① Warm food
Longan meat: tonify the heart and soothe the nerves, nourish blood and benefit the spleen.
Litchi: sweet and nourishing blood, beneficial to people's color.
Maltose: tonify the middle and urgent matters, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.
Lentils: spleen and stomach, dampness and summer heat.
Hawthorn: Xiaoshi Jianwei, Huoxue Huayu.
Walnut: tonify kidney and yang, astringe lung and stop asthma.
Cereals: flour, broad beans, soybean oil, wine and vinegar.
Vegetables: ginger, garlic, green onion, leek, coriander, mustard seed, carrot and Allium macrostemon.
Fruits: plum, olive, papaya, dark plum, millet, grape and jujube.
Sugar: honey, white sugar and granulated sugar.
Animals: chicken, pheasant, duck, dog, mutton, beef, venison and cat.
Scales: crucian carp, mud carp, carp, sea shrimp, eel, silver carp, chub head fish, mud carp, loach and abalone.
② Cold food
Mung beans: clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and removing troubles.
Water chestnut: resolving phlegm and eliminating stagnation, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production.
Chrysanthemum: clearing liver and improving eyesight, dispersing wind and dissipating heat.
Pear: Raw food can clear away heat and quench thirst, while cooked food can nourish yin and moisten dryness.
Watermelon: clearing away heat and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat and diuresis.
Cereal food: millet, buckwheat, tofu, fermented soya beans, soybean milk.
Melons and vegetables: amaranth, rape, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, melon, bamboo shoot, taro, eggplant, towel gourd, wax gourd and mushroom.
Fruits: water chestnut, lotus root, sugarcane, ginkgo and dried persimmon.
Animals: rabbit meat, elk meat.
Scales: snakehead, eel, frog, crab, turtle, turtle, clam, oyster, etc.
3 flat food lotus seeds: nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, benefiting the kidney and astringent, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea.
Black sesame: nourish liver and kidney, moisten dryness and relax bowels.
Yam: tonify the spleen and stomach and benefit the lungs and kidneys.
Cereals: wheat, glutinous rice, japonica rice, black beans, soybeans, peas and cowpeas.
Melons and vegetables: gourd and pumpkin.
Fruits: loquat, green plum and peanut.
Animals and birds: pork, goose, goose, pigeon, bird's nest.
Scales: whitebait, squid, shark, herring and mandarin fish.
In addition, cock, carp, shrimp, crab, hairtail, dog meat, pig head meat, beef and mutton and mushrooms, yellow flowers, Chinese toon, pumpkin and coriander in vegetables are not suitable for allergic diseases, infectious diseases, hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. [Edit this paragraph] Spring food supplement traditional medicine pays attention to the unity of man and nature, spring is born in summer, autumn is harvested in winter, so people should also nourish yang in spring and summer and yin in autumn and winter. And the five internal organs correspond to the four seasons, and the spring belongs to wood, and the liver is full of qi. The' excessive liver-qi' in Chinese medicine is roughly equivalent to saying that when people are nervous, sympathetic nerves are excited, which is the' stress' reaction state in modern language. When the liver-qi is strong, people are prone to anger, nervousness and impatience.
Sun Simiao, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said: "On the 72nd day of spring, save acid and increase sweetness to nourish temper." It is also recorded in Gao Lian's Eight Notes on Zunsheng in the Ming Dynasty: "When it is spring, the taste of food should be reduced and the sweetness should be increased to nourish the temper." This means that when the liver is prosperous in spring, you should eat less acidic food, otherwise it will make the liver fire more prosperous and hurt the spleen and stomach. At this time, you can eat more sweet food. In the whole spring, the principle of feeding and nourishing is to reduce acid and benefit sweetness and nourish temper. Because the liver is prosperous in spring, it is easy to cut spleen and stomach diseases, and the sour taste is the original taste of the liver, so the sour taste should be reduced at this time, and the liver qi should not be encouraged to avoid being too prosperous, so that the temper can be protected from being cut. Sweetness is the original taste of the spleen. In order to resist the possible invasion of liver qi, increasing sweetness to enhance temper can strengthen the body's defense.
Eat more cold salad.
