Cereals in our country is the table is indispensable food, but also the traditional staple food. Every kind of food is a gift of nature, Chinese medicine believes that food also has its own nature bias, has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect, health is in the three meals a day, Chinese medicine thought and we are inseparable.
A few examples of grains
Japonica rice sweet, flat; to the spleen, stomach, lungs, with the qi spleen, in addition to thirst, diarrhea and dysentery.
Recommended diet - Wu Ren Japonica Rice Porridge:
Functions: Stomach and intestines. It is suitable for habitual constipation caused by deficiency of qi and blood; if a woman is constipated by blood deficiency after delivery, she can go to peach kernel.
Ingredients: Sesame seeds, pine nuts, walnuts, peach kernels (peeled tip, fried), sweet almonds, each 15g, 200g round-grained rice.
Practice: will be mixed with the above five kernels crushed, add round-grained stalks of rice*** cooked porridge, you can add the right amount of sugar.
Dosage: Take 1 time in the morning and 1 time in the evening daily.
Glutinous rice sweet, warm; to the spleen, stomach, lung meridian, has the function of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi.
Glutinous rice and yam:
Effective: cold spleen and stomach, chronic diarrhea, reduced diet.
Ingredients: 500g of glutinous rice. 50g of yam, sugar, pepper.
Practice: Glutinous rice soaked in water overnight after draining, stir-fried, grinding sieve, yam also research into fine powder: glutinous rice and yam mix, and then according to personal taste to add the appropriate amount of sugar, pepper that is to become.
Dosage: Take it daily with a small half bowl of boiling water.
Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", the use of glutinous rice for the treatment of spontaneous sweating more than the method of glutinous rice, wheat bran with the fried for the end, each time 9g, rice drink soup.
Spleen deficiency and diarrhea, with glutinous rice, lotus seeds, jujube, Chinese yam **** porridge, cooked with sugar to eat.
It should be noted that, because of the soft viscous difficult to digest, damp-heat, phlegm fire and spleen stagnation is prohibited, children should not eat more.
Wheat sweet and cool, with a nourishing heart and mind, thick intestines and spleen.
In the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing's "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber" there is a famous sweet wheat and jujube soup, the treatment of depression due to emotional depression or overthinking, the heart and spleen damage, resulting in restlessness, sadness, crying, yawning, modern commonly used in the menopausal irritability. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, also believes that wheat, "the heart gas, the heart disease should eat".
With wheat 50g, licorice 10g, jujube 10 , water decoction in three servings.
Buckwheat: sweet taste and coolness, strengthening the spleen and eliminating the accumulation of qi, down the bowel, detoxification and astringent sores.
Li Shizhen in his prime, abdominal pain, there is always diarrhea, but the excrement is not much not much, a good number of times a day and night, lethargy and fatigue for 2 months. With the elimination of food and gas medicine are ineffective, a monk let him use buckwheat noodles as a meal, and even eat three or four times that is healed.
So he said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "buckwheat is the most cooling gas broad bowel, so the practice of intestinal and gastrointestinal dregs stagnation, and the treatment of turbid tape dysentery abdominal pain on the gas of the disease, the gas is hot with dampness is desirable." Because of the nature of the cold, not suitable for long service, cold spleen and stomach is prohibited.
Corn: taste sweet and flat, to the stomach, large intestine meridian; can adjust the stomach, diuretic in addition to turbidity.
Commonly used in loss of appetite, urinary incontinence, edema, urinary tract stones or hypertension auxiliary food therapy. It is recorded in the Materia Medica Push Chen that "it is a stomachic agent. Decoction also has diuretic effect."
Thus, therapeutic diet is guided by the theory of Chinese medicine, and modern nutrition belongs to two categories, which are both cross and complementary, *** with the role of conditioning the body. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual food you're eating, and you'll be able to see what's going on.