Autumn is a season of transition from hot summer to cold winter. It is a time when people’s resistance is relatively weak. Therefore, you should eat more foods that can enhance the body’s resistance and immunity in autumn; at the same time, the autumn climate It is also relatively dry, and people often experience varying degrees of dryness in the mouth, nose, skin and other parts of the body. Therefore, they should eat moist and juicy foods that promote body fluids and nourish yin, and eat less spicy and fried foods.
Autumn dryness consumes yin and damages essence. In addition, mutton and dog meat are warm and dry foods, which can easily lead to symptoms such as internal heat, oral ulcers, insomnia, and constipation. Therefore, you might as well eat more cool foods in autumn.
The most suitable meat for autumn consumption is duck meat. Jujube, wolfberry, lily, and sweet potato are the four autumn nourishing treasures. In addition, taro, lotus root, sweet potato, and cabbage are also the four autumn nourishing vegetarian treasures. There are also some vegetables and fruits such as eggplant, white radish, winter melon, pumpkin, loofah, rape, spinach, amaranth, tangerine, apple, pear, chestnut, loquat, orange, water chestnut, and mushroom, which are also suitable for autumn consumption.
Method:
1. Soak the white fungus in water, remove the root, and tear it into small florets;
2. After the water in the casserole boils, add rice, Bring the white fungus to a boil over high heat, and continue to cook over low heat for half an hour;
3. Add chrysanthemums, seedless golden jujubes, and wolfberries, and continue to cook for half an hour;
4. Cool the cooked porridge to below 60 degrees, add honey and mix thoroughly.
1. Chrysanthemum, jujube and wolfberry porridge:
Chrysanthemum is the "fairy among flowers" in autumn. The history of edible chrysanthemums in our country is very long. As early as the Warring States Period, the patriotic poet Qu Yuan wrote, "Drinking the magnolias in the morning and the fallen chrysanthemums in the evening." Chrysanthemums have a fragrant smell and can be used to cook a variety of delicious dishes. Chrysanthemum can very well help the human body to replenish qi, strength, remove dryness and detoxify. Modern medicine has proven that chrysanthemum has a good regulating effect on modern people's chronic diseases such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and sub-health.
Lycium barbarum has the effects of antipyretic, treating diabetes, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, etc. Decoction of wolfberry root can lower blood pressure. Wolfberry tea has the effects of treating weak constitution, stomach health, liver and kidney diseases, tuberculosis, constipation, insomnia, hypotension, anemia, various eye diseases, hair loss, stomatitis, and skin care. People with weak constitution, frequent colds, and poor immunity are best to consume it every day. Lycium barbarum has a strong warming effect, so people with high blood pressure or an impatient temper are best not to eat it.
Jujube has a sweet and mild taste. It has the effect of nourishing qi and blood when entering the spleen and stomach. It is a good product for strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi. Traditional Chinese medicine often uses jujube to treat diseases such as spleen and stomach weakness, insufficient qi and blood, and insomnia. Jujube has the functions of protecting the liver and lowering blood lipids. Although jujube is sweet and non-toxic, it is damp and hot in nature, so it should not be eaten too much, especially if it contains dampness and heat. Eating too much will cause adverse reactions such as cold and heat, thirst, and gastric bloating.
2. Mung Bean and Coix Seed Duck Soup
Duck meat is cold in nature. In addition to tonifying deficiency, nourishing yin and nourishing the stomach, it can also disinfect heat, facilitate urination, and relieve sores and boils. This is rare in most warm-blooded meat poultry. Therefore, eating old duck in early autumn has the best effects of nourishing yin, clearing away heat, diluting water and reducing swelling. However, experts remind that duck meat is cold in nature, so people with spleen and stomach deficiency, cold and painful abdomen, diarrhea, and dysmenorrhea due to cold should not eat more.
