1, five-element regimen
Health care and disease treatment should be carried out according to the differences of human physique, gender, age, time and geographical environment.
There are many factors that determine which physique a person belongs to or tends to have, such as birth season (spring, summer, autumn and winter correspond to wood fire, water and gold respectively), skin color (green, red, yellow, white and black correspond to wood fire, earth, water and gold), fat and thin, personality and so on.
In winter, vegetation withers, everything is hidden, and the human body is full of yang, so it is necessary to protect the vitality in the body, tonify the kidney, and give full play to its duty of sealing up.
There is a folk proverb "winter supplements, spring kills tigers", which shows the importance of winter diet. Life Times specially invited Dr. Jingang Dai from the Medical Experimental Center of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and based on this, combined with the differences of human physique, recommended some health-preserving and dietotherapy remedies.
2. Different physical health.
wooden man
Physical characteristics: thin, pale or bluish-black, tall, flexible joints, blue veins on hands and feet, oily skin, like quiet, easy to get angry and impatient.
Because wooden people have strong liver qi, are resistant to spring, summer, autumn and winter, and are prone to qi stagnation. They often feel depressed, so it is very expensive to maintain health and regulate liver and kidney.
Diet recommendation: Lycium barbarum mutton porridge
Ingredients: medlar 30g, mutton 100g, rice 150g, onion, refined salt, monosodium glutamate.
Practice: Wash and chop Lycium barbarum and mutton separately. Wash the rice clean, put it in a casserole with mutton, medlar and scallion, add appropriate amount of water, boil it on high fire and cook it into porridge on low fire. Add monosodium glutamate and refined salt when eating.
Lycium barbarum is sweet and flat in nature, and belongs to liver meridian, kidney meridian and lung meridian, which can nourish liver, nourish kidney and moisten lung. Indications: deficiency of liver and kidney, dizziness, soreness of waist and knees, impotence and nocturnal emission, fatigue, cough and thirst.
Mutton is a good warming food, which can tonify deficiency and dispel cold, and warm qi and blood; Benefiting kidney qi, tonifying body, resisting aging, stimulating appetite and strengthening body; Nourish parturient, treat leucorrhea by lactation, help Yuanyang and benefit essence and blood.
Eating this kind of rice in winter can not only meet the requirements of winter tonic, but also adjust the impatient personality of wooden people. In addition, broccoli, walnuts, bean sprouts, peanuts, jujube, honey, shrimp, fish, meat and eggs are also very suitable for people with wooden physique.
Water type person
Physical characteristics: relatively fat, short, big head, wide cheeks, big abdomen, dark complexion, slightly larger waist and buttocks, short fingers, dense and black hair, afraid of cold and warm.
Too much yin and too little yang means lack of fire. Therefore, the key to water-based people's health preservation lies in warming yang, benefiting qi and supplementing fire.
Diet recommendation: Yam mutton soup
Ingredients: 500g of mutton, 50g of yam, 30g of onion, 5g of ginger/kloc-0, 6g of pepper, 20g of yellow rice wine, 3g of refined salt and proper amount of monosodium glutamate.
Practice: remove the fascia from the mutton, wash it, cut it several times, then blanch it with boiling water to remove blood. Wash the onion and ginger, cut the onion into sections and break the ginger.
Soak yam in clear water, cut it into pieces with a thickness of 2cm, put mutton and yam in a casserole, add appropriate amount of clear water, boil it with high fire, skim off the floating foam, add onion, ginger, pepper and yellow wine, stew it with low fire until the mutton is crisp and rotten, and take it out and let it cool.
Slice the mutton, put it in a bowl, then remove the onion and ginger from the original soup, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate, stir well, and pour the yam into the bowl.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" points out: Chinese yam can cure all kinds of deficiency injuries, five strains and seven injuries, remove head and face wind, stop lumbago, remove vexation and heat, tonify heart qi deficiency, be happy and remember more, benefit kidney qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea, moisten fur, produce ointment to reduce swelling and treat hard poison;
Shennong's Herbal Classic also lists it as the top grade. Mutton is warm and tonic, which can benefit kidney and spleen and warm and tonify. In addition, black beans, black sesame seeds, black fungus, purple rice and walnuts are also very suitable for such people to eat.
Golden man
Physical characteristics: regular facial features, thin figure, but broad shoulders, square face, straight nose and wide mouth, white skin, thin limbs, fast movement and easy to sweat.
