Guo Guowei, an 82-year-old master of traditional Chinese medicine, is called "a little pine tree" and "Guangzhou Baby". He is not tall, physically strong, but full of energy. He still insists on making house calls for five and a half days a week, running around Dade Road General Hospital, Ersha Island Branch and University Town Branch of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and seeing at least thirty or forty patients every day, which is amazing.
Guo Guowei, who grew up in Xiguan and studied Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine all his life, recently heard that he would be a Guangzhou taster at the Asian Food Festival. He happily talked about the elements of traditional Chinese medicine in food culture, especially the "bowl of soup before meals" of Lingnan people. Let's listen to his soup tips.
"A bowl of soup before meals" has many health reasons.
"You young people love telling jokes. I have a joke here." When Guo Guowei started talking with a smile, his friends always joked that Cantonese people were the cleverest. They invited guests to dinner, served soup first, and saved food expenses. People who know: "This bowl of soup may be more expensive than the dishes served at the back, whether it is nutrition or price."
In Guo Guowei's view, Cantonese people know how to eat and drink. Whether they go out to eat "nine cakes" or eat three meals a day at home, soup "opens the way" and has great wisdom for healthy eating. In fact, the saying that "drinking soup before meals is not as good as a good medicine prescription" has existed since ancient times, which is very reasonable for health preservation.
Before eating, a spoonful of soup can nourish the stomach and produce fluid, which is equivalent to adding a little lubricant to the only way for food to be swallowed smoothly; The amino acid molecules in the soup are smaller than the protein macromolecules in the whole meat, which are easier to be absorbed and have less burden on the digestive system. The soup is delicious and stirs the taste buds, especially suitable for people with malnutrition and loss of appetite. A bowl of soup can make them appetite, restore appetite, supplement nutrition and be carefree.
Some people will say, is there soup in that meal bad?
Guo Guowei believes that it is not appropriate to drink soup, water and a lot of drinks in meals, because it will disturb the viscosity, temperature and osmotic pressure of stomach contents and will inevitably affect absorption and digestion. Drink soup before meals to replenish the water consumed when the stomach secretes a lot of gastric juice and avoid thirst during and after meals, which is enjoyed by the gastrointestinal tract.
A bowl of beauty soup is more effective than powder.
Smart Lingnan people pay great attention to "a bowl of soup before meals" and like to add one or two Chinese herbal medicines suitable for medicine and food homology to the soup. No matter the chefs in famous shops or the mothers at home, they all have a set of "soup classics", including Adenophora adenophora, American ginseng, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Polygonatum odoratum, Ophiopogon japonicus, Lycium barbarum, Radix Puerariae, yam, lotus seed, lily, coix seed, Smilax glabra, five-finger peach and chicken.
Guo Guowei praised a soup for beauty in all kinds of medical science popularization. Boil Polygonatum odoratum, Radix Adenophorae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, pigskin, and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens together, and then simmer for 40-60 minutes. Drinking a bowl can nourish yin and moisten dryness, regulate qi and nourish stomach, and also protect skin from the inside out, which is more beautiful than rubbing powder.
To Guo Guowei's surprise, not only housewives like this soup, but also local and foreign restaurants and restaurants put it on the soup list and carry it forward. Guo Guowei said: "I am very happy."
Learn the secret of drinking soup
The following is the secret of drinking soup by Guo Guowei, a master of traditional Chinese medicine:
1. Remove the oil slick from the soup to avoid excessive fat intake. Oil slick not only does not nourish but also affects appetite.
2. People with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity and hyperuricemia should not drink the old fire soup with heavy taste. It is best to choose vegetable roll soup with light taste, which is refreshing and healthy.
3. It is best to add little or no salt to the soup, especially for patients with hypertension.
4. Drink soup slowly, especially pay attention to the temperature is not too high, to protect the esophagus.