Yesterday was May 5th, which is also the summer time of China in 2022, when the sun reached the 45 degrees of the Yellow Longitude and entered the Lixia operation festival, "The bucket refers to the southeast, the maintenance is Lixia, and everything grows up here, so it is called Lixiaye."
In summer, everything flourishes. The Ming Dynasty's book "Lotus Life Eight Plants" reads: "Mengxia Day, heaven and earth began to intersect, all things and show, all the netizens of the therapy of all things, do not underestimate Lixia, the flourishing festival of all things ~ Lixia, is not only an important festival for crops to enter the peak season, but also the most important turning day of the year, in ancient China, this day the ancient emperor should lead the civil and military officials to the southern outskirts of the capital to greet the summer and hold a summer ceremony....... In the summer, it is estimated that many netizens will think of drinking mung bean soup, in fact, summer is the best time to drink ginger jujube tea, drinking it is not only stomach, moisture removal, but also blood nourishment, replenish qi ... Sweep away all the sick qi in your body. Especially from the beginning of the summer to the day before the three volts, this stage is the best time to drink ginger jujube tea! Why?
Because people go through a winter and a spring, there will be more sick qi accumulated in the body. In the summer heat, the human body is open, and the yang in the body is empty. At this time, drinking a cup of ginger jujube tea can not only make up for the deficiency of yang qi in the body to warm up, but also help the yang qi to diverge to drain the cold. It is exactly in line with the purpose of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic" of "Spring and Summer Yang yang".
This tea has been drunk from the beginning of the summer until the first day of the three volts, basically can drive away the sick qi in the body, so that the whole summer will be much better, and, after the heat, the spleen and stomach are relatively cold, use ginger dates in advance to supplement the spleen and stomach, and the summer will be more comfortable.
First, the preparation of ginger jujube tea
1. Ginger – scrub with a little salt and strip with skin slices or shreds.
When boiling ginger jujube tea in the summer, you must leave the skin, because the ginger meat is sweaty, the ginger skin is antiperspirant, the summer sweat is too much, and the ginger with the skin can prevent too much sweating from hurting the body's righteousness.
2. Red dates - soak and scrub with salt and flour, cut into slices or small cubes. This washing method can remove the soil in the folds of the jujube skin, make the taste of ginger jujube tea more pure, cut the jujube can cook more fully, red dates can replenish qi and blood, in the hottest season of the year, replenishing qi and nourishing blood is more effective with half the effort.
3. Accessories - ginger and red dates constitute the necessary main ingredients for ginger jujube tea.
If you like sweet, you can add a little brown sugar, the taste is better. If you like a richer taste level, you can add warm goji berries, warm peppercorns through the meridians, licorice and cloves that moisturize the lungs and return to the sweet, the effect of removing cold and dampness is better, of course, the taste is very different, the average person may not be easy to accept, all things therapy Xiaobian himself likes to put some brown sugar, after all, the taste is good to be able to stick to it more permanently.
4. Boil ginger date tea - be sure to cook in cold water.
Ginger jujube tea should be boiled in cold water, and it can only be boiled for a long time to stimulate the effect of dates and ginger. The method of cooking is very simple, generally boil on high heat, and then turn the low heat to cook for 15 to 20 minutes, like heavy flavor can be cooked to thick.
5. What is the specific dosage ratio of ginger jujube tea?
You can learn from the production method of Teacher Ah Le, but it is not necessarily copied completely, and it can be flexibly matched according to your own physique.
Teacher Ah Le's formula ratio:
6 red dates, a handful of goji berries, a dozen peppercorns, 4 slices of ginger (do not peel the ginger, the amount of ginger is not less, the boiled water should be a little spicy), and the red dates should be pitted.
method:
Add an appropriate amount of water and cook until it is reddish. The body is cold and afraid of cold, so add a few more peppercorns and boil them into peppercorn ginger date tea, which has a stronger effect on dispelling cold and dampness. You can also add some honey to the ginger jujube tea, which has a good lung moisturizing effect, but you have to wait until the ginger jujube tea is warm before adding honey. Goji berries should be put last when they are about to come out of the pot, in order to maximize the preservation of its nutrition; the selection of materials should be used with large dates, because only dates have the effect of warming the body and driving away the cold.
The above is the amount of 2 cups, you can also increase the amount, brew more, after cooking the ginger date tea, after cooling, put into a clean bottle, put in the refrigerator refrigeration. Scoop up two spoonfuls of water whenever you drink, and brew it with boiling water.
We can also make some variations on the mixing of ginger jujube tea to adapt to different groups of people:
Women with deficiency of qi and blood: add brown sugar. Ginger jujube tea plus brown sugar can enhance the effect of warming blood and replenishing blood, and it is also helpful for women with dysmenorrhea. It can also regulate symptoms such as cold hands and feet and delayed menstruation in women.
For small children with a bad stomach: add maltose. If the child has thin yellow muscles, poor appetite, and sometimes stomach pain, add some maltose when drinking ginger jujube tea, and the effect of improving spleen and stomach function is better.
Diarrhea: Add green tea. If eating raw cold melon fruit causes water diarrhea, add some green tea when brewing ginger jujube tea to stop diarrhea.
