Many foods play the role of medicine and food call. The "medicine and food" is the wisdom summarized by the ancients in the discovery of food and medicine. Sun Simiao, a great physician of the Tang Dynasty, said, "If you use it to satisfy your hunger, it is called food, and if you use it to cure your illness, it is called medicine", and this kind of food, like medicine, has a bias, four qi and five flavors, and has therapeutic effects, in addition to providing basic nutrients.
Commonly used ingredients to dispel dampness
Poria Cocos: sweet, light, neutral, with water seepage and dampness, strengthen the spleen, tranquilize the mind, used for oedema and spleen deficiency with less food and loose stools.
Job's tears: sweet taste, light, cool, with diuresis, spleen, diarrhea, paralysis, drainage of pus, detoxification and dissipation of the effects of edema, spleen deficiency diarrhea.
Crimson Bean: sweet, acidic, neutral, with the effect of diuresis, detoxification pus, used for canker sores, swelling, edema and fullness.
White lentils: sweet, warm, with the spleen and dampness, and the effect of summer, for the spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, summer dampness, vomiting and diarrhea.
Gorgonian: sweet, astringent, flat, with the benefit of the kidney and essence, tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing dampness and stopping the efficacy of the belt, used for the spleen for a long time diarrhea, spermatorrhea and urination of the kidney deficiency, and the lower part of the belt.
Sharen: pungent, warm, with dampness and stomach, warming the middle and stopping diarrhea, qi and fetal efficacy, used for dampness obstruction of the middle Jiao, stagnation of the spleen and stomach qi of the epigastric distention and pain, and the spleen and stomach, cold, vomiting and diarrhea.
Help Leaf: bitter taste, neutral, with the effect of clearing summer heat and dampness, rising the Qingyang, cooling the blood to stop bleeding, used for summer heat and thirst, summer dampness and diarrhea, diarrhea of spleen deficiency.
Orange Peel: pungent, bitter, warm, has the effect of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, used for dampness obstruction of the middle Jiao, stagnation of the spleen and stomach qi of the epigastric distension, less food, vomiting and diarrhea.
Patchouli: pungent, slightly warm, aromatic dampness, and to stop vomiting, published to relieve the effects of summer heat, used for dampness obstruction of the middle Jiao, nausea and vomiting, summer dampness, chest tightness and discomfort.
Dispelling ingredients are not suitable for everyone
The dual-purpose Chinese medicine is not the same as food, they have a bias, some may have a slight toxicity, but the overall safety factor is greater, long-term or large amounts of application is not easy to be poisoned. Because of this, its toxicity is easy to be ignored, people are prone to some misunderstandings in the application, the most common is that some people year-round long-term consumption of such as "Coix Seed Red Bean Porridge" to dispel dampness and keep fit, that will help to maintain health.
In fact, the "national health good" Coix lacryma, for example, this herb is slightly cold, with the spleen and water, and is a representative plant of the graminae family, the taste is easy to get, the raw product is good to clear the lungs, heat, carbuncle pus; fried Coix lacryma is more suitable for the spleen and dampness can be used for splenic oedema, splenic deficiency and diarrhea, if you take it for a long time, fried Coix lacryma is more suitable for the spleen and dampness. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the website to see if it's a good idea.
It is important to note that Job's tears can promote uterine contraction, "Pinhui Essentials" mentioned that "pregnancy can not be served"; "to get with the herb" more specifically on the inapplicability of the crowd to limit the "insufficient water in the kidneys, insufficient spleen yin, gas deficiency and subsidence, pregnancy, the four prohibited! "That is to say, those who are deficient in qi and blood and those who are deficient in yin, deficiency of fluid and often dry mouth are not suitable for long-term consumption of Coix Seed; those who are deficient in spleen and have loose bowels are only suitable for consumption of fried Coix Seed, not raw Coix Seed.
Poria Cocos is more suitable for the general public, but those with dry stools should not consume it for a long period of time;
Patchouli is more suitable for those who feel the wind in the summer season, and those who suffer from internal injuries of summer dampness;
Patchouli is more suitable for those who feel the wind and suffer from internal injuries of summer dampness;
Holocaust is more suitable for those who suffer from internal injuries of summer dampness. Lotus leaf is best suited for summer porridge or added to meat steamed to flavor and add color;
white lentils can regulate the spleen and stomach, nourish the lungs, but contains non-specific phytoagglutinin, has a certain inhibitory effect on prothrombin, and a certain degree of toxicity, heating or prolonging the time of cooking can be made to greatly reduce the toxicity of;
< p> Sand nut is more suitable for consumption as a condiment;Crimson bean can make the dampness and heat from the urine, with the crucian carp and other crucian carp soup, suitable for patients with edema;
Gorgonian fruit is more suitable for those who have a loose spleen, women who have a weak spleen, chronic kidney disease, also suitable for patients with proteinuria, but constipation and defecation difficulties should be used with caution;
Orange Peel is more suitable for the preparation of medicinal meals, such as "Beef with orange peel" or "Shanzhaoshan," or "Beef with orange peel". "It has the effect of strengthening the stomach and promoting digestion.
