Mao Wei (Guangdong Provincial Chinese Medicine nephrologist, professor, doctoral tutor)
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says, "Eating food on an empty stomach is food, and eating food on a sick person is medicine." This means that food is also medicine, as well as preventing and treating diseases.
In China's traditional Chinese medicine culture, the concept of "medicine and food have the same origin" has a long history, and one of the most well-known therapeutic food is "dumplings".
Legend has it that Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrapped lamb and some cold-expelling herbs in a dough, made it into an ear, boiled it, and then consumed it to treat the people's ears for frostbite. This "cold-expelling ear soup" slowly evolved into the popular dumplings of today.
The winter nourishing prescription "Angelica Ginger Mutton Soup" is also said to be the first creation of Zhang Zhongjing. This recipe has been passed down through the ages, and it has a great charm.
Traditional Chinese medicine diet is profound, time-honored, winter tonic, since it is indispensable. The following will be the five viscera 养生 食疗方 shared with you.
Heart, the monarch of the official
- heart focus on tranquillity
The heart of the gods, the main blood, is the commander of the human body.
The heart is most afraid of a word - "tired". Too much labor, too much thought, easy to consume heart blood, panic, chest tightness, chest pain, insomnia, memory loss and other symptoms.
Women's feelings are delicate, sensitive, especially in middle age, to busy work and care for the family, to worry about too much, if it is difficult to relieve, it is easier to feel "tired".
The heart of the importance of tranquility and blood, cinnamon, lotus seeds, lily, ganoderma lucidum, Chinese wheat, etc. are the best "heart" of the choice.
- medicinal dietary recommendations -
Lily chicken yellow soup
Practice: 1 egg, fresh lily 2 to 3, a little rock sugar. Lily break open and wash, put the water to cook for half an hour, add the egg yolk and stir to cook, put rock sugar to taste, drink before going to bed.
Effect: This formula is from Zhang Zhongjing's "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber", which can nourish yin and clear the fire, remove the annoyance and tranquilize the mind.
Liver, the official of the general
--Parsing the liver focuses on regulating qi
The liver stores blood and is the main generator of hair.
The liver is afraid of one word - "blockage". The liver is the main relief, like to organize, liver qi road is not smooth, you will feel pain in the liver area, emotional anxiety, depression.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" chapter wrote, Aunt Xue was daughter-in-law Xia Jinggui gas on the liver, feeling pain in the ribs, it is a graphic interpretation of what is called "gas liver pain".
Liver tonic focuses on the liver, can choose rose, Chenpi, Buddha's hand, citrus, hawthorn, acacia and so on.
-Recommended medicinal food-
Rose and Buddha's hand flower tea
Directions: Take 6 grams of dried rose petals, Buddha's hand flowers, 5 grams of flowers, and put them in a teapot, punch into the boiling water, and then simmer for ten minutes with the lid on, and then drink it as tea.
Functions: blood stagnation, liver and qi.
Spleen, the official of the granary
- spleen health focuses on the cold
Spleen main transportation, ascension of Qing, blood.
The spleen is most afraid of one word - "cold". The spleen and stomach are the foundation of the later day, and the transportation of water and grains depends on the good functioning of the spleen and stomach. Eating more cold, dietary disorders, irregular meals will hinder the spleen Yang transportation, manifested as loss of appetite, diarrhea and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.
The spleen tonic focuses on strengthening the spleen and driving away the cold to open the stomach, Poria, Gorgon fruit, lotus seeds, yam is the best of the food supplement.
-Medicine Recommendations-
Poria Cocos Cake
Directions: Poria, lotus seeds, Gorgon fruit, yam, each appropriate amount of powder, and 2 times the amount of rice flour (rice flour and glutinous rice flour ratio of 7 : 3) mixed; according to personal taste and sugar, stir into the milk into a moist cake powder, sieve, covered with a damp cloth molasses for 30 minutes, and then steaming can be eaten.
Functions: This formula is from the Qing Dynasty "Waking Garden Record", can strengthen the spleen and stomach, diuresis and seepage of dampness.
Lungs, the official of the phase Fu
- lungs focus on the clear
Lungs, the Division of respiration, is the body to obtain oxygen and metabolic emissions of an important organ, known as the human body, "air purifier".
The lungs are most afraid of a word - "turbidity". External haze, smoking, oil smoke and the body produces phlegm wet lung turbidity, will cause harm to the lungs. Diet too salty, too sweet, too oily, more food, but also phlegm born to block the lungs.
The tonic focuses on clearing the turbidity and eliminating phlegm and dampness. Dispel dampness and phlegm, the first push orange red, especially for phlegm white, thin, foamy cold phlegm people; if there is hot phlegm (glue, sticky, yellow, difficult to discharge), can be used to alleviate the fresh bamboo leech water. Lily, watercress, sword flower, figs, bamboo cane, coconut water, ginseng, maitake, ginseng, snow pear, water chestnut, Sichuan shellfish, almonds, Chenpi is also commonly used to resolve phlegm and relieve cough ingredients.
- medicinal dietary recommendations -
Green olive radish pork lean meat soup
Method: 10 green olives, 500 grams of pork lean meat, 1 radish, 2 jujube, salt. Radish cut into large pieces of blanching spare, pork cut into large pieces of blanching blood, and green olives together into the pot, and then put two honey dates, large fire boil and then turn to small fire, boiled until the radish is soft and rotten can be seasoned and eaten.
Functions: clearing lung heat, moistening dry throat, and generating fluids.
Kidney, the official of internal affairs
- tonifying the kidney focuses on moderation
The kidney is the main reservoir of sperm, the birth of marrow, fertility, as the foundation of the innate.
The kidney is most afraid of one word - "consume". According to the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, after 35 years of age for women and 40 years of age for men, the kidneys begin to go downhill. If you don't pay attention to your daily routine, consume too much labor, such as overwork, stay up late, then the age of kidney qi loss will be advanced. From this point of view, people of any age can have a kidney deficiency.
And kidney deficiency is divided into kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, kidney yang deficiency is mainly manifested as fear of cold, tongue pale fat moss white, waist and knee soreness, male impotence and premature ejaculation, women are difficult to conceive, etc., tonic when the warm yang is mainly; kidney yin deficiency is mainly manifested as fear of heat, tongue red, less fluid, waist and knee soreness and weakness, insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus, spermatozoa, women's period of less or menstruation closure, etc., tonic when the yin is mainly.
What needs to be made clear is that the kidneys are the foundation of the innate nature, and the yin and yang of the kidneys will promote and influence each other. Therefore, regardless of whether it is mainly to supplement the yin or yang, should be appropriate with the yin and yang, and strive to have a yin in the yang, yin in the yang.
The kidney tonic focuses on moderation, and less consumption is appropriate. Diet may be appropriate to eat more black food, such as black beans, black sesame, black rice, black fungus, chicken, mulberry and so on.
- Yang dietary recommendations -
Walnuts and leeks fried shrimp
Practice: 50 grams of walnuts, leeks 150 grams, 250 grams of fresh shrimp. Walnuts first fried yellow with sesame oil, with cleaned and cut leeks and shelled fresh shrimp fried together, with a small amount of white wine with the service.
Effect: tonifying the kidney and Yang. Mainly treats Yang deficiency type impotence, spermatorrhea, frequent urination.
- yin nourishing dietary recommendations -
Huaiqi turtle soup
Directions: 1 turtle, 50 grams of Chinese yam, 15 grams of wolfberries, 3 slices of ginger, 8 red dates.
The turtle slaughtered, cleaned and gutted, cut into pieces, with the Chinese mountain, wolfberry, jujube, ginger into the casserole, add 2000 ml of water (about 8 bowls of volume), large fire boil and then switch to a small fire stew for about 2 hours. When the meat is cooked, add an appropriate amount of salt to taste can be consumed.
Functions: nourishing Yin and tonifying the kidney.
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