Seven kinds of refreshing foods

Bean iron is the main medium for producing human energy, which is responsible for delivering oxygen to human organs and muscles. Therefore, if the human body lacks iron, it will lead to anemia and make people feel dizzy and weak. Although pig liver and lean meat are the best sources of iron, eating some red beans, black beans or soybeans often can also supplement iron and effectively improve the state of fatigue and weakness.

Spinach Spinach contains magnesium, a mineral that women are easy to lack. If the daily intake of magnesium by women is less than 28 mg, people will feel tired. The function of magnesium in human body is to convert carbohydrates in muscle into usable energy.

Bananas are called "high-energy foods", which contain carbohydrates easily absorbed by human body and are also rich in potassium. Potassium can help maintain the normal function of muscles and nerves in the human body, but it can't be stored in the body for a long time. After strenuous exercise, the potassium in the body will drop very low. Studies have shown that too low potassium can lead to muscle pain, arrhythmia, slow response, etc., and eating a few bananas can supplement the lack of potassium.

Strawberries are rich in vitamin C, which helps people absorb iron and nourish cells, so eating more strawberries can make people energetic.

Tuna is rich in tyramine acid among fish in protein. Tyramine acid can help to produce neurotransmitters in the brain, which makes people concentrate and think quickly.

cereal some people find that if the fiber content in breakfast is high, you won't feel hungry. Nutritionists explain that fiber can slow down digestion, continuously supply carbohydrates to blood vessels, and make the human body get energy continuously. Oatmeal is a kind of food rich in fiber, and its energy release is slow and balanced, which can keep the blood sugar level of human body at a high level all the time, so it won't feel hungry and full of energy soon.

Skim yogurt Many women will feel tired and sleepy before and after menstruation. A study shows that eating more foods rich in calcium, such as skim yogurt, can obviously improve this situation. If you eat three small cups of skim yogurt or two large cups of milk every day, you can relieve abdominal pain, fatigue, irritability and other symptoms, because calcium has the function of relieving muscle tension and regulating endocrine.

There are also some foods that can refresh your mind

Cabbage-it can reduce the activity of thyroid gland. Before exams or major problems, as long as you eat cabbage salad, you will immediately become calm.

carrots-can help memory. Carrots can promote the metabolism of the brain.

pineapple-anyone who needs to recite a lot of lines and memorize music scores needs a lot of vitamin C, and pineapple is just rich in this vitamin. And pineapple contains very low calories.

avocado-an energy source to enhance short-term memory, because it is rich in nucleic acid.

Shrimp-a delicious food that nourishes the brain. It provides fatty acid that helps to concentrate.

strawberries-can quickly relieve people's bad mood.

Onion-can eliminate mental and mental fatigue and improve oxygen supply to the brain.

Walnuts or hazelnuts-Walnuts can strengthen the nervous system and stimulate brain activity.

fig-it contains substances similar to aspirin, which can dilute blood and improve oxygen supply to the brain. It is a beneficial fruit for journalists and other creative people.

red pepper-it contains aromatherapy which can promote the secretion of sex hormones.

celery-can increase brain activity. It contains aromatherapy which can stimulate the nervous system.

Banana-contains serotonin, which makes you feel satisfied after eating.

lemon-because of the extremely high content of vitamin c, it greatly improves the information reception ability. Very suitable for students to eat.

Bitter food contains amino acids, vitamins, alkaloids, glycosides, trace elements, etc. It has many medical and health-care functions, such as anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, refreshing the mind and relieving fatigue. First, bitter food can prevent cancer. Second, bitter food can promote the secretion of gastric acid, increase the concentration of gastric acid, and thus increase appetite. Third, bitter food is refreshing.

recommend several common bitter foods, and choose them according to your actual situation.

1. Bitter gourd: It is rich in protein, fat, sugar, calcium, sodium, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, momordicin and so on. Immature and tender melons can be eaten as vegetables. When they are ripe, they can be eaten raw, made into soup, cold salad, fried, or cooked with meat and fish. They have the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, eliminating pathogenic heat, relieving fatigue, clearing heart fire, improving eyesight, invigorating qi and strengthening yang. Scientists also unexpectedly found that bitter gourd has a cosmetic effect. Bitter gourd is rich in vitamin C, and also contains a variety of amino acids, momordicoside, galacturonic acid, pectin, minerals and vitamins. Therefore, eating bitter gourd can effectively enhance the vitality of the cortex and make the skin tender and fit.

2. dandelion: the whole grass with roots of dandelion, which can be used as a vegetable to satisfy hunger (mostly tender leaves, cold salad and cooking), and can also be used as medicine to treat diseases. Eating more does not hurt people, but also has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxicating, relieving diarrhea, benefiting gallbladder, protecting liver, invigorating stomach, lowering blood pressure, refreshing mind, resisting bacteria and cancer.

3. sowthistle herb: sowthistle herb contains more than ten kinds of nutrients such as protein, fat, carotene, vitamins, mannitol, alkaloids, etc. It tastes bitter and cold in nature, and has the effects of reassuring qi, clearing away heat and detoxifying.

4. Almond: contains amygdalin, which can relieve cough and asthma, moisten intestines and relax bowels, and is suitable for cough and excessive phlegm caused by common cold with good effect.

5. Tea: Tea is sweet and bitter, slightly cold, and can relieve many toxins. Studies have proved that tea contains a rich bioactive substance-tea polyphenols. Tea polyphenols can precipitate or reduce heavy metal ions, inhibit bacteria and viruses by combining with protein, and also have corresponding inhibitory effects on a variety of carcinogens. In addition, tea polyphenols can also improve the body's antioxidant capacity, reduce blood lipids, enhance the elasticity of red blood cells, prevent thrombosis, alleviate or delay atherosclerosis and hypertension, and have the function of protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

6. Beer: Beer is made from barley and hops by yeast fermentation. It is rich in amino acids, protein, sugar, minerals and other ingredients beneficial to human health, and is known as "liquid bread". Its refreshing and delicious bitter taste has the effects of helping digestion and nourishing the body. Drinking a moderate amount of beer can strengthen the stomach, clear the eyes, dissipate heat, quench thirst, lower blood pressure, relieve cough, induce diuresis, calm down, eliminate fatigue and restore energy.

In addition, common bitter foods include chrysanthemum, lily, felwort, lotus leaf, etc. These bitter foods also contain alkaloids, bitter peptides, nitro compounds, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc and other mineral elements, which have the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, replenishing water to reduce swelling, invigorating spleen and benefiting stomach. Coffee, chocolate, cocoa and other foods with bitterness may also be eaten in summer. However, it should be noted that bitter food should not be eaten in excess at one time, and it is easy to cause discomfort such as nausea, vomiting and gastric failure.

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When I came to work in the morning, I felt soft all over. Before I got off work, I started yawning. This is because in the cold winter and early spring, the sweat glands of the body's skin are stimulated by the cold, reducing heat dissipation to keep the body's body temperature. In spring, the temperature also rises slowly, everything recovers, the skin pores relax, and the oxygen supply of the brain decreases accordingly, so people are prone to fatigue. Generally speaking, the need to refresh themselves in spring is caused by the excessive seasons, which has a certain impact on our work and study, so we should take action quickly.

n strategies of Chinese medicine to solve mental fatigue

Chinese medicine has always been considered as a relatively harmless treatment. To refresh yourself, Chinese medicine has various countermeasures, depending on your personal preferences. Let's introduce three main methods of refreshing yourself.

strategy 1: herbal tea helps me refresh

tea has always been regarded as the first choice for refreshing. Maybe you are limited to simple green tea, black tea or ordinary tea. In fact, many fashionable and delicious herbal teas are also our good companions for refreshing.

◆ mint tea

drinking mint tea is the most recommended refreshing method, and it has recently been recommended as a healthy drink by American Fitness magazine. It is pungent and cool in taste, and mainly contains volatile oil. The main components in the oil are menthol, menthol, menthone, menthyl ester, terpene, limonene, etc. It has the effects of dispelling wind and cooling, eliminating filth and detoxifying. However, mint can reduce the amount of maternal milk, which is irritating to some extent and should not be used by women and children during lactation and pregnancy.

1 rock sugar mint tea

material: mint leaves 5-1 pieces of rock sugar or honey or fruit juice

production method: wash the mint leaves just bought with cold water and put them in a teacup, add 2ml of hot water, and cover them for 15-2min until the fragrance of the medicine is dispersed. When it is cool, add rock sugar, honey or fruit juice according to personal preference to improve the taste of the tea.

Efficacy: According to recent research reports, mint can prevent spasms, relax muscles and reduce muscle stiffness and pain. Mint tea can stimulate the movement of food in the digestive tract and help digestion, especially suitable for gastrointestinal discomfort or eating too greasy food. Office workers who work in front of the computer should drink a cup of cool mint tea when they feel depressed, which is conducive to refreshing their minds and relieving stress. In addition, because mint has a unique fragrance, using mint tea to gargle or drink can not only keep the fragrance on the teeth and cheeks, but also eliminate the swelling and pain of gums.

2 rose mint tea

material: 4-5 dried flower buds of roses and a small amount of mint (2, San Qian is enough)

production method: put dried roses and mint together in a cup, cover it for 1-15 minutes, and the refreshing effect will be better when the tea is cold.

efficacy: people's mood tends to fluctuate in spring, and roses are often deeply loved by office women, which have the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving emotions. Mint can drive away fatigue and make people feel brand-new, and the sweet and pure fragrance of roses can dilute the bitter taste in mint, killing two birds with one stone.

3 mint chrysanthemum tea

material: mint 3 money chrysanthemum 2 money

production method: put chrysanthemum and mint together in a teacup, cover and brew for 5-1 minutes.

Efficacy: Chrysanthemum can clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve fatigue, and it can be better to drink with mint with refreshing effect.

◆ Chrysanthemum ginseng tea

Material: dried chrysanthemum bud 4-5 ginseng 2-4 money

Production method: chop ginseng into small pieces, put it in chrysanthemum bud, cover it with hot water and soak it for about 1-15 minutes.

Efficacy: Ginseng contains saponins and vitamins, which has a good regulating effect on human nervous system, can improve human immunity and effectively drive away fatigue. Chrysanthemum has a fragrant smell, has the functions of clearing away fire and improving eyesight, and both of them have a refreshing effect. However, people with high blood pressure should not use ginseng, and ginseng should not be taken with tea, coffee and radish.

◆ Lavender lemon tea

Material: 5-6 lemon slices or lemon juice from dried lavender flower buds

Method of making: put the dried lavender flower buds and lemon slices together in a teacup, add boiling water and cover it for 5-1 minutes. If it is matched with lemon juice, add it after the tea is light green and cool.

efficacy: the aroma of lavender is loved by the majority of women, and it has the functions of nourishing, relieving stress and relieving fatigue since ancient times. Lemon has the functions of diuresis, promoting digestion and blood circulation, and relieving headache, and its faint fragrance can make people feel refreshed, but pregnant women should not drink tea containing lemon.

Strategy 2: Medicine incense drives away fatigue

You always feel listless and inefficient in spring, but you just don't like the refreshing tea that needs to be brewed every day. What should I do? Never mind, you can make your own sachet, just wear it on your body or put it next to your desk every day.

Simple making recommendation of sachet: Take 3 grams of Borneolum Syntheticum and Camphor, 15 grams of Alpinia officinarum and 3 grams of Cinnamomum cassia, mix and mash these four kinds of traditional Chinese medicines, sew the cloth for making sachet into small bags, and put them into the prepared medicine. After a period of time, if the smell in the sachet may weaken and the refreshing effect will also decrease, you should replace it at this time.

Efficacy: The principle that the sachet can refresh people is that the unique aroma of traditional Chinese medicine in the sachet acts on the brain or nasal mucosa to regulate the nervous system and make people refreshed. According to the research, the fragrant smell emitted by the medicine in the sachet can stimulate the nasal mucosa and increase the content of antibody-secreted immunoglobulin A(SlgA) on the nasal mucosa. The increase of its content makes it difficult for the virus to survive on the nasal mucosa and respiratory mucosa, thus greatly reducing people's chances of catching a cold. Strategy 3: TCM self-massage

1 Massage the head and temples

Massage method: massage the upper and lower eyelids with four fingers together, and then massage. When you massage, it is best to be emotionally stable, chest out and abdomen in order to achieve certain results.

Efficacy: We are familiar with the temple. The correct position of the temple is about one-third from the brow tip to the ear. Touching the most sunken part with your hand is the temple. Massage the temple often can promote the blood circulation of the brain and relieve fatigue, and the operation is very simple, so it is suitable for doing at any time.

2 Massage Yongquan point on the sole of the foot

Massage method: First of all, choose the right point. Yongquan point is what we often call the center of the foot, which is at the bottom of our foot and the middle point of the second metatarsal space. It is equivalent to the junction of the front 1/3 and the middle 1/3 of the palm of the foot. The massage time is best before going to bed every night. The massage methods include shiatsu and rubbing, and each time is about 5-1 times, mainly due to the fever of the foot.

efficacy: this point is the starting point of kidney meridian of foot shaoyin. Kidney governs the storage of essence, which has the physiological functions of absorbing, storing and sealing essence, and is in charge of the growth, development and reproduction of human body. Massage at Yongquan point, through the transmission of meridians, can make the kidney have a good effect, regulate endocrine and autonomic nervous system, and refresh the mind.

three common wrong ways to refresh ourselves

There are many incorrect ways to refresh ourselves in life, which can indeed restore our energy to some extent, but what will be the effect if we use these methods to drive away fatigue for a long time?

1 Use alcohol and tobacco to refresh oneself

Alcohol and tobacco can refresh oneself, which is undeniable. The main mechanism is to stimulate the cerebral cortex through certain chemicals in alcohol and tobacco, so as to keep the brain excited, perhaps occasionally, but it is not the right way to eliminate troubles and fatigue for a long time. Long-term smoking and drinking will not only bring great harm to your body, but also reduce people's immunity, distract their energy and make them more prone to fatigue.

2 As long as you sleep more, you will naturally feel good.

Being listless in spring is not because people's sleep time will be correspondingly prolonged in spring, but because they can't adapt to the climate change at once. People's sleep time has a scientific category. Adults sleep about 8-1 hours a day.