To eat Astragalus membranaceus, a light diet should be used. The easiest way is to drink astragalus porridge. Astragalus porridge has existed since ancient times. In Su Shi's poems, he mentioned that he drank Huangqi porridge when he recovered from a serious illness. He was thirty-nine years old and lived in Michigan. At that time, "I failed to live up to the famous flowers for one year before smoking was banned", so I used "Huangqi porridge to recommend spring vegetables". This is to nourish the weak body after illness with astragalus porridge.
When making astragalus porridge, you should pay attention to the fact that astragalus itself is not edible. Astragalus membranaceus should be boiled into medicinal juice by the method of "three frying and three boiling" in traditional Chinese medicine. Use this medicine juice to cook porridge with rice. Astragalus porridge has a strong qi-lifting effect and is most suitable for drinking in the morning. After drinking, you will feel energetic all day. The following is the practice of astragalus porridge.
Take about 30 grams of Astragalus membranaceus, soak it in 10 times of water for half an hour, add water, cook it for 30 minutes on medium fire, and pour out the medicine juice for later use. Add the same amount of water to boil, then boil for 15 minutes, then pour out the medicine juice, and repeat the above actions. Remove the cooked astragalus dregs and throw them away. Put the three decoctions together, add about100g of rice, and cook into porridge.
Eating mutton for aphrodisiac in dog days.
According to the tradition of "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter" in traditional Chinese medicine, eating mutton in dog days has a certain basis for health preservation. Eat mutton for aphrodisiac in spring and summer, and wait until the hands and feet are cold in winter. Some people accumulate heat in dog days. After eating mutton soup, you are sweating all over, which can drive away the accumulation of heat in the five internal organs. However, everything pays attention to one degree. It is not easy to eat mutton in dog days, and not everyone is suitable for such a regimen, especially those with hot constitution. Don't try it at will.
According to "Materia Medica from the New", "Mutton can tonify fatigue, invigorate qi, strengthen yang, stimulate appetite and strengthen the body." Dog days are the season with the highest temperature and humidity all year round, and the human yang is also the most abundant in this season. In addition, it is naturally hot. Drinking mutton soup can form an "internal and external attack", so that the cold in the body can be discharged from the body, which can play the role of warming the middle and dispelling the cold and warming the qi and blood. So summer is the best time to treat' winter disease'. Eating hot food in summer is good for your health. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine nutrition, mutton is sweet and warm, which can replenish qi and deficiency, enrich blood and help yang, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and enhance cold resistance, and has always been regarded as a good product for tonifying yang.
Eat ginger for aphrodisiac in dog days.
As the saying goes: "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer." Ginger has a warming effect. You can eat more ginger in summer to nourish yang. Ginger is pungent and warm, and has many functions such as dispelling cold and sweating, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, regulating stomach and stopping vomiting. It's the best time to drink ginger tea in dog days. Brew 4 slices of ginger, 4 slices of jujube and a proper amount of brown sugar in a cup of boiling water, and a cup of ginger jujube tea that warms the stomach and dispels cold will be ready. Drinking ginger tea is a simple and easy health care method, and now it seems to be more and more popular. Ginger tea can be drunk all year round, but summer is the most suitable season for drinking ginger tea.