What to eat at the autumnal equinox and solar terms?
Fruits: pears, sugar cane
There are many kinds of fruits and vegetables in the autumn market, among which lotus root, water chestnut, sugarcane, autumn pear, citrus, hawthorn, apple, grape, lily, tremella, persimmon, sesame and honey are all sacred products for recuperation at this time.
Sydney is a very good fruit to deal with autumn dryness. You can eat it directly or juice it. Chinese medicine believes that pear has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and reducing fire, nourishing blood and promoting granulation, moistening lung and removing dryness, and is most suitable for patients with fever in season and autumn. It is especially suitable for cough due to lung heat, wind-heat in children, dry throat and sore throat, and dry stool. Modern medical research believes that pears also have the functions of lowering blood pressure, clearing away heat and calming the nerves. However, for a small number of people with weak constitution, eating Sydney directly is prone to abdominal distension, diarrhea and other problems. You can use Sydney to stew rock sugar to get rid of the cold and only take its moisturizing effect.
Vegetables: radish, lotus root
In dry autumn, you should eat more green leafy vegetables, because it has high vitamin content, so it is good to eat more. An adult should eat at least a catty of vegetables every day. Dark vegetables such as spinach, green vegetables, celery, chrysanthemum, amaranth, carrots, etc. Like brown-red vegetables, they are rich in vitamins and carotene. White vegetables can nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as radish, cauliflower, lily and yam. In summer, the loss of body fluid is serious. Eat more vegetables that nourish yin and promote fluid production after autumn. While white vegetables are generally full of body fluid.
You can eat more pungent, sour, moistening or lung-lowering fruits and vegetables, especially white radish and carrot. Radish should be eaten raw and cooked. Chinese medicine believes that the living taste pungent, sweet and cool; Cooked people are sweet in taste, flat in nature, and enter the lung and stomach meridians. Raw food can clear away heat and promote fluid production, cool blood and stop bleeding, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; But cooking is often beneficial to the spleen and stomach, digestion and qi. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat radish raw, but can be cooked to treat spleen and stomach disharmony, abdominal pain and diarrhea, indigestion, nausea and vomiting. Fresh radish has a good dietotherapy and health preservation function, even if it is dried, it is a panacea. Dried radish also contains a lot of vitamin B 1, calcium and iron, which can supplement dietary fiber and minerals for human body.
You can eat lotus roots in autumn. Lotus root is the king of oriental vegetables. Rich in polyphenols, it can improve immunity and resist aging. In addition, after the lotus root is processed to maturity, its taste changes from cool to warm. Although it has lost the function of removing blood stasis and clearing heat, it has become beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin, nourishing blood and stopping diarrhea. However, it should be noted that fresh lotus root is cold and difficult to digest when eaten raw. People with spleen deficiency, stomach cold and diarrhea had better cook and eat.
Meat: duck, cuttlefish
As the temperature drops in the autumn equinox, many people have a growing appetite and prefer to eat meat. Experts said: "Eating too much meat is not good, but from the perspective of nutrition, abstinence from meat is not the way to keep fit, and a balanced diet is what we advocate." The taste and nutrition of meat are different, and the suitable people are also different. We should choose the most suitable meat according to our own physique and climate.
Duck meat is rich in nutrition, which not only enjoys the reputation of "the beauty of Beijing is better than duck meat", but also is praised by Chinese medicine as "nourishing the yin of the five internal organs, clearing the heat of fatigue, nourishing blood, promoting blood circulation, nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production". Especially in autumn, the new ducks are tender, plump and nutritious, which can supplement protein, vitamins and minerals necessary for human body in time. At the same time, duck meat is cold and cool, especially suitable for people with excessive body heat, so duck meat is the first choice for autumn diet. The hot and dry season in summer and autumn is best for eating ducks. In contrast, other meats such as pigs, cattle and sheep are slightly inferior. Duck meat contains the healthiest fat. Duck meat is rich in B vitamins and vitamin E, and the fatty acids are mainly unsaturated fatty acids and low-carbon saturated fatty acids, which are easy to digest.
Regarding eating meat, there has always been a folk saying that "four legs are not as good as two legs, and two legs are not as good as no legs". Cuttlefish is rich in nutrition, with protein 13g per 100g of meat, only 0.7g of fat, and also contains carbohydrates, vitamins A and B, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other substances necessary for human body, so it is a nourishing food with high protein and low fat. Braised in soy sauce, stir-fried, stir-fried, stewed, cold, and soup can be used, but in order to prevent autumn dryness, cuttlefish soup is more suitable.
Porridge soup: lily porridge, tremella soup.
Lily tastes sweet and bitter, and its sex is flat. It is rich in nutrients, including protein, vitamins, carotene and some special effective components, such as starch, polysaccharide, pectin and various alkaloids, which has a certain effect on inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells. Lily has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart and calming nerves, and has become the top grade for autumn consumption. The best way to eat lily in autumn is to cook porridge, which can be made of glutinous rice and boiled with a little rock sugar. Not only sweet and delicious, but also can soothe the nerves and help sleep. You can also make soup with lily, lotus seeds and red dates, which also has the effect of nourishing and calming the nerves.
Chinese medicine believes that tremella is sweet and light, belonging to lung and stomach meridian, and has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening lung, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production. Suitable for dry cough, scanty phlegm or bloodshot blood, dry mouth and throat, neurasthenia due to yin deficiency, insomnia and dreaminess. Moreover, tremella fuciformis is a dual-purpose product for medicine and food, which is mild in nature and safe to take, and can clear lung and nourish stomach yin; It can strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite, moisten dryness without stagnation, strengthen the body resistance and consolidate the foundation, and has a good nourishing and moisturizing effect. Tremella soup is very suitable for nourishing dryness in autumn, so you might as well drink more.
Drinks: honey water, chrysanthemum tea.
The most suitable drink in autumn is honey water. Honey is a kind of food with important comprehensive ability to reconcile various drugs. For example, honey can moisten dryness, so it is suitable for autumn. Honey is a kind of natural nutritious food, which can promote the digestion of food, promote the normal secretion of gastric acid and enhance intestinal peristalsis, thus reducing the burden on gastrointestinal tract and preventing food accumulation. You should also talk about methods when taking honey, such as drinking it in autumn morning, which can quickly replenish your physical strength and make your day full of energy. But people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not drink as soon as they get up, but should eat something before drinking. For example, you can add honey water to breakfast, or you can put honey on steamed bread or bread to eat. It is forbidden to drink honey on an empty stomach, which is easy to cause diarrhea.
Chrysanthemum tea has a good eye protection effect. It can moisten and clear heat when drunk in dry autumn, especially suitable for white-collar workers who often work in front of computers. Although chrysanthemum tea has a certain health care function, it can't be greedy. Chrysanthemum tea is generally brewed with Chrysanthemum morifolium or Chrysanthemum morifolium. In terms of efficacy, Chrysanthemum morifolium is more conducive to clearing liver and improving eyesight. If you have dry eyes or sore throat after staying up late, drinking chrysanthemum tea soaked in chrysanthemum can have a good relieving effect. Gongju can effectively dispel wind and clear heat, and has certain curative effect on oral ulcer caused by excessive internal heat.