Common ingredients for eliminating dampness
Poria cocos: sweet and light in taste and flat in nature. Has the effects of promoting diuresis, eliminating dampness, invigorating spleen, calming heart and tranquilizing mind. For loose stool with edema, spleen deficiency and anorexia.
Coix seed: Sweet, light and cool in nature, beneficial to the effects of water infiltration, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing arthralgia and expelling pus, detoxicating and resolving hard mass. It is used for spleen edema and diarrhea.
Adzuki bean: sweet and sour, flat in nature, has the effects of diuresis, detumescence, detoxification and pus discharge. Used for swelling water of sores and carbuncles.
White lentils: sweet in taste, warm in nature, effective in invigorating the spleen and eliminating dampness, harmonizing the middle warmer and relieving summer heat. They are used for spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea caused by summer heat.
Euryale ferox: sweet, astringent and flat in taste. It has the effects of tonifying kidney, consolidating essence, strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea, and removing dampness and stopping leukorrhagia. It is used for chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, nocturnal emission and leukorrhagia due to kidney deficiency.
Amomum villosum: pungent in taste and warm in nature, it has the effects of drying dampness to stimulate appetite, warming the middle warmer to stop diarrhea, regulating qi and preventing miscarriage. It is used for abdominal distension and pain caused by dampness blocking middle energizer, qi stagnation of spleen and stomach, deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach, and vomiting and diarrhea.
Lotus leaf: bitter in taste and flat in nature, it has the effects of clearing summer heat and removing dampness, promoting hair growth and clearing yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and is used for diarrhea due to summer heat and dampness and spleen deficiency.
Orange peel: pungent, bitter and warm in nature, it has the effects of regulating qi, strengthening spleen, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, and is used for abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea caused by dampness blocking middle energizer and qi stagnation of spleen and stomach.
Pogostemon fragrans: pungent, slightly warm, it has the effects of aromatic dampness, vomiting and relieving summer heat. It can be used for dampness blocking middle energizer, nausea and vomiting, summer-heat dampness syndrome, chest distress and discomfort.
Moisturizing ingredients are not suitable for everyone.
Traditional Chinese medicine for both medicine and food is different from food. They are biased, some of them may be slightly toxic, but the overall safety factor is large, and they are not easy to be poisoned after long-term or large-scale application. Because of this, its toxicity is easily overlooked, and people are prone to some misunderstandings when applying it. The most common thing is that some people eat "glutinous rice and red bean porridge" for a long time all the year round to get rid of dampness and keep fit, thinking it will help keep fit.
In fact, taking Coix lachryma-jobi as an example, this medicinal material is slightly cold, has the function of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, and is also a representative plant of Gramineae. It is delicious and easy to get, and it is good for clearing away lung heat, eliminating carbuncle and discharging pus. Fried coix seed is more suitable for strengthening spleen and promoting diuresis, and can be used for spleen edema and diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency, so if it is taken for a long time, fried coix seed is more suitable.
It should be noted that coix seed can promote uterine contraction, and it is mentioned in Pinhui Essentials that "pregnancy cannot be taken"; Depei Materia Medica more specifically defines the inapplicable population, that is, "people with kidney water deficiency, spleen yin deficiency, qi deficiency subsidence and pregnancy prohibition", that is, people with qi and blood deficiency, yin deficiency, body fluid deficiency and frequent dry mouth are not suitable for long-term consumption of Coicis Semen; People with spleen deficiency in loose stool are only suitable for eating fried coix seed, not raw coix seed.
Other dampness-removing ingredients also have their own suitable or restricted food groups, such as:
Poria cocos is suitable for the general public, but people with dry stools are not suitable for long-term consumption.
Pogostemon cablin is more suitable for summer and hot season. It feels that wind and internal injuries are summer and wet.
Lotus leaf is most suitable for cooking porridge in summer or steaming in meat to add flavor and color;
White lentil can regulate spleen and stomach and nourish lung, but it contains non-specific plant lectin, which has certain inhibitory effect on thrombin and has certain toxicity. Heating or prolonging cooking time can greatly reduce toxicity.
Amomum villosum is more suitable as seasoning;
Adzuki bean can make damp heat excrete stool, and make "Adzuki bean and crucian carp soup" together with crucian carp, which is suitable for edema patients;
Euryale ferox is more suitable for loose stool with spleen deficiency, women with leukorrhagia due to spleen deficiency, patients with chronic kidney disease and proteinuria, but it should be used with caution for those with constipation and difficulty in defecation.
Orange peel is more suitable for medicinal diet, such as "beef with dried tangerine peel" or "hawthorn with dried tangerine peel", which has the functions of strengthening stomach and promoting digestion.
