Why do diseases that harm the elderly frequently appear in the palace? How should doctors solve this common disease of wealth in modern people? The Health Center specially invited Professor Ma, a disciple of Han, the imperial physician of the court, to use three "secret plays" to decipher the secret recipe of diet and nutrition in the Forbidden City for you.

Yin is equivalent to human water. Modern medical research has found that water accounts for 2/3 of the human body, and with the increase of age, the water will be less and less, which leads to the common yin deficiency of the elderly.

However, when people in the court eat too much spicy and greasy food, they will get angry, burn body fluid, and the fire will hurt the yin, and there will be yin deficiency manifestations such as five upset, hot flashes and night sweats. The occurrence of hypertension and diabetes is also related to yin deficiency.

Health care should be supplemented by food, and treatment should be attacked by medicine. In the Qing Dynasty, Taiyi used rhubarb to treat problems related to yin deficiency. When rhubarb purges fire, body fluid will naturally not be burned dry, that is, purging fire and hiding yin.

Palace doctors generally use wine army, that is, rhubarb made of wine, to clear the burning fire.

According to records, in the first month of the forty-eighth year of Qianlong, the emperor ate 28 kinds of ducks in the food list for one month, almost every day.

Duck meat is sweet and cool, and has the function of nourishing yin and clearing heat. For people with fever, such as those with excess heat in the body, those with excessive fire due to yin deficiency in the body, those with postpartum yin deficiency and vaginal fluid loss after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, you can eat duck soup, especially stewed duck soup, with little seasoning, and the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat is better.

Chef Gu also brought us a court representative dish about ducks-duck stewed tofu soup.

Practice: white duck stew 14 hours, cool and slice, mix with vegetable slices and tofu slices, and then cook with duck soup and mushroom soup.

In the Qing Palace, sour plum soup is a kind of reward, which is given to ministers by the emperor around the Dragon Boat Festival every year. Compared with ordinary sour plum soup, Gongting sour plum soup has different ingredients and better taste and efficacy.

Mume, tangerine peel, hawthorn 1: 1: 1 equal parts, a small amount of salt to reduce the sour taste of food, crystal sugar, clove, osmanthus fragrans and medlar. After two hours of boiling, cool thoroughly, and then do some ice treatment.

Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer. At this time, drink some palace sour plum soup to resolve phlegm and remove blood stasis, nourish yin and promote fluid production, and prevent heatstroke and cool down.

Improved sour plum soup

Yin deficiency is also divided into light and heavy. Deficiency of lung and stomach fluids is mild yin deficiency. If it continues to develop, the degree of yin deficiency will be aggravated, and eventually liver and kidney yin deficiency will appear.

In view of mild lung and stomach yin deficiency, Liu Lao recommended an improved version of sour plum soup for conditioning, that is, on the basis of palace sour plum soup, "Ophiopogon japonicus" was blindly added.

Ingredients: Ophiopogon japonicus 10g, Mume 10g, Crataegus pinnatifida 5g, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae 6g, rock sugar, salt or not, osmanthus fragrans, Lycium barbarum and clove, according to taste.

Exercise:

1. Wash the floating dust of ingredients except rock sugar and soak for 20 minutes;

2. Put a proper amount of water into the casserole and put the soaked ingredients together. Bring the fire to a boil, simmer for 40 minutes, and then turn off the fire. Pour in rock sugar and let it cool;

3, filtering residue to obtain juice; It tastes better after refrigeration.

Ophiopogon japonicus has increased the effect of nourishing yin, especially the effect of nourishing lung and stomach and astringing heart qi, so drinking the improved version of sour plum soup will increase the effect of nourishing yin and promoting fluid production.

Shengmaisan

Ophiopogon japonicus enters the lung, stomach and heart meridian, and has the effects of moistening lung and nourishing yin, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production, clearing away heart-fire and relieving restlessness, and has a certain nursing effect on deficiency of lung yin, stomach yin and heart yin.

Ophiopogon japonicus is widely used in the court and made into "Shengmai Powder" for dying rescue.

Efficacy: ginseng greatly tonifies vitality and is hot; Ophiopogon japonicus is sweet and cool, which can restrict the heat of ginseng; Schisandra chinensis has five flavors, bitter skin, sweet core and salty overall, which can tonify the five internal organs, focusing on the heart, kidney and liver. The combination of the three can not only replenish qi and nourish yin, but also converge the mood.

This prescription is a professional prescription, please use it under the guidance of a doctor.

Daily usage of Ophiopogon japonicus: Take 3-5g of Ophiopogon japonicus and soak it in water. Or boil Ophiopogon japonicus in water first, and then cook porridge with Ophiopogon japonicus, which has a certain dietotherapy and nourishing effect for people who need to nourish yin for a long time.

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