The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is based on the doctrine of the five elements, centering on the five organs of the human body, and the five colors are matched with the five organs, i.e., green, red, yellow, white and black. Red is the main heart, green is the main liver, yellow is the main spleen, white is the main lung, and black is the main kidney. So there are those foods that correspond to the four seasons of the year? Spring, summer, fall and winter seasons to eat what benefits and health? First: spring: spring buds, spring food spring buds is the gift of nature, the classic work of traditional Chinese medicine, "Huang Di Nei Jing" said to "eat years of grain," which means to eat seasonal food. In spring, all plants give birth to fresh shoots, of which there are many edible spring sprouts, such as parsnips, bean sprouts, garlic shoots, bean sprouts and so on.
Spring leek: spring, taste fresh, the first spring leek. Spring climate cold and warm, the need to maintain Yang Qi, and leeks are most suitable for human Yang Qi. Leek contains volatile oil, protein, fat and a variety of vitamins and other nutrients, stomach, refreshing, strong kidney and other effects. Spring leeks for leeks in the best, the flavor is particularly delicious. Its roots white as jade, green leaves like jade, fragrant. Spring leeks eat a variety of ways, both meat, eggs, shrimp, cuttlefish, etc., and can be made of steamed dumplings filling. Fried mung bean sprouts or dried tofu with some spring chives, extraordinarily fragrant and delicious.
Spinach detoxification spring dryness: spring eating vegetables and spinach, spinach, spinach throughout the year, but in the spring for the best, "Spring Spinach" root red and green leaves, fresh and tender exceptionally, the most delicious. Spring listed spinach, detoxification, spring dryness is quite beneficial. Chinese medicine also believes that spinach is sweet and cool, can nourish blood, stop bleeding, astringent yin, moistening dryness. Because spinach contains more oxalic acid, hindering the absorption of calcium and iron, eat spinach is recommended to use boiling water first, then fry.
Onion and garlic sterilization to help spring sun: onion, ginger, garlic is not only a good seasoning, but also important medicinal value, can enhance appetite, help spring sun, but also has the effect of sterilization and disease prevention. Spring is the most nutritious onion and garlic in a year, but also the most tender, the most fragrant, the most delicious time.
Spring bamboo shoots:When it comes to eating spring, you have to mention the spring bamboo shoots. Spring bamboo shoots crispy and delicious, can chew out the fragrance and sweet to, known as "vegetarian first product", if the meat eaters despise, eat bamboo shoots is just the opposite. The flavor of bamboo shoots is so elegant and timeless. Su Dongpo once said: "no bamboo is vulgar, no meat is thin, if you want not vulgar and not thin, daily bamboo shoots cooked meat." According to Chinese medicine, spring bamboo shoots have the effect of "facilitating the nine orifices, opening up the blood vessels, dissolving phlegm and saliva, and eliminating food bloating".
1, the first tea in spring: rose, "spring should be, the way of life." "Eat spring" focus not only on "eat" "drink" is equally important. The first tea in spring, also flowers and tea - it is the familiar rose. Rose tea is slightly warm, with blood circulation and menstruation, liver and qi, balance the endocrine effects of the liver and stomach have a regulating effect, and can eliminate fatigue, improve physical condition, suitable for spring drinking. In addition, rose tea, known as the "holy medicine of depression", can also make your mood "cloudy". Not only that, rose tea can also beauty, help to improve dry skin, eliminate pigmentation, improve skin color. 2, nourish the spleen good jujube: people in the spring of outdoor activities than the winter increased, physical exertion is greater, the need for heat increased. But at this time the spleen and stomach is weak, gastrointestinal digestive ability is poor, not suitable for eating greasy meat, therefore, the heat can be appropriate by the supply of sweets. Red dates is such a flavor of spring spleen good. 3, into the spleen and blood dried longan: dried longan suitable for tranquility liver blood deficiency, poor circulation of qi and blood, easy to sleep in the spring, no spirit. And dried longan can be into the spleen and blood, spleen and stomach enough, liver blood, liver qi is also more adequate, sleep at night, easy to dizziness can eat more people. However, often dry mouth, easy to fire, the body more hot and dry people to eat less, it is recommended that 1 day do not eat more than half the amount of palm.