3. Steamed Pork Ribs with Taro Flour
Taro is rich in starch and nutritious, mainly containing protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and multiple vitamins. It has a soft and smooth texture, is easy to digest, and has a stomachic effect. It is especially suitable for patients with weak spleen and stomach, intestinal diseases, tuberculosis and those who are in the recovery period. It is a good food for infants and the elderly.
4. Bean Paste and Sweet Potato Cake
Sweet potatoes are rich in starch, vitamins, cellulose and other essential nutrients for the human body. They are also rich in magnesium, phosphorus, calcium and other mineral elements and sub-nutrients. Oleic acid, etc., can maintain the elasticity of blood vessels and is very effective in preventing and treating habitual constipation in the elderly. In addition, sweet potatoes are also an ideal weight loss food.
5. Eggplant mixed with mashed garlic
Modern medicine believes that due to the gradual aging and hardening of blood vessels in the elderly, "age spots" (age spots) will appear on the skin. Eating more eggplants in autumn will Age spots will be significantly reduced.
Eggplant is rich in vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin C, vitamin D, protein and calcium, which can make human blood vessels soft. Eggplant can also disperse blood congestion, so it can reduce the chance of blood vessel embolism. In addition, eggplant also has the following effects:
First, it can prevent and treat bleeding diseases.
Purple eggplant is rich in vitamin P, which can improve capillary fragility, prevent small blood vessel bleeding, and has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on hypertension, arteriosclerosis, hemoptysis, purpura, etc.
Second, it can prevent and treat hypercholesterolemia. The saponins contained in eggplant fiber have cholesterol-lowering effects.
Third, prevent cancer. Eggplant contains solanine, which can inhibit the proliferation of digestive tract tumor cells, especially gastric cancer and rectal cancer.
Fourth, it can prevent and treat internal hemorrhoids and bloody stools. Eggplant has the effects of clearing away heat, activating blood circulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain.
6. Osmanthus, glutinous rice and lotus root
From summer to autumn, the human body’s digestive function gradually declines, and the intestinal disease resistance also weakens. However, cooked lotus root is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. Stomach, nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness, it has the effects of nourishing the stomach, nourishing yin, replenishing blood, and stopping diarrhea; dryness is the main qi of autumn, which is prone to dryness and cough, and lotus root can clear away heat and moisturize the lungs. Therefore, it is especially suitable to eat lotus root in autumn.
7. Winter melon ball soup
Winter melon contains more protein, sugar and a small amount of calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals as well as vitamins B1, B2, C and niacin, among which Vitamin B1 can convert starch and sugar in the body into heat energy instead of turning into fat, so winter melon can help lose weight. The difference between winter melon and other vegetables is that it contains no fat, sodium and calories. The seeds of winter melon contain urinary alcohol, adenine, histidine and trigonelline, etc., and the pulp contains adenine, histamine, etc.
8. Cold spinach vermicelli
Spinach can improve iron deficiency anemia and make people look rosy and radiant, so it is highly praised as a beauty product.
Spinach leaves contain chromium and an insulin-like substance, which acts very similarly to insulin and can keep blood sugar stable.
The rich content of B vitamins enables it to prevent the occurrence of vitamin deficiencies such as angular stomatitis and night blindness.
Spinach contains a large amount of antioxidants such as vitamin E and selenium, which have anti-aging and promote cell proliferation. It can not only activate brain function, but also enhance youthful vitality and help prevent brain aging. Prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease.
A Harvard University study also found that middle-aged and elderly people who eat spinach 2 to 4 times a week can reduce the risk of retinal degeneration and protect their eyesight due to their intake of vitamin A and carotene. .
9. Sweet Pear Double Silk
In autumn, the weather is high and the air is crisp, and the moisture in the air decreases. At this time, people are prone to dry throat, dry nose, dry lips, thirst, cough without phlegm, Dry skin and other "autumn dryness" phenomena. Pears, known as the "father of all fruits", have unique curative effects on autumn dryness syndrome.
