What are the benefits of eating leeks for the elderly?
Eating more leeks can alleviate the yang deficiency of the elderly. The elderly have entered the last stage of their lives, and their health indicators are slowly declining. Therefore, it is the top priority to do a good job in health care for the elderly. In order to let the elderly spend their old age safely, a healthy body is essential. Using food for health care is one of the important means for the elderly to keep healthy. People should conform to the four seasons in diet, try to raise yang in spring and summer and yin in autumn and winter. It's just the beginning of spring, and the yang of the elderly is insufficient. Diet should be matched with something that can help the body to adapt to nature. The practice of leek zygote in spring health dinner: wash leek, drain and cut into pieces; Stir in scrambled eggs, then add salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil and mix well; Then roll out the dough, wrap the leeks and eggs in two thin slices and knead them around; Coat the pot with peanut oil. When the pot is hot, put the lettuce zygote into the pot and bake until both sides are golden. Caution: Use slow fire to avoid burns. Leek is pungent and warm, and has the effects of removing blood stasis, promoting qi circulation, stopping bleeding and reducing swelling; Cooked food is sweet and warm, which can tonify the kidney and warm the middle and lower jiao. The leek in the leek zygote is also seven or eight times cooked, which has a relatively peaceful effect of promoting blood circulation, strengthening yang and strengthening stomach. People with abdominal cold pain, indigestion, kidney yang deficiency and cold pain in waist and knees can eat more leeks. Legend has it that the leek of leek was originally written as nine, and later it was written in a pictographic way one by one according to the planting situation of leek. In the image number theory of traditional Chinese medicine, one, three, five, seven and nine represent yang number, of which nine is the largest yang number; The ancients thought that nine dishes had a strong yang-generating effect, so they wrote nine; Nine sons are nine pictures, which are pictographs and coincide with the number nine of Yang. The elderly have insufficient yang and are very suitable for eating leeks. Toona sinensis scrambled eggs, cold-mixed Toona sinensis shoots Toona sinensis tastes bitter, flat, non-toxic, and has a strong aroma, which has the functions of appetizing, refreshing, penetrating rash, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and killing insects. There are many infectious diseases in spring, so eating more Toona sinensis can prevent infectious diseases. There is a folk saying that eating Toona sinensis buds in spring is not contagious. Toona sinensis is good, but it should be eaten in moderation. Eating too much will stifle the wind. People with paroxysmal diseases such as asthma should not eat it. Toona sinensis bud contains vitamin E and sex hormone-like substances, which can nourish yin and strengthen yang in spring and help the elderly to resist aging. Toona sinensis buds should be picked before and after Grain Rain in the twenty-four solar terms. After that, the buds of Toona sinensis will become Toona sinensis leaves, with poor taste and reduced nutritional value. Because of the lack of yang, the elderly can eat more leeks, which is scientifically based. Every function of the elderly body has declined. If you pay attention to diet and various health preservation methods, you can still keep healthy and prolong your life. The health of the elderly is a task that we should attach importance to. If we want to live a better life in our later years, it is most important to have a healthy body.