Medicinal diet to lose weight
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that obesity is mainly caused by dampness, phlegm and yang deficiency of spleen and kidney. The so-called "fat people have more phlegm and dampness" is the truth. Generally speaking, most obese people have eating disorders or overeating or prefer fat and sweets. Over time, it will lead to spleen loss of health, lung loss of ventilation, phlegm loss of internal yin, physical stagnation, obesity.
Therefore, to lose weight, we should take the principles of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, resolving phlegm and guiding stagnation, and adopt medicated diet to lose weight, that is, according to the above principles, properly choose food and drugs to make delicious meals. The foods and drugs that are often used to lose weight mainly include coix seed, poria cocos, white gourd, lotus leaf, lettuce, tofu, radish, ginger, bitter gourd, cucumber, medlar, hawthorn and kelp.
Medicated diet can reduce weight, without dieting or changing eating habits, without pain and side effects. But the effect is slow, and it needs persistence to get good results. Here are some examples of diet for your reference.
First, it's stewed melon.
Ingredients: 500g wax gourd, batter, soy sauce, clear soup, wet starch, chopped green onion, monosodium glutamate and vegetable oil.
Production: Peel the wax gourd, wash it, and cut it into pieces 3 cm long, 2 cm wide and 1 cm thick. Add an appropriate amount of vegetable oil to the frying spoon. When it is heated to 40%, add minced onion and ginger, stir-fry with flour paste, then add wax gourd, soy sauce and clear soup. When the wax gourd is soft and rotten, add monosodium glutamate and thicken with wet starch. Serve.
Efficacy: This dish has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, relieving swelling and cough, and promoting diuresis and resolving phlegm. "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" says that winter melon "is beneficial to those who are hot, and thin to those who are cold; Cooking and practicing the five internal organs is also to get angry. Want to be decent and thin, just eat it often. " Wax gourd contains a lot of water and propanol diacid, which can reduce the subcutaneous fat of consumers and inhibit the transformation of sugar, so it has a good weight loss effect.
Second, hawthorn kelp silk
Material: seaweed 300g, fresh hawthorn 100g? Consultation scar? 0 g, onion, ginger, cooking wine.
Production: Wash the kelp, put it in a pot, add onion ginger, cooking wine and water, boil it with high fire, then stew it with low fire, take it out and cut it into filaments, and peel and shred the hawthorn. Then, evenly block the kelp silk with white sugar, put it in a plate, sprinkle with hawthorn silk, and then sprinkle with a layer of white sugar.
Efficacy: kelp is cold and often makes people thin; Hawthorn has the functions of promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, refreshing, heatstroke prevention and cooling, and stimulating appetite. Therefore, this dish has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving cough, dispersing stagnation, promoting diuresis, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation. And eating regularly has the effect of slimming and strengthening the body.
Third, Poria cocos tofu.
Ingredients: 500g of tofu, 30g of poria powder, 40g of pine nuts, carrots, mushrooms, egg white, refined salt, cooking wine, clear soup and baking powder.
Production: drain the tofu, remove the mushrooms, cut the carrots into rhombic pieces, and beat the egg whites until they foam. Cut tofu into small cubes, sprinkle with Poria powder and refined salt, then smooth the tofu block, coat with egg white, add mushrooms, carrots and pine nuts, steam in a steamer for 10 minute, and take out. Clear soup, refined salt and cooking wine are poured into the pot, boiled and mixed with starch to make white sauce, and then burned on tofu.
Efficacy: It has the functions of invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, preventing obesity and lowering blood sugar, and is suitable for patients with moderate obesity and diabetes. However, people who are obese due to yang deficiency are not suitable for eating, and they need to be eaten together with Buyang medicated diet.