According to the traditional calculation method in China, the third Geng day from summer to the future is the first day of the first volt, the fourth Geng day enters the middle volt, and the first Geng day after beginning of autumn begins the last volt. The first and last lodging time is 10 days, and the middle lodging time is long and short, which may be 10 days or 20 days, and there are differences in different years.
At night, there are some folk customs all over China. Take old Beijing as an example, the most popular customs are: pasting, eating jiaozi, enjoying lotus flowers and planting radishes.
Chinese medicine pays attention to "treating winter diseases in summer and preventing summer diseases in winter". On the day when the dog falls, a traditional Chinese medicine is put on Dingchuan point and Shu Fei point, which can be used to treat asthma and reduce the occurrence of cold in winter. Some old people in Beijing still keep the habit of persistence.
The day before yesterday's health care: pay attention to "supporting yang"
In summer, the sunshine is strong. At this time, in order to adapt to the weather, the human body is in a state of "yang is abundant outside and insufficient inside", which often leads to excessive yang and insufficient yang in the body. At this time, if you are too greedy for heatstroke prevention and cooling, it will easily lead to excessive internal cold and worse body yang.
Early summer diet: sour and sweet, invigorating qi and removing fire.
Ancient scholars believed that "summer heat and dampness should be cleared and replenished". Dampness in summer is very harmful to the spleen, and bitter food has the effect of purging dryness, so it is not advisable to eat more, so it is advisable to eat more sweet and cold or sweet and cold in daily diet. Moreover, in summer, the heart returns to the heart, but the heart likes to be cold, so it is more appropriate to eat sour food, such as pineapple and watermelon.
First, eat more foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat, strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis.
Hot summer is easy to cause people to get angry, which is manifested as emotional irritability, anxiety, excitability, insomnia and so on. Therefore, "removing fire" is also a compulsory course for summer food supplement. In summer, the best food for removing fire is tomatoes and other cool fruits and vegetables. At the same time, milk is slightly cold, which can replenish water, nourish yin and relieve fever, and is also a good product for "removing fire".
Recommended recipes:
1, wax gourd kernel syrup
Use a catty of fresh old wax gourd (even skin), three or two raw thorns, and appropriate amount of yellow sugar. Wash the old wax gourd first and cut it into large pieces. Soak the washed raw semen in a casserole for one hour, and then add yellow sugar to drink. The old wax gourd in the soup is sweet and slightly cold, which has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is kind-hearted, but light and diuresis, and yellow sugar clears away heat and produces fluid. Together, it can relieve summer heat, dispel summer heat and eliminate dampness.
2. Lotus leaf and winter melon old duck soup
Use a piece of fresh lotus leaf, fresh old wax gourd 1 kg to 1.5 kg, old duck male meat 1.5 kg. Wash the above three kinds of food, put them in a clay pot, add water to make soup, add salt to taste, and eat melon and duck with soup. Fresh lotus leaf soup can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, diuretic, and wax gourd can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Husband duck can nourish yin and blood, benefit stomach and produce fluid. The combination of the three can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, dispel dampness, but also benefit the stomach and produce fluid.
3. Gypsum tofu and dried vegetable soup
Use 2 pieces of gypsum, half a catty of fresh tofu and 3 liang of dried cabbage. First break the gypsum slightly, then wash the dried cabbage with water and soak it for a while. Put the three kinds of food together in a casserole and add some water to make soup. Boil until the tofu block has a small hole like a peak nest. Season the soup with a little salt.
In addition, mung bean soup is a traditional folk food for relieving summer heat in China, and people with weak spleen and stomach can safely eat it. In addition, lotus leaves, watermelons, lotus seeds and wax gourd also have good effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Lentils and coix seed have a good spleen-strengthening effect and are the best food for patients with spleen deficiency in summer.
Second, eat more bitter food.
Bitter food can not only clear away heat, but also relieve summer heat and fatigue. Therefore, eating bitter foods such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable and bitter buckwheat in summer can strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, not only keep the evil of damp heat away from you, but also prevent heatstroke, killing two birds with one stone. The most important thing is to lose weight.
Recommended recipes:
1, bitter gourd+mint
Prepare half a bitter gourd, cut it into small pieces, put it into a juicer, add a few fresh mint leaves, and then pour 300ml warm water to juice together. After being fully crushed, it can be drunk directly without filtration. If you think the green juice is too strong to eat, you can dilute it with warm water, but don't add sugar. Although this green juice is bitter, if you insist on drinking it half an hour before meals, you can successfully lose weight 10 kilograms in one month.
