When it comes to mutton, many people may think that eating mutton in winter has a nourishing effect. Is it okay to eat such warm things on a hot day? Shouldn't we eat some ice cream, drink some cold drinks and drink some cold beer?
In fact, the desire for cold is only to meet the temporary refreshing, and has nothing to do with health. Because by the solstice of summer, our internal organs are extremely cold. Therefore, from the summer solstice until the dog days, diarrhea is everywhere, and vomiting and diarrhea will happen if you are not careful.
Therefore, eat warm food in dog days. As long as you don't get angry, your tongue coating is yellow and greasy, which is basically no problem.
As for "Fuyang", in fact, as early as thousands of years ago in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, prescribed a prescription-Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber.
Although Danggui mutton soup is a commonly used dietotherapy prescription, it is very famous in ancient books, and it is said to be a nourishing medicinal diet for the royal family in ancient courts.
The original article 135 of synopsis of the golden chamber says:
Cold hernia, abdominal pain, hypochondriac pain, mainly angelica and ginger mutton soup.
Three liang of angelica, five liang of ginger and one catty of mutton. Take eight liters of water from the right three flavors, boil three liters, and take it with warm boiled water seven times, three times a day. If it's cold, add ginger to make a catty. If it hurts badly and vomits, add five liters of water such as dried tangerine peel, Atractylodes macrocephala, ginger, etc., and boil three liters for two times.
Sheep are one of the six animals, animals of fire and earth. They are naturally active. In Zhou Yan's Materia Medica Speculation in the late Qing Dynasty, it is most clear that "sheep are good at climbing cliffs and are fearless". Their kidney qi is as solid as gold, which is beyond the comparison of other animals. However, among the five elements of salty utensils, the gas of fire and earth is particularly high. "
The Eight Diagrams in the Book of Changes (? ) Corresponding to sheep, this divination is like two Yang below and one Yin above. Although positive, there is yin in the top, it is not difficult to forge ahead; Although yin is above, the connection between yang and yang is soft and strong, which is the characteristic of sheep.
Su Wen said: "The south is red, it enters the heart, its livestock and sheep." He also said: "Strong qi is yang, and strong taste is yin."
Meat is full of flavor. Eating too much can nourish yin, enrich blood and store energy, so meat can nourish yin. Mutton, on the other hand, is the heart fire in the south, which can be said to be the yang in the yin, and can also help the yang in the yin, so it has the effects of enriching blood, tonifying deficiency, eliminating deficiency and dispelling cold.
Huangdi Neijing says, "Yang is nourished in spring and summer, and Yin is nourished in autumn and winter". Eating mutton in moderation in summer can warm the body and dispel the cold.
In addition, people like to eat some cold food in summer, which is easy to accumulate cold in the body, make the spleen and stomach cold and damage the intestines. Therefore, eating mutton in dog days is also a method of warming up, sweating and detoxification, which plays a role in treating winter diseases in summer.
Angelica and ginger mutton soup, with mutton as the monarch medicine, can warm the spleen and slow down the middle. There is another important reason why mutton is used here instead of pork or chicken, because mutton can make yang out of yin, but after yang out, it does not leave by itself, but is with yin, so that yin is not hurt.
Mutton with yang, if there is cold coagulation, there is nothing to do. At this time, the pungent and warm nature of angelica and ginger is needed to dispel the cold evil in yin. This combination not only keeps warm, but also tastes delicious. Angelica sinensis and ginger perfectly mask the smell of mutton.
Peng Ziyi's "Ancient Prescription Medicine of Circular Movement" discusses this dialect: "Angelica warms the liver and nourishes the blood, ginger warms the yang to dispel the cold, and mutton warms the liver and nourishes the yang to replenish the vitality in the wood to help Shengda. Add ginger to relieve cold stagnation, so all diseases are cured. "
The Best Time to Drink Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup;
1, around the winter, especially three or nine days. At this time, the yin is cold and the yang is healthy, so it is necessary to correct the qi.
2. The dog days in summer. At this time, the yang leaks out, and the accumulated cold is hidden in the bladder meridian and joints of the back, which is the easiest to be driven out.
Ingredients: 250g mutton, 0/0g angelica/kloc, 0/5g ginger/kloc.
1, cut the mutton into pieces, soak it in clear water for half an hour in advance, rinse the bleeding water as clean as possible, then boil the water and scald it, and take it out.
2. Slice Angelica sinensis and ginger, stir-fry ginger in a pot for a while, then stir-fry mutton until the blood is dry, pick it up and put it in a casserole filled with Angelica sinensis to start cooking.
3. Bring the fire to a low heat 1.5-2 hours, and the steaming angelica mutton soup will be fine.
pay attention to
When used for health preservation, you can add a little radix rehmanniae to the soup, because angelica is a little dry, and adding radix rehmanniae can balance the dryness of the soup.
People with heat in their bodies, or people with yin deficiency and fire flourishing, are not suitable for drinking this soup, and they should also fast during pregnancy.