In the rainy season when the crops are abundant, the suitable foods are:
1. Bamboo shoots: This is a very popular dish. It tastes delicious and appetizing. It is also rich in a variety of amino acids, vitamins, inorganic salts and so on. Has the effects of nourishing and strengthening body, invigorating qi, strengthening brain, calming heart and strengthening body.
2. Oenanthe javanica: At this time, the weather is sultry and the body mechanism is easy to lose balance. This vegetable has the functions of calming the liver and clearing away heat, expelling pathogenic wind and promoting diuresis, relieving restlessness and swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, detoxifying and dispersing lung qi, invigorating stomach and blood, clearing intestine and relaxing bowels, moistening lung and relieving cough, lowering blood pressure, strengthening brain and calming nerves.
3. Spinach: There is a view of "nourishing liver in spring" in medicine, so we should seize the opportunity to regulate liver blood. Eating spinach before and after Grain Rain has the effect of improving eyesight and clearing lung, which is very warm and tonic.
Grain Rain recipe recommendation
1. Lily lotus seed tremella decoction
Ingredients: tremella, lotus seeds, dried lily, crystal sugar and medlar.
Practice: soak tremella in warm water and wash it after about half an hour. Cut off the roots, tear the tremella into small pieces by hand, and soak the lotus seeds, lilies and medlar in water; Put the torn small pieces of tremella into a casserole, pour enough water, boil over high fire and stew over low fire for about 2 hours; Boil tremella until it is thick, then add rock sugar and stir, then add lotus seeds and cook for about half an hour; Finally, add Lily and Lycium barbarum and cook for 15 minutes.
2. Tofu mixed with tofu
Ingredients: Toona sinensis, tofu, tobacco, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.
Practice: cut tofu into pieces, put it in a pot and add water to boil, drain and cut into pieces; Wash Toona sinensis, blanch slightly, and cut into powder for later use; Put salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil in the bowl. Add Toona sinensis and stir well; Finally, pour it on the tofu and stir it gently.
3. Cardamom Amomum and Lotus Leaf Beverage
Ingredients: cardamom 2g, Amomum villosum 2g, lotus leaf 1/2.
Practice: Wash the lotus leaf, chop it up, put it in a casserole with the washed cardamom and Amomum villosum, add enough water, cook for 20 minutes on low fire, filter it with clean gauze and take juice. Take it in the morning and afternoon.
Efficacy: It has the functions of promoting digestion, relieving swelling, promoting qi circulation and regulating stomach.
4. Stir-fried yam with mushrooms
Ingredients: dried mushrooms, fresh yam and celery. Starch, salt and soy sauce.
Practice: Wash the mushrooms, soak them in hot water until soft, and soak them in water for later use. Peel the yam and cut into small pieces, and cut the celery into small pieces. When the oil is hot, add mushrooms, yam and celery, stir fry, and then pour mushrooms in water. When the soup is slightly dry, add appropriate amount of starch thickening and add appropriate amount of soy sauce or salt to taste.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and qi, tonifying kidney and essence, and enhancing human resistance.
5. kelp and tremella soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of kelp, 20 grams of tremella, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: wash and chop kelp, soak tremella and kelp, add water and simmer into thick soup, and add appropriate amount of rock sugar. 1 day after oral administration, can be taken frequently.
Efficacy: It has the functions of soothing liver, invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney.
Grain Rain is the last solar term in spring. At this time, seedlings were planted in the field at the beginning, and new crops were planted, which needed rain most, so it was known as "Spring rain is as expensive as oil".