Nutritionist Yu Ruomu said that "tea is the best natural Chinese medicine formula given by nature". Studies have long confirmed that drinking tea can effectively reduce blood lipids, blood pressure and cholesterol in the blood, thus preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Because tea polyphenols in tea, especially catechins, have a strong role in lowering blood lipid and protecting capillaries.
Green tea:
Recommended index: ★★★★★
Main effects: lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, inhibiting cancer cells, preventing hypertension, hyperlipidemia and even tumors.
Pu'er tea
Recommended index: ★★★★★
Main effects: lowering blood fat, blood pressure and blood sugar, and preventing arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
herb tea
Recommended index: ★★★★★★★
Main efficacy: tea is the main ingredient, and Chinese medicine is added, which can prevent and treat various diseases, strengthen the body and prolong life.
Recommended medicinal tea:
Cassia seed tea
Drinking method: Put 30 grams of Semen Cassiae and 2 grams of green tea into a cup at the same time, brew with boiling water, and cover with stuffy 15 minutes. 1 daily 1 dosage, which can be brewed 3-5 times each time.
Main effects: clearing liver, improving eyesight, reducing blood fat, relaxing bowels, and preventing hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
Tip: It will be better to fry cassia seeds until they are slightly yellow, but they will not be burnt.
White chrysanthemum tea
Drinking method: put 10g white chrysanthemum in a cup, brew it with boiling water, and cover it for10min. 1 day 1 dose, 3-5 times each time.
Main effects: dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing liver and improving eyesight, detoxifying and diminishing inflammation. Long-term administration can prevent and treat hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
Luohan fruit tea
Drinking method: Slice Siraitia grosvenorii 15g, put it in a cup, brew with boiling water, and cover it for15min. 1, 2 doses per day, 3 ~ 5 times each time.
Main effects: clearing lung-heat and relieving cough, which can lower blood sugar and blood pressure after long-term administration.
Wu Mei thirst-quenching tea
Drinking method: 50 grams of ebony is brewed in boiling water 10 minute, or decocted with ebony. Can be used as tea at any time.
Main effects: promoting fluid production to quench thirst, calming stomach and astringing lung, and lowering blood sugar if taken frequently.
The second trick: do more.
Here are a few simple finger movements, which will not delay time, but also help you stimulate meridians, promote blood circulation and prevent diseases when you are at leisure or in a meeting.
Accessories: a small stick with uniform thickness, which can be a matchstick or a paper roll.
Special reminder: When you do every movement, you can take a deep breath at the same time, and the effect is better. The length of each time is calculated by 15 deep breaths.
A. Action decomposition: As shown in figure 1, make fists with two opposite hands, hold the stick with two small fingertips, and squeeze it with finger force to prevent it from falling.
Main efficacy: Treating angina pectoris and preventing coronary heart disease.
B. Action decomposition: As shown in Figure 2, open the palm, with the palm inward and the five fingers open; Use a small stick to stab evenly along the end of the ring finger to the palm of your hand.
Main efficacy: Treating dreaminess, palpitation and other symptoms, often stimulating and reducing the occurrence of heart disease.
C. Action decomposition: As shown in Figure 3, extend the palm, palm inward, five fingers open, and use a small stick to stab evenly from top to bottom along the transverse flexion line of the four fingers of the palm.
Main efficacy: Stimulating hands in this way can prevent cardiovascular diseases and hypertension.
Box: Two "hands" to prevent cardiovascular diseases-fist clenched and pressing.
Fist-clenching: Fist-clenching as shown in Figure 4 can greatly reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases by stimulating acupoints such as the heart meridian of hand shaoyin.
Pressing: Pressing area A in Figure 5 can prevent hypertension; Stimulating area B more will play a great role in the prevention of heart disease.
The third measure: sleeping on a medicine pillow
The medicated pillow works slowly on the human body through the medicine in the medicated pillow. The most direct effect can improve sleep, persevere, and prevent chronic diseases such as hypertension.
