At 3:21 on September 23, the autumnal equinox arrives, and today is also a harvest festival for farmers. At this moment, many farmers are still busy in the golden fields, full of joy of harvest. Born in a big agricultural country, we can be ignorant of agriculture and not care about agriculture, but we cannot be light on agriculture. General Secretary Xi Jinping also proposed: "China's rice bowl must be in his own hands, and the bowl must be filled with Chinese food." This shows the importance of agriculture and the necessity of learning agricultural knowledge.
In this festive season
editor will give you a popular science
What does the grain refer to?
How to eat grains correctly?
In fact, as early as in the "Huang Di Nei Jing·Su Wen", it was put forward that "five grains are nourishment, five fruits are help, five animals are good, five vegetables are supplemented, and the smell is combined to make up. The principle of “lean and nourishing qi” also illustrates the dominant position of whole grains in the diet. Among them, "grains" refers to the five main food crops: wheat, millet, millet (millet), rice, and sunn. Nowadays, "grains" has broadly referred to all kinds of cereals, beans, etc., commonly known as "grains".
Grain is the nourishment
" grains should be eaten as the main food" . At the same time, "five fruits help",Use fruit as a supplement to grains, However, many young people in modern times, in order to lose weight, use fruits as a staple food and grains as a supplement. This reverses the way of keeping in good health.
"Fine grains are nourishment" because grains are the best thing to replenish essence. Going deeper, why can grains replenish essence the most? The energy consumed is the least because it converts the grains into essence.
Many people want to eat millet porridge and pickle after a serious illness. This is because when the body is exhausted, lacks vitality, and wants to rely on the outside world to replenish one's energy, grains are the easiest to transform.
There is also a saying in ancient times: " grain eaters Hui "-people who always eat grains will develop "hui". "Hui" is different from "wisdom". The so-called "anxiousness produces wisdom" and "quiet energy produces wisdom", one is the inspiration that bursts out when you are anxious to get angry, and the other is something that bursts out in a state of extreme quietness and desirelessness. Therefore, people with great wisdom, only rely on the correct consumption of simple grains to understand the profound principles of life, and achieve the effect of prolonging life . People who often eat meat and eat few staple foods do not have this kind of "wisdom"-"meat eaters despise and fail to plan far."
The five grains in the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic
The five elements, five colors, five internal organs, etc. corresponding to the five grains are recorded in the traditional Chinese medicine health wisdom book "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic":
quote block, enters 68 To the liver, to resuscitate the eyes... its kind of vegetation... its grain wheat...the southern red color, into the heart, open to the ear... its kind of fire... its grain...
yellow in the center,Into the spleen, open to the mouth...its kind of soil...its grain...
Western white, enters to the lungs, opens to the nose...its gold...its grain rice...
is black in the north, enters the kidneys, resuscitates the two yin...Its water...its grain beans...
Wheat is wheat, referring to ordinary pasta. Wheat is planted in autumn, grows in winter, flourishes in spring, and harvested in summer. It is the seasons of the year, so it is the growth of grains.
Wheat is hotter, corresponding to the liver in the five internal organs. For liver-qi deficiency and cold, you can eat more steamed buns, noodles, dumplings, and steamed buns made of wheat noodles. There is also a grain called naked oats in wheat, which is different from oats and needs to meet the "three crops". The so-called three-cooking refers to: First, it is mature in itself; second, it has to be processed and fried with fire; third, it needs to be steamed again. Therefore, the fire and warmth of noodles are particularly high, so it is good for people with liver qi deficiency and cold to eat noodles.
Southern red color, its grains: filling the heart
That yellow beam is millet (rhubarb rice). millet is a kind of yellow rice specially produced in the north. It is larger than millet and has very good stickiness. The millet is hotter. So it is also suitable for people with stomach cold.
The rice cakes eaten by southerners are made of white glutinous rice. The sticky staple food that is often eaten in Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and other places is yellow rice cake, which is golden and golden, especially soft and sticky, and is made of yellow rice.
There is a saying in Shanxi called "six li noodles and 40 li cakes", and the cake is this kind of yellow cake. This saying is that different foods have different effects on endurance of hunger and hunger. Oatmeal and noodles are resistant to hunger and hunger, and have high calorie replenishment performance. Therefore, after eating noodles, one can walk 30 miles without feeling hungry; even better than noodles is yellow cake, which is made from millet. Yes, one can walk forty miles after eating yellow cake.
yellow in the center, its grain grass; tonic the spleen
is our common small millet _strong2. It is also called millet. "One millet in the sea" refers to millet. grass is slightly warm, corresponding to the spleen in the five internal organs, and is most easily digested and absorbed by the stomach and intestines .
It is rumored among the people that millet porridge can nourish the stomach. This was originally correct. Millet porridge, "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" said that after drinking "guizhi soup", eat a bowl of millet porridge-"sip a liter of hot gruel to help the power of the medicine", and then said that after this person gets sick, "mi porridge is Raise" can be raised with poorly boiled porridge. But don't eat meat, so as not to "re-eating after heat" and induce fever again.