Traditional Chinese medicine says that food is divided into five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty. In spring, the diet should be nursed back to health, so it is advisable to choose spicy and sweet products and avoid acidity. Diet should be light and delicious, avoid greasy, cold and irritating food. The so-called "acid" does not mean the acidic and alkaline food that is often said now. The taste and taste are roughly the same, but it is not too absolute. The sweet food mentioned by Chinese medicine not only means that the food tastes a little sweet, but more importantly, it has the function of tonifying the spleen and stomach, such as jujube and yam. Most of the whole grains are "sweet", and cereals are the first choice for warm and sweet foods, such as glutinous rice, black rice, sorghum, millet and oats; Fruits and vegetables, such as sword beans, pumpkins, lentils, red dates, walnuts, chestnuts, etc., are not completely divided by taste. It is wrong to understand "sweetness" as eating more sugar.
After the temperature rises in spring, bacteria and viruses are also active. You should eat more foods that are conducive to regulating immune function, and you can often eat some wild vegetables, such as Houttuynia cordata, which has a good anti-infection function. After a while, you can get rid of a lot of that special fishy smell, and then add a little seasoning to mix it into cold dishes.
"spring sleep" food supplement
As the climate is getting warmer, many people will feel sleepy, tired, listless and sleepy, and some people will suffer from insomnia, dizziness and lack of concentration at work. This is what people often call "spring sleep". According to local media reports, in recent years, the number of people disturbed by "spring sleep" is quietly expanding, especially among "white-collar workers". "Spring Sleepiness" is actually a sign of sub-health, suggesting that the body has some bad "signals" such as lung yin deficiency, lung dryness and heat, wet phlegm, hyperactivity of liver yang and kidney yin deficiency.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, we should keep Tibet in winter. If we don't do it well and lay a good foundation for spring, in the spring when everything is born, people's yang is relatively insufficient, which leads to poor spirit and frequent sleepiness. The so-called "winter does not hide essence, spring will be sick and warm." However, now people are always in a state of intense pace of life, and it is impossible to adjust the schedule according to the seasons, so the spring sleep syndrome is becoming more and more obvious.
Traditional medicine believes that the key to solving spring sleep is to supplement yang. Eat more foods that strengthen the spleen, such as jujube and yam. Pumpkins, potatoes, sweet potatoes and taro are all spleen-nourishing. Eat less mutton isothermal food, and don't eat spicy, fried and roasted food, dog meat, wine, hot pot and other hot foods. The leek is warm, tonifies the yang, and people with yang deficiency are prone to be sleepy and lazy. Those who don't want to move can eat more leeks.
I often eat vegetable celery, which is sweet, pungent and cool. Enter the lung, stomach and liver meridians. It has the functions of calming liver, clearing heat, promoting diuresis and treating stranguria. Modern research has proved that celery has high iron content and is rich in vitamins and dietary fiber, which has the functions of clearing liver heat, lowering serum cholesterol, promoting waste excretion in the body and purifying blood.
Experts remind: celery can be divided into cress and celery, and celery is the main medicine. People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.
Spinach, sweet in taste, cool in nature and cold and slippery, belongs to stomach, large intestine and bladder meridian. It can nourish blood, stop bleeding, moisten dryness, benefit the five internal organs, dredge the stomach, open the chest and diaphragm, lower the qi, regulate the middle energizer and quench thirst. Now it is considered that spinach also contains magnesium, a mineral that women and middle-aged and elderly people are more likely to lack.
Tips: Spinach stir-fried cooked food is peaceful and has little effect on patients with gastrointestinal deficiency and cold; However, cooking soup is cold and smooth, so people with deficiency-cold syndrome, diarrhea and urinary calculi should not eat it. Spinach contains more oxalic acid, which can be removed by scalding it in boiling water.
Leek, also known as Yangcao, longevity leek and so on. Pungent and sweet, mild in nature and non-toxic. Meridian entering the liver, spleen, stomach and kidney. It can tonify kidney and Yiyang, harmonize viscera, promote qi and blood circulation, stimulate appetite, warm stomach, lower qi, disperse blood and remove dampness.
Tips: leek is spicy and warm, although it has the function of strengthening yang, benefiting kidney and dispelling cold, it can also cause skin sores and poison, and eating more makes people smell bad and dizzy. People suffering from carbuncle, sores and swelling, dermatophytosis, dermatitis and damp toxin should not eat. People with heat syndrome and hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency should eat carefully. Leek is difficult to digest and should not be eaten more.