Most golden people are full of energy, so they are very devoted to their work, forget to eat and sleep, disrupt the normal pace of life, and easily cause chronic diseases of respiratory system and digestive system, water exhaustion of kidneys, and diseases of urinary and reproductive systems.
Food recommendation: fried liver and waist with both ears
Ingredients: 20g of tremella, 20g of auricularia auricula, 50g of pork liver, 50g of pork tenderloin, 6g of Shaoxing wine, 3g of salt, 3g of monosodium glutamate, 0g of onion10g, 3g of ginger and 35g of white oil.
Practice: soak tremella and auricularia auricula in warm water for 2 hours, remove pedicels and impurities, and tear them into petals; Wash pig liver and cut into thin slices; Wash the pork tenderloin, cut it in half, remove the white Sao gland, cut it into kidney flowers, grab it evenly with raw flour, salt and monosodium glutamate, and hang it in the pulp; Slice ginger and shred onion.
Heat a wok with high fire, add vegetable oil, add ginger and onion, stir-fry until 60% heat, stir-fry, then add pork liver, pork tenderloin, Shaoxing wine, tremella, auricularia auricula, salt and monosodium glutamate, and stir-fry until cooked.
Tremella is called "affordable bird's nest", which has the functions of moistening lung, strengthening essence, moistening intestine, benefiting stomach, invigorating qi, promoting blood circulation, strengthening brain, refreshing, beautifying, rejuvenating skin and prolonging life.
Auricularia auricula has the functions of benefiting qi and strengthening body, nourishing kidney and stomach, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Pig liver and kidney are rich in nutrition, and wine can warm blood vessels. Comprehensive analysis shows that this recipe has the effect of moistening lung and nourishing liver. In addition, loquat, lily, rehmannia and pear are also very suitable for this physique.
aboriginal
Physical characteristics: strong physique, weight, plump muscles, big abdomen, strong legs, plump shoulders, smooth muscles and yellowish skin color. Generous, simple, conservative, calm, good at getting along with people.
Native people generally have good spleen and stomach function and strong adaptability, and can adapt all year round, so they have good physique. Soil corresponds to the long summer, that is, at the turn of summer and autumn. Soil is closely related to the four seasons, so the native people were born in the long summer, but they may also be scattered in other seasons.
Food recommendation: beef rice with ginger sauce
Ingredients: fresh beef100g, ginger juice 5g, japonica rice 50g, soy sauce and peanut oil. Practice: Chop fresh beef into minced meat, put it on a plate, then add ginger juice and mix well, then add soy sauce and peanut oil. Wash the japonica rice, put it in a casserole, add some water and cook it together. When the water in the pot is almost dry, pour the beef into the rice and steam for 15 minutes until the beef is cooked.
Japonica rice is a common staple food. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Japonica rice porridge is beneficial to urinating, relieving polydipsia and nourishing the stomach."
Beef is rich in nutrition and protein is rich. Ginger juice can warm the middle and dispel the cold. The combination of the three drugs can play the role of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, warming the middle warmer and benefiting qi.
What needs special explanation is that because everyone's physique is not determined by a single factor, it often has a variety of physical characteristics. When choosing a specific diet, you can't completely stick to which one.
Fire type person
Physical characteristics: small figure, thin face, weak skin, red skin, rosy complexion, bright eyes, few eyebrows, red lips, full of vigor and vitality, steady pace and sexual anxiety.
Fire-type people are mostly born in summer, and their body is full of yang. The key to health preservation lies in nourishing yin and subduing yang, nourishing heart and kidney, and putting out fire with water.
Food recommendation: tomato water chestnut drink
Ingredients: 200g water chestnut, 200g tomato, 30g sugar. Practice: Wash water chestnut, peel, chop and wring juice; Wash, chop and wring tomatoes. Mix tomato and horseshoe juice, add sugar and stir well.
Water chestnut is cold, which has the function of clearing away heat, and has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relaxing bowels, stranguria and diuresis, eliminating carbuncle and detoxification, cooling blood and removing dampness, promoting digestion and relieving bloating. It is mainly used to treat fever, thirst, jaundice, red eyes, sore throat, short and red urine, exogenous wind-heat and stagnation.
Tomatoes are sweet and sour, cool and slightly cold. Has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, nourishing yin and cooling blood, promoting salivation and quenching thirst, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing blood and stimulating appetite.
This prescription is most suitable for fire-type people who are prone to get angry, and has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, nourishing the middle energizer and blood, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, and relaxing bowels. In addition, carrots, hawthorn and water spinach are also suitable for this kind of people.