Two: summer, eat more bitter food in three meals a day, pay attention to eat more bitter food. Bitter food is not so palatable in flavor, but it is a healthy food for the summer. The alkaloids contained in bitter foods have pharmacological effects such as reducing summer heat, promoting blood circulation and relaxing blood vessels. Three volts weather to eat some bitter melon, bitter vegetables, or drink some beer, tea, coffee, cocoa and other bitter beverages, not only can clear people's inner worries, refreshing, and can enhance appetite, spleen and stomach. Attention to vitamin supplementation in the hot season, the human body metabolism accelerated, easy to lack of various vitamins. At this time, you can selectively quantitative supplementation of some vitamins, preferably food supplementation, you can choose some rich in vitamins and calcium foods, such as watermelon, cucumber, tomatoes, beans and their products, animal liver and kidneys, shrimp, etc., you can also drink some fruit juice. Don't forget to supplement salt and potassium in the summer sweat more, the body loses more salt. So pay attention to eat more salty food, in order to supplement the body lost salt, to achieve the balance of the body needs. In addition, sweating a lot can also lead to excessive loss of potassium ions in the body, the specific symptoms are the body tiredness and weakness, loss of appetite and so on. Fresh vegetables and fruits contain more potassium, so you can eat some strawberries, apricots, lychees, peaches, plums and other fruits in a controlled manner as appropriate, while vegetables such as bok choy, green onions, celery and woolly beans are also rich in potassium. Tea contains more potassium, drink more tea in the summer time, both can eliminate the summer heat, but also can make up for potassium, can be said to be two birds with one stone. Summer days should be clear and tonic summer diet should be clear and tonic, strengthen the spleen, dispel heat and dampness as the principle, you should choose to have a light and nourishing effect of food, such as duck, crucian carp, shrimp, lean meat, edible mushrooms (shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, flat mushrooms, fungus, etc.), Job's tears, and so on. Eat more summer medicinal porridge summer is not suitable for big tonic, summer eat big tonic food easy to make the body uncomfortable, so mutton is not advisable to eat more, especially people with high blood pressure. It is best to eat more vegetables, less greasy, and pay attention to eat more food can be clear heat to reduce the heat, such as mung bean porridge, lentil porridge, lotus leaf porridge, mint porridge and other "summer medicine porridge". "Red light" food hot summer, the human body's appetite will often mislead the human diet, resulting in the result is to satisfy the taste, brought about by disease. Therefore, the summer to be healthy, but also pay more attention to eat less or not eat inappropriate food.
2, eat less cold food climate is particularly hot, appropriate to eat some cold food or drink some cold drinks will make people feel comfortable physically and mentally, but also can play a certain role in driving the summer cooling. However, these foods should not eat too much. Cold powder, cold porridge eat too much will be easy to hurt the stomach. Ice cream, ice bricks, etc. is made of milk, egg powder, sugar, etc., can not be consumed too much, otherwise it is easy to lead to a drop in the temperature of the stomach and intestines, causing irregular contractions, inducing abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. Currently there are many varieties of drinks on the market, but the nutritional value is not high, it is better to drink less. If you drink too much cold drinks will also damage the spleen and stomach, affect the appetite, and may even lead to gastrointestinal function disorder. Eat fruit should be moderate from a nutritional point of view, the human body a variety of basic nutritional needs - carbohydrates, minerals, proteins, etc., are not relying solely on eating fruit to meet the long-term rely on "fruity"! Long-term survival by "fruity", easy to lead to insufficient protein intake, the human body's endocrine system, digestive system, immune system, etc. have a negative impact. Some young friends like to eat fruit in the summer to lose weight, in fact, not very scientific. Eating fruit alone will not only lead to many diseases, but also because most of the fruits contain sufficient sugar, so long-term large intake, and can not achieve weight loss. Avoid raw food aquatic products aquatic products are rich in nutrients and good taste, summer raw food taste is also first-class. However, seafood foods such as choked shrimp, arkshell, mud clam, ark shell, drunken shrimp, drunken crab, salted crab and other seafood, the safety risk is higher. Because seafood contains many parasites, without high-temperature sterilization, eaten easily infected with disease.
3, many people believe that no heating or high-temperature cooking food, containing nutrients will not be lost, raw food is the best. In fact, like vegetables, fruits, these foods are better to eat raw, they contain vitamins, fiber and other nutrients will not be missing. But raw vegetables and fruits must be washed, because now vegetables and fruits contain pesticides. Family meals pay more attention to prevent cross-contamination of raw and cooked food, so do not put cooked food in containers or dishes that have been filled with raw seafood, raw meat and have not been washed. In summer, it is especially important to refrigerate cooked food that has been processed in a timely manner. Usually, the storage time of cooked food at room temperature should be limited to two hours. Food should be eaten as it is prepared, and raw fruits and vegetables should be washed and sanitized. If the food is rotten, spoiled or tasteless, it will easily lead to diarrhea and other symptoms, so it is best not to eat it. When making coleslaw, you should add garlic and vinegar, which can not only flavor, but also play the role of sterilization, and also promote appetite. After the food out of the refrigerator, it is best to leave it at room temperature for 10 to 20 minutes before eating it, because it is too cold when it is just taken out, and for the elderly and children, their spleen and stomach are relatively weak and easily harmed.
