. Such people can eat dried ginger, ginseng, cooked aconite, pepper, mutton and so on, especially for three or nine days. At the same time, you can also take Jingui Shenqi Pill. To promote hair growth.

Winter solstice diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, chilblain, polyuria and so on. It is prone to winter disease, which belongs to deficiency of kidney qi, yang deficiency and external cold in traditional Chinese medicine. The method of conditioning is to warm the medicine and mix it evenly. Such as cooked aconite, cinnamon, hippocampus, dog kidney, ginseng, licorice, wolfberry fruit and so on can be used. In addition to medication, it can also be supplemented by food. For example, ginger soup has a better effect of relieving cough and asthma. Fuzi Ginger Guizhi Decoction is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of frostbite, and external washing is also effective.

It is a good way to preserve health and prolong life from winter solstice. In principle, we must make up for any deficiencies. For example, people who use more brains should eat walnuts, and people who consume more physical strength should supplement fruits and vegetables in time. How much and how to make up for it varies from person to person.

Doctors who prevent spring and summer diseases have confirmed that good aftercare in winter will reduce the incidence of spring and summer diseases. It is based on this view that winter tonic should be a high-protein and high-calorie food. It can be used for fish, cattle, sheep and dog meat, as well as Chinese herbal medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, longan and red dates. , or used for making soup or eating. As long as the spleen and stomach are well absorbed, tonic will definitely make people reserve more energy, thus enhancing immunity and disease resistance.

In short, people with congenital deficiency, acquired disorder, chronic diseases, physical weakness, overwork, internal friction, postpartum, postoperative and premature aging are the objects of tonic in winter solstice.

The nourishing recipe for winter solstice is as follows:

Mutton stewed radish:

[Ingredients] 500 grams of white radish, 250 grams of mutton, ginger, cooking wine and salt.

[Practice] Wash the white radish and mutton and cut them into pieces for later use. Put the right amount of water in the pot and the mutton in the pot. After boiling for 5 or 6 minutes, take out the mutton, pour out the water, change the water, add the mutton, ginger, cooking wine and salt, stew until it is half cooked, and put the white radish in the pot until it is cooked.

【 Efficacy 】 Supplementing qi and deficiency, warming the middle and warming the lower. It is more suitable for patients with soreness of waist and knees, drowsiness and fatigue, impotence due to kidney deficiency and weakness of spleen and stomach.

Spinach mixed with sesame oil:

[Ingredients] Spinach 1 kg, salt, sesame oil.

[Practice] Wash the spinach, blanch it with boiling water, remove it and put it on a plate, add appropriate amount of salt, and drizzle with sesame oil.

【 Efficacy 】 Dredging pulse, opening chest, lowering qi and harmonizing middle energizer, quenching thirst and moistening dryness.

Stir-fried mushrooms:

【 Ingredients 】 Water-soaked shiitake mushrooms are equal to fresh shiitake mushrooms, and vegetable oil, soy sauce, sugar, water starch, monosodium glutamate, salt, yellow wine, Jiang Mo, fresh soup and sesame oil are appropriate.

[Practice] Wash and slice mushrooms and fresh mushrooms, heat them in a wok and add oil. Stir-fry mushrooms and add ginger, soy sauce, sugar and yellow wine. Add fresh soup to boil, add monosodium glutamate and salt, thicken with water starch, drizzle with sesame oil, and serve.

【 Efficacy 】 Nourish the stomach, resolve phlegm and dispel cold.

This dish can enhance the immune function of the body and is more suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia.