1, ginger: relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold.
The biggest function of ginger is to invigorate yang and disperse qi. People often say, "sleep with radish, get up with ginger, and get rid of the doctor's prescription", which means that ginger is pure yang when the human yang rises in the morning. At this time, people eat ginger, which can help the yang to rise, promote the operation of qi and blood, and make people refreshed all day. Not only that, when people catch cold, they can also use ginger to boil water to dispel the cold on the body surface. At the same time, people will vomit and burp when they catch cold, and drinking Jiang Shui is also very useful. Chinese medicine often says, "Ginger is the holy medicine for vomiting."
It should be noted that people with yin deficiency and excessive fire, red tongue with yellow fur or red eyes with internal heat, had better not eat ginger.
2, leek: kidney and aphrodisiac
Leek belongs to yang, which is suitable for men to eat and can strengthen yang. Lotus root belongs to yin, which is suitable for ladies to eat and can nourish yin.
Leek is suitable for eating in spring, which supplements the spleen and stomach. It smells good in spring, but bad in summer.
3, fennel: warm the lower abdomen
There are two kinds of fennel, fennel is star anise and fennel is shaped like grain. Foeniculum vulgare can warm liver and kidney, spleen and stomach, regulate qi and middle warmer. It can also treat hernia.
Because fennel has the function of warming the lower abdomen, when the contents cause dysmenorrhea, it can also be decocted with fennel water.
Fennel is generally aimed at cold syndrome. If it is a person with stomach and kidney fever and small intestine fever, it will aggravate the symptoms. Therefore, people who have toxic heat in their bodies are forbidden to use fennel.
4. Sichuan pepper (pepper): dispel cold and dampness.
Sichuan pepper is produced in Qin and Sichuan pepper is produced in Shu. Sichuan pepper is hot and pure yang, which can warm spleen and stomach, nourish life, dispel yin and cold, expel ascaris, relieve pain and dry rheumatism.
Soaking feet with Sichuan pepper in boiling water can dry the dampness and drive away the cold.
However, northerners must put less pepper when cooking, otherwise it will promote the imbalance between cold and heat. People with yin deficiency and excessive fire, as well as pregnant women, should not eat Chili.
5, pepper: warm, cold.
Pepper is pungent, hot and pure yang. If it is cold, it can drive away the cold. If eaten by people who are hot or prone to fever, it will hurt the gas and aggravate the condition.
Anyone who has a sore throat, toothache and eye diseases must avoid eating Chili.
If you are a person with stomach cold, diarrhea or deficiency cold, you can eat some peppers appropriately.
Pepper has an appetizing effect. If you have a bad appetite at a certain time, especially when you have a cold, you can add some pepper when cooking.
6. Pumpkin: Warm your temper
Pumpkin (Yang), bitter gourd (Yin), carrot (Ping), tomato (Yin), garlic (Yang) and auricularia auricula (Yin) are called "six friends in vegetables".
Pumpkin can make up the middle jiao, which is very beneficial to people with spleen deficiency and weak qi.
Pumpkin is a good vegetable for diabetic patients, which can prevent the sharp rise and fall of blood sugar and stabilize the condition. People with high blood sugar often eat yam, pumpkin and bitter gourd, which is beneficial to blood sugar control.
However, people who have been hot or have a stomachache should eat less. Pumpkins tonify qi, so people with qi stagnation and dampness resistance should not eat or eat less pumpkins.
Besides, don't eat more pumpkins. Eating too much can easily cause beriberi and jaundice.
7, coriander: dispelling cold and qi
Coriander can relieve exterior symptoms and dispel cold, especially for those who feel exogenous cold, which can play a role in expelling cold and sweating. At this point, the function of coriander and scallion is similar.
But coriander is a hair product, which is easy to cause recurrence after eating. In addition, people with body odor should not eat coriander, and people with bad breath should not eat coriander. Even people with a peaceful constitution should not eat more. Eating too much will affect your eyesight and consume the qi of yin and yang.
8, chestnuts: warm spleen and kidney
Chestnut belongs to yang food, which is very tonic, but eating too much can easily lead to spleen and stomach heat accumulation.
For people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, chestnuts can replenish qi and spleen and enrich the stomach. Moreover, chestnuts also have the function of tonifying kidney. If the elderly have backache due to kidney deficiency, they can also eat chestnuts.
But chestnuts can't be eaten more, because "it is extremely difficult to produce and easy to lag."
9, onions: divergent cold.
Green onion, garlic, onion, pepper, Sichuan pepper, pepper, these spicy and irritating foods are mostly yang. If the air is cold, it is very effective to use them to drive away the cold.
Onion has the effects of warming yang, regulating qi, regulating middle energizer and strengthening spleen, but its main function is to dispel cold. If you catch a cold and feel cold, but don't sweat, you can eat more onions and drink water, and the symptoms of not sweating and stuffy nose will be relieved soon.
But hot people are not suitable for eating onions.
10, Onion: Published for Yang.
Green onions can help the human body clear the cold, thus alleviating the symptoms of colds and chills.
When used to treat a cold, generally boil water with scallion, drink it while it is hot, and cover it with a little sweat, so that the symptoms of stuffy nose and chills will be alleviated.