"Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and you don't have to open a prescription." Most people interpret this proverb as eating radish in winter and ginger in summer. In fact, this proverb adopts an ancient rhetorical device-intertextuality. Winter and summer generally refer to the four seasons of the year. The correct understanding is that radish and ginger are often eaten all the year round without a doctor's prescription.
It is common sense that ginger is hot and radish is cold. Proverbs mainly remind people to eat ginger in summer and radish in winter.
1, the climate is hot in summer. In order to dissipate heat, the human skin is slack, and the human yang is floating outside, including yin. The body surface is hot and the internal organs are cold, so the yang in the body should not be too strong.
Especially in summer, people are very cold and often eat some cold drinks and cool fruits, which leads to cold invading the stomach. At this time, eating ginger can warm Yang Can, prevent cold injury to the spleen and stomach, and avoid indigestion. As the saying goes, "rice is not fragrant, eat ginger." When the food is not fragrant or the appetite drops, you can eat a few slices of ginger or put a little tender ginger in the dish, which can improve your appetite and increase your appetite. This is also the reason.
There are few kinds of vegetables in winter. Radish is one of the most important vegetables. Radish has high yield, strong cold resistance and easy preservation. In addition, radish is rich in vitamins, dietary fiber and other substances, which can supplement the human body in time in the season of vitamin deficiency and help relieve constipation.
The water content of radish is very high, reaching more than 90%, and radish belongs to cruciferous vegetables. The researchers also found some special nutrients in radish, and initially determined that it has certain anti-cancer and anti-oxidation effects.
It is also recorded in the ancient book Compendium of Materia Medica that radish has the functions of digestion, detoxification, phlegm elimination and laxative. It can be seen that the nutritional value of eating radish in winter is very high.
Expand the information of the proverb "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", and the next sentence is "eat radish in bed and ginger in bed" In other words, you should eat ginger early and radish late in a day, which is determined by the nature of radish and ginger.
Ginger, pungent in taste and warm in nature, can best promote Yangming's quiet Yang. Morning is the time when qi and blood flow into Yangming stomach meridian. Eating ginger at this time just produces stomach gas and promotes digestion. Moreover, ginger is pungent and warm, which can speed up blood flow and have a refreshing effect.
At night, the qi of the human body should be the excess of yang and yin, so eating ginger is against the physiological law. Contrary to ginger, radish is cool, which can clear away heat and reduce fire, promote qi and promote digestion, eat radish after a hard day, moisten throat and promote digestion, and clear the heat of deficiency and dryness, which is conducive to rest.
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