In addition to the above, it can also be made like this:
1, ginger jujube tea simple preparation
Friends at work can make ginger jujube tea by making tea: in the morning, cut the ginger into thin slices, wrap it in plastic wrap and bring it to the office, put it in a thermos cup, add the broken red dates, brew it with boiling water, cover the lid and simmer for a while. You can brew it several times, and if it is not convenient to bring ginger during the trip, you can use ginger powder instead.
2. Cook ginger and jujube porridge
When cooking ginger and date porridge, do not slice the ginger with the skin, but pat it flat with a kitchen knife. Break open the dates. Every morning when boiling porridge, put the prepared ginger and dates with the skin and boil with the porridge, and the boiling time should be longer, preferably more than an hour. Huogong Tuina Guidance Tips Commentary In boiling rice porridge or mixed grain porridge, ginger and dates can also be appropriately placed.
Ginger jujube tea has a variety of practices, the above is for reference only!
Second, the benefits of drinking ginger jujube tea
1. Helps the body detoxify.
2. Promotes water metabolism.
Some friends often lament that they are "fat when they drink water". In fact, this is not fat but water retention. Such a friend only needs to drink ginger jujube tea for a week, and the excess water is discharged, and people will see that they have become slim.
3. Reconcile digestive system function.
Ginger and jujube are often used together in Traditional Chinese medicine to harmonize the function of the spleen and stomach. Especially after a cold, people often feel nauseous, want to vomit, no appetite, at this time drinking some ginger jujube tea can eliminate these discomforts. Ginger jujube tea is also very good for children's spleen and stomach health care.
4. Improve immune system function.
Drinking ginger jujube tea in early summer, the body's resistance to various viruses will be enhanced, and it is not easy to get sick.
5. Prevent chin breakouts.
Many people think that having acne is "getting on fire". In fact, if the acne is only long on the chin, especially for middle-aged women, it often means that the lower coke of the human body has a cold breath, which is a manifestation of insufficient qi and blood, rather than what we usually think of as the cause of the body fire. Ginger jujube tea is the use of ginger to drive out the cold qi under the body, and the jujube to replenish qi and blood. Therefore, drinking this tea often is very helpful for people who love acne on the chin to regulate the qi and blood of the body.
Ginger jujube tea is especially suitable for people who work in air-conditioned environments all year round, such as offices, shopping malls, etc. The cold wind of the air conditioner brings cold and dampness into the human body, causing cervical spondylosis, low back pain, cough and even obesity. Drinking some ginger jujube tea can help to excrete these cold and wet out of the body, many small hairy diseases have also been solved, a patient of Ale teacher insisted on drinking ginger jujube tea for a month, and unexpectedly found that he lost six pounds, in fact, this is the result of ginger jujube tea to speed up the body's metabolism and discharge excess water and metabolic waste.
Ginger jujube tea is delicious, but not everyone can drink, who can drink, who should not drink?
Three, 4 kinds of people should drink ginger jujube tea
1. Ginger jujube tea to nourish qi and nourish blood, kidney qi is not solid, qi deficiency and weak people should often drink.
2. Ginger jujube tea is warm and cold, and the effect is good for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and often diarrhea.
3. Ginger jujube tea back to the Yang through the pulse, Yang deficiency qi deficiency people are also very popular.
4. Ginger jujube tea to dampen and anti-inflammatory, people with rheumatoid arthritis, bone and joint pain, often drink to disperse cold, benefit joints.
Fourth, 3 kinds of people drink less ginger jujube tea
There are many benefits of drinking ginger jujube tea, which has great benefits for the body, but it is not suitable for everyone.
1. Diabetics should not drink. Because the sweetness of dates is very high, if you want to drink, you can drink ginger water directly.
2. People with sufficient qi and blood should not be suitable. People with rosy and full of qi generally do not belong to the cold physique, and drinking ginger jujube tea is easy to get on fire, and it is not recommended to drink.
3. People with hot blood should not drink. People who often have sores in their mouth and tongue and have dry stools, drink ginger jujube tea, which will aggravate the symptoms of fire, and are not suitable for this tea.
Fifth, when to drink ginger jujube tea
Drinking ginger jujube tea is beneficial and harmless to the human body, basically regardless of the season, but three periods are best:
1. Season: Drink until you fall into the middle of summer
Every year, it starts from the day of the summer and drinks until the first day of the ambush. After a winter and spring, the body will accumulate more wet and cold qi, while the summer is hot, the human body is open, and the yang qi in the body is empty. At this time, drinking a cup of ginger jujube tea can not only make up for the deficiency of yang qi in the body to warm up, but also help the yang qi to diverge to drain the cold.
2. Hours: Drink from morning to noon
Drinking a cup of ginger jujube tea every morning can eliminate the cold in the body, which is very good for warming up the body and driving away the cold, the large cycle according to the stilt guidance tips is best to drink in the morning, the afternoon is not suitable for drinking, folk "eat ginger early, warm Yang Yang, late eat ginger, arsenic cream" The saying is somewhat reasonable.
3. Heat: Drink while it is hot, don't wait for it to be cold
Ginger jujube tea when hot in order to play a cold effect, do not wait for the cold, so that the effect will be greatly damaged, but also in vain to spend the effort of boiling tea.
(Health Guru)