Source: Life Times
Attending Physician of the Department of Nutrition, Oriental Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Wei Wei □ Director Liu Fang
From March 20 to April 3, the spring equinox is the spring equinox, when the weather is gradually warmer in the middle of spring. With the rise of yang qi, liver qi is more exuberant, and health care should pay attention to liver thinning.
Chinese medicine believes that in the spring, if the liver qi is not well "stretched", it is easy to accumulate inward, resulting in stagnation and liver depression, which is manifested as depression and irritability. At the same time, "liver qi and spleen", liver qi depression will also damage the spleen and stomach, gastrointestinal dysfunction, stomach pain, loss of appetite and other situations. At this time, in addition to ensuring a light diet and a balanced diet, you can also choose jasmine flowers with liver soothing and depressive effects to make dietary remedies to help regulate the qi machine. The flowers of jasmine are extremely fragrant, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that jasmine flowers have a spicy and sweet taste, a warm temperament, and have the role of rationalizing and depressing, repelling impurities and neutralizing. "Dietary Nutrition of Traditional Chinese Medicine" believes that the role of jasmine is similar to that of roses, which can rationalize qi, relieve liver, relieve depression, and is especially suitable for spring equinox drinking. Three usages are recommended:
Depressed: Jasmine tea. Take an appropriate amount of jasmine, boil water and let it warm.
Gastrointestinal disorders: jasmine porridge. Take 60 grams of fresh jasmine flowers (30 grams of dried products) and 50 grams of japonica rice, wash the jasmine flowers and japonica rice, add water and boil to make porridge. Jasmine relieves liver depression, japonica rice nourishes the stomach and spleen, and has a relieving effect on loss of appetite, stomach pain and abdominal pain caused by liver and stomach loss.
Spring sleepiness is easy to get tired: jasmine calamus tea. Take 6 grams of jasmine, 6 grams of calamus, 10 grams of green tea, wash the three and put them in a cup, brew in boiling water and drink. Jasmine is full of qi, calamus is awake and intellectual, and green tea is refreshing and refreshing, which can be used to alleviate the spring sleepiness, fatigue and drowsiness caused by spring liver discomfort.
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