When it comes to mutton, there may be many people who think that eating it in winter has a nourishing effect. Is it okay to eat something so warm on a hot day? Shouldn't we have some ice cream, some cold drinks and some cold beer?
In fact, the lust for coldness is only to satisfy the temporary refreshment, and it has nothing to do with health care. Because by the summer solstice, our internal organs have been extremely cold. Therefore, from the beginning of the summer solstice until the dog days, diarrhea is everywhere, and vomiting and diarrhea occur if you are not careful.
Therefore, eat warm food when it is in the dog days. As long as there is no internal heat and yellow greasy tongue coating, there is basically no problem.
As for "Fu Yang", in fact, as early as thousands of years ago in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, prescribed a prescription-Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber.
Although Danggui mutton soup is a commonly used therapeutic prescription, it is very famous in the classics, and it is said to be a nourishing medicinal diet for the royal family in ancient court.
Article 135 in the original text of the Golden Chamber says:
For those with cold hernia, abdominal pain and hypochondriac pain, Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup is the main one.
Three liang of angelica, five liang of ginger and a catty of mutton. Take eight liters of water for the right three flavors, boil three liters, take seven times with warm water, and take three times a day. If it is cold, add ginger to make a catty, and if it hurts too much and vomits, add two ounces of orange peel, one or two ounces of Atractylodes macrocephala, and ginger, such as five liters of water, and boil three liters for two servings.
Sheep are one of the six animals, and they are animals of fire and earth. They are active by nature. In zhouyan's Materia Medica Speculations in the late Qing Dynasty, it is most clear that "sheep are good at climbing the cliff, and they have no fear. Their kidney qi is solid, which is not comparable to that of other animals. However, among the five elements of salty utensils, the gas of fire and earth is especially high. "
"Book of Changes" gossip to exchange hexagrams (? ) corresponding to the sheep, this divination is like two yang in the bottom and one yin in the top. Although the positive is upward, there is a yin in the top, so it is not hard to forge ahead; Although the yin is on the top, but the bearing of the two yang is soft and strong, which is the characteristics of sheep.
"Su Wen" says: "The south is red, and it enters the heart, and its livestock and sheep." It is also said: "the thick gas is yang, and the thick taste is yin."
Meat is full of flavor. Eating too much can nourish yin and blood and store energy, so meat can nourish yin. Mutton, on the other hand, is the heart fire in the south, which can be said to be the yang in the yin, and can also help the yang in the yin, so it has the effects of enriching blood, nourishing deficiency and eliminating deficiency and cold.
Huangdi Neijing says, "Yang is nourished in spring and summer, and Yin is nourished in autumn and winter". Eating mutton in moderation in summer can warm the body and dispel the cold.
In addition, people like to eat some cold food in summer, which is easy to accumulate cold in the body, making the spleen and stomach cold and the intestines damaged. Therefore, eating mutton in dog days is also a way to heat the body, sweat and detoxify, and play a role in treating winter diseases in summer.
Angelica and ginger mutton soup, taking mutton as the monarch medicine, can warm the spleen and slow down the middle. There is another important reason why mutton is used here instead of pork or chicken, because mutton can make yang come out of the yin, but after yang comes out, it doesn't leave by itself, but with yin, so that yin is not harmed.
When mutton brings yang out, if there is cold coagulation, it is helpless. At this time, it needs the pungent and warm nature of angelica and ginger to dispel the cold evil in yin. This combination not only has a good warm effect, but also tastes delicious. Angelica and ginger perfectly cover the smell of mutton.
Peng Ziyi's "Ancient Chinese Medicine of Circular Movement" discusses this dialect: "Angelica warms the liver and blood, ginger warms the yang to dispel the cold, and mutton warms the liver and yang to nourish the vitality in the wood to help Shengda. Add ginger to relieve cold stagnation, so all diseases are cured. "
The best time to drink Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup:
1, around the winter solstice, especially for three or nine days. At this time, the yin is cold and the yang is born, so it is necessary to cultivate righteousness.
2. The dog days in summer. At this time, the yang leaks out, and the accumulated cold hides in the bladder meridian and joints of the back, which is the easiest to be driven out.
Ingredients: 250g mutton, 0/0g angelica/kloc, 0/5g ginger/kloc.
1, cut the mutton into pieces, soak it in clear water for half an hour in advance, rinse the bleeding water as much as possible, then boil the water and scald it, and take it out.
2. Slice Angelica sinensis and ginger, stir-fry the ginger in the pot for a while, then pour in mutton and stir-fry until the blood is dry, scoop it up and put it in a casserole with Angelica sinensis to start cooking.
3. Turn the big fire to a small fire pot 1.5-2 hours, and the steaming angelica mutton soup will be fine.
pay attention to
When it is used for health preservation, you can add a little Radix Rehmanniae in the soup, because the medicinal properties of Angelica sinensis are a little dry, and adding Radix Rehmanniae can balance the dryness of the soup.
People who have heat in their bodies, or who have excessive fire due to yin deficiency, are not suitable for this soup, and should also fast during pregnancy.