Fruit and vegetable juice is a good diet food. Squeezing fruit and vegetable juice with strong weight loss effect can greatly enrich your diet and make the effect better and more obvious. Many beneficial substances can also make the body absorb nutrition more intuitively, and fruit and vegetable juice has less calories. If it doesn't taste good, you can add some honey, which tastes better and won't get fat.
2. Bitter vegetables+Chinese cabbage
Sonchus oleraceus is an edible and medicinal plant. Cold bitter vegetables can quickly reduce the internal heat of the body, relieve the heat toxin in the blood and accelerate the detoxification of the body. Obese people who often have acne and hot sores should eat more bitter vegetables, which will help purify the blood and expel toxins. Cabbage is usually considered as cabbage. Because of its many stems, bitter elements are concentrated in these parts, so it will have a slightly bitter taste. Cabbage is rich in vitamins and fiber, which is very beneficial to lose weight.
Prepare 30g bitter vegetables and 1/4 cabbage, clean them, cut them into small pieces and mash them in the juicer, pour out the thick vegetable juice, add 300ml water to boil, and filter out the vegetable residue before drinking. Because the bitter vegetable is heavy, it is a drink with moderate bitterness. If you want to lose 5-8 kg, have a drink half an hour before eating every day.
3, bean sprouts+lettuce leaves
Bean sprouts, also known as pea vines, are the tender stems and buds of peas, which are crisp and slightly bitter to eat. This is a cool vegetable, which can reduce fire, detoxify and get rid of greasy food. Lettuce leaves are something that many MM will throw away. In fact, lettuce leaves are rich in juice, which can promote detoxification. Lettuce leaves are rich in potassium salt, which can promote diuresis and eliminate water and dampness, and help relieve body edema.
Prepare 50g bean sprouts and lettuce leaves on a lettuce, cut the lettuce leaves into small pieces and put them into a juicer for complete squeezing, then add 200-300ml warm water to continue juicing 1 min. Pour out the soup and filter it a little, then you can drink it directly. Don't add any sweet seasoning. This slightly bitter green juice is suitable for detoxification, and I want to lose weight within 5 kg.
Third, eat more foods that benefit qi and nourish yin.
In the early stage, food that nourishes qi and yin is essential. It's very hot in summer, sweating a lot, and it's easy to consume gas and hurt yin. People at this time are often "disease-free." Therefore, in addition to timely hydration, we should always eat some light foods that can replenish qi and nourish yin to enhance our physical fitness. Such as yam, jujube, sea cucumber, eggs, milk, honey, lotus root, fungus, soybean milk, lily porridge, chrysanthemum porridge and so on.
Recommended recipes:
1, green plum black bean jelly
Ingredients: 2 green plums (peeled), 300g black beans, agar 15g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Black beans are peeled with coarse grinding, then finely ground, kneaded into mud with water, added with 500 ml of rock sugar and water, and steamed in a cage. Steam agar with a little water, cut green plums into fine grains, pour them into black beans together with agar juice, mix well until cool, put them in the refrigerator and freeze hard, and cut them into small cubes to eat.
Functions: breast enhancement, body building, skin moistening and beauty caring. This meal is filled with plums and soft liver; Black beans contain protein, essential amino acids, vitamin B, vitamin E and other nutrients; Agar contains mucin, sugar and various trace elements.
2. Stewed quail with red beans
Ingredients: 8 quails, 50g red beans, 3g medulla tetrapanacis, 0g asparagus12g, 30g sliced ham, 20g mushrooms.
Method: firstly, slaughter quail, remove hair, gut and claws, cut the ridge into two parts, blanch it in boiling water, wash off blood, put it in a casserole, and add salt, cooking wine and pepper; Wash red beans with clear water, remove the stems of mushrooms, wrap asparagus and medulla tetrapanacis with gauze, put them in a casserole with slow fire 1 hour, remove the medicine bag, add ham slices, stew for half an hour, and add monosodium glutamate to taste. You can eat them.
Function: tonify qi and blood, and moisten milk. This diet uses quail to tonify qi and blood and replenish essence and five internal organs; Red beans, nourishing blood and benefiting damp heat, can replenish the liver; Cao Tong, asparagus, medicine and food are homologous, belonging to the vein of chong ren, breast enhancement and breast enhancement; Mushrooms and ham are seasoned to increase nutrition.
3, Yuzhu Luffa Sliced Meat Soup
Ingredients: 50g lean pork, loofah 1 (weighing about 50g), Polygonatum odoratum 12g, Lycium barbarum 15g.