Rape is sweet and cool. Enter the liver, lung and spleen meridians. Has effect in promoting blood circulation, dispel blood stasis, relieving swelling and removing toxic substance.
Cabbage, also known as cabbage. Sweet taste, flat sex. Entering the liver, intestine and stomach meridians. It has the functions of clearing away heat, resolving hard mass, invigorating stomach and dredging collaterals. Modern research has proved that cabbage is rich in nutrients and trace element molybdenum, pectin and cellulose, and it has the functions of improving human immune function, preventing cancer and resisting hypercholesterolemia.
Yam, sweet, flat. Enter the lung, spleen and kidney meridians. It has the functions of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, tonifying lung, consolidating kidney and benefiting essence. Chinese yam has been eaten in China for more than 3000 years, and it has been praised as a good tonic since ancient times. Modern research has proved that the biggest feature of Chinese yam is that it can supply a large amount of mucin, which is a polysaccharide protein, which can prevent fat deposition in cardiovascular system and maintain the elasticity of blood vessels.
Taro is sweet, pungent and flat. Enter the spleen and stomach meridians. Has effect in removing toxic substance, relieving swelling, invigorating stomach, invigorate spleen, regulating middle qi, and relieving pain. Modern research shows that taro is an alkaline food, which can be used to prevent hyperacidity. Taro is rich in mucus saponin, which can stimulate appetite and help digestion.
Potatoes are sweet and flat. Meridian entering the stomach and large intestine. It can tonify qi, strengthen spleen and regulate stomach, and is suitable for spleen deficiency, weakness, mental fatigue, loss of appetite and indigestion. Potatoes are rich in nutrients. There are many intimate names for potatoes in various countries. The French call it "the apple", the Germans call it "the pear" and the Russians call it "the second bread". Germans often use potatoes to treat indigestion. The practice is to put two peeled potatoes into a blender and make juice for drinking.
Tips: Many nutrients in potatoes are easily soluble in water, so try not to soak in water after peeling or cutting, so as not to lose a lot of nutrients.
Carrots are sweet, flat and non-toxic. Spleen and lung meridian. It can nourish blood, improve eyesight, invigorate spleen, promote digestion, invigorate qi and generate blood, and promote qi stagnation. Modern research believes that carrots are rich in α and β carotene, which are two strong antioxidants and can slow down the damage of harmful substances to cells.
Tips: Carotene is a fat-soluble substance, and it is best to cook with vegetable oil.
Pumpkin, sweet, flat and non-toxic. Enter spleen, stomach and large intestine meridian. It can tonify spleen and promote diuresis, detoxify and kill insects, reduce fever, stop dysentery, relieve pain and prevent miscarriage. Chen Xiuyuan, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, said: "Pumpkin is a wonderful product for enriching blood." Modern research shows that pumpkin contains a lot of linoleic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid, which can reduce blood pressure and lipid. [Edit this paragraph] Summer food supplement The characteristics of summer food supplement are first of all to clear up and not nourish. This is because in the hot summer, if you use nourishing and warm traditional Chinese medicine, it will "add fuel to the fire", which is counterproductive. It is best to choose supplements that have the functions of benefiting qi, nourishing yin and promoting body fluid, such as Radix Pseudostellariae, Fructus Lycii, Radix Glehniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, American ginseng, etc., instead of those nourishing and warm supplements, such as colla Corii Asini, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Ginseng Rubra, Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, etc.
main points
People who like cold drinks in summer are prone to gastroenteritis symptoms such as abdominal pain, anorexia, and irregular stool. Therefore, adding some traditional Chinese medicines to tonify the spleen and stomach can get twice the result with half the effort. Commonly used are lentils, yam, Atractylodes macrocephala, dried tangerine peel, and fried tobacco seeds.
During tonic, we should also pay attention to the phenomenon of "wet weight" such as loss of appetite, bad breath and thick and greasy tongue coating in early summer. At this time, we need to "eliminate dampness", that is, clean the gastrointestinal tract, and commonly use traditional Chinese medicines such as Pogostemon, Magnolia officinalis, Semen Militaris, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Coptidis Rhizoma and Cangshu. Only after the dampness is removed should we make tonic.