Discerning the body, choose ingredients
If you don't discern the body, unknown medicinal properties of cold and hot, indications and contraindications, blindly abusing ingredients, the consequences may not be satisfactory. There are hot and cold medicines, and there are hot and cold human bodies. When applying medicinal food herbs, you should first know whether your body is cold or hot.
Cold constitution: mostly yang deficiency, body more white fat, colorless, cold like warmth, cold limbs, loose stools, nocturnal urination clear long, hair easy to fall, pulse sinking, tongue fat, tongue pale, more teeth marks, it is appropriate to choose the warm nature of the traditional Chinese medicine, such as cloves, aniseed, fennel, cinnamon, peppercorns, gaoLiangZhong, ginger (ginger, dry difference), Black pepper and other medicinal herbs.
Hot body: more of a yin deficiency, more thin, flushed, dry mouth and throat, often like cold drinks, hot hands and feet, sleeplessness, easy to constipation, yellow urine, red tongue with little or no moss, pulse is fine and counting, it is appropriate to choose the cold nature of the Chinese medicine, such as lily, bamboo, chrysanthemum, cassia, gardenia, honeysuckle, acacia, goji berry, and so on.
Qi stagnation type constitution: mostly see thin body, pale yellow face, chest ribs full of tightness, sometimes want to breath, or pharynx when there is something in the stalk, the tongue texture is dull, the pulse sinking string or both astringent, it is appropriate to choose the function of the gas of the Buddha's hand, citron, tangerine, orange, tangerine, mint, and so on.
Phlegm and turbidity type of body: obesity, flabbiness, body weight, dizziness, chest tightness and epigastric plumpness, loose stools, fat tongue, greasy moss, moistened or slippery pulse, it is advisable to choose the Poria, Elsholtzia, Perilla, Coix Seed, patchouli, and other dual-use traditional Chinese medicines which can resolve phlegm and dispel dampness.
Choose the right ingredients to get rid of dampness
In hot and humid weather, people are susceptible to dampness, chest tightness, palpitations, loss of appetite, fatigue, and often accompanied by depression, drowsiness and other symptoms. As the spleen "like dryness and evil dampness" by the greatest influence of dampness, this time the spleen and stomach digestion function is poor. Therefore, in the small full, mango season, should strengthen the spleen and dampness. Patchouli, sand nuts, cardamom, etc. are aromatic drugs, containing volatile oils, decoction time should not be too long, 10 to 15 minutes. Aromatic medicines are better used as flavorings. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what is going on in your life and how it will affect you.
Poria Cocos Cake
Ingredients seventy percent round-grained rice, thirty percent white glutinous rice, plus the right amount of Poria, Gorgon fruit, lotus seed meat, yam.
Directions Ingredients *** crushed into powder, add the right amount of water, mix well to make cakes, daily consumption.
Yam Coix Seed Ling Japonica Rice Porridge
Ingredients Poria cocos (ground) 30 grams, 30 grams of Coix Seed, 50 grams of yam, 100 grams of Japonica rice.
Practice will be round-grained rice, Coix lacryma, yam with the right amount of water, cook until half-cooked, put Poria powder, and evenly cooked, fasting consumption.
Job's tears Poria mushroom chicken porridge
Ingredients Job's tears Coix lacryma 200 grams, Poria 10 grams, 200 grams of round-grained rice, 50 grams of chicken breast meat, 4 dried mushrooms.
Directions Soak the mushrooms and cut them into pieces. Chicken breast skin, remove the fat, into the pot to cook 30 ~ 40 minutes and then fish out, cut into pieces. Poria is powdered. Wash Job's tears, soak in hot water overnight, drain and add 7 times water to boil, simmer. Japonica rice with 5 times the water to cook for 1 hour, and Job's tears porridge combined, add mushrooms, chicken diced, Poria powder, cook until thick for degrees. Seasoning can be added when serving.
Cassia Carp Soup
Raw materials: 50 grams of red beans, 1 tail of crucian carp (about 500 grams), 6 grams of tangerine peel, fruits of the grass, green onions, ginger, pepper, a little.
Methods Boiled soup, 1 time a day, served for 1 month. Suitable for people with edema caused by low protein, ascites and malnutrition edema.
Five Spice Powder
Mix the powdered spices such as sand nuts, cloves, peppercorns, star anise, fennel, and nutmeg to make "Five Spice Powder", which can be used to make five-spice tofu, five-spice beans, and so on.
Tips
Long-term use of antihypertensive, hypoglycemic or lipid-regulating drugs, patients, in the selection of dual-use Chinese medicine, to consult a licensed Chinese medicine practitioner or Chinese pharmacist, so as to avoid antagonism between Chinese and Western medicines, reduce each other's efficacy, or increase the number of toxic side effects. If you are not feeling well after taking the medication, you should seek medical attention in a timely manner.
Reprinted from: Popular Medicine
Issue 6, 2019, pp. 68-69
By Haiying Wang