What traditional food does Xiaoman eat?
1. Eat wild vegetables
Eating wild vegetables is the custom of Xiaoman. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. Zhou Shu: Xiaoman Day Bitter Vegetable Show. The Book of Songs: Bitter comes sweet, under the sun. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Long-term use, peace of mind and qi, intelligence and fitness, anti-aging. In medicine, bitter herbs are often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up. Sophora alopecuroides is spread all over the country, and it is called Patrinia in medicine. Kuding tea is bitter with astringency, astringent with sweetness, fresh and refreshing, cool and smooth, rich in nutrition, containing vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol, and has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying.
2. Wheat cake
Since ancient times, it has been said that Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god. Because there are many silkworms in the south, Xiaoman is an important time node for the hatching of young silkworms and the growth of mulberry leaves, so it pays more attention to "offering sacrifices to the silkworm god". At this time, people will use rice flour or flour as raw materials to make wheat cakes and wheat cakes shaped like cocoons and enjoy them together, hoping for a bumper harvest of cocoons.
3. Bitter gourd
Momordica charantia is a good food in summer, which is rich in nutrients, mainly containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and other nutrients. Immature tender fruit as a vegetable, mature pulp can be eaten raw, cold, fried meat and grilled fish, crisp and refreshing, with unique flavor. Bitter gourd has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, clearing away heat and pathogenic factors, relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Momordica charantia contains protein in addition to bitter quinine. It is found that protein can stimulate immune cells and has anti-cancer effect.
4. Lycium barbarum seedlings
Lycium barbarum seedlings are also called wolfberry tips. Chinese medicine believes that Lycium barbarum seedlings are cool, sweet and bitter, and have the functions of clearing away heat, nourishing yin and improving eyesight. It is suitable for treating fever due to yin deficiency, thirst, hand and foot fever, liver and kidney deficiency, dry eyes, toothache due to deficiency of fire, etc.
5.dandelion
Dandelion, also known as Veronica, Dictyophora and so on. , a whole grass with roots of Taraxacum mongolicum, a compositae plant, is widely distributed all over the country. Dandelion is a nutritious vegetable, which mainly contains protein, fat, carotene, riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dandelion is sweet, bitter and cold, and enters the liver and stomach meridians, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, stopping diarrhea, benefiting gallbladder, protecting liver, strengthening stomach and lowering blood pressure.
Key points of solar terms health care in Xiao Man
1, Diet: Qingli Damp-heat, light vegetarian.
In Xiaoman season, the focus of health care is "preventing damp heat". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "summer heat carries more dampness", that is to say, the heat of summer is the easiest to invade the human body with dampness.
To prevent damp-heat, we should give priority to a refreshing and light vegetarian diet, and often eat foods with heat-clearing effect, such as melon, bitter gourd, loofah, lotus root, tomato, watermelon, pear and other fruits and vegetables, which can clear away heat and purge fire, and can also supplement vitamins and protein needed by the human body.
In addition, drinking plenty of water, preferably warm water, can promote metabolism and internal heat discharge. In addition, Neijing also holds that "all dampness and distension belong to the spleen". Therefore, in order to get rid of dampness, people are advised to eat more foods that can get rid of dampness and strengthen the function of the spleen and stomach, such as yam, corn, water chestnut, coix seed and so on.
2, dressing: to be loose, do not expose the navel.
The temperature rises gradually after the small fullness, so the dress should be loose and comfortable, which is convenient for activities, cool and ventilated, and conducive to heat dissipation. Generally speaking, the smaller the body area covered by clothes, the faster the body temperature is lost, but in hot summer, don't mistakenly think that the more exposed you wear, the cooler you will be.
Because only when the outside temperature is lower than the skin temperature, exposure will make you feel cool. When the outside air temperature is higher than the skin temperature, the exposed area should not exceed 25% of the total surface area of the human body, otherwise the thermal radiation will invade the skin and become hotter.