Practice: Wash, slice and size the pork for later use. Put Polygonatum odoratum and Lycium barbarum in a bowl, add a little water and steam in a cage until soft; Peel and slice the loofah. Heat the wok and add a little vegetable oil. When the wok is heated to about 40%, stir-fry the meat slices and change color. Leave the bottom oil in the wok. Stir-fry the loofah first, add clear soup and a little salt, put Polygonatum odoratum and Lycium barbarum in the wok and cook for 5 minutes. Put the meat slices in the wok and cook for 4 minutes. Add monosodium glutamate to taste, and then put them in a bowl to accompany the meal.
Functions: invigorating spleen and kidney, dredging collaterals and nourishing blood. This diet uses pork to strengthen the spleen and stomach, tonify the kidney and nourish yin, and care for the skin; Luffa, containing saponin, can dredge meridians, promote blood circulation, nourish and enrich breasts; Polygonatum odoratum, nourishing yin and stomach, regulating chong ren; Lycium barbarum, nourishing blood and nourishing liver and kidney.
Fourth, eat more foods containing protein.
In early summer, the temperature is high, the metabolism of human body increases rapidly and energy consumption is high. Therefore, the supply of protein must be appropriately increased, and the daily intake should be 100g- 120g. Plant protein can be obtained from bean products, and animal protein should be eaten properly besides dairy products, such as chicken, duck, lean meat, pigeons and other flat or cold meat products. When eating duck meat, it is best to stew it, or you can add lotus root, wax gourd and other vegetables to make soup, which can supplement nutrition with meat and vegetables, and also strengthen the spleen and nourish yin.
1, pine nut tofu
Ingredients: 400g of tofu, 0g of pine nuts10g, 50g of coriander powder, salt, sugar, chopped green onion, Jiang Mo and vegetable oil.
Method: Dice tofu, blanch it in a boiling water pot, and take it out; Pine nuts, chopped with a knife. Heat a wok, add oil, stir-fry chopped green onion and Jiang Mo, add stock and pine nuts, add salt, sugar and tofu, bring to a boil, simmer until the tofu rises, put it on a plate, and sprinkle with washed coriander powder.
Functions: strengthening brain, improving intelligence and beautifying face. This meal is slightly salty and sweet, and the pine nuts are delicious and fragrant. Tofu is nutritious and contains many nutrients. Bean food can strengthen the brain, and the fat contained in pine nuts is unsaturated fatty acid, which is also a brain-strengthening beauty food.
2. Milk cabbage
Ingredients: 750g of cabbage heart, 25g of water-soaked mushrooms, 25g of clean winter bamboo shoots, 30g of raw chicken breast, 50g of shrimp, 750g of fresh milk150g, 750g of chicken soup, 3g of refined salt, 2g of monosodium glutamate, 20g of cooking wine10g, and 0g of water starch10g.
Methods: Cut the root of Chinese cabbage into a "well" shape with a depth of 5 cm by 4 knives horizontally and vertically, and tie the upper end of Chinese cabbage tightly with thick thread; Clean mushrooms, bamboo shoots and chicken breast, and cut into 5 cm long pieces. Put the wok on the fire, add the vegetable oil, heat it to 40% heat, add the Chinese cabbage until it is half cooked, remove it from the fire, and drain it with a colander. Take 1 large casserole, put bamboo sticks at the bottom, put cabbage heart, pour chicken soup, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate and cooking wine, bring to a boil, simmer on low heat, remove cabbage heart, remove thick lines and put it horizontally on a plate. Put the wok on fire, add salad oil, heat it to 50%, add slices of winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, shrimps and chicken breast, slide until cooked, remove and drain. Boil the original soup in a casserole in a wok, add shrimps, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms and chicken breast, add refined salt and milk, cook for 3 minutes, thicken with water starch, pour a little cooked oil into a dish filled with Chinese cabbage, and mix well.
Functions: lipid-lowering and fitness, beauty and intelligence. This dish is bright in color, smooth and delicious, rich in protein, fat but not greasy.
3, sea cucumber porridge
Ingredients: 50g sea cucumber, 0/00g rice/kloc.
Method: Wash rice and sea cucumber, put them in a pot, add water to boil, and then cook porridge with low fire. Rice porridge will be thick and edible.
Function: invigorating qi and spleen, tonifying kidney and filling marrow. This diet is rich in nutrition, and the sea cucumber used can tonify kidney and replenish essence; Rice, Gan Ping, Jianping Hewei, Jin Sheng Ye Zi.