pepper
Capsaicin is the main irritant of pepper, which can cause burning pain by stimulating oral mucosa and trigeminal nerve. Sweetness can mask and interfere with spicy taste, acid can neutralize alkaline capsaicin, and casein in milk can combine with capsaicin.
Therefore, it is very useful to dip in vinegar, drink a bowl of cold sweet drink, or drink a glass of milk when it is spicy. Capsaicin can help people resist cold and humidity, and also help reduce the risk of heart disease and atherosclerosis.
Chili is best cooked, because raw Chili contains a lot of capsaicin, which may irritate the oral cavity and gastrointestinal mucosa. After heating, the irritation to the gastrointestinal tract will be reduced.
Pungent taste is pungent taste, which is what we often call hemp taste and spicy taste. Its * * * is characterized by strong smell and strong irritation. Spicy food is often seasoned in three meals, such as onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, pepper, aniseed, dried tangerine peel, mustard and so on. In addition, there are green radishes.
Spicy food has the functions of stimulating appetite, invigorating spleen, promoting appetite, resolving hard mass and promoting digestion, and promoting qi and blood circulation. For example, eating Chili brown sugar water for dysmenorrhea and drinking a bowl of onion ginger tea for colds can promote blood circulation, dispel cold and dampness, and promote blood circulation. Usually, cook the meat, fish, with pepper, onion, ginger, garlic in the wok, can remove the fishy smell, enhance the fragrance, and reduce the greasy feeling.
Huangdi Neijing said: "pungent enters the lungs, pungent moves qi, and qi disease will not lead to excessive pungent food." This shows the close relationship between pungent and lung, and qi. Ma Jianling, a respiratory physician at Oriental Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, made people have a certain understanding of spicy food.
Every place has streams from all over the country.
"Eating regularly, things are suitable for me" is a diet regimen of traditional Chinese medicine. No matter men, women and children, no matter where they are, no matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, they all eat certain foods, and it is certain that "some people are happy and others are sad."
Because Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine are popular all over the country, Mala Tang is very popular. In the street, some people drink and eat a lot around the spicy pot. After a while, some people were sweating and others were flushed. At that time, "it was really hot and numb!" However, the situation reflected on people afterwards is different. Some people are fine, some have red blisters on their faces, some have hemorrhoids, and some have swollen gums.
Why is this? Ma Jianling said that man and nature are closely related. Similarly, the diet should be suitable for people in different places and at different times. Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan and other places have abundant rainfall and high humidity. If you eat some spicy food properly, you can dehumidify in summer and keep out the cold in winter. In the north, the weather is dry and the rain is scarce. If you eat spicy food for a long time, you will easily get sick. Especially for some special people, such as patients with kidney disease, patients with rheumatoid arthritis and those who are not suitable for spicy taste, we should pay more attention to eating habits and eat less spicy, irritating, cold and greasy things.
Another example is eating meat, which is not suitable for eating the same meat every season. You can eat red meat in autumn and winter, such as pork, mutton and beef. Eat more fish and ducks in spring and summer. If we eat indiscriminately at any time, we may eat hot food when we need to clear the fire, which will undoubtedly add fuel to the fire and further aggravate the symptoms of getting angry.
Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer.
"Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer doesn't bother the doctor to prescribe medicine." Some people may ask, eating radish in winter can keep out the cold and warm the stomach, but why eat spicy ginger in hot summer?
Summer is a fire with a strong heart and a bitter taste. Lung belongs to gold, and taste dominates pungent. The theory of five elements in traditional Chinese medicine holds that fire can kill gold, and fire can easily punish gold, resulting in lung deficiency. It is necessary to eat more spicy food to protect lung qi. Chinese medicine believes that eating ginger in summer is related to people's living habits and various medicinal effects of ginger. Ginger, including spicy food, has the effects of stimulating appetite, expelling wind and cold, detoxifying and sterilizing. If you eat a few slices of ginger for dinner, it will increase your appetite; Ginger can also relieve stomachache.
Although it is hot in summer, the yang is in the exterior and the yin is in the stomach, but the internal organs are cold, and it is easy to have diarrhea, so eat ginger that warms the stomach; In winter, the yang is strong and the internal organs are hot, so eat more radishes to clear the stomach fire. In one day, you should eat ginger early and radish late, that is, "go to bed to eat radish and get out of bed to eat ginger." In the morning, people's stomach qi needs to rise. Eating some ginger can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and promote Yang Qi to rise. At night, people have a convergence of yang and a strong yin. Eat some radishes, moisten the throat and promote digestion, and clear the heat of deficiency and dryness, which is conducive to rest.