Pear is slightly cold in nature and sweet in taste. It can produce fluid and quench thirst, moisturize dryness and resolve phlegm, moisturize intestines and relieve constipation. It is mainly used for fever, body fluid injury, upset and thirst, dry cough due to lung dryness, dry throat and tongue. , or symptoms of burping, nausea, dry stool, and excessive drinking. Consistently eating two pears every day in autumn can prevent autumn dryness to a certain extent. Pears also have the effects of clearing heat and calming nerves. They have good auxiliary effects on patients with high blood pressure, heart disease, thirst, constipation, dizziness, insomnia and dreaminess. Pears are also a health-care fruit for patients with hepatitis and kidney disease in autumn.
Eating radish in early autumn can dispel the fire in the heart in midsummer. There is a farmer's proverb that "the radish is eaten first and the vegetables are eaten second". There is also a proverb that "turnip makes tea, and the doctor is so angry that he crawls all over the floor".
Radish has many medicinal values. For example, its seeds can digest food and resolve phlegm, relieve breathlessness and relieve asthma; its leaves can stop diarrhea; It is said among the people that "radish can relieve cough, smoothen the qi, digest food and turn water into water", which is why. What is rare is that the medicinal effects of radish are compatible with tea. Eating some radish and drinking some good tea in autumn has medical basis for eliminating the poisonous heat accumulated in the human body during summer and restoring refreshment. . It is also worth mentioning that Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", also mentioned radish and tea in a health couplet: "Green vegetables, radish, brown rice, earthen pot Tianshui chrysanthemum tea". This old gentleman probably relied on "The radish is the tea" is the eloquence of longevity!
10. Shacha Pork Ribs and Pumpkin Stew
The climate is dry in autumn. Eating more foods rich in vitamin A and vitamin E can enhance the body's immunity and go a long way in improving the symptoms of autumn dryness. benefit.
Pumpkin contains sugar, protein, fiber, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and mineral salts such as calcium, potassium, and phosphorus. Pumpkin fruit contains 7 to 17% pectin, which has strong adsorption power and can bind and eliminate bacteria and toxic substances in the human body, protect the mucosa of the digestive tract, have certain effects on digestive tract ulcers, and can also bind cholesterol , prevent arteriosclerosis.
There is a special substance in pumpkin pulp that can promote insulin secretion, lower blood sugar levels, and has special effects on preventing and treating diabetes. The rich vitamins in the fruit can protect mucous membranes and play a certain role in protecting vision, preventing eye diseases, beautifying and losing weight, etc.
It should be reminded that when you eat too much pumpkin and take in excessive amounts of beta carotene, you are prone to develop carotene xanthelasma. Therefore, do not eat more than one staple meal of pumpkin per day.
11. Braised chestnut chicken
Chestnuts, also known as chestnuts, not only contain a lot of starch, but also are rich in protein, fat, B vitamins and other nutrients. It is also very high in calories and has nourishing functions for the human body, such as nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidneys, strengthening the waist, strengthening the tendons, activating blood circulation, stopping bleeding, and reducing swelling. But don't eat too much at any one time. Eating too much raw food will make it difficult to digest; too much cooked food will block the gastrointestinal tract.
12. Luffa-fried shrimps
Luffa contains higher nutrients than melons, including saponins, luffa bitterness, mucilage, wood glue, Special substances such as citrulline, xylan and interferon have certain special effects. Luffa contains vitamin B1 to prevent skin aging, vitamin C to whiten skin and other ingredients. It can protect the skin, eliminate plaques, and make the skin white and tender. It is a rare beauty product, so loofah juice is known as "beauty water". say. Pay attention to eating more loofah in your daily diet, which will help regulate irregular menstruation. Luffa has a sweet and mild taste, and has the effects of clearing heat and cooling blood, detoxifying and laxative, dispelling wind and reducing phlegm, moisturizing and beautifying, dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation, and releasing milk. Luffa has the effects of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, and unblocking collaterals.