Eat food properly
First, it is advisable to cool off the heat. It is advisable to eat cool food and various fruits, such as mung beans, corn, edamame, watermelon, wax gourd and cucumber, which can relieve summer heat and replenish a lot of body fluids and minerals lost due to excessive sweating.
Second, it is advisable to make up for suffering. Bitter taste is not so popular, but its function of purging fire and purging purgation cannot be underestimated. Bitter gourd and beer (drunk in small quantities) can calm the heart fire, reduce sweating and preserve body fluids (but not too much, in case of bitter cold and stomach failure).
Third, it should be fragrant and damp. Due to the continuous rain, humid climate and low air pressure, it can affect blood flow, make people feel weak all over, and even joint pain. It is advisable to use Pogostemon rugosa, Eupatorium odoratum, raw Coicis Semen, dried tangerine peel, fried Fangfeng, etc. to cook soup and porridge, which can drive away dampness and evil spirits.
Fourth, it is advisable to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Suitable for people with spleen deficiency and bitter summer, decoct with parched Atractylodes macrocephala, parched Coix seed rice, prepared Atractylodes rhizome, lentil coat, etc., and take it twice a day; Or grinding into powder, soaking in water instead of tea, has a certain tonic effect on those who are deficient in spleen and produce dampness, tired of eating, and sticky in the mouth.
Old people should replenish water in hot summer. Because the thirst center of the brain nerve of the old people is slow to respond, it is difficult to give the order of "thirsty to drink water". If it is not replenished in time, it will often lead to dehydration, which will increase the viscosity of blood, slow blood flow and poor circulation. Therefore, it is easy to induce a stroke. Therefore, the elderly should replenish water in summer.
Potassium supplementation Modern medicine believes that potassium should be supplemented for health preservation in summer, because potassium is an indispensable trace element for human body. Adult human body contains 0/50g of potassium/kloc-,which is stored inside and outside cells respectively, and plays the role of maintaining osmotic pressure inside and outside cells and acid-base balance, and maintaining the normal functions of nerves and muscles.
In the hot summer, when the temperature is high, the human body sweats a lot, resulting in the loss of some water and salt in the body, and a certain amount of trace element potassium is discharged with the sweat. If the body lacks potassium, it will often make people feel tired and weak, and their energy and physical strength will drop. At the same time, there will be heat-resistant imbalance, metabolic disorder, arrhythmia and general muscle weakness.
Potassium supplementation often makes people feel refreshed. Potassium supplementation can avoid mechanical damage to arterial wall caused by hypertension and reduce the incidence of stroke in patients with hypertension. The best way to supplement potassium is to eat more foods rich in potassium in daily diet, such as soybeans, red beans, fresh peas, edamame, rape, celery, spinach, kelp and laver. In addition, milk, goose, carp, eel and other foods also contain a certain amount of potassium, which should be eaten regularly.
Magnesium supplementation should be properly supplemented for summer health. For the average person, the best tonic method is to eat more foods rich in magnesium. Such as green leafy vegetables, eggplant, radish, potatoes, etc.; Grapes, bananas, lemons, oranges, etc. in fruits; Brown rice, barley, buckwheat, fresh corn, wheat germ, etc. in grain; Peas and red broad beans in beans; Sea cucumber, cuttlefish, salmon, sardines and shellfish in aquatic products. Therefore, eating more coarse grains, vegetables and fruits can generally effectively increase the intake of magnesium. If the daily intake of magnesium greatly exceeds the physiological demand, resulting in excess magnesium, it will be excreted through the kidney. If magnesium supplementation is needed, it should be carried out reasonably under the guidance of a doctor.
Supplementing the right amount of salt in summer, the metabolism of the human body is very active, and the most obvious thing is sweating more. If you don't pay attention to replenish water when sweating, it can cause hypertonic dehydration, and the clinical manifestations are thirst and general fatigue. However, after sweating, only supplementing water, without paying attention to supplementing proper amount of salt, will turn hypertonic dehydration into hypotonic dehydration, and the water outside the cell will transfer to the inside of the cell, thus causing intracellular edema, making people feel uncomfortable, nausea, vomiting, and even convulsions and coma in severe cases. Therefore, when sweating, you should drink about two thousandths of light salt water, and it is advisable to drink a small amount of water many times.
