After entering winter, the metabolism of in the human body slows down and the consumption is relatively reduced. In addition to nourishing the nutrients in winter can store the energy converted into nutrients in the body, thereby strengthening the foundation and enhancing the body's resistance. The climate in the north is cold in winter, so it is advisable to eat warm foods such as beef and mutton when taking tonic. Although the winter has begun in the south of the Yangtze River , the temperature is much warmer than that in the northern region. When taking tonic, it should be mainly clean and tonic, such as duck, fish, etc.
It is not advisable to eat spicy and dissipated foods after the beginning of winter, because spicy food consumes qi and damages body fluids, which is easy to produce internal heat, which is not conducive to the body's yang energy stagnation. "Su Wen·The Real Treatise on the Method of Cultivating Qi" points out: "The kidneys are responsible for winter... If the kidneys want to be strong, eat bitterness to strengthen them, use bitterness to nourish them, and use salty to relieve them." The meat that is very suitable for eating in winter is mutton and pork. According to the principles of "raising yin in autumn and winter" and "responding to the kidneys in winter", it is best to nourish the kidneys while taking into account the nourishment of yin. Common kidney-tonifying foods include walnuts, chestnuts, cashews, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, etc. Foods that nourish yin include wolfberry, tremella , pears, white radish, etc.
To avoid vitamin deficiency, you should also eat more fresh vegetables in season, such as cabbage, white radish, green onions, lotus root, etc. in winter. Yam, sweet potatoes, millet, etc. are also suitable for eating in winter. Cold evil can easily damage the yang energy. In winter, you should "not disturb the yang". It is not advisable to eat raw and cold food, but should eat warm and warm food. Below are 3 winter dietary therapies recommended.
wolfberry longan tea
Ingredients: 8 longans, 10 grams of wolfberry.
Method: Put the longan and wolfberry in cold water together, and then cook for 20 minutes after the pot is boiled. You can drink this medicinal meal as tea every day, and then eat both longan and walnuts.
Effects: wolfberry nourishes the liver and kidneys, improves the eyes, longan nourishes the heart and spleen, nourishes qi and blood . Cooking the two substances together can nourish yin and blood, and nourish the heart and kidneys.
White radish mutton soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of mutton, 300 grams of white radish, white pepper powder, and appropriate amount of salt. (Serves 2~4 people)
Method: Cut the mutton into large pieces, wash it, blanch it out in water; wash the white radish and cut it into large pieces; put all the ingredients into the soup pot, boil it over high heat, turn to low heat and boil for about an hour; add appropriate amount of salt and white pepper when it is served.
Effect: This medicinal diet has the effects of replenishing deficiency and warming the middle, lowering qi and eliminating phlegm. Eating it regularly can enhance the body's ability to keep cold. Among them, mutton is warm in nature and has always been a good product to nourish yang, especially for lunar ecstasy in winter. White radish functions to eliminate phlegm and reduce phlegm, and lower the air and loosen the middle. Eating it regularly can eliminate the deficiency of the body. Add some white radish when stewing mutton and 2 to neutralize the heat of the mutton; white pepper powder warms the middle, lowers the air and eliminates phlegm.
It should be noted that mutton is hot, yin deficiency and or people with excessive body heat should take less of this medicinal diet.
Gorgeous Fruit Chestnut Porridge
Ingredients: 50 grams of chestnuts, 30 grams of Gorgeous Fruit powder, 150 grams of japonica rice, and appropriate amount of walnut kernels.
Method: Peel and peel the chestnuts, soak them in water for half an hour to 1 hour; wash the glutinous rice and put them in a pot, then add chestnuts and water chestnuts, boil them over low heat and boil for 20 to 30 minutes; wait until the chestnuts are soft, then add walnut kernels and cook for about 5 minutes in total.
Effect: Gorgon ferment, also known as " chicken head rice ", enters the spleen and kidney meridian, and is best at benefiting the kidney and strengthening the essence, nourishing the spleen and stopping diarrhea; chestnuts are good at nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, nourishing the kidney and strengthening the tendons; walnut kernels nourish the kidney and nourishing the essence, warming the lungs and calming asthma, moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements; japonica rice is good for nourishing the middle qi. The above products are cooked into porridge and taken to nourish the kidney and spleen, and have a certain relief effect on symptoms such as sore waist and weak legs, vomiting of nausea, diarrhea in the morning, fear of cold and frequent urination. (Li Qingyuan)
Source: China Traditional Chinese Medicine News
Original title: Fight against the cold winter, food supplements should be the first
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