Due to the characteristics of the spring climate: the climate is changeable and windy, rainfall increases, and the earth's atmosphere warms... People's bodies cannot immediately adjust from the winter state. In this way, many diseases will occur. Generally speaking, "30% medicine, 70% supplement", the role of dietary supplements is crucial to human health, and the diet should be adjusted accordingly according to different diseases and syndromes in spring.

1． Preventing Colds The six solar terms in spring should be warm and anti-cold. The human body is not adapted to the outside temperature and is prone to colds. The following dietary therapies have certain effects on preventing and treating colds.

(1) Cauliflower, turnip and fried eggs. Ingredients: 30 grams of cauliflower, 30 grams of turnip, and 3 eggs.

Preparation: Wash the coriander (remove the roots) and coriander (remove the roots) and chop them into small pieces; break the eggs and remove the shells, add a little salt and mix well. Heat the oil in a pan, add cauliflower and coriander and stir-fry briefly, then add eggs and fry until eggs are cooked.

Efficacy: dispel wind and cold, relieve lung and relieve cough.

(2) Wolfberry, chrysanthemum and mung bean soup uses 100 grams of wolfberry leaves, 15 grams of chrysanthemum and 30 grams of mung beans.

Wash the seeded mung beans and soak them in water for about half an hour; wash the wolfberry leaves and chrysanthemums. Put the mung beans into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the mung beans are rotten, then add chrysanthemums and wolfberry leaves, cook for another 10 to 20 minutes, and season.

Effects: dispersing wind evil, clearing away heat and relieving pain, suitable for people with colds and headaches caused by wind-heat.

Contraindicated in patients with spleen and stomach deficiency, cold and headache.

2． Preventing Chronic Bronchitis: Spring is windy and the climate is dry. Chronic bronchitis is one of the common diseases in the six solar terms in spring, and is mainly caused by fever and cough. The dietary therapies include the following:

(1) The raw materials of radish, almond and beef lung soup are 500 grams of white radish, 15 grams of almonds, 250 grams of beef lung, appropriate amount of cooking wine, ginger, refined salt, pepper, and chicken essence.

Preparation: Wash the radish and cut into pieces. Soak the almonds and peel off the tips. Wash the beef lungs and put them into the pot together. Add ginger, cooking wine, and refined salt. Stir-fry over high heat until cooked. Pour into the casserole, add 800 ml of water, simmer for 15 minutes, add appropriate amount of pepper and chicken essence and serve.

Eat beef lungs, radish, and drink soup. Take once every other day for one month.

Effects: Moisten the lungs and relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and relieve asthma, smooth Qi and eliminate food.

(2) Walnut Lily Japonica Rice Porridge raw materials: 20 grams of walnut kernels, 20 grams of lily, 60 grams of japonica rice, and 10 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation: Rinse the three items clean, put them into a pot of boiling water, and cook them into porridge.

How to eat: 2 times a day. , it has the functions of nourishing and keeping fit, moistening the lungs and clearing away heat, relieving cough and asthma.

(3) The raw materials of lotus root and pear soup are 500 grams of white lotus root, 500 grams of pears, and an appropriate amount of honey.

Make lotus root slices, remove the pear core, add 1000 ml of water to the pot, after boiling, pour the lotus root and pears, simmer for 30 minutes, wait until warm, add honey and serve.

Eat lotus roots and pears, drink soup, and eat them in the morning and evening.

Effects: Clear away heat and moisturize the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, remove blood stasis and cool blood.

3. Prevent gastric ulcers The arrival of spring brings vitality to all things, but for ulcer patients, they must be careful during this "season" to avoid recurrence of the old disease or even complications such as bleeding, obstruction, and perforation. Preventing the recurrence of ulcer disease mainly starts from two aspects: diet and psychology.

There are three main dietary therapies for ulcers adapted to the six solar terms in spring:

(1) The raw material of Yipi Cake is 500 grams of red dates, cooked and peeled and cored.

Preparation: Take 250 grams of jujube meat, 60 grams of Gallus gallus gallus L., 120 grams of raw Atractylodes macrocephala, and 60 grams of dried ginger powder; wash the Gallus gallus gallus gallus L. and Atractylodes macrocephala, dry them over slow fire, and grind them into fine powder. Add dried ginger powder and jujube, mash them together to make small cakes, dry them in the oven, take them out and put them in a plastic food bag for later use.

How to eat: Serve as a snack after meals and chew slowly.

Effects: nourishing the spleen, warming the body, strengthening the stomach and digesting food.

Contraindications: People with epigastric burning and pain, irritability, noisy pantothenic acid, dry mouth and bitter taste, and liver and stomach stagnation and heat type should not eat it.

(2) The raw materials of Tiaoren porridge are peach kernels and raw rehmannia, 10 grams each.

After making peach kernels and soaking them, peel off the skin and discard the tips. After washing the two herbs, add an appropriate amount of cold water, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and fry slowly. After 30 minutes, remove the medicinal residue, wash 100 grams of japonica rice and add it to the medicinal juice to cook porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add 2 grams of cinnamon heart powder (available in pharmacies) and 50 grams of brown sugar.

How to eat: Eat 1 small bowl at a time, 3 to 4 times a day.

Efficacy: remove blood stasis and stimulate menstruation, activate blood circulation and relieve pain, nourish the spleen and stomach.

Taboo: Do ??not eat this porridge if the ulcer is active and bleeding.

(3) Fresh reed root porridge raw materials: 100 grams of fresh reed roots, 5 grams of green peel, 100 grams of japonica rice, and 2 slices of ginger.

