Diet regulates the spleen and protects the heart.
After the long summer, the temperature rises gradually, and people will feel irritable and lose appetite. The principle of long summer diet is "nourishing yang in spring and summer", and nourishing yang focuses on nourishing the heart, which can not only supplement nutrition, but also strengthen the heart. The principle of "increasing acidity and reducing bitterness, tonifying kidney and liver, regulating stomach and regulating qi" should be adopted. Diet should be light, mainly digestible and vitamin-rich foods, and eat less big fish and meat and greasy and spicy foods. Eating more vegetables, fruits and coarse grains at ordinary times can increase the supply of cellulose, vitamins B and C and prevent arteriosclerosis. Eating a little onion in the morning and drinking a little red wine at dinner can promote blood circulation. Here are some secret recipes for healthy eating in the long summer solar terms:
Lotus seed pork tripe
Ingredients: 1 pork tripe, 50g lotus seed meat, sesame oil, refined salt, ginger, onion and garlic.
Production: firstly, wash the pork belly, soak the lotus seeds (heart-removed) in clear water, then put them into the pork belly, sew them with thread, put them into the pot and stew them thoroughly with water; Then take it out and air-cool, cut the pork belly into uniform filaments, put it in a plate with lotus seeds, and mix sesame oil, refined salt, onion and garlic seasoning with the pork belly shreds.
Efficacy: Yiqi Buxu, Jianpi and Stomach.
Application: Deficiency of the spleen and stomach causes anorexia, pale mouth, shortness of breath, emaciation of limbs, dyspepsia, abdominal distension after eating, loose stool, edema and ascites, as well as chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer and chronic hepatitis.
Shredded pork with Lycium barbarum
Raw materials: 50g Lycium barbarum, 400g lean pork, cooked green bamboo shoots 100g, cooking wine, soy sauce, lard, sesame oil, white sugar, monosodium glutamate and refined salt. .
Production: Wash Lycium barbarum for later use. Stripping and shredding pork; Mature green bamboo shoots are cut into filaments of the same length. Heat a wok, add lard, put shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots into the wok at the same time, cook wine, add white sugar, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and refined salt, stir well, stir-fry Lycium barbarum several times, and pour in sesame oil to mix well. Serve.
Efficacy: nourishing blood and yin, anti-aging and prolonging life.
Application: Deficiency of yin and blood causes emaciation, mental fatigue, soreness of waist and knees, impotence, palpitation, dizziness, blurred vision, decreased vision, insomnia, forgetfulness, anemia, sexual dysfunction and neurasthenia.
Stewed pork liver with Scrophularia
Raw materials: figwort 15g, fresh pig liver 500g, vegetable oil, soy sauce, ginger, onion, sugar, cooking wine and wet starch.
Production: Wash the pork liver, put it in a pot with Scrophularia, add appropriate amount of water, stew for about 1 hour, take out the pork liver, cut it into small pieces for later use, put the vegetable oil into a wok, put the cleaned and chopped ginger and onion into it, stir-fry it a little, then add pork liver slices, mix soy sauce, white sugar and cooking wine, add appropriate amount of original soup, collect transparent soup and wet starch.
Efficacy: nourishing yin and blood, improving eyesight.
Application: dry eyes, tears in the wind, dizziness, decreased vision, night blindness and chronic hepatitis caused by deficiency of liver yin and blood.