Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the muscles and limbs of the human body rely on qi, blood, body fluid and other substances for nutrition, and the source of these nutrients depends on the spleen. When the spleen can't provide nutrients for the muscles of limbs, it will suffer from diseases such as soft tissue strain. Spleen likes dryness and hates dampness, but summer and summer seasons are long. The biggest feature of long summer is that the humidity is too heavy, so people should pay attention to eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen in their daily diet.
Under such circumstances, Ejiao can be said to be the most suitable tonic. Ejiao has the function of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, and yin refers to "blood" and "body fluid". Ejiao can nourish yin and tonify kidney, regulate body fluid and maintain the balance of yin and yang, thus helping the spleen to reduce workload, making the body easily resist moisture in the long summer and protecting the health of the spleen.
While nourishing yin and moistening dryness, supplementing body fluid and qi and blood, donkey-hide gelatin, walnuts, sesame seeds and yellow wine are made into a paste to eat, which has the effect of calming the nerves and caring skin. The long summer is long, and the heat in the human body rises, which is the most likely to affect sleep. At this time, the adhesive tape has become a good product for sleeping and resting. In ancient China, the royal aristocrats liked to use donkey-hide gelatin, sesame seeds and walnuts as paste as snacks, which not only satisfied the enjoyment of taste buds, but also nourished and calmed the nerves, enriched blood and nourished the skin.
Ejiao mung bean soup: suitable for people who are upset and weak.
Ingredients: donkey-hide gelatin 15g, mung bean 50g.
Practice: Mash Ejiao, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, add mung beans, add appropriate amount of water, and cook into clear soup.
Efficacy: clear the heart and get rid of troubles.
Ejiao lotus seed porridge: suitable for people who are upset and insomnia.
Raw materials: lotus seed 30g, donkey-hide gelatin 10g, glutinous rice 10g.
Practice: soak the lotus seeds in boiling water for a while and take out the lotus plumule for later use. Grind the crushed donkey-hide gelatin into fine powder, put it into a lotus seed bowl, stir it evenly, steam it in water, and add the prepared glutinous rice porridge, which is the donkey-hide gelatin lotus seed porridge.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and qi, calming the heart and calming the nerves.