Preparation: Wash the fresh reed root, cut it into 1 cm long thin sections, put it into the pot together with the green peel, add an appropriate amount of cold water, soak for 30 minutes, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes. . Remove the medicinal residue, add washed japonica rice, and cook until the japonica rice blooms and the porridge becomes thick. 5 minutes before serving, add ginger.

How to eat: Take it warmly, twice a day.

Effects: It relieves heat and soothes the stomach, nourishes yin and relieves pain.

Contraindications: If you have epigastric pain, are afraid of cold, prefer warmth, and have loose stools, you should not eat this porridge.

4. Prevention of Mumps Mumps is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by the mumps virus. The dietary prevention and treatment methods are as follows: (1) 30 grams of rock sugar, the raw material for steamed duck eggs with rock sugar, is first put into hot water. Stir to dissolve, wait until the water cools slightly and then add 2 duck eggs.

Making and steaming.

Take it twice a day for 7 days.

Efficacy: Nourish yin and clear away heat, effective for patients with mumps fever.

(2) Mung bean and cabbage heart soup ingredients: 50 grams of mung beans, 3 cabbage hearts, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation: Wash the mung beans and put them into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, cook until they bloom, add the washed and chopped cabbage hearts, cook for another 20 minutes, and add an appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste.

How to eat: Take once in the morning and once in the evening, warm.

Efficacy in treating scabies in children.

(3) Mung bean and isatis root tea raw materials: 30 grams each of mung beans and isatis root.

To make the soup, first add water to the isatis root and decoct it, remove the residue and extract the juice, add mung beans and cook it into soup.

Eating method: 3 times a day, instead of tea.

Effects: clearing away heat, detoxifying, and clearing blood.

(4) Crucian carp, tangerine peel and wolfberry vegetables. Ingredients: 1 live crucian carp, 100 grams of fresh wolfberry vegetables, 3 grams of tangerine peel, and a little salt.

Preparation: Remove the scales of the crucian carp, disembowel it and remove the internal organs, wash it, put it into the pot with tangerine peel and ginger, add appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil. Wash the fresh wolfberry vegetables, put them into the pot and cook them together with the crucian carp. After the water boils, simmer over low heat until the fish is cooked and the soup thickens. Add salt to taste.

How to eat: Eat it in 2 portions while it is still hot. Infants and young children drink soup.

Effects: clearing away heat and detoxifying, regulating qi and appetizing, harmonizing the stomach and stopping diarrhea.

(5) Whooping cough Whooping cough is a common acute respiratory infectious disease in children, especially in spring. Dietary therapy has a good effect on reducing symptoms and promoting recovery, especially for children after the disease. For recovery, diet therapy has special effects.

(1) Garlic infusion raw material: 10 grams of garlic.

Preparation: Peel and mash the garlic, add 50 ml of boiling water, clarify the juice and add an appropriate amount of sugar.

Instructions: Take 5 to 10 ml each time, 2 to 3 times a day.

Efficacy: antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, used for whooping cough.

(2) Almond rock sugar raw materials: 30 grams of almonds and 9 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation: Grind almonds and rock sugar into fine powder, and decoct Ophiopogon japonicus in water.

Food method: Children under 2 years old should eat 1.5 grams each time, and children over 2 years old should eat 2 to 3 grams each time.

Efficacy: It has the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and also has a good antispasmodic effect on whooping cough.

(3) Watermelon seed tea raw materials: 15 grams of watermelon seeds (broken), 15 grams of peanut kernels, 1.5 grams of safflower, and 30 grams of rock sugar.

Make boiled water.

Food instead of tea.

Efficacy: It has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on whooping cough.

(4) Baibu steamed tofu ingredients: 8 grams of Baibu, 8 grams of perilla leaves, 250 grams of tofu, and 25 grams of rock sugar.

To prepare, first put the tofu into a large bowl, then grind the root, almonds, and perilla leaves into coarse powder, sprinkle evenly on the tofu, add a small amount of water, and steam in a pot for about 30 minutes. Use chopsticks or a knife to scrape off the residue. Add rock sugar and steam for 5 minutes.

Eat in 3 portions, warm, for 7 to 10 days.

Effects: Moisten the lungs and relieve cough, suitable for early stage of whooping cough in children.

(5) Yali Steamed Ephedra Ingredients: 1 large Yali, 3-5 grams of Ephedra.

Make ephedra, grind it into powder, and pound it into a coarse powder. Wash the pear, cut it open and remove the core. Put the ephedra powder into the heart of the pear, close the pear tightly, insert a small bamboo skewer, put it in a bowl, and steam it until cooked.

Eating method 2 times a day, drink soup and eat pears.

Effects: antiasthmatic and antispasmodic, suitable for children during the period of whooping cough.

(6) The ingredients of Luo Han Guo and Persimmon Cake Soup are half Luo Han Guo and 3 persimmons.

To make, add 3 bowls of water and fry until it reaches 1 bowl.

How to eat: Add a little rock sugar and eat in 3 servings.

Efficacy: Clear lung heat and resolve phlegm fire, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

(7) Walnut and pear juice raw materials: 50 grams each of walnut kernels and rock sugar, and 1 pear.

Make walnuts and peel off the shells; take the walnut kernels (retain the purple ones); wash the pears, peel them and slice them. Put walnut kernels, pear slices, and rock sugar into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and fry for 30 minutes.

How to eat: Eat pears and walnut kernels while they are hot, drink soup, and eat them 2 to 3 times a day. Infants and young children can drink soup.

Effects: nourishing the kidneys and promoting body fluids, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is suitable for children with whooping cough accompanied by dry mouth and tongue, dry stool, physical weakness, and weakness when coughing.