Shanghai continuous high temperature, always feel thirsty, irritable, sleepy tired, want to drink something, so just this hot summer day, what should I drink? Chilled drinks? Carbonated drinks? Beer? Fire-lowering tea? Or a traditional drink?
Summer troubles
First of all, no matter what to drink, health is the first priority, followed by cool relief, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, the spleen and stomach are warm, that is, warm things are good for the spleen and stomach, on the contrary, cold things are very unfavorable to the spleen and stomach. From this point of view, in fact, all kinds of cold drinks and cold drinks have been excluded. Some people may ask whether the spleen and stomach are so important? Why does it seem like nothing to eat popsicles so often?
In fact, the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and if there is stomach qi, it is born, and if there is no stomach gas, it dies. In ancient times, when doctors clinically diagnosed whether a patient was saved, the first thing to consider was whether there was stomach gas. There are also some pediatric diseases that basically revolve around the healthy spleen, and there is no kidney supplement for young people, that is to say, the spleen and stomach buttons can dissolve the vitality and blood, and the overall function of the person will not be too much of a problem. It can be seen that the importance of the spleen and stomach to people.
The spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and it likes warmth and cold
As for the students who eat popsicles, in fact, people's endowments will be different, can eat cold, prove that their spleen and stomach are relatively strong, but what to do at this time is not to destroy it, but should cherish the reward of this old heaven, protect it, a moment of strength, does not mean that a lifetime is strong, if the day is cold, I am afraid that the strong spleen and stomach will eventually have a decay day, in fact, most of the elderly are spleen and stomach first, supplementing the kidneys is actually forced. All longevity people are well protected by the acquired spleen and stomach. Over the cold, will inevitably damage the stomach, but for a while can not see it, frozen three feet is not a day of cold, the average person over forty years old, physical fitness will begin to decline, many middle-aged friends must also have a deep understanding.
The first half of life should fight for talent, wisdom, emotional intelligence, networking... However, the second half of life can only fight for the body and health, and having a good spleen and stomach may be the highest starting point in the second half of your life. Therefore, for the second half of life, we must eat less cold drinks and drink less cold drinks. In fact, when you drink, you will also find that it is only cool at the time of drinking, and after drinking, you find that it does not quench your thirst, no problems are solved, and your stomach is still full and uncomfortable.
Cold drinks can not be eaten, what about fire tea? After all, this is also a traditional drink, so hot, clear fire is always right, right?
Fire tea is really not necessarily suitable, there is a point to be clear, summer feel hot this is not equivalent to the body fire, on the contrary, there is an old saying called "winter eat radish summer eat ginger", many people can not understand this sentence, summer is obviously very hot, why eat hot ginger? For example, in the summer, the weather is very hot, but the water in the well is very cool, and there was no refrigerator before, so I put the watermelon under the well, which is very cool. On the contrary, in winter, you may imagine that it may freeze, but you will find that the water does not even freeze your hands, you can wash your face directly.
Underground winter is warm and summer is cool
In fact, spring and summer are long, autumn harvest and winter hiding, this heaven and earth is often also, the human body is a small world, and the rules of the operation of heaven and earth are the same, in the summer, the external heat and the inner cold, because in the summer, the yang qi floats, the heat hidden in the depths will float to the surface, the performance is that people feel very hot, but the internal heat is insufficient, because they all run to the surface, this is why eat ginger in the summer.
Understand this truth, but also know that most people should not only not lower the fire at this time, but also add a little warm things. Folk popular moxibustion, three volt stickers, etc., are selected in the summer to do this is the truth, of course, the individual of the person is not the same, may be liver fire or lung fire, you can choose the appropriate fire tea as appropriate, but this is another problem, and does not have universality, some people with cold constitution will even drink fire tea and diarrhea.
Is it true that you can only drink boiled water?
Of course not! There is such a drink, can meet all your fantasies about summer drinks, yes, it is today's protagonist - sour plum soup, a random search on the Internet to know, sour plum soup is our country's traditional summer drink, ancient is the best summer drink, there are thousands of years of historical precipitation, in the Qing Dynasty was also improved into a royal drink of the court, in the folk, sour plum soup is also popular in the tea house of the internet red cold drink, "copper bowl sound in the street call, a ou ice water and plum soup" is the real folk portrayal at that time. So why does such a super drink from ancient fire to the present have such a great impact? What is the specific role of people?