Distinguish physique and choose ingredients
If you don't distinguish between constitution, cold and heat, indications and contraindications, and blindly abuse ingredients, the consequences may be unsatisfactory. There are cold and heat in medicine and cold and heat in human constitution. When using traditional Chinese medicine for both medicine and food, you should first know whether your constitution is cold or hot.
Cold constitution: mostly yang deficiency, white and fat body, dull complexion, cold and warm, cold limbs, loose stool, long nocturia, easy hair loss, weak pulse, fat tongue, pale tongue and many tooth marks. Warm traditional Chinese medicines, such as clove, star anise, fennel, cinnamon, pepper and galangal, should be selected.
Heat constitution: mostly due to yin deficiency, emaciation, flushing, dry mouth and throat, frequent cold drinks, fever of hands and feet, lack of sleep and anxiety, constipation, yellow urine, red tongue with little or no coating, and thready pulse. It is advisable to choose cold and cool Chinese medicines, such as lily, Polygonatum odoratum, chrysanthemum, cassia seed, gardenia, honeysuckle, Sophora japonica and medlar.
Constitution of qi stagnation type: common ones are emaciation, pale face, full chest and ribs, excessive desire to breathe, or a stalk in the throat, dark tongue, heavy pulse or astringency. It is advisable to choose bergamot, citron, dried tangerine peel, mint and so on.
Phlegm constitution: pleomorphic obesity, loose skin, weight, dizziness, chest tightness and fullness, thin stool, greasy tongue coating, wet or slippery pulse. Poria cocos, Elsholtzia, Perilla frutescens, Coicis Semen, Pogostemon Fragrans and other dual-purpose Chinese medicines with phlegm-resolving or dampness-eliminating functions should be selected.
Clever selection of dampness-removing ingredients
In hot and humid weather, people are easily attacked by moisture, and there are symptoms such as chest tightness, palpitation, loss of appetite, and general drowsiness. Because the spleen "likes dryness and hates dampness" is most affected by dampness, the digestive function of the spleen and stomach is poor at this time. Therefore, in the solar terms of Xiaoman and Mangzhong, we should focus on invigorating the spleen and eliminating dampness. Patchouli, Amomum villosum, Amomum villosum, etc. They are all fragrant medicines, containing volatile oil, and the decoction time should not be too long, 10~ 15 minutes is enough. Aromatic drugs are more effective as condiments. White lentils, red beans and other legumes should be cooked before eating, otherwise it is easy to be poisoned.
Fuling cake
The raw materials are 70% japonica rice and 30% white glutinous rice, plus appropriate amount of Poria cocos, Euryale euryales, lotus seed meat and yam.
Practice raw materials * * * ground into powder, add appropriate amount of water, stir evenly to make cakes, and eat them every day.
Yam, barley and glutinous rice porridge
Raw materials: Poria cocos (crushed) 30g, Coicis Semen 30g, Chinese yam 50g, and japonica rice100g.
Practice: add appropriate amount of water to japonica rice, coix seed and yam, cook until half cooked, add poria powder, mix well, and eat on an empty stomach after cooking.
Chicken porridge with coix seed, poria cocos and mushrooms.
Raw materials: 200g of Coicis Semen, 0g of Poria cocos10g, 20g of japonica rice, 50g of chicken breast and 4 mushrooms.
Practice soaking mushrooms and dicing them. The chicken breast is peeled and degreased, boiled in a pot for 30-40 minutes, and then taken out and cut into pieces. Poria cocos powder. Wash Coicis Semen, soak in hot water overnight, drain, add 7 times of water to boil, and boil. Boil japonica rice with 5 times of clear water 1 hour, mix with coix seed porridge, add mushrooms, diced chicken and Poria powder, and cook until thick. You can add seasoning when eating.
Red bean crucian carp soup
Ingredients: 50g of adzuki bean, 1 crucian carp (about 50g), 6g of dried tangerine peel, 6g of tsaoko, a little of onion, ginger and pepper.
Practice: Make soup 1 time every day for 1 month. It is suitable for edema, ascites and malnutrition edema caused by low protein.
five spice powder
The powder of Amomum villosum, clove, pepper, star anise, fennel and nutmeg is mixed to make "spiced powder", which can be used to make spiced tofu, spiced beans and so on.
skill
Patients who take drugs such as lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar or regulating blood lipid for a long time should consult Chinese medicine or pharmacists when choosing traditional Chinese medicine with the same origin of medicine and food, so as to avoid confrontation between Chinese medicine and western medicine, reduce each other's curative effect or increase toxic and side effects. If you feel unwell after taking the medicine, you should seek medical advice promptly.
Reprinted: popular medicine
20 19 No.6 pp. 68-69
Author: Wang Haiying