The health wisdom in the old saying has been analyzed by experts, and people find that there are inextricable links behind it, and they are interlinked. Professor Zhang Jingming of Shaanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine continues to answer relevant questions for you.
"Drink soup before meals, don't need a doctor to prescribe medicine." Zhang Jingming said that southerners drink soup before meals, northerners drink soup after meals, and northerners have another sentence, which is called original soup.
Why do southerners drink soup before meals? The weather in the south is relatively hot, especially in the summer, there will be a lot of sweating outside work, a lot of sweat on the surface of the body, and the water in the body will not be enough. In Chinese medicine, the stomach is an organ that accepts rotten food, if there is no water in the stomach, it is like a pot dry burning, and finally the rice is burned into popcorn, in order to prevent it from becoming popcorn, you must first pour some water. Therefore, the habit of southerners to drink soup before meals has been used to this day, and it has become a custom of southerners.
How to understand the original soup of the northerners? The weather in the north is cold, especially in winter, the outside is very cold, it is easy to suck the cold into the stomach, it is cold evil, cold evil has the effect of attracting and condensing, so it causes stomach pain; There is less yang qi, which causes cramping pain in the stomach and is also prone to food accumulation. The principle of the original soup is that the noodle soup and dumpling soup are mixed with flour and water, which can prevent the invasion of cold and evil, and has the process of promoting the digestion of the original, so it is not easy to produce accumulated food.
As the saying goes, "Eat turnips in winter and eat ginger in summer". Zhang Jingming said that this truth is correct.
The radish is white and tender, and the water content is still high. So isn't it cool? Is it okay to eat something so cold in winter? In fact, in winter, the human body is often hot inside and cold outside, and heat is easy to appear in the gastrointestinal tract. First, the amount of exercise decreases, and the metabolism becomes slower; Second, the amount of food increased in winter, and the decrease in vegetable intake will produce accumulated food. White radish can be eaten, breathed down, and sputum.
In the summer, the temperature in nature is very high, and the human body often sweats, sometimes drinking cold drinks and eating cold things, which can lead to internal cold. Therefore, in the summer, the human body is externally hot and cold inside. Eating some ginger can warm up, stop vomiting, and produce yang qi.
"Eat moderately, live regularly." Zhang Jingming said that "diet has a festival" means not to eat too much, do not be too hungry, eat according to the point, one person eats two meals or three meals a day, it is a kind of virtual real replacement, and a law is formed in the process of replacement. Nowadays, the pace of life is very fast, different positions have different time needs, you must form a personal rule, such as eating at 10 o'clock in the morning and eating at 1 o'clock at noon. Develop a personal work time and form a small regularity.
What is the meaning behind "living constantly"? Zhang Jingming said that when the sun first comes out, the yang of the human body should go from the yin to the outside, which is the yang qi, which has the effect of excitement and stimulation. In the evening, it will return to the inside of the human body from the outside, called the yang to enter the yin, and after entering the yin, man is mainly yin. One is to ensure enough sleep, and the other is to ensure that the yang qi recuperates and recuperates, and tomorrow can better go to work. If at night, your yang qi can not enter the yin, then it will consume the yang qi, slowly lead to insomnia, and a series of other diseases will slowly arise.
"Sweat is not dry, cold water is not wet". Zhang Jingming said that there are two sentences here, one is when your sweat is not dry, and the other is to emphasize cold water, which has a very profound medical truth. Sweat is under the vapor of the yang of the body, and during the steaming process, the jin liquid in the body is vaporized to the surface to form sweat. Just like the "cold package fire" in Chinese medicine, the outside is very cold, and the inside is hot, which will produce internal heat. Once internal heat is generated, some skin-related diseases appear in weak areas of the body. Therefore, after sweating, dipping in cold water will lead to "cold wrapping fire", which is prone to skin diseases.
Recommended "tea substitute" - perilla and dandelion. Dandelions are detoxifying and detoxifying, and perilla is divergent and warm. Do not use too much, 5 grams of each at a time, put in warm water, soak in water and drink. (Source: The Road to Health)