In hot summer, some women often complain that they are afraid of the cold. What is going on?
According to the conclusion of medical researchers, the main reason is iron deficiency. The scientific basis of this conclusion is that medical researchers in the United States have examined hundreds of women shivering in air-conditioned rooms and swimming pools wearing swimsuits and found that most of them have iron deficiency.
Experts believe that men also have this situation, but they eat a lot and can supplement iron at any time, while women lose a lot of iron during menstruation. Women who often feel cold can ask a doctor to check the iron content in their blood, which is more correct than measuring hemoglobin.
In this regard, experts suggest that all women with iron deficiency should be supplemented with iron in summer and eat more foods with high iron content, such as lean meat, fish, chicken, bean products and other roots and green leafy plants; At the same time, under the guidance of doctors, iron supplements are often taken.
Calcium supplementation Modern medical research believes that calcium is an indispensable element for human body, accounting for about 1? 5％~20％； Calcium is the main component of bones and teeth, and also participates in the coagulation process; Calcium can maintain the excitability of neuromuscular and transmit information, and keep the osmotic pressure of human body relatively constant. Calcium deficiency in human body, especially in infants and young children, will cause rickets, hand and foot convulsions and other diseases, which will seriously affect children's health.
Midsummer is the best season for children to supplement calcium. Because the summer temperature is high, the sunshine is abundant, and the ultraviolet rays are strong, the 7- dehydrocholesterol in children's skin is quickly converted into vitamin D after being irradiated by ultraviolet rays, which doubles the vitamin D in the body and is beneficial to the absorption of calcium.
Parents should let their children go outdoors more often. After a long time, the amount of exercise will also increase, the blood circulation in the body will accelerate, and the blood supply to bone marrow and dental pulp will be sufficient, which is conducive to the absorption and utilization of calcium.
The metabolism of bones and teeth is closely related to various trace elements (magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, copper, etc.) and vitamins, especially vitamin C. In summer, there are many kinds of fresh vegetables, melons and fruits, and the intake is also large, which are good conditions for the absorption and utilization of calcium.
Children should pay attention to the following two points when supplementing calcium. First, try to take food supplements and eat foods rich in calcium, such as bones, shrimp skin, bone soup, fresh fish, live shrimp, kelp, milk and bean products. Children should have a wide range of recipes, not partial eclipse, such as eating foods rich in vitamin C (vegetables, melons and fruits) and vitamin D (fresh fish). Second, people with severe calcium deficiency can supplement calcium as appropriate. At present, there are many kinds of calcium agents, but "Gaitianli" or "Calcium Treasure" is often used in clinic. Because they are ionic calcium, they can be diffused and absorbed in the intestine without relying on vitamin D. In addition, these two calcium agents have low sugar content and good taste, and are suitable for children to take. [Edit this paragraph] Autumn supplements autumn, which is conducive to recuperating vitality, getting rid of the old and updating, and is the most suitable season for human body to supplement. Therefore, with a little nourishment, you can get the effect of eliminating diseases and prolonging life. Those who are prone to chronic heart and lung diseases in winter should lay a good nutritional foundation in autumn to enhance their internal resilience, reduce virus infection and prevent the recurrence of old diseases when winter comes.
Autumn tonic, should choose "tonic but not severe", "anti-dry and not greasy" flat tonic products. Foods with this function include water bamboo, pumpkin, lotus seeds, longan, black sesame, red dates, walnuts and so on. Patients with spleen and stomach weakness and dyspepsia can take lotus seeds, yam, lentils, etc., which can strengthen the spleen and stomach.
Autumn is prone to "autumn dryness" symptoms such as dry mouth and burning lips. Foods that nourish and moisten dryness, benefit the middle energizer and replenish qi should be selected. Such foods include tremella and lily. Tremella contains carbohydrate, fat, protein, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, calcium, etc. It has nourishing yin, moistening lung, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production. It can be soaked in water, boiled and taken with sugar, which has a good effect on treating and preventing "autumn dryness"; Lily also has the effects of nourishing lung yin, nourishing lung dryness, clearing heart fire and calming nerves.
Autumn is a good season for people with chronic diseases to carry out nourishing diet therapy, and it is also a good season for healthy people to carry out food supplement. People can maintain a healthy body and vigorous energy through food supplement, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing diseases and delaying aging.