It has a high appearance, a good taste, and many effects of sour plum soup
First of all, sour plum soup is sweet and sour, the taste is excellent, while the rich rose soup color is very noble, can be described as good color and taste, it can be said that hanging the current crowd of various drinks, but, as the crystallization of the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine, if it is only regarded as a beverage, it is despised, it actually has the medicinal effect of cooling down, degreasing, appetizing, simply put, the health effect is far greater than the beverage attributes. Let's take a look at its detailed composition:
Wumei: This is the most core ingredient of sour plum soup, taste sour, has an astringent effect, noh shengjin, ann clam, Shennong Materia Medica Jingyun: "taste sour, flat." The Lord breathes, except for heat and annoyance, peace of mind, limb pain, partial dryness, dead muscles, go to green and black moles, evil diseases." Anyone who studies Chinese medicine knows that there is a very famous jingfa called Wumei Pill, which is to use Wumei as a medicine to treat roundworms, diarrhea and so on. Summer Yang qi floating, and the acid harvest of Wumei can just converge on the floating Yuanyang, to prevent excessive sweating, as for its role in quenching thirst, there is an idiom called Wangmei thirst quenching, a sentence to summarize its efficacy.
Hawthorn: children eat digestion tablets commonly used it, it is actually mainly to help the spleen and stomach to eliminate meat, modern society everyone eats well, meat, greasy, these are high-calorie foods, hawthorn is actually to help you quickly digest the source of high calories, thereby reducing the production of high heat, the so-called do not understand the heat and heat self-solution also, this is actually the ancestors of the high-end play, the average person really can not understand.
Rock sugar: The role of rock sugar here is not only to add a little sweetness, so that the drink is better, in fact, it is mainly to cooperate with Wumei, Chinese medicine has a theory called acid ganhuayin, that is, the combination of sour and sweet taste to transform the yin liquid, there is a yin tonic effect, than the effect of direct yin supplementation is much smarter, because the direct use of ground yellow a kind of cream tonic, generally will nourish the spleen and stomach, difficult to digest, so experienced old Chinese medicine are less with the method of tonic, but through the cooperation between different medicinal flavors to achieve the purpose, in fact, The Chinese medicine community can play this kind of high-end game is generally a ashes-level player, such as the Republic of China Chinese medicine everyone Zhang Xichun, when he was young, he liked to use the yellow, but also treated countless people, but the medical technique is more and more mature, he found the drawbacks, and later rarely used the way of nourishment.
There are also many wonderful uses in life, such as mixing cold vegetables, adding vinegar while adding a spoonful of sugar, many chefs say that it is fresh, in fact, do not know its mystery, vinegar to sugar, acidity will not be too strong, thus becoming a softer pure vinegar aroma. For example, making scrambled eggs with tomatoes, with or without sugar, is a key factor in success. You can practice specifically, and the difference is still very obvious.
These three flavors are the core ingredients of sour plum soup, in addition, in order to enhance the effect in all aspects, different recipes sometimes add tangerine peel, licorice, osmanthus flower, mulberry, rose ash (roselle flower), mint and so on.
The recipe ingredients for sour plum soup will vary from house to house
Speaking of which, we have found that sour plum soup does not have any cold ingredients, its way of relieving the heat is actually not to clear the heat, but to make up for it, Chinese medicine says "real heat when clear, virtual heat when supplementing", by supplementing the yin deficiency and preventing the heat from hurting the body, that is, improving physical fitness, but also cool to relieve the heat, the most valuable thing is that it can obviously rely on strength to speak, but also has such a noble appearance and excellent taste, such a group can be described as ingenious! It is true that it is the first choice for summer drinks!
In addition to understanding the heat, sour plum soup can also calm the liver fire, appetizing and degreasing. Some people say that there is an effect of weight loss, in fact, it still makes sense, the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty often ate a lot of delicious dishes, but the body has been kept thin, it is said that it is related to this soup, the old saying, life is rare to be old and thin, everyone knows that obesity will bring a lot of problems, now the living conditions in the city are very good, the intake of oil is very much, in terms of nutrients, and the ancient court is also similar, from this point of view, the current people, especially the people in the city, should really have nothing to drink this sour plum soup that scrapes grease.
Sour plum soup has so many benefits in addition to summer heat
Through the above detailed analysis, we already know that sour plum soup is a delicious and very beneficial traditional drink to the body, but there are a variety of sour plum soup on the market, there are bottled drinks, instant granules, tea bags, stewed buns, and so many different recipes, different manufacturers, different boiling methods, how to choose in the end? Do they all have the same effect?
Carefully studied down, to drink to the taste of pure, the formula of authentic sour plum soup actually needs a lot of thought, although the choice is many, the conditions seem to be really not much, but considering the problem of length, there are many details to talk about, I decided to open another article specifically to discuss this problem, I believe that it will be able to solve this difficult choice problem, please look forward to it!