Plums are the fruit of the deciduous tree Li of the Rosaceae family, native to China, with its many varieties and different colors. Summer and autumn when the fruit is ripe, full and round, exquisite, beautiful form, sweet taste, is one of the traditional fruits that people like to eat.
The theory of Chinese medicine in China is that plum is sweet and sour, cool in nature, and has the effect of clearing the liver and purging heat, generating fluids, and facilitating urination. It is especially suitable for the treatment of gastric yin deficiency, thirst and dry throat, large abdominal edema, urinary incontinence and other symptoms. As with other fresh fruit, plums also contain a variety of nutrients needed by the human body, its fruit contains more carbohydrates, trace proteins, fats, carotene, sugar, vitamins b1, b2, c and calcium, iron, amino acids and other components.
Plums have better maintenance for liver disease. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said when evaluating plums that it is advisable to eat for liver disease". But should be eaten in moderation, in order to have a hundred benefits to health rather than one harm. As the saying goes, the peach nourishes, the apricot hurts, the plum tree lifts the dead dead people", that is the truth. Eating more plums will make people phlegm, help wet, and even people with fever, to help the weak spleen and stomach should eat less.
Plums have a lot of medicinal properties, according to experiments show that plums also promote the role of hemoglobin regeneration, anemia, moderate consumption of plums on the health benefits. However, plums are cold, so people with gastrointestinal dyspepsia should eat less, or eat too much will cause a slight diarrhea.
What can I eat to reduce fire?
Food recommendation: chrysanthemum, mint, lemon, kale, collard greens and other foods rich in minerals, especially calcium, magnesium content is high, they have a calm, fire and blood pressure of the magical effect. Recommended fire-reducing dishes: The best heat-reducing bitter foods are bitter melon, strawberry and green bean porridge, and yam and aloe chicken casserole. Ingredients: Yam, aloe vera, chicken. Aloe vera: cleanses the intestines and stomach, promotes defecation and detoxification, and reduces the accumulation of fat in the body. Bitter melon: can clear heat and detoxification, clear the mind and eyes, suitable for people with heart fire. Tea: such as oolong tea, bitter tea, etc., there is heat and strong heart, diuretic, clearing food and alcohol, and thirst and other effects. Bitter almonds: They are good for relieving cough and asthma, laxative, and moistening the lungs and spleen. Loquat leaf: helps to clear the lungs, resolve phlegm and cough, harmonize the stomach and lower the rebellious as well as relief of summer heat. Lily: sweet and slightly bitter in taste, flat in nature, it can help moisten the lungs and relieve cough, clear the mind and calm the spirit. Turtle jelly: it can nourish the yin and tonify the kidney, moisturize dryness and skin care, eliminate acne, and regulate the internal organs.
Lowering the fire to eat less of two kinds of food:
1. High-calorie foods: such as red meat, eggs, dairy products and sugar. These foods are high in calories, easy to increase cholesterol, in the hot summer, is not conducive to the heart to breathe enough oxygen, so to reduce the intake.
2. Solanum plants: such as peppers, eggplants, potatoes, these foods are also not conducive to the heart to breathe enough oxygen, should be eaten as little as possible.
Tea drinks with fire-reducing effects
Foods such as chrysanthemums, mint, lemon, kale and collard greens are rich in minerals, especially calcium and magnesium, and they have the miraculous effect of calming the mind, lowering the fire and lowering blood pressure. Eating these aromatic foods regularly can calm the mind and lower the fire.
Fire-reducing dishes recommended:
The best heat relief bitter food is bitter melon. Wash the bitter melon, put some salt and sesame oil cold mix can be eaten, this will not destroy the nutrients of the bitter melon itself. You can also cut bitter melon into slices and drink it as tea or juice. Drinking raw bitter melon juice enables the body to quickly absorb a large amount of the active ingredients of bitter melon. You can also make a decoction of fresh celery leaves with water, or use fresh celery to extract its juice after boiling water, which can also clear heat and relieve heatstroke after eating.
Recommended porridge:
Strawberry mung bean porridge is not only colorful, sweet and tasty, but also light to fire. With the right amount of green beans, pick the impurities, wash clean, soak in water for 4 hours; select the right amount of strawberries, choose to wash clean; will be cleaned, and soak good green beans and put into the pot, add the right amount of water, with a strong fire after boiling, turn the fire to cook until the rice blossomed, mung beans, add strawberries, sugar, stir, and then cook for a while that is.
Recommended two fire food
1, yam and aloe chicken casserole
Beautiful complementary ingredients: yam, aloe, chicken
Expert comments: this pot can clear the liver to reduce fire, have the effect of acne spotting, you can moisturize the skin.
Yam: Yam contains a variety of hormone basic substances, there is to promote the synthesis of endocrine hormones. When applied to the skin, it promotes cellular metabolism, enhances skin moisturizing function and improves body quality.
Aloe vera: can clean the stomach and can promote defecation and detoxification, reduce the accumulation of fat in the body.
2, lily green bean soup
Beautiful complementary ingredients: lily, green beans
Expert comments: This soup is suitable for skin allergies, can clear heat and detoxification, acne and swelling.