Sugarcane: sweet, astringent and flat in nature, it has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, regulating stomach, stopping vomiting, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and is suitable for dry mouth, constipation, cough and scanty phlegm caused by insufficient body fluid; Stomach fluid deficiency retching; Thirst and upset caused by heat injury to body fluids are suitable food supplements for autumn.
Bird's Nest: It is a precious tonic, and its protein content is particularly high. It has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting qi and tonifying middle warmer, and has the function of prolonging life. Suitable for hot flashes, night sweats, dry cough with little phlegm and hemoptysis caused by lung yin deficiency; It also has a good effect on hiccups, nausea and spontaneous sweating caused by stomach yin deficiency.
Sesame: Sweet and flat in nature, it has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, tonifying kidney and nourishing brain, relieving cough and asthma, and is suitable for constipation caused by intestinal dryness due to insufficient vaginal fluid, dizziness caused by dry skin and deficiency of liver and kidney essence and blood, premature graying of hair and soreness of waist and knees; In addition, it is also effective for postpartum blood deficiency and milk deficiency.
Turtle meat: It is a kind of precious tonic with delicious meat, easy to digest and absorb, promoting blood circulation, nourishing yin, cooling blood and benefiting qi. It is often used for bone steaming, hot flashes, backache, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia and proctoptosis caused by qi deficiency.
Lotus root: sweet and cool in nature, it is a good medicine for stopping bleeding and promoting fluid production. It is rich in starch, calcium, phosphorus, iron and various vitamins, especially vitamin C.
Spinach: Sweet and cool in nature, it can nourish yin and moisten dryness, nourish blood, and dredge the stomach. It can be used for hemorrhagic diseases such as thirst, constipation, anemia and hematochezia due to insufficient body fluid.
Black-bone chicken: Black-bone chicken is regarded as the holy medicine of gynecology, and it is used as a medicated diet in autumn and winter. It is very effective, nourishing yin and clearing away heat, nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea. It is often used for asthenia, quenching thirst, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia and other diseases, and has a better effect on vexation, hot flashes, night sweats, emaciation, dry throat, and cough.
Pig lung: it is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, and it can tonify the lung. If you cough due to lung deficiency, you can use a pig lung, slice it with a bamboo knife, fry it with sesame oil, and cook porridge with rice. Or pig lungs, after washing, add almond15g and stew cooked food. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lungs correspond to autumn season, so pig lungs eat more in autumn, "nourishing the dirty with the dirty."
Soymilk: It is made by soaking soybeans, grinding them into juice, filtering off residues and cooking them. Sweet taste, nourishing deficiency and moistening dryness, clearing lung-heat, resolving phlegm and treating stranguria. Often used for physical weakness and postpartum deficiency of qi and blood. Chronic lung deficiency, cough, phlegm-fire asthma and stranguria.
Maltose: Sweet and slightly warm, it has the functions of tonifying deficiency, moistening lung, relieving cough, calming qi and relieving pain. This product is nutritious. It is a sugar food made by grinding glutinous rice, japonica rice, wheat, chestnut, etc., cooking, adding malt and fermenting and saccharifying. It can be used as a nourishing product for people with physical weakness, children and parturients. It is also effective for lung deficiency or lung dryness with little phlegm, fatigue and cough; In addition, it is also suitable for epigastric pain caused by spleen-stomach yang deficiency or qi deficiency.
Duck eggs: sweet and salty in taste, cool in nature, nourishing yin and clearing away heat, and can be used for cough with little phlegm caused by yin deficiency, dry throat pain, thirst, phlegm cough and dry stool caused by lung and stomach deficiency heat.
Honey: It is not only a good tonic, but also a good medicine for treating many diseases. Honey contains 39% fructose and 34% glucose, both of which can directly supply heat, replenish body fluids and nourish the whole body. It has certain curative effect on various symptoms of body fluid deficiency, epigastric pain caused by spleen and stomach yin deficiency or qi deficiency.
