Medicine and food are of the same origin, and meals are used for health.
Recently, my wife always likes to learn to cook food with TikTok. Influenced by her, I also became interested in cooking. It's just that I'm focused on medicinal food. I wanted to combine the knowledge of Chinese medicine I learned, make a few medicinal meals, and condition the body of my family, so I randomly followed the video and learned a few.
Although he prides himself on knowing a little bit of Chinese medicine knowledge, it is really not easy to match the three kinds of Chinese medicine, ingredients and spices. In order to make a good medicinal diet, when I was idle, I looked through some theoretical books on medicinal diet and also took some notes.
For a while have not been shared on the headlines, simply share these study notes and experiences with everyone, some are not necessarily correct, learn well or not, welcome to criticize and correct in the comment area. We improve together.
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As the saying goes, "medicine is not as good as food supplements". The wise Chinese ancients combined the traditional Chinese medicine for curing diseases with daily food, and the medicine borrowed food taste, food aided medicine, and the bitter medicine became a "delicious medicine". This kind of food made of Chinese medicinal herbs and food as raw materials, which has been cooked and processed, is called "medicinal food". Medicinal food is the product of a combination of traditional Chinese medical knowledge and culinary experience. Medicinal food "allegorical medicine in food", not only the drug as food, but also the food with medicinal use, not only has nutritional value, but also can prevent diseases and cure diseases, health care and strengthen the body, prolong life.
Since medicinal food is composed of food and medicine, it is necessary to have both food delicious and medicinal effects, which naturally cannot be completed by simply adding the two together. To do a good job of a medicinal diet, only to understand Chinese medicine is not enough, you must also understand the ingredients and spices, under the guidance of the dialectical theory of Chinese medicine, reasonable collocation can make a good medicinal diet that can be delicious and can cure diseases.
Although medicinal food is also a kind of food, it cannot be abused, and it must follow certain principles when using it. How can I use it? It is inseparable from the guidance of the dialectical theory of Chinese medicine. Dialectics are the basis for medicinal dietary use. Only for different diseases, different stages of the disease, after differentiation, the use of different medicinal diets can be done.
The application of medicinal food should follow the following principles:
1. Dialectical selection; Chinese medicine pays attention to dialectics. Medicinal diet should be based on dialectical selection of ingredients and compatibility, for example, people with blood deficiency should choose more blood-replenishing herbs - angelica and blood-replenishing ingredients - dates, peanuts, etc., while people with yin deficiency should use more goji berries, sand ginseng, ground yellow, lilies, mai dong, these yin herbs and ingredients.
2, it varies from time to time; the treatment method of Chinese medicine pays attention to "using cold to be cold, using heat to be far from hot", that is to say, in the cold winter, avoid a large number of cold drugs, and in the hot summer, we must avoid a large number of warm drugs. The use of medicinal food should also use different medicinal diets according to different seasons, different seasons, and different stages of disease development.
3, varies from person to person; different people, due to different ages, different physiques, the choice of medicinal food should also be different. The child's physique is relatively delicate, choose raw materials do not use cold and hot drugs and ingredients; The elderly have insufficient liver and kidneys, and avoid the use of warm and dry drugs and ingredients; For pregnant women, avoid the use of blood-activating drugs and ingredients to avoid moving the tire.
4. It varies from place to place. China is a vast country, with different climatic conditions and living habits in the east, west, south, and north, as well as different physiological activities and pathological changes in the human body. Living in humid and rainy places for a long time, such as Yunguichuan, Hunan, hubei, medicinal food selection is more warm and spicy; while the northwest cold places, such as Qinghai and Tibet, should be warm and greasy when selecting materials; in the hot places in the south, it is necessary to be cool and sweet.
Now that it is autumn, the natural world "yang gradually harvests, yin gradually grows", which is the transition stage of "yang disappearing yin and long" in nature, the weather changes from hot to cool, and the climate changes from wet to dry. The physiological activities of the human body will also change accordingly. We must follow the laws of nature, maintain the yin qi in the body, and not consume sperm and hurt the yin, so as to lay a good foundation for the growth of yang qi in the coming year. This is also the truth of "raising yin in autumn and winter" as stated in the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic.
Dryness is a characteristic of the autumn climate. The first thing to raise yin is to prevent dryness. Chinese medicine believes that dryness is the main qi in autumn. According to the passage of time and the change of climate, the dryness of autumn is divided into warm and dry, the early autumn is warm and dry, and the late autumn is cool and dry. Dryness and evil are most likely to damage the lungs of the human body. When the humidity in the air drops and the lungs are dry, cough and sputum sticky, dry stool, dry stool, cracked skin and other symptoms occur. Therefore, the principle of diet and nourishment in autumn should be based on nourishing the yin and moisturizing. In daily life, you can eat more white fungus, pear, sesame, lily, lotus, honey, spinach, dairy products and other beneficial products for the stomach, and at the same time advocate drinking porridge in the morning to moisturize the body.
Autumn should also pay attention to "less caprylic acid" in terms of diet. The yang qi in nature is a state of decline at this time, and the most intuitive phenomenon is that the leaves begin to turn yellow and fall. When we cultivate our body, we must conform to this law. Spicy food, easy to divergence, sweating after eating spicy, is a manifestation of spicy dispersion, with sweating, the human body yang qi is also partially lost, which is contrary to the change of yang in autumn. And the acid can converge, we eat something sour, is not the facial muscles involuntarily into a piece. Sour foods and medicinal herbs can conform to the natural yang qi convergence, and the body's yang qi is collected downwards without excessive dissipation.
Therefore, for ginger, garlic, leeks, herbs, peppers and other spicy products to eat less, you can choose more sour fruits such as apples, olives, pomegranates, grapefruit, loquat, grapes, etc., and some sweet, sweet and cool vegetables such as cabbage, spinach, russet, lettuce and so on.
These are some of the theoretical aspects.
In the autumn, the number of patients with cough is increasing. Today, I recommend a medicinal diet that can prevent and treat dry cough in autumn - shellfish autumn pear.
【Ingredients】 1 snowflake pear (about 250 grams), 10 grams of Sichuan shellfish, 10 grams of dried lilies, 15 grams of rock sugar.
【Preparation method】 Wash the snowflake pear, cut it horizontally by the handle, and dig out the core. In addition, wash and crush the sichuan shellfish and dried lilies into minced pieces, put them into the pears, put the upper parts of the pears together, and insert them tightly with a toothpick. Put the pears in a bowl, add rock sugar and a little water, and steam the bowl in a steamer for 40 minutes until the pears are soft and rotten. Uncover the pear cap, mix the medicine with the pear meat, eat the pear and drink the soup.
【Effect】Moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, dry and hot cough, purify the heart and calm the mind, clear the heat and dissolve phlegm, moisturize and dry. Especially the elderly with dry cough, dry throat, and less phlegm can be eaten frequently.
Briefly analyze this medicinal diet with you.
Pear taste sweet, slightly acidic, cool, sweet can produce jin, acid can absorb the lungs, cool can clear the heat, so, pear dry, raw jin, clear heat, phlegm, more suitable for dry lungs with hot and phlegm cough. Choose pears, not necessarily non-use snowflake pears, as mentioned earlier in autumn suitable for eating acidic food, choose pears can choose a little sour, more conducive to lowering lung qi and cough.
What about the mother of the shell? Now it's a little expensive. