1, lotus root: "Lotus root is a treasure, and autumn lotus root is the most complementary". After the cold dew, the air is dry and people are easily agitated. At this time, you should eat more foods that clear your heart and moisten dryness. Lotus root is rich in trace elements such as iron and calcium, plant protein, vitamins and starch, which has obvious effects of appetizing, clearing away heat, moistening dryness and quenching thirst, clearing away heart fire and calming nerves, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, and can also enhance human immunity.
2. Hawthorn: "Hawthorn in cold dew, sweet potato in the first frost". Hawthorn is red in cold dew, and the calcium content of hawthorn is the highest among autumn fruits, with 52 mg of calcium per 100 grams of pulp. Pregnant women and children have a great demand for calcium, so these two groups of people might as well eat some hawthorn after meals.
3. Peach: cold dew peach is a late-maturing peach variety in the north, and its maturity is around cold dew peach, so it is named "cold dew peach". Peaches are sweet and warm, and it is easy to get angry if you eat too much. In severe cases, sores will occur, especially those who are prone to sores due to excessive internal heat. Adults had better not feed peaches to babies, because peaches contain a lot of macromolecular substances, and babies have poor gastrointestinal dialysis ability and cannot digest these substances, which is easy to cause allergic reactions. In addition, it is best not to eat immature peaches to avoid abdominal distension or diarrhea.
4. Tremella: Tremella is a good food for nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Moist but not cold, sweet but not greasy, suitable for the principle of flat compensation in autumn. There are many ways to eat tremella, and the most common one is tremella soup. Tear the tremella into small pieces and let it run for about 65,438+0 hours. When eating, take a proper amount of tremella and add a proper amount of rock sugar (not needed by diabetics) and add water to boil. You can also add some pears, lilies, jujubes, medlar, etc. And the effect of nourishing yin and moistening lung is better.
5. Carrots: Carrots contain a variety of carotene, vitamins and trace elements, so they are called "civilian ginseng". In the dry season, eating carrots can also moisturize the skin. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that carrots can replenish qi, strengthen stomach and digestion, strengthen yang and strengthen five internal organs. Carrots are rich in β-carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the small intestine. Vitamin A has a protective effect on skin epidermis.
Precautions for cold dew diet:
Dietary health care should be based on a balanced diet of five flavors, and according to individual specific circumstances, eat more sweet, light and moist foods, which can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also moisten the lungs and intestines, and prevent dry throat.
Fruits include pears, persimmons and bananas. Vegetables include carrots, wax gourd, lotus root, tremella and beans, fungi, kelp and seaweed.
Eat warm food for breakfast, and it is best to drink hot medicinal porridge, because both japonica rice and glutinous rice have good functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach and invigorating the middle qi, such as sugarcane porridge, Yuzhu porridge, Adenophora adenophora porridge, raw porridge, Yuzhu porridge and so on. Middle-aged and elderly people and patients with chronic diseases should eat more red dates, lotus seeds, yams, ducks, fish, meat and other foods.
Since the "cold dew" season, there has been less and less rain, dry weather, hot days and cool nights. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the biggest feature of the southern climate is the "dry" season, which is the most likely to hurt the lungs and stomach. During this period, people's sweat evaporates quickly, so there are often dry skin, increased wrinkles, dry mouth and throat, dry cough and less phlegm, and even hair loss and constipation. Therefore, the focus of health care is to nourish yin and prevent dryness, moisten the lungs and benefit the stomach. At the same time, we should avoid the loss of essence and body fluid caused by strenuous exercise and overwork. In the diet, we should also eat less spicy, spicy, dry, smoked, roasted and other foods, and should eat more foods such as sesame, walnut, tremella, radish, tomato, lotus root, milk, lily, and adenophora with the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production. At the same time, keep a certain humidity indoors, pay attention to replenish water, and eat more fruits such as Sydney, bananas, cantaloupes, apples, persimmons and raisins. In addition, you should also pay attention to applying skin cream to protect the skin and prevent chapping.
In this solar term, health-preserving soup should mainly moisten lung, promote fluid production, strengthen spleen and benefit stomach, such as palm melon stew (month+exhibition), carrot and fig raw fish, Radix Pseudostellariae, Ophiopogon japonicus and Sydney stew, Chinese cabbage and jujube stew sheep lung, glutinous rice stew, millet stew beef (month+exhibition), coconut medlar stew chicken and abalone soup, etc.