1, Xiaomi
Millet porridge is nutritious, with the highest amino acid content and high starch content among all grains. It can effectively promote insulin secretion and increase the amount of tryptophan in the human brain. Millet has the effect of calming the nerves and hypnotizing, which is especially suitable for menopausal women and neurasthenia.
(1) sea cucumber millet porridge
Ingredients: millet, vegetables, sea cucumber, shredded ginger and chopped green onion.
Practice:
Wash the millet and soak it in clear water. Wash vegetables and sea cucumber, cut shredded ginger and chopped green onion, and slice sea cucumber.
Put enough water into the soup pot, add millet after the water boils, add sea cucumber after the pot is boiled, and continue to cook for about 5 minutes after the pot is boiled again, while stirring with a spoon. Add shredded ginger, cover the lid, turn to low heat and cook, and do not open the lid during this period.
After about 25 minutes, open the lid, add 1 teaspoon of concentrated chicken juice, stir and mix, and boil for 2 minutes on high fire. Finally, sprinkle some salt, add white pepper to taste, drop a few drops of sesame oil and sprinkle chopped green onion, then turn off the fire and serve warm food in a bowl.
(2) Millet and pumpkin porridge
Materials: millet 1000g, pumpkin 300g.
Practice:
Peel the pumpkin and cut into pieces. Wash the millet and soak it in water for 20 minutes. Prepare half a bottle of boiling water, pour it into the rice cooker, add millet and cook for 30 minutes. When cooking millet, mash the pumpkin with a blender (omit it). After 30 minutes, add the pumpkin and cook for 15 minutes, stirring it from time to time to avoid sticking to the pot.
2. Jujube
Jujube is a good medicine for neurasthenia and insomnia. Jujube tastes sour and enters the heart meridian, which can nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, and has obvious effect on promoting sleep.
(1) jujube brown sugar Jiang Shui
Ingredients: 6 jujubes, ginger 1 piece, brown sugar 1 spoon, and proper amount of water.
Practice:
Soak the jujube in water, and carefully brush the jujube with a toothbrush, especially the dust in the gap between the jujube skins. Cut the washed dates into pieces. Ginger is washed and sliced.
Put jujube slices and ginger slices in a boiling pot, add appropriate amount of water and soak them for 10 minutes. Open fire and boil the water, add brown sugar and continue to cook on low heat. Pour the boiled sugar water into the cup and you can drink it.
(2) glutinous rice and red dates
Ingredients: red dates, glutinous rice flour.
Practice:
Soak the red dates for several hours, drain the water and cut them with scissors to remove the core. Mix glutinous rice flour and corn starch, add water and form dough (if you are afraid of scattering, you can use boiled water to mix). Rub glutinous rice flour into long strips, cut into small pieces and add them to the middle of red dates. Drain the prepared red dates into a plate, put them in a steamer and steam them. 5 Take out the steamed red dates and pour sweet osmanthus on the surface.
3. Milk
Milk contains a lot of tryptophan, which can make people feel tired. When the human body is in insomnia, the serotonin secreted by brain cells decreases, so the brain remains awake, and serotonin has the effect of inhibiting brain thinking. Drinking milk during insomnia can promote the secretion of tryptophan in the brain, thus helping to fall asleep faster.
(1) milk pumpkin soup
Ingredients: pure milk, pumpkin.
Practice:
The pumpkin is seeded, cut into small pieces, and steamed in a pot. Peel the steamed pumpkin. Stir the pumpkin into a paste. If you like delicate taste, you can sift it. Pour pumpkin puree into a small pot, add milk and stir well. Turn off the heat by heating it to boiling.
(2) Assorted fried milk
Ingredients: fresh milk 100ml, 2 pieces of protein, diced ham, diced carrot and green beans each 25g, starch 5g, salt 2g, white sugar 5g, oil 1 teaspoon.
Practice:
Pour fresh milk and egg white into the beater, stir well and evenly, then pour into a bowl, and add starch, white sugar and salt.
Heat the oil in the pot to 40% heat, pour the mixed milk into the pot, stir slowly with medium heat until the milk gradually solidifies into a paste, then add the diced ham, diced carrots and green beans, and stir together until the milk becomes solid.
4. Lotus seeds
Lotus seeds have the functions of calming the nerves and nourishing the heart, as well as clearing the heart fire. Many menopausal women have the phenomenon of five upset and hot. Eating more lotus seeds can also alleviate this symptom. Lotus seeds can also be cooked with jujube and millet mentioned above, which is more effective.
(1) papaya, tremella, red dates and lotus seed soup
Ingredients: 200 grams of papaya, tremella, lotus seeds, red dates, rock sugar and clear water.
Practice:
200g papaya is peeled and cut into pieces. 30g of tremella, 30g of lotus seeds and 30g of red dates 10 are soaked and washed. Put papaya, tremella, red dates, red lotus seeds and crystal sugar into a pot, add enough water (the amount of water is about 2-3 times that of all ingredients), simmer with high fire and turn to low heat 1 hour.
(2) Lotus leaf and lotus seed porridge
Materials: lotus leaf 1 piece, rice110g, glutinous rice 20g, water 1500ML, and lotus seeds 50g.
Practice:
Wash the lotus leaf, cut it into large pieces, add water and cook it on high fire, then turn off the heat and cook it for 20 minutes. When cooking lotus leaves, soak rice and lotus seeds in water. Take out the lotus leaf and pour the soaked rice and lotus seeds into the lotus leaf water. After the fire boils, simmer for 20 minutes.
5. How to prevent insomnia?
(1) Pay attention to mental health, be cheerful and optimistic, be open-minded, be contented, keep "childlike innocence" appropriately, use various parts of the body alternately, and cultivate a relaxing hobby.
(2) Avoid engaging in sports and recreational activities before going to bed, avoid exciting emotional activities, watch nervous TV, drink strong tea and coffee, smoke, and avoid physiological factors that interfere with night sleep, such as hunger and over-saturated excitement.
(3) The bed is only used for sleeping. Don't work and think on the bed.
(4) Life should be regular. Go to bed on time at night to reduce nightlife. If you can't sleep in bed for 20 to 30 minutes, you should get up, read some boring books and newspapers, and then go to bed when you are tired. No matter how late you go to bed, you must get up on time in the morning to improve your sleep rate.