Summer is hot, rainy and humid. In diet, people like to eat cold drinks, so that cold and dampness accumulate in the body, and at the same time stimulate the spleen and stomach, leading to spleen and stomach weakness, which can not transport water and dampness well. Air conditioning is often blown in summer, which causes cold air to enter the body and increases the moisture in the body.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pungent taste can disperse work, and has the functions of relieving exterior syndrome, promoting qi circulation and promoting blood circulation. Spicy food can disperse pungent, and can disperse damp evil trapped in the body.
Pepper and mustard are two spicy foods commonly used in daily life. Pepper can promote blood circulation and human metabolism. Capsaicin in pepper can stimulate the secretion of digestive juice and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. Eating some food supplemented by pepper in summer can improve appetite. Pepper is also rich in vitamins and minerals, which can supplement the body with nutrition. The raw material of mustard is mustard seed, which has the function of resolving phlegm and eliminating dampness. It is used for oral administration and external use of traditional Chinese medicine. Sanziyangqin decoction refers to perilla, white mustard seed and radish seed, which has the effects of reducing qi, eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm and promoting digestion. The main component of mustard seed is mustard oil, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach. In addition, it can promote fat metabolism and has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
Some people get angry when they eat peppers, so they can eat pickled peppers instead. After fermentation, pickled pepper will relieve its spicy taste, and its warming effect will be reduced accordingly. However, pickled peppers have a long brewing time and high salt content, so patients with hypertension should not eat more.
If you eat spicy food, how to relieve it? Milk can reduce the spicy taste, and casein contained in milk can combine with capsaicin, thus reducing the spicy taste. After eating spicy food, a cup of sour plum soup can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also relieve spicy taste.
Pepper also has a magical effect, that is, capsaicin contained in pepper can reduce fat and promote fat metabolism.
However, pepper is not suitable for everyone. Experts remind that pepper and mustard are pungent and warm products, and those with yin deficiency and internal heat should not eat them. In addition, people with gastric ulcers and hemorrhoids should not eat more. (Content source "Workplace Health Class")