Autumn: the average person in the fall, due to the pleasant climate, food, often eat too much. Excess calorie intake, will be converted into fat accumulation, make people fat, as the saying goes, "long fall fat", this is not good. In the fall diet, we should pay attention to moderation, and can not indulge the appetite, eating and drinking.
2. From the theory of traditional Chinese medicine dietary therapy, that the fall is dry, "it is appropriate to eat hemp to moisten its dryness". In China's Yellow River Basin, once in the fall, the climate becomes clear and dry, and therefore advocate that it should be moist and dry. How to do this? First of all, we should eat less stimulating, spicy, hot and dry foods, such as sharp chili peppers, peppers and so on, we should eat more vegetables, fruits and vegetables, such as winter melon, radish, zucchini, eggplant, leafy greens, apples, bananas and so on. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine also believes that the fall is a combination of all things convergence, and therefore advocate "should be eaten in order to disperse". Means to avoid all kinds of dampness and heat accumulation. Because all the food with pungent odor, have the function of dissemination, therefore advocate eating some pungent odor of food such as celery. 3. As the autumn weather from hot to cool, the human body in order to adapt to this change, the physiological metabolism has also changed, the diet, pay special attention to do not be too raw and cold, so as not to cause intestinal and gastrointestinal dyspepsia, the occurrence of a variety of gastrointestinal tract disorders. So put forward the "autumn should be warm" idea, that is to say, in the fall should avoid eating some cold and cold food, should eat more warm food.
Autumn, the weather is turning cooler, people's mouth, nose, skin and other parts of the mouth tend to varying degrees of dryness, so we should eat some of the food, less spicy, fried food. Suitable for autumn food: lily: clear the mind, eliminate fatigue, have the role of moist and dry cough; yam: its characteristics are not hot and not dry, regardless of men and women, young and old, healthy and weak, are suitable for consumption; lotus root: raw lotus can clear the heat and thirst, cooked lotus root can strengthen the spleen and stomach. Therefore, there is a "summer day is suitable for raw lotus root, autumn cool is suitable for cooked lotus root, raw food is suitable for fresh, cooked food is suitable for strong old"; chestnuts: spleen and stomach, tonic kidney and strong bone role; walnut: can warm the lungs and wheezing, but also beneficial to the blood, moistening dry bowel; peanuts: peanut maturity in late autumn, it is appropriate to use fresh peanut kernels or powdered research soup or boiled decoction service, should not be fried; jujubes: Autumn food jujube, beneficial lungs and gas, such as with the silver ear, lily, yam *** simmer food, the effect is better. In addition, the fall is also suitable for eating pears, water chestnuts, jellyfish, carrots, chestnuts, flat mushrooms, kelp, tomatoes, rabbit meat, tonic is suitable for consumption of astragalus, ginseng, ginseng, Chinese wolfberry, he shouwu and so on. The main climatic feature of the fall is dry, the air lack of moisture, the human body also lack of water. However, just drink plain water, and can not completely resist the negative effects of autumn dryness. China's ancient times there is a dietary recipe to deal with autumn dryness: "Salt water towards the end of the day, honey soup at night." In other words, drinking plain water, water is easy to lose, if you add a little salt in plain water, it is not so easy to lose. Drink some salt water during the day, drink honey water at night, which is a good way to replenish the body's water, but also fall health, resistance to aging diet, but also to prevent constipation due to autumn dryness, it is really a triple win.
Autumn dry season, but also pay attention to not eat or eat less spicy barbecue food, such as chili peppers, peppercorns, cinnamon, ginger, onions and wine, especially ginger. These foods are hot, but also in the cooking to lose a lot of water, easy to eat after the fire. Of course, a small amount of green onions, ginger and chili peppers as a condiment is not a big problem, but do not eat often or more. For example, ginger, which contains volatile oil, can accelerate blood circulation, and also contains curcumin, which has the function of stimulating gastric juice secretion, excitation of the intestinal tract, and promote digestion. Ginger also contains gingerol, which can reduce the occurrence of gallstones. In the ancient medical books also appeared in this "warning": "within a year, the fall does not eat ginger; within a day, the night does not eat ginger." It seems that, in the fall, do not eat or eat less ginger and other spicy foods, has long attracted the attention of the ancients, which is very reasonable. Autumn is the season when people are most likely to grow fat. This is because after the autumn, the weather slowly become cooler, people's appetite, night rest is also much more comfortable, leisure time tired body is more willing to rest quietly, and not willing to participate in physical exertion activities. In this way, the body's daily caloric intake is mostly more than caloric consumption, so that the fat a little bit of hoarding up. If not adjusted, after the fall and winter seasons, people will be much fatter. Year after year, people will soon be "fat" up. What's worse, obesity both hinder the physical beauty of people, but also bring hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebral atherosclerosis and other "civilization disease", so we must not "condone" it.