Osmanthus pillow
Ingredients: 250g of white chrysanthemum, 250g of rose and 300g of concha Haliotidis.
Production: firstly, white chrysanthemum and rose are respectively dried, crushed into coarse powder, mixed with crushed concha Haliotidis, wrapped with gauze, sewn, made into a thin pillow core, and placed on an ordinary pillow.
Efficacy: It has the effect of promoting qi circulation and blood circulation, and can prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Tips: This pillow can effectively relieve dizziness, headache, tinnitus, upset, insomnia and other symptoms caused by hypertension.
Alum antihypertensive pillow
Material: 500g of alum.
Production: Alum is crushed to the size of rice grain, wrapped with gauze, sewn, made into a thin pillow core, and placed on an ordinary pillow.
Efficacy: Clearing heat and resolving phlegm can prevent hypertension.
Magnolia officinalis cinnamon pillow
Ingredients: Pogostemon cablin 800g, Acorus gramineus 500g, Cassia seed1000g.
Production: firstly, Pogostemon cablin and Acorus gramineus are dried and crushed into coarse powder, then mixed with dried Semen Cassiae evenly, wrapped with gauze, stitched, and put into the pillow core to make the medicated pillow.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, clearing heat and calming liver, improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure.
Tips:
1. It is best to choose loose, soft and thin cotton cloth or gauze with good air permeability for the fabric of the medicine pillow, which is beneficial to the volatilization of the medicine;
2. The bottom of the medicine pillow can be padded with a piece of plastic cloth to prevent the medicine from staining the sheets;
Pillows can be made into various shapes according to everyone's preference, but don't make them too high.
The fourth measure is to take medicine with food.
"Medicine and food are homologous, medicine and food are homologous" means that food, like medicine, has the function of preventing and treating diseases, with differences and similarities. Medicinal diet is the perfect combination of China cooking method, food and medicine, which can help food enter the dirty along the meridians and enhance the effect of conditioning and nourishing; Eating helps the medicine to protect the body, and taking medicine does not hurt the stomach. For the most common "three highs" people with hyperglycemia, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, it is the best choice for "delicious health", which increases the body's function of preventing and treating diseases while enjoying delicious food.
Low blood sugar
Fried shrimps with spinach
Raw materials: medlar 30g, shrimp 50g, leek 150g.
Preparation: firstly, wash shrimps and medlar, and wash leeks and cut them into sections; Soak Lycium barbarum in warm boiled water for 5 minutes and drain.
Points.
Making:
1. Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into the casserole and put it on the fire to heat it to 60%;
2. When adding chopped green onion and Jiang Mo and stir-frying for fragrance, quickly add shrimps and stir-fry with quick fire;
3. Add cooking wine, leek and medlar and stir fry;
4. When it is almost cooked, sprinkle with salt and monosodium glutamate and stir well.
Efficacy: tonify liver and kidney, nourish blood gas and lower blood sugar.
Application: eat it as a dish, take it at will, eat leek, shrimp and chew Lycium barbarum. It is suitable for patients with hyperglycemia caused by kidney yin deficiency and yin-yang deficiency.
Tip: When processing leeks, you should first pick out the leaves, then rinse them with running water, and finally cut them into sections. Only in this way can the loss of nutrients be minimized.
Ginseng crucian carp soup
Raw materials: 300g of crucian carp, 5g of American ginseng, 0g of Polygonatum sibiricum15g, and 6g of red dates.
Preparation: slaughter crucian carp, remove gills, scales and internal organs, and wash; Cleaning Radix Panacis Quinquefolii, Rhizoma Polygonati and Fructus Jujubae, slicing Radix Panacis Quinquefolii, cutting Rhizoma Polygonati into small pieces or slices, and soaking Fructus Jujubae in warm water.