Turtle meat: It is the meat of turtle, and it is a good nourishing product. It can not only nourish yin and reduce fire, but also replenish blood and clear heat. Commonly used for bone steaming hot flashes, hemoptysis and hematochezia caused by yin deficiency and excessive fire; It is also effective for pain in bones and muscles and weakness caused by deficiency of yin and blood. When using, it should be noted that it should not be eaten with pork, amaranth and melon. It can be seasoned with onion, pepper and sauce, or seasoned with salt, or it can be eaten when it is cooked in mud. [Edit this paragraph] Winter food supplement The winter climate is very cold, and the animals and plants in nature are in a state of dormant collection. People also conform to the changes of nature and enter the winter storage season, just as the ancient Chinese medicine book Neijing said: "Spring is born, summer is long, autumn harvest and winter storage are common; People should also respond. "And he said," Those who live in winter and March are sealed. "That is to say, from March to winter, it is a good time to recharge your batteries. At this time, people's skin and muscles are dense and sweat less, and the nutrients that are taken are easy to store. Besides, in the winter season, people's appetite is also strong, so it is the best time to take supplements at this time, especially after the winter solstice.
Cold has many effects on human body. Firstly, it affects the hormone regulation of the body and accelerates the metabolic decomposition of protein, fat and carbohydrate, especially the metabolic decomposition of fat; Secondly, it affects the digestive system of the body, which makes people increase their appetite and digest and absorb it better; The third is to affect the urinary system of the body, and the corresponding increase in urination increases the loss of minerals such as calcium, potassium and sodium. Therefore, these changes need to be reasonably regulated by corresponding nutrients, so as to prevent the above-mentioned physiological changes in the winter environment. Specifically, the following requirements should be met:
(1) Increasing the intake of warm food in cold winter often makes people feel uncomfortable because of the cold, and some people are particularly afraid of the cold because of the weak yang in their bodies. Therefore, in winter, it is necessary to use food with cold-proof effect to warm and recuperate, so as to warm and nourish the whole body tissues, enhance physical fitness, promote metabolism, improve cold-proof ability, maintain the functional activities of the body tissues, resist exogenous pathogens and reduce the occurrence of diseases. Motherland medicine believes that warm and nourishing foods should be eaten in winter, such as mutton, dog meat, soft-shelled turtle, sparrow, shrimp, pigeon, quail, sea cucumber, medlar, leek, walnut and glutinous rice.
(2) Increase the intake of thermogenic food. Due to the cold climate in winter, the body consumes more energy every day to adapt to the cold environment, so it is necessary to increase the intake of thermogenic nutrients. Thermogenic nutrients mainly refer to protein, fat, carbohydrates, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to eat more foods rich in these three nutrients, especially to increase the intake of fat relatively, such as paying attention to the intake of fat when eating meat dishes and putting more cooking oil when cooking.
(3) Supplementing the necessary methionine can provide a series of methyl groups necessary for cold tolerance through transfer. The cold climate increases the excretion of creatine in human urine and accelerates the metabolism of fat, and the heat released by the oxidation of synthetic creatine, fatty acid and phospholipid in mitochondria needs methyl. Therefore, we should take more foods containing methionine in winter, such as sesame, sunflower seeds, dairy products, yeast and leafy vegetables.
(4) Eat more foods rich in vitamins. Due to the cold climate, the oxidation and heat production of the human body are strengthened, and the vitamin metabolism of the body has also changed significantly. For example, increase the intake of vitamin A to enhance the cold tolerance of the human body. Increase the intake of vitamin C to improve the adaptability of human body to cold, and it has a good protective effect on blood vessels. Vitamin A mainly comes from animal liver, carrots, dark green vegetables and other foods, and vitamin C mainly comes from fresh fruits and vegetables and other foods.
(5) People who are afraid of cold with proper mineral supplementation also have a certain relationship with the quality of mineral intake. For example, the content of calcium in human body can directly affect the flexibility and excitability of human heart, blood vessels and muscles, and calcium supplementation can improve the body's ability to keep out the cold. Foods rich in calcium include milk, bean products and kelp. Salt is also very important for human body to keep out the cold, which can enhance the heat-producing function of human body. Therefore, in winter, heavy taste and pungent heat are the main seasoning, but it should not be too salty, and the daily salt intake should not exceed 6 grams at most.
(6) Pay attention to hot food In order to adapt the human body to the external cold environment, we should eat hot meals and hot dishes, so as to absorb more energy to keep out the cold. You may wish to arrange more hot soup on the dining table, which will not only increase your appetite, but also eliminate the cold feeling.