Chestnut porridge to eat, can make up for the gas, steamed alone, fried, shelling and eating, not only good taste, but also high nutritional value. Frost is the last of the fall season, after that is the "winter". As the saying goes, "make up for the winter is not as good as make up for the frost". Autumn fill both eat mutton and rabbit meat. Fruit as a fashionable food, everyone knows. However, fruit can also be used as a tonic, such as pears and persimmons in the fall of the elderly in addition to do not fall frozen, the core issue is the choice of diet and collocation, there are the following aspects: cold and warm daily breakfast, with warm nature of the food, such as porridge with jujubes and dried ginger, walnuts, sweet almonds, grapes, etc., but also can consume soya bean milk, hoisin soup, lamb broth, vinegar, butterfly cabbage, sugar and garlic, etc.. Dampness and wind in the case of rain and wind and wet weather or the body has moisture, stool thinning, should be increased to remove wind and dampness of the diet, such as the use of rice, lentils, red beans, Job's tear grains, lotus seeds, chestnuts, green onions, ginger, peppercorns, fennel, cloves, pepper, and so on. Moistening dryness and nourishing yin in dry weather or dry mouth, dry stools, should choose to moisten dryness and nourish yin in the diet, this kind of diet varieties can enhance the immune system, you can choose whole wheat flour, wheat kernel, bean sprouts, soybean milk, peanuts, sesame seeds, sweet potatoes, yam, pumpkin, radish, cabbage, cabbage, lily, lily, fungus, pears, apples, grapes, wolfberries, jujubes, sweet almonds, sugarcane, honey, duck eggs, steamed egg custard, and so on. Convergence of yang in the diet moderate increase in hawthorn, schizandra, persimmon vinegar and other sour food can convergence of yang, if no wind-cold weather or the body does not have cool cold, should be used as little as possible or do not use to relieve the surface of the sweating food, such as scallions, ginger, chili peppers, mustard and so on.
Winter: Winter is a cold season. The motherland medicine believes that winter tonic and balance yin and yang, dredge meridians, and harmonize qi and blood have a close relationship. Elderly people due to the body function decline, low resistance, etc., in the cold season, it is more appropriate to carry out dietary supplementation. This is to improve the nutritional status, enhance the body's immune function, promote the recovery of the body, more can show the effect of drugs can not be replaced. Winter tonic should follow nature, pay attention to Yang, to nourish the main tonic. According to traditional Chinese medicine, "the deficiency is complementary, cold is the warmth of the" principle, in the diet should eat more warm, hot, especially warm tonic kidney yang food for conditioning, in order to improve the body's ability to withstand cold. Winter "food supplement", should be supplied with protein, vitamins and easy to digest food. Can choose to eat: round-grained rice, indica rice, corn, wheat, soybeans, peas and other cereals and legumes; leeks, parsley, garlic, radish, cauliflower and other vegetables; mutton, dog meat, beef, chicken and eel, carp, chub, scallop, shrimp and other meats; oranges, coconuts, pineapple, lychee, cinnamon and other fruits. Dog meat and mutton are good winter tonic for the elderly. Elderly people take ginseng wine or astragalus wine 1 small cup every morning, which can prevent wind and cold and activate blood. Elderly people with weak physique; often eat stewed hen, fine meat, hooves in winter, often drink milk, soy milk, etc., can strengthen the physique. Beef appropriate amount of cut small pieces, add wine, onions, ginger, stewed in a casserole, eat meat and drink soup, there are beneficial to quench thirst, strong bones, nourish the spleen and stomach effect. Yang Qi insufficient old man, can be mutton and radish with cooking, and then remove the radish (that is, to remove the fishy taste of mutton), plus 15 grams of Cistanches, 15 grams of Morinda citrifolia, 15 grams of wolfberries with cooking, eating mutton and drinking soup, there is a XingYangWenYun efficacy. Modern medicine believes that winter tonic can improve the body's immune function, promote metabolism, so that the phenomenon of fear of cold is improved. Winter tonic can also regulate the body's material metabolism, so that the nutrients into the maximum energy stored in the body, helping the body's Yang Qi rise, for the next year's health to lay a good foundation. As the saying goes, "three nine make up a winter, the next year, no disease", is this reason.