On the first day of autumn, Daiyu coughed again, and Baochai came to visit. Autumn is overcast, and boudoir talks about Jinlan. When Yingying talks about this disease, it is natural to talk about delaying medical treatment and taking medicine. Baochai said, "I saw too much ginseng and cinnamon in your prescription yesterday. Although invigorating qi and nourishing the mind, it should not be overheated. In my opinion, it is important to calm the liver and strengthen the stomach first. Liver fire calms down, soil can't win, stomach is healthy, and diet supports people. Get up early every day to get one or two first-class bird's nest, five yuan of rock sugar, and cook porridge with silver tweezers. If you are used to it, it is stronger than medicine, and it is the most nourishing yin and invigorating qi. "
That night, the autumn rain continued. Baochai asked the old lady to take a big bag of fine bird's nest and a bag of clean powder, plum slices, snowflakes and foreign sugar in the rain. And told Daiyu to send it after eating. Daiyu's natural feelings are endless. Baoyu knew about it and told the old lady. Since then, the government has given Daiyu one or two bird's nests every day.
"This secret is inseparable from Wu Si's softness. Fill in the food list, Chen Si comes first. "Bird's nest is known as the" Oriental Treasure ",which is sweet in taste, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting qi and tonifying middle energizer, and maintaining beauty. "Materia Medica Seeking Truth" records that "entering the lung is qi, entering the kidney is water, and entering the stomach is reinforcing the middle, so that it can be supplemented without stagnation, and it is also a good medicine". Besides, it's hard to get, so it's expensive.
The nature of bird's nest is relatively dull, neither generating heat nor consuming yin. Tonify lung, nourishing yin, tonify deficiency, nourishing stomach, moistening skin, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting qi and stopping sweating. Cough due to lung deficiency includes asthma, shortness of breath, chronic cough, blood in phlegm, hemoptysis, hemoptysis, bronchitis and other lung diseases; Sweating and low tide fever; Nausea and retching caused by insufficient stomach yin has a good effect. All diseases such as physical weakness, tuberculosis and loss of middle qi after illness, combined with bird's nest as food, can nourish yin and balance middle qi.
Baochai recommended Daiyu to eat regularly, which is symptomatic, and her erudition can also be seen. Zhang Lu, a physician in the Qing Dynasty, believed that bird's nest "can make the golden water grow together, nourish the lungs with kidney qi, and stabilize the stomach qi. It is the most docile person in food." Therefore, eating bird's nest regularly can not only help Daiyu nourish the spleen and stomach, enhance Shui Gu's anti-corruption ability and improve her body's resistance, but also inhibit her symptoms of yin deficiency and shortness of breath. Sending bird's nest on a rainy night deeply touched Daiyu's lofty and aloof heart.
The method of making bird's nest can be steamed and boiled, and bird's nest porridge is common, which can nourish the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, but it is not stagnant. "Help the bitter sea side" contains: "To cure dysentery, white bird's nest costs two yuan, ginseng costs four points, and there is a lot of water. Cook every soup and eat it slowly, and it will work. " "experimental prescription" contains: "treat senile malaria and chronic malaria, children's deficiency malaria, fetal fever, bird's nest two yuan, rock sugar half, eat several times."
Bird's nest can also be eaten as a dish. A Qing Dynasty Yuan Mei commented in the "Suiyuan Food List": "This thing is clear but not greasy; This thing is literary and artistic, and it can't be linked with martial arts. It is necessary to "bring softness in the middle and clarity in the middle" in order to maximize its delicacy.