Because the pungent taste enters the lung and large intestine meridian, it can promote lung qi. Pneumatic blood moves. People with poor qi and blood should use pungent flavor to make qi and blood flow, so that a pool of stagnant water can become living water and have vitality. The most common disease in the lung system is a cold, which must be treated with pungent taste. Wind-cold colds need pungent drugs to sweat, and wind-heat colds need pungent drugs to relieve exterior symptoms.
Autumn diet should reduce pungent and increase sour to nourish liver qi. In autumn, things are dry, the body loses water, body fluids are burned by internal heat, and the viscera are uneasy. At this time, eat less spicy food and eat more light and mild porridge, noodle soup and fruits and vegetables.
In addition to spicy food, some white foods can often nourish the lungs, such as lotus root, lily, pear, water chestnut, radish, yam, lotus seed and coix seed. As long as it is used properly, it can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, clear heat and relieve asthma. If you add traditional Chinese medicines for invigorating qi to make medicated diet, such as ginseng lotus seed soup, astragalus and monkey head soup, Shenqi braised duck and so on. The nourishing effect will be better. At the same time, we should also use the taste of food according to the seasonal changes and personal conditions, such as white lung, bitter food, buckwheat, mutton and apricots.
People with deficiency should not eat more spicy food.
There are many kinds of "qi" in the human body, and all the internal organs have qi, such as liver qi, kidney qi, temper, stomach qi and lung qi. Pungent taste can disperse healthy qi, and people with qi deficiency should not eat more pungent things to avoid hurting healthy qi. Pungent taste enters the lung, which governs qi, so pungent taste has a great influence on the lung.
All diseases are born of qi. Chinese medicine believes that the heart belongs to Yang, and so does the qi. Because of the same spirit, Xin walked with Qi. The main body of pungent is divergent, and people with qi deficiency eat pungent, and their qi is even weaker. At the same time, overeating is pungent, pungent into the lungs, belonging to gold, Jin Kemu, wood belongs to the liver, and the liver is the main rib, so the tendons and veins are corrupted; Relieved and mentally exhausted.
Excessive acrimony hurts the lungs. Statistics from the Ministry of Health show that cancer is the first of the three major diseases that threaten the death of China people, and lung cancer ranks first among all cancers. Smoking and environmental pollution are risk factors for lung cancer, and eating too much spicy food can not be ignored. At the same time, people with lung yin deficiency, such as tuberculosis, should not eat more pungent flavor; People with dry stools should not eat too much spicy food; People with kidney yin deficiency, that is, those with night sweats and feverish palms and soles, should not eat more pungent flavor; Patients with carbuncle, swelling, sore, furuncle, red eyes and internal heat, constipation or hemorrhoids should not eat spicy taste.
Spicy: Chili-to prevent colds
The content of vitamin C in pepper is very high, ranking among the best in vegetables. It has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, sweating and removing dampness, and has a certain bactericidal effect, and has a good effect on preventing colds, arteriosclerosis, night blindness and scurvy.
Pepper also has the function of preventing cancer and delaying aging, especially red pepper enjoys the reputation of "red medicine" among the people. Because it is hot and exciting, it is not suitable for eating more. People suffering from ophthalmia, gastric ulcer, hypertension, toothache and pharyngitis should not eat.
Two spicy: garlic-can resist the virus.
Garlic is warm and pungent, and contains nutrients such as protein, fat, sugar, B vitamins and vitamin C, as well as organic compounds of sulfur and selenium (allicin) and various active enzymes. In addition, it is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and other elements.
It has the functions of killing insects, detoxicating, promoting digestion, promoting qi circulation and warming stomach. It has certain curative effect on stagnation, dysentery, whooping cough, edema and pain, insect and snake bites, etc. In addition, eating garlic can also prevent influenza, treat mold infection, and have the effects of lowering blood pressure, blood lipid and blood sugar, which has a strong anti-cancer effect. However, patients with yin deficiency and excessive fire, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, gastrointestinal bleeding and eye diseases should not eat it.
Three spices: ginger-sweating to cool down
Ginger is warm and pungent, and contains gingerol, gingerol, vitamins, gingerol, resin, starch, fiber and other oily volatiles and a small amount of minerals. It can enhance blood circulation, stimulate gastric juice secretion, excite intestines, promote digestion, strengthen stomach and stimulate appetite.
In hot summer, eating ginger can also play the role of sweating, cooling and refreshing, and can relieve fatigue, fatigue, anorexia, insomnia, abdominal distension and abdominal pain. Therefore, there is a proverb in China, "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription". It is worth noting that although ginger is good, patients with yin deficiency and internal heat and hemorrhoids should avoid eating.