In hot summer, it is a good choice to wear short fir, short skirt and shorts. In addition, the opening of summer clothes should not be too thin, and it is best to open it to facilitate ventilation and heat dissipation. It should be reminded that women who love to wear navel-revealing clothes and suspenders should avoid catching cold in their abdomen and shoulders when entering and leaving air-conditioned places, so as not to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, scapulohumeral periarthritis, neck-shoulder syndrome and other diseases.
3. Sleep: ensure sleep and keep warm.
After the small full day, the temperature rises obviously and the rainfall increases, but it will still be cold in the morning and evening, and the daily temperature difference is still large, especially after the rain. Therefore, we should pay attention to adding clothes at the right time, especially when sleeping at night, and keep warm to avoid catching a cold. At the same time, it is necessary to conform to the principle of yang dispersing yin in summer, get up early and go to bed late, but ensure the sleep time to keep energetic.
At this time, the sunshine becomes longer, so you can get up early and go to bed late. In order to ensure sleep time and keep energetic, you can take a nap in stages at noon and after dinner. It's better to take a nap for half an hour, but you can't sleep for too long. If you sleep after meals, you'd better sleep 15 minutes to half an hour.
Some people will take a nap at their desks or desks at noon. In fact, this is not conducive to eliminating fatigue. Because when the human body is sleeping, the muscles of the whole body relax, the blood circulation slows down, and the blood supply to the head decreases. If sitting posture is adopted, people will feel dizzy, tinnitus, leg weakness, blurred vision, pale face and other symptoms of cerebral ischemia and hypoxia after waking up. In addition, resting on the table will oppress the eyeball, increase the intraocular pressure and easily induce eye diseases.
4. Bathing: Take a bath frequently and take a cold bath carefully.
At this time, the temperature rises and the human body is prone to sweating. The public should take a bath frequently, but the water temperature should not be too high, because it will irritate the skin, wash away the protective sebum and make the skin drier and more fragile.
When taking a bath, adjust the water temperature to about 35 degrees Celsius, close to the body temperature. Be sure to dry it after taking a shower, and it is best to dry it before applying talcum powder.
After Xiaoman, many people like to take a cold bath because the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Although taking a cold bath is good, it is not suitable for everyone. For example, people with weak constitution, or people with high blood pressure and arthritis, don't take a cold bath to avoid harm to the body.
Xiaoman diet principle
Xiao Man Ku Chae Yeon
In ancient China, Xiaoman was divided into three stages: "Bitter vegetable show"; Second, waiting for grass to die; When the autumn wheat arrives. " In Zhou Shu, there is a saying called "Bitter vegetable show on a small full day". Nutrition experts say that bitter vegetables contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, various inorganic salts, vitamins and other nutrients, which can clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify, and have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on furuncle, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, constipation and colds.
Xiaoman sees "three delicacies"
Cucumber, garlic, cherry
Chinese medicine believes that cherry is warm, sweet and slightly sour; Entering the spleen and liver meridian has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and regulating the stomach, expelling wind and removing dampness, whitening, removing wrinkles and removing spots. "The deputy director of the Nutrition Society and the director of the Nutrition Department focus on" tasting "cherries. Cherry can nourish skin, improve immunity, prevent cardiovascular diseases and prevent cancer. Rich in carotene, it helps to maintain normal visual function, promote children's growth and development, maintain the integrity of epithelial cells, and prevent respiratory tract infections and diarrhea.
Xiaoman should eat mulberries in season.
Eating mulberry often can nourish the skin, delay aging, improve eyesight and relieve eye fatigue and dryness; Improve the visual function of cataract and diabetic blindness; Can improve immunity, protect cardiovascular function and prevent arteriosclerosis. It is suitable for anemia, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, premature whitening, blurred vision and nocturnal emission.
Don't eat ginger, it's easy to hurt yin.
In Xiaoman season, due to the obvious characteristics of damp and heat, all foods that affect yin and body fluid and help fire to generate heat should not be eaten more. For example, ginger is warm and dry, which is easy to hurt yin, so it is not suitable for eating more. For patients with excess heat in the body, or suffering from hemorrhoids and hypertension, it is especially necessary to avoid eating; Pomegranate is easy to help fire and produce phlegm, so it is not suitable for eating. Patients with constipation, urethritis and diabetes should not eat more.