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Why do you want to "suffer" in summer?
As we all know, food has five flavors: sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty, of which bitter is the least popular. Judging from the nature and taste function of food, bitter medicine mostly has the function of purging fire or relaxing bowels, so unless absolutely necessary, most people talk about "bitter" discoloration.
From the taste experience, it is normal not to like bitter food, but from the health point of view, it is beneficial to "eat bitter" properly. On the one hand, in order to adapt to the climate characteristics of "dry" and "hot" in summer, "clear" and "cool" should be used in diet. The "cool" here does not refer to the temperature of the food, but refers to the cold food, and many bitter foods are cold.
On the other hand, with the improvement of living standards, people tend to eat more fat and delicious food, which often leads to excessive yang and insufficient yin, and excessive nutrition is easy to cause internal heat accumulation. So we should eat some bitter food all year round, especially in hot summer.
As far as direct utility is concerned, bitter food has no benefit to the body. However, summer is a time when people's hearts are flourishing, and sweating hurts body fluids. Eating some bitter food often can calm the heart fire, reduce sweating and preserve body fluids. This is the meaning of "taking suffering as a supplement".
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What are the bitter foods?
When it comes to bitter food, the first thing that comes to mind is bitter gourd. Besides bitter gourd, these foods are also bitter, but you can eat more in summer.
? bitter gourd
Bitter gourd, also known as Jinli litchi and Lai grape, is cold and bitter. A Qing and Wang Mengying said bitter gourd with great interest in "Daily Diet Spectrum": "Daily life can clear away heat, improve eyesight and clear the heart. Cooked people nourish blood and replenish liver, moisten spleen and tonify kidney. " The living, that is, when bitter gourd is immature, the skin is blue; Ripe means that the melon is ripe, so it is necessary to grasp the time when eating bitter gourd.
? Bitter herbs
Bitter vegetables, also known as sun coriander, tea bitter pod, gamboge and so on. Cold and bitter. In Song Dynasty, Xing Bing described bitter vegetables in Er Ya Yi Shu: "The leaves are as thin as chicory, broken and white juice, and the flowers are as yellow as chrysanthemums, which are delicious and bitter." In spring and summer, the wild vegetables that people eat the most are bitter vegetables, and fried food or cold salad has a different flavor.
? Chinese toon
Toona sinensis is called "the vegetable on the tree", which is the tender bud of Toona sinensis, cool and bitter. It is said that there was a history of eating Toona sinensis as early as the Han Dynasty. Toona sinensis, together with litchi, was once regarded as two major tributes of the North and the South, and was deeply loved by emperors and court nobles. Su Shi, a poet and gourmet in the Song Dynasty, once praised: "Toona sinensis is solid and leaves are fragrant."
? apricot kernel
Almonds are divided into sweet almonds and bitter almonds, which are slightly warm and bitter. Bitter almond is often used as medicine, and there are very clear standards on dosage. This is because bitter almond is slightly toxic. Therefore, when using bitter almond in daily life, you must follow the doctor's advice, peel and core it after cooking, and take it in moderation.
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"Bitterness" is also exquisite.
When summer is hot and boring, eating some bitter food properly can not only clear the heart, but also help stimulate appetite. But you can't eat bitter food without restraint, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach.
First of all, it should be noted that bitter food is mostly cold. For the elderly and children with weak spleen and stomach, eating more "bitterness" is easy to cause diarrhea and abdominal pain; Menstrual women eating too much bitter food may cause discomfort such as dysmenorrhea. Therefore, the intake must be moderate, and the correct ingredients and cooking methods should be selected.
In addition to eating bitter food, you can also add some spicy food, such as ginger, scallion, white radish and perilla. First, it can neutralize the coldness of bitter food; Secondly, spicy food can nourish lung qi, and eating some spicy food in summer is also beneficial to heat dissipation.
You can also eat some sour food, such as peach, plum, hawthorn, mango, ebony and so on. This is because there are many sweats in summer, and eating acid properly can restrain sweat and prevent it from consuming more gas and hurting yin; In the summer when the gastrointestinal function is low and diarrhea is prone to occur, eating some acid properly can also stop diarrhea; On the other hand, some sour and sweet foods also have the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst and stimulating appetite.
The hot summer is coming. Only by adjusting diet in time according to the changes of seasons and climate can the body function run in balance. Don't just know cold drinks and watermelons in summer, arrange "eat bitter" appropriately.