This season is the day of health to warm against autumn dryness
The human body in the fall is particularly prone to feel hot and dry, appearing such as dry skin, sore throat, dry mouth and other manifestations of traditional Chinese medicine called "autumn dryness". Because of the big temperature difference between morning and evening in the fall, a variety of respiratory germs and viruses are also more active, but also particularly susceptible to colds and other respiratory diseases. Therefore, the fall diet should be especially to nourish Yin dry as the focus, eat more warm food.
Suitable meat for fall: chicken, pig's feet, turtle.
Suitable for the fall purchase of fruits: sweet and sour taste of the fruit can stimulate salivary secretion, aiding digestion, so apples, grapes, citrus are particularly suitable for fall consumption.
Foods that nourish the lungs in the fall: Autumn dryness is easy to injure the lungs, so you should eat more water-rich lung-nourishing foods in the fall, such as gingernuts, yams, lilies, lotus root, sesame seeds, walnuts.
The most suitable for the fall of the soup: in all kinds of food, soup is undoubtedly one of the most nourishing, and the following a few soups are not missing in the fall of the nourishing good.
West Lake Brasenia schreberi soup: Brasenia schreberi is a natural aquatic plant, it is rich in mucus and gelatin, very rich in nutritional value. Brasenia schreberi soup is not only lubricating, but also quite appetizing.
Watermelon chicken soup: watermelon rind and chicken have a moisturizing effect, especially suitable for women's autumn tonic. Take a fresh watermelon, remove the flesh and cut the skin into small pieces, with chicken, honey dates can be stewed together.
Winter melon Chenpi old duck soup: autumn is appropriate to drink duck soup, but to cook for a long time. Take an old duck, and the right amount of winter melon, barley, Chenpi, jujube mix, slowly stewed for more than 3 hours, can be made into a pot of color and flavor of the old duck soup.
Tea Tree Mushroom Spare Ribs Soup: Cut the tea tree mushrooms into small segments, and small spare ribs, jujubes with stew, first large fire for 15 minutes, and then medium fire for 30 minutes, can be cleansed and nourish the stomach. You can also use a variety of mushrooms to stew together, the soup flavor is more delicious.
Homemade drinks instead of carbonated beverages
Drinking more water is naturally the most usual supplement, and if a glass of pure, translucent white water makes you unable to find the taste of life, you can also do more in the drink to ease the body's discomfort.
Blending wolfberries, jujubes, and chrysanthemums together in place of the carbonated beverages you drink every day will help replenish your lungs and boost your immune system to ward off viruses.
Taking turns with roses and chrysanthemums can soothe the irritability and tension of fall, clear the fire and detoxify the body, and replenish the body with plenty of water.
The silver fungus and pear with boiled, or put in a blender blended into juice, drink a cup every night before going to bed, can relieve the symptoms of dry throat. The fungus tonic lungs, pear moistening lungs, the two with the best autumn tonic, long-term use of the role of the skin.
Drinking a bowl of hot porridge in the morning to warm up the stomach can make the whole body comfortable, and the effect is remarkable. You may want to try pear + millet porridge, or purple rice with jujube porridge, tonifying the kidney and spleen. The latter is especially suitable for women who often feel cold, cold hands and feet.
7 Vegetarian food is the most beneficial to health
The weather is getting cooler, and people's appetite is getting better. Many people think that in the fall, we must eat more meat to paste "autumn fat", so frequently to the outside of the hot pot, eating a variety of high-fat beef and mutton, which can easily lead to excessive calorie intake, causing the body to get fat, so that the blood of "bad fat" accumulation increased. In addition, after the summer heat, the human body more spleen and stomach cold, it is difficult to withstand the stimulation of large fish and meat, easy to cause indigestion. In the fall, the scientific way to maintain health should be clever use of vegetarian diet. Some special vegetarian not only has meat can not be compared to the nutritional value, and taste fresh, is an important member of the fall table indispensable.
Taro: rich in protein and carbohydrates, vitamins, can be eaten with a variety of dishes, and easy to digest, especially for people with weak spleen and stomach tonic.
Mushroom: in the fall, you may want to eat a "mushroom feast". Mushrooms are rich in protein, very low fat content, and rich in vitamins and trace elements, a variety of wild mushrooms in soup or stir-fry, can be very good to maintain the original flavor of mushrooms and nutritional value.
White radish: contains a lot of water, vitamin C and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, and contains lignin, choline, oxidizing enzymes and other beneficial components of the body. Traditional Chinese medicine has long been "after the fall radish race ginseng" said, visible radish nutritional value of high. Radish into the lung, stomach two meridians, can eliminate stagnation, phlegm heat, down the gas through the middle, detoxification, to regulate the spleen and stomach has a very good effect. For the fall due to climate change indigestion, wind-heat type cold, sore throat and other symptoms have a good auxiliary therapeutic effect.
Pumpkin: rich in beta-carotene and vitamin E, can enhance the body's immunity to improve the symptoms of autumn dryness. The best way to eat pumpkin is to cook porridge with jujubes or steamed food.
Sweet potato: can provide the body with a large number of mucus protein, sugar and vitamins, make up for the lack of deficiency, benefit the energy, strengthen the spleen and stomach, strong kidney Yin.
Cabbage: rich in trace elements of molybdenum and manganese, is the body's production of enzymes, hormones and other active substances essential raw materials, can enhance the body's metabolism, improve physical vitality. Its large amount of vitamin C can also enhance the body's resistance.
Celery: autumn heat, easy constipation, in many green vegetables are rich in fiber content, can effectively promote intestinal peristalsis, prevent constipation. These cellulose itself can not provide energy for the body, but also can not be converted into high nutrients, but they are in the intestinal tract as if a loyal guards at any time to clean up the body of garbage, for the body to remove toxins. Celery is one of the most fiber-rich vegetables, known as the "king of fiber", eat a little celery every day, you can easily get rid of constipation in the fall.
Autumn food should not be supplemented
Eat less ginger. Ginger is hot and dry, easy to eat after the fire, aggravate the autumn dryness. Chinese medicine, "August and September do not eat ginger" said, it is based on the human body in the four seasons of different physical characteristics and summed up the valuable experience. In addition, onions, garlic, leeks and other pungent products, but also to avoid eating more.
Most people like to eat hot pot in the fall, and it seems that the spicy flavor is enough to make it painful, but it is easy to make the body internal fire accumulation, constipation, face acne and other symptoms. If you eat hot pot in the fall, you should eat more vegetables and mushrooms with it, and not too much meat. It is also not a good idea to eat too much dog meat in the fall, as it has a high calorie content and is prone to catching fire. In particular, don't drink tea while shabu-shabu. The tannins in tea combine with the protein in meat to form a substance called ellagic acid protein, which has a strong astringent effect and can easily lead to constipation.
Autumn supplementation should be based on the type and degree of physical deficiency, reasonable arrangements, not chaotic supplementation. If there is no deficiency disease people indiscriminate use of tonic drugs will cause negative effects. The deficiency at the same time there are Yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, gas deficiency, blood deficiency points, symptomatic supplementation in order to achieve good results. For example, some people in the fall to eat a lot of cinnamon, ginseng and other hot tonic, it is easy to cause abdominal distension, irritability, nosebleeds and increased blood pressure and other adverse reactions.
Autumn is also the high incidence of gastrointestinal diseases, so you should eat less coleslaw and salad, reduce cold food stimulation, so as not to cause stomach cold. After autumn a large number of raw fruits and melons can easily cause diarrhea, reduce the resistance of the gastrointestinal system, help dampness evil, loss of spleen Yang.