1, fresh lily
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lily is sweet, slightly cold, enters lung meridian and heart meridian, and has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart fire and calming nerves, so it is a good food and medicine for all ages in Xian Yi. Compendium of Materia Medica records "facilitating defecation, reinforcing middle energizer and benefiting qi". Clinical observation shows that lily has a good effect on residual heat, trance, irritability, insomnia and inexplicable pain after fever. Autumn dryness is harmful and lung yin is insufficient, while lily is sweet and cold, which has the effect of moistening the lungs and has obvious therapeutic effect on autumn dryness.
Fresh lilies should be big with neat petals, thick, white or light yellow. When purchasing, you should also pay attention to eliminating impurities, rotten hearts or mildew. Dry dried lily, no impurities, thick and transparent. Boiled eggs and lilies with sugar have the effects of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, clearing heart fire and calming nerves. Lily with pork helps to absorb nutrients.
2, white radish
White radish is good for stomach, qi and digestion. It can promote bile secretion and help digest fat. Among them, mustard oil and dietary fiber can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help excrete waste in the body.
Boiled white radish with ribs, beef and mutton, trotters, etc. It can not only benefit qi and smooth qi, but also reduce greasy feeling. Don't cover the soup too tightly if you don't want the white radish to be too spicy.
3. Pumpkin
Pumpkin is rich in carbohydrates and pectin, which can protect gastrointestinal mucosa from rough food stimulation; Rich in vitamins, calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients, it is a master of invigorating the stomach and promoting digestion. The rich pectin in pumpkin can also promote the healing of ulcers and "adsorb" bacteria and toxic substances, including heavy metals such as lead, thus playing a role in detoxification. Mannitol in pumpkin has laxative effect, which can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to human body; Dietary fiber is very fine and soft, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and relieve constipation without harming gastric mucosa.
The autumnal equinox is the prime time to eat pumpkins. Simple cooking, suitable for steaming, porridge and soup. For example, millet and pumpkin porridge, take 100g millet and soak it in water for 20 minutes, peel and cut 300g pumpkin, add pumpkin into the millet after cooking for 30 minutes, and continue cooking after stirring evenly 15min.
4. Lettuce; lettuce
Lettuce is rich in vitamins and trace elements, and its water content is the best among vegetables. Eating more helps to replenish water to the skin, and also has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on acne caused by poor gastrointestinal function. Lettuce contains more dietary fiber and vitamin C than cabbage, which can eliminate excess fat, so it is also called slimming lettuce. Eating raw food often helps women keep slim.
When choosing lettuce, you should choose the one with soft leaves, moderate size and hard taste. When buying loose leaf lettuce, the size is moderate, the leaf thickness is moderate, the leaf is fresh and tender, the leaf color is blue and white, and there are protruding moss in the root and middle, indicating that the lettuce is old.
Step 5: carrots
Carrots contain a lot of carotene, which ranks among the best in all kinds of vegetables, with stable performance and constant high temperature, and are easily absorbed by the human body. Carrots are rich in nutrition. Each carrot 100g contains 7.6g of sugar, 0.6g of protein, 0.3g of fat, 30mg of calcium, 0.6mg of iron and vitamins B 1, B2, C, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that carrots are sweet in taste and flat in nature, and have the effects of reducing qi and strengthening the spleen, resolving food stagnation, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, and relieving measles and poxvirus.
Carrots are very helpful to improve constipation, and they are also rich in β-carotene, which can neutralize toxins. Fresh carrots have better detoxification effect. Carrots are an effective detoxification food. It is not only rich in carotene, but also contains a lot of vitamin A and pectin. Combined with mercury ions in the body, it can effectively reduce the concentration of mercury ions in the blood and accelerate the discharge of mercury ions in the body, which is very suitable for people who often stay up late.
6.cauliflower
Cauliflower is rich in vitamins, and every 200g fresh cauliflower can provide more than 75% of vitamin A needed by adults in one day. The content of vitamin C is even more prominent, reaching 80 mg per 100 grams, which is 3-4 times higher than that of common Chinese cabbage and soybean sprouts and 2 times higher than that of citrus. Chinese medicine has always said that "white goes into the lungs."
The autumnal equinox season is a frequent period of respiratory infections, and cabbage flowers are undoubtedly timely health-care vegetables.
7. tomatoes
Tomatoes are rich in nutrients and low in calories. Many models rely on tomatoes to keep fit. Its rich acidic juice can help you balance the PH value of your skin. For people with dark and rough skin, you can apply tomato juice to your face, stay for about 15 minutes, and then wash it with water, which is very helpful to remove dead skin on your face. Tomatoes are also vegetables rich in vitamin C. Mix a little honey in tomato juice and rub it on your face. 10 minutes later, clean. Stick to freckle and whitening every day.
Lycopene, which is rich in tomatoes, helps to reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease and lung disease. A new study published in the journal of Free Radical Biology and Medicine found that adding olive oil to tomatoes can make people absorb more lycopene.
8.celery
Celery is slightly cold, bitter and non-toxic. It is rich in protein, carbohydrates, carotene, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. Its leaves and stems also contain apigenin, bergamot lactone and volatile oil. Because its roots, stems, leaves and seeds can be used as medicine, it is called "medicine in the kitchen" and "medicinal celery".
When many people eat celery, the habit of only taking stems and discarding leaves is unscientific. Because, in the comparison of nutritional components, the content of celery leaves is higher than that of celery stems. Moreover, in autumn vegetables, the contents of vitamin E, magnesium, manganese, copper and phosphorus in celery leaves rank first. Foreign cardiovascular experts pointed out that raw celery has a good antihypertensive effect.
9. Lotus root
Lotus root is a popular ingredient in autumn health recipes, whether it is soup, stir-fry or cold salad. Rich in vitamin B 1, it helps to relieve fatigue, promote metabolism and digestion, and beautify the skin. In addition, lotus root also contains inorganic salts such as vitamin C, calcium, iron and polyphenols with antioxidant effect.
Lotus root has diuretic effect, which can promote the rapid discharge of waste in the body to purify the blood. Lotus root is suitable for both cold and hot. However, it should be noted that raw lotus root is cold, has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving annoyance, and is especially suitable for patients with blood-heat "acne"; After cooking, it changes from cold to warm, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin, invigorating spleen and qi, and nourishing blood. It is a good food supplement, especially suitable for people with dry skin and dull complexion caused by weakness of spleen and stomach and deficiency of qi and blood. In addition, the lotus root node between lotus root segments is a good medicine, which has the functions of strengthening the spleen and appetizing, nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and can also improve the color.
10, lettuce
Lettuce can improve the function of digestive system. Because it tastes fresh and bitter, it can stimulate the secretion of digestive enzymes and increase appetite. Lettuce contains a lot of cellulose, which can promote the peristalsis of human intestinal wall and prevent constipation. The whey of lettuce can enhance the secretion of gastric juice, digestive glands and bile, and can quickly help the human body to expel stool, toxins and turbid gas, thus playing the role of clearing the intestines, losing weight and slimming.
Lettuce is crisp and tender, which is delicious on the autumn table. It can be eaten raw, cold, fried or pickled, and can also be used as soup and ingredients. The most common method is cold salad or fried lettuce.
1 1, spinach
The carotene content of spinach can be comparable to that of carrots. If a person eats 50 grams of spinach every day, his vitamin A can meet the normal needs of the human body. The content of vitamin C is more than twice that of tomatoes.
If you have symptoms such as high blood pressure, constipation, headache and blushing, you can wash fresh spinach and cook it in boiling water for three to five minutes, take it out and chop it up, and mix it well with a little sesame oil and salt. Eating it as a dish twice a day is very effective. Eating spinach should not be excessive, because spinach contains oxalic acid, which combines with calcium contained in other foods to form insoluble calcium oxalate, which is not conducive to the normal absorption of calcium by the human body.
12, yam
Yam is called "the food of the gods". Eating yam properly in autumn tonic diet is helpful to prolong life. Yam contains many nutrients such as amylase, polyphenol oxidase, mucin, vitamins and trace elements, which is helpful for gastrointestinal health care, preventing cardiovascular diseases and prolonging life.
Yam is rich in potassium and carbohydrates. Compendium of Materia Medica says that it has nourishing effects such as tonifying middle energizer, strengthening tendons and strengthening spleen. Therefore, for people who are lacking in autumn, eating yam can help to resist the lack of autumn.
Matters needing attention in autumn equinox health care
1, people with phlegm-dampness constitution should not eat fat and be sweet and greasy.
2. Don't have cold drinks, such as all kinds of preserved fruits, ice cream and frozen drinks. This cold food hinders the spleen and stomach, which is not conducive to the transportation of water and moisture. People with a cold stomach should avoid eating cold food.
3. Elderly people with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity should not eat hot tonic.
4. Developing children, without special reasons, should not be over-supplemented.
5. Patients with heat syndrome should not eat spicy food, such as pepper, pepper, mustard, curry powder, coffee and strong tea.
6. People with skin diseases and asthma should not eat seafood such as shrimp and crab.
The origin of autumnal equinox
"The bucket refers to the autumnal equinox, and the northern and southern hemispheres are equally divided day and night, which is half autumn, hence the name." The longitude of the sun is 180 degrees, and the solar calendar is from September 22 to 24 every year. According to the old calendar, the autumnal equinox happens to be the midpoint of ninety days in autumn. Just like the vernal equinox, the sun is almost direct to the equator, and the length of day and night is equal again. It can be said that the autumnal equinox is a very special day. From this day on, the position of direct sunlight continued to move from the equator to the southern hemisphere, and the northern hemisphere began to have shorter days and longer nights.
It is recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals: "The autumnal equinox is half cloudy and half sunny, so it is cold and hot day and night." In astronomy, the autumnal equinox is considered as late summer and early autumn.