Operation:
1. Stir-fry the crucian carp in a vegetable oil pot for a while, add the medicinal liquor to cook and stir-fry, and then put it in a bowl;
2. Add 1000 ml of water to the cleaned pot and cook with high fire;
3. After the water is boiled, move into the fried crucian carp, add red dates and stew on low heat;
After 4.30 minutes, put the slices of ginseng and Rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae into the pot and mix well.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and swelling, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and lowering blood sugar.
Application: when soup, take it at will, eat crucian carp, drink soup, chew American ginseng, Polygonatum sibiricum and red dates. It is suitable for hyperglycemia patients with lung injury and stomach injury caused by dryness and heat.
hypertension
Almond rice porridge
Ingredients: 30g of coix seed, 50g of rice and 9g of almonds.
Preparation: Wash the tears and rice from work and peel the almonds.
Operation:
1. Put Coicis Semen and rice into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and cook with strong fire first;
2. After the water is boiled, cook slowly with a small fire;
3. Cook until half cooked, add almonds and continue to cook on low heat;
4. After the porridge is cooked, add a little rock sugar to blend.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, resolving phlegm and lowering blood pressure.
Usage: Take it twice a day, warm in the morning and evening. It is especially suitable for phlegm-turbid hypertension.
Tip: Almonds themselves are slightly bitter. You can soak peeled almonds in water first to remove the bitter taste of almonds.
Ganoderma lucidum jerky
Raw materials: beef1000g, ganoderma lucidum 50g.
Preparation: Wash the beef and cut it into strips; After cleaning Ganoderma lucidum, dry it in the sun or dry it and grind it into fine powder.
Operation:
1. Put Ganoderma lucidum powder and beef strips into the pot and add appropriate amount of water.
2. Add star anise, fennel, cinnamon, pepper, cardamom, Amomum villosum, chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, refined salt, soy sauce, brown sugar and monosodium glutamate, and simmer.
3. When the beef is cooked to the ninth floor and the soup is thick, take the meat out to dry for a while, and then bake it in the oven to get the dried Ganoderma lucidum beef jerky.
Efficacy: tonify yin and yang, strengthen heart and lower blood pressure.
Usage: 30 grams twice a day, chewing. Especially suitable for patients with hypertension and heart disease.
Tip: If you don't have tools to grind Ganoderma lucidum at home, you can also buy Ganoderma lucidum powder directly instead of Ganoderma lucidum.
Low blood lipid
Hawthorn carp soup
Ingredients: 500g carp, 25g hawthorn slices, egg 1 piece, flour150g.
Preparation: remove gills, scales and internal organs from carp, wash and slice;
Operation:
1. Mix flour with clear water, add appropriate amount of sugar, and beat eggs to make paste;
2. Soak the fish pieces in the paste and take them out with dry flour;
3. Put the fish pieces into the oil that has been fried with ginger slices, fry for 3 minutes, and take them out;
4. Add a small amount of water to hawthorn, cook it thoroughly with high fire, and add a small amount of raw flour to make juice;
5. Pour in the fried fish pieces, continue to cook for 15 minutes, then add the onion and monosodium glutamate.
Efficacy: improve blood supply and reduce blood lipid.
Application: when soup, take it at will, eat crucian carp and drink soup. It is suitable for patients with high blood lipid but no complications.
Fried tofu with both ears
Raw materials: Auricularia auricula 15g, Tremella fuciformis 15g, 300-500g of high-quality fresh tofu, and a little coriander;
Preparation: Soak Auricularia auricula and Tremella with clear water, and wash to remove impurities; Wash the tofu and cut it into 2 cm square pieces; Wash and chop coriander.
Making:
1. Stir-fry Auricularia and Tremella in oil pan;
2. Put the cut tofu into the oil pan and fry it with the tofu;
3. Add fungus, tremella, fresh soup, coriander, pepper, salt and monosodium glutamate and cook thoroughly.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen, removing dampness, moistening intestine, relaxing bowels, and lowering blood lipid.
Application: Eat it as a dish and take it at will. It is suitable for all types of hyperlipidemia.