The ancients adjusted their weak spleen and stomach to make it gradually strengthen. How did they eat it? first boil the millet porridge to thicken, pour out the rice essence and drink it, then eat millet porridge, millet rice,It is to digest the plant protein first; slowly, the plant protein can be digested, a little greedy, I want to eat some meat. At this time, the beef broth is stewed and eaten on top of dried millet rice for the best absorption and utilization effect.
Why do some people say that Xiaomi does not nourish the stomach? It is because Xiaomi nourishes the stomach and is not suitable for everyone . Like wheat and millet, millet is also relatively warm, , so if there is a person with a hot stomach, of course eating millet will not nourish the stomach .
What are the characteristics of such people? It means that I have a large appetite and a good appetite. sometimes feels heartburn and acid reflux. I like to eat or drink cold things , but I don’t like hot or hot things. Some people who are prone to stomach acid will increase their stomach acid by eating millet porridge. This is the reason. Therefore, people with these manifestations should not use millet porridge to nourish their stomachs.
Western white, its grain rice: to replenish the lungs
Rice is of course the rice we often eat. Rice contains less protein and more sugar and starch. So compared with wheat, millet, and millet, rice is still cooler . There are paddy rice and dry rice. The nature of rice is cooler, and its functions of nourishing yin, moisturizing dryness and nourishing the lungs will be stronger .
Wheat is hot, millet is hot, and millet is hot. If you have a cold stomach, you will be very happy to eat these, but if you have a hot stomach, eating these will be uncomfortable. Many southerners have every meal The indispensable thing is rice. If you want something sticky, use glutinous rice to make rice cakes.
Earlier we said that wheat is relatively warm, and its bran is relatively cool; and rice and wheat are just the opposite.The rice is cooler and the chaff is warmer.
Nowadays, nutrition science often calls everyone to eat whole grains. In terms of nutritional content, it is because it can increase more dietary fiber; in Chinese medicine, it is actually , which can alleviate the cold, heat and temperature deviation of eating only polished rice or noodles. In order to choose yin and yang harmony, neither warm nor cold food.
Chinese medicine has two kinds of medicines for dispelling Shiji, one is called stir-fried rice sprouts and the other is called stir-fried malt. They can dispel rice and noodles respectively. Because of the same desire. The modern scientific explanation is that when rice and wheat germinate, produces certain enzymes that can quickly decompose their own starch or protein. Therefore, it can also dissolve the food accumulation of rice and noodles, and the taste is sweet but not bitter. It is a very good medicine to promote digestion .
Northern black, its grain beans: nourishing the kidney
Beans are also called sesame seeds, and they are actually all kinds of beans that we often eat. Beans are colder, and the protein content in the grains is the highest. If you want to nourish the kidney essence, you should eat beans . If you convert the protein in the beans into your body's essence and then store it, the use value is the highest. However, the higher the protein content, the more difficult it is to digest.
We often feel that "after eating beans, we will fart." Some people will distend their stomachs if they can't fart. After a few days, I started to put off the foul-smelling fart, which can slightly relieve the bloating of the stomach. Why is fart smelly? Because beans contain protein, the most basic molecule of protein is nitrogen, which is the component of amino acids. If amino acids are not well transformed and decomposed, they will give off a particularly stinky smell.
So the Chinese invented tofu,It solves the problem of poor digestion of beans.
Tofu is made by grinding the beans into a liquid, but the protein of the beans is insoluble in water, and then boiled, it is soy milk. After the soy milk is boiled, the soy milk is ordered with brine, and the soy milk will condense and become tofu.
The brine is extremely hot and toxic. In "The White Haired Girl", Yang Bailao committed suicide and drank brine. But using it to make tofu can denature and coagulate human protein and turn it into a digestible substance.
When we boil the soy milk, a layer of oily skin will appear on the soy milk. Take the root millet stalk or chopsticks, pick up the oily skin, and then hang it up, like a piece of paper. This is yuba or yuba .
Yuba is the most essential thing in beans. Just like when you boil millet, a layer of rice essence appears on it. That is the most digestible thing. So bean curd or yuba is relatively easy to use in beans. It is also a must-have dish when we eat hot pot, and many people like to order it.
Summary
The rice corresponding to the lung is cold, the beans corresponding to the kidney are also cold; the wheat corresponding to the liver and the millet corresponding to the spleen are also cold hot. What kind of physique you are, choose what grains to eat and find the corresponding one by yourself.
The autumn regimen should focus on "reaping" to achieve the principle of yin and yang balance. Any plant seed, its epidermis has an opposite effect on its seed. If you want to avoid the partiality of a certain kind of food, you can eat its whole grains appropriately, so as to be neither cold nor hot.The effect of yin and yang reconciliation.
References
1. What does Xu Wenbing, Liang Dong, Huang Di Neijing say[M]. Jiangxi Science and Technology Press, 2018.
2. Tang Lue. Thinking of Chinese Medicine[M].学苑Press, 2017.
Source: Huang Yaoshi’s notes, Southern Health
Intern editor: Wangguan
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