Jujube Porridge

Features Strengthens the spleen and benefits the qi. Suitable for weak spleen and stomach, anemia, stomach deficiency and low food intake.　

Ingredients 10 jujubes, 100 grams of round-grained rice, rock sugar juice moderate.

Source "General Records of Sheng Ji"

Procedure will be round-grained rice, jujube wash clean, put into an aluminum pot, add the appropriate amount of water first with the martial arts fire, then move the fire on the decoction until the rotten porridge, and then add the rock sugar juice, stir evenly, and then sung in a bowl.

Use as a meal, eat full.

Medicinal diet is a cuisine with medicinal functions;

Medicinal diet is a diet with therapeutic effects made of medicines and foods as raw materials and processed through cooking.

It is a product of the combination of traditional Chinese medical knowledge and cooking experience.

It is a combination of medical knowledge and cooking experience.

It is a combination of medicine and food, both of which are used as food and food is used for medicinal purposes, which is used for food and food is used for medicinal purposes, which is used for food and food is used for medicinal purposes.

Therefore, the medicinal diet is different from the general Chinese medicine prescription, but also different from the ordinary diet, is a kind of both the efficacy of drugs and food flavor of special diet.

It can make the eaters enjoy the food, and in the enjoyment, make their body get nourished and the disease get cured.

Medicinal food, not general nutritional food, is a modern functional food.

Chinese medicine and food matching, can do medicine with food flavor, food to help the medicinal properties, change "good medicine bitter taste" for "good medicine can taste".

So the medicinal food is to give full play to the effectiveness of the Chinese medicine delicious food, especially to meet the people "tired of medicine, like food" nature.

Medicinal food is a kind of functional food, and it can also be said that it is a special and popular form of traditional Chinese medicine.

How to choose the right medicinal diet for you

To choose the right medicinal diet for you, you need to do the following:

1, identification of the diet.

The Chinese medicine talk about evidence-based treatment, such as blood deficiency patients more use of blood replenishing food jujube, peanuts, Yin deficiency patients more use of wolfberry, lily, maitake and so on. Only because of the evidence with materials, in order to play the health care role of the medicinal diet.

2, different from time to time.

The Chinese medicine believes that people and the sun and the moon correspond to the operation of the human organs and blood, and the natural climate change is closely related.

In the use of cold drugs, should avoid the cold winter, and the use of warm drugs, should avoid the hot summer. This idea also applies to medicinal diets.

3, because people with meals.

People's physical age is different, with the medicinal diet should be different,

Children's body is delicate, the choice of raw materials should not be cold and hot;

Elderly people more than the liver and kidney insufficiency; medicine should not be warm and dry;

Pregnant women are afraid of moving the fetus gas, should not be used to activate the blood and slippery products.

This is all in the medicinal diet should pay attention to.

4, depending on the place.

Different regions, climatic conditions, living habits have certain differences, human physiological activities and pathological changes are also different, some are located in the humid, the diet is more warm and dry spicy, some are located in the cold, the diet is more hot and nourishing, and the south of the Guangdong diet is more cool and light, in the application of the ingredients of the medicinal diet is also the same reason.

Summer meals focus on Yang

It is reported that the summer weather is hot, the human body like cool, when it should be clear, light fill.

Therefore, the summer diet should be light, eat more "bitter", "acid" food.

Specifically, it is advisable to eat mung bean porridge, silver dew and other food to relieve the summer gas, in order to achieve the purpose of eliminating disease and health.

When it comes to summer tonic specifically eat which food; lotus seed, buckwheat, mung beans, white lentils, tofu, pork belly, pork, beef, chicken, duck, milk, goose meat, quail meat, crucian carp, snapper, longan meat, honey, sugarcane, pears, lychee, jujubes and so on, are good choices.

But when it comes to summer medicinal tonic, it is advisable to use American ginseng, ginseng, astragalus, poria, dicotyledonous skin, yellow essence and so on.

In addition, the summer is advisable to eat water-rich vegetables to melon best, especially summer health products tomatoes are worth mentioning, because tomatoes are rich in lycopene, can reduce calorie intake, reduce the accumulation of fat, but also timely supplementation of vitamins, to maintain a balanced nutritional body.

Summer meals also have some taboos to remember:

Weak people should not drink more green bean soup in summer,

Cold patients should not eat lychee,

Allergies should not eat pineapple,

Pregnant women should not eat more cold drinks in summer,

Patients with chronic enteritis should not consume bitter gourd,

Hepatitis should not be eaten! ginger, curcumin makes liver cells damaged.

Medicinal food ≠ medicine.

Foods and medicines are both natural things, and they are similar in performance.

But there is a strict difference between medicinal food and drugs.

Medicinal diets are used to nourish the body to prevent disease, slow results, focusing on nutrition and prevention;

Drugs are used to get rid of the disease to save the disease, fast results, focusing on the treatment of disease.

Medicine diet in health care, health, rehabilitation has a very important position, but medicinal diet can not replace drug therapy.

Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, and should be selected according to the specific person with the condition of the appropriate method, not to be abused.

To treat the disease for the purpose of medicinal diet, the selection of drugs and food should be combined with the identification and treatment.

We should also take into account the individual's physical condition and the seasonal season in our daily life.

The following is a brief introduction to several commonly used medicinal diets related to the constitution:

Suitable for stressed office workers: jujube congee, yam congee

Now, because of the fast pace of work, the office workers are under great pressure, there are a lot of people who will be yellowish, pale lips and lips, tiredness, fatigue, shortness of breath, less gas and lazy, limb fatigue, fatigue and lethargy, low blood pressure, dizziness, and often abdominal distension, The situation of defecation weakness and so on.

In the classification of Chinese medicine, these people are qi deficiency people.

This group of people should consume medicinal food to replenish and strengthen the spleen, and should eat food that is mild and warm in nature and has a tonic effect.

Commonly used and convenient medicinal diets are jujube porridge and yam porridge, which have the effect of tonifying the middle of the body, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach.

Suitable for patients with "rich disease": winter melon and yam soup, red bean carp soup with tangerine skin

The most popular body type for rich disease is phlegm-dampness.

The majority of people with phlegm-dampness have a broad heart, a flabby and obese abdomen, oily skin, sweaty, puffy eyes, and easy to be sleepy, mainly middle-aged and elderly people, mostly men.

Phlegm-damp body people like to eat sweet food, do not like sports.

The principle of the medicinal diet for people with this kind of constitution is to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and the diet should be light, less sweet and less greasy.

The available medicinal diets are winter melon and yam soup and red bean carp soup with tangerine peel.

The winter melon and yam soup has the effect of benefiting the qi, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, and the red bean carp soup has the effect of strengthening the spleen, removing phlegm and removing dampness.

Suitable for allergy sufferers: anti-allergy porridge

With the change of environment and the increase of work pressure, many people suffer from allergic diseases, nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, itchy, skin prone to purplish-red petechiae, ecchymosis and other symptoms.

The principle of consuming medicinal food for people with allergies is to replenish the qi and blood, and to rationalize the meridians, so that they should eat less food that is too cold, spicy and stimulating, and that is high in protein and calories.

Optional medicinal meals;

Anti-allergy porridge: 15 grams of atractylodes macrocephala, 15 grams of windbreak, 20 grams of astragalus, 15 grams of umeboshi in a casserole dish with water, and then decocted into a thick juice over a gentle fire, take out the medicinal juice, and then use the juice to cook porridge. Anti-allergic porridge has the effect of benefiting qi, dispelling wind and fixing the surface.