Mung bean: It has the effect of cleaning the skin, and the oyster alkali and iso-oyster alkali in its extracts have a good cleansing and moisturizing effect. Mung beans unique moisturizing ingredients and minerals, can supply the skin with sufficient water, effectively strengthen the skin's moisture moisturizing ability. Mung beans are also able to improve pigmentation, clear heat and detoxification, and can maintain skin elasticity.
Lily: contains a variety of nutrients, such as minerals, vitamins, etc., these substances can promote the body's nutritional metabolism, so that the body's anti-fatigue ability to enhance, at the same time, can remove the body's harmful substances, to slow down the aging.
Bitter melon: can clear heat and detoxification, clear the mind and eyesight, suitable for people with heart fire. However, the degree of heart fire should be consumed as a measure of more or less.
Tea: such as oolong tea, bitter tea, etc., there is a heat, strong heart, diuretic, clear food and alcohol, and thirst and other effects. However, excessive consumption will hurt the spleen and stomach.
Bitter almonds: have the benefits of relieving cough and asthma, laxative, moistening the lungs and spleen. But consumers must be careful not to eat untreated nuts. Need to peel the nuts to the tip, soak in hot water for a day, cooked uncovered, so that hydrocyanic acid volatilization before consumption.
Loquat leaves: help to clear the lungs, resolve phlegm and cough, and the stomach to reduce reversal, as well as relief of summer heat.
Lily: sweet and slightly bitter in taste, flat in nature, it can help moisten the lungs and relieve cough, clear the mind and calm the spirit.
Turtle jelly: can nourish the yin and kidney, moisturizing skin care, eliminate acne, regulate internal organs, prevent skin aging and constipation, can promote metabolism, enhance the body's immunity, summer heat detoxification has a good effect. Some people should not eat "bitter"
Summer "suffering" is not suitable for everyone. Because of the "bitter into the heart", therefore, we eat "bitter" to protect the health of the same time, must be based on the specific physical condition of the individual to eat "bitter".
First, the spleen and stomach cold people are not suitable to eat "bitter", because the Chinese medicine that the spleen is the main transportation, like dry and evil dampness, Chinese medicine, the spleen contains a western medicine digestive system most of the functions, and with the fluid metabolism and so on. And bitter and cold things are easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, affecting the spleen and stomach transport function. Therefore, if the human body spleen and stomach cold, good diarrhea, limbs are very thin, very weak, then you can not eat a lot of bitter cold food;
Secondly, small children should be appropriate and "bitter" to keep a distance. Prof. Zhu pointed out that some children's heart fire is relatively strong, but because of its tender body, so should not be excessive medication. General fire, drink ordinary green bean soup, lily soup, chrysanthemum tea can be;
Third, for the elderly, Prof. Zhu suggests that it should be differentiated on a case-by-case basis. That is to say, it is necessary to combine the strength of the heart fire and physical condition and other aspects of the situation to comprehensive treatment.
"Fire" is the result of a mismatch between the various organs of the body, which is known as a stress disorder in medicine. Due to the unstable temperature in spring and the large temperature difference between morning and evening in fall, the human body can not maintain the balance of metabolism and stability, resulting in physiological dysfunction and "fire".
Often, people do not have obvious symptoms before the "fire", but after the onset of the disease is manifested as a dry and sore throat, eyes red and dry, nasal hot baking hot, cracked lips, loss of appetite, dry stools, yellow urine, etc., and severe mouth sores, sore throat and other symptoms will affect the body's normal diet, some of the beauty of the face of the lady will also be affected by the "fire", the body's normal diet, the body's normal diet. Some of the beauty of the face of the lady will also be due to the "fire" is relatively large, red and painful pimples, life and work to bring inconvenience.
Regular life and eat more vegetables and fruits
To avoid the "fire", first of all, we must maintain a scientific routine, work and rest on time, regular meals, not to give up a meal in a hurry, and not for a good meal and overeating. Arrangement of various activities need to be appropriate and restrained, to ensure adequate sleep, avoid staying up late, so as to avoid excessive fatigue, resistance to decline.
Secondly, eat more "fire" food, fresh green leafy vegetables, cucumbers, oranges, green tea have a good role in clearing the fire, and carrots to supplement the human body's vitamin B, to avoid the lips dry and cracked also has a very good effect. In addition, you can orally consume various kinds of cool punch, such as summer chrysanthemum punch, golden chrysanthemum punch, etc. on the "clear fire" is also very effective.
During the "fire" period, it is not advisable to eat spicy food, drink alcohol, smoke and stay up late, should pay attention to maintaining oral hygiene, often gargle, drink more water, and under the guidance of the doctor to take the "fire" drugs. If the "fire" symptoms are more obvious, more than a week has not improved, need to go to the hospital in a timely manner. Experts especially remind the public, do not take some of their own random "fire" drugs, because it is possible to take too much and counterproductive.
Of course, adjusting your emotions is also very important. Anxious mood will "fuel the fire", to maintain a relaxed mood to help regulate the body's "fire".
Additionally, if the mouth ulcers, the condition is more serious and more than a week did not get better, should be timely to the hospital diagnosis and treatment. Because mouth ulcers are not necessarily due to "fire" cause, may be mouth ulcers pathogen by viral infection, and may be and hormones and genetic related. Mouth ulcers are also considered to be a sign of physical weakness, so when mouth ulcers, patients who also feel tired, you should check their nutritional intake is balanced, whether the rest is enough, and appropriate supplementation of a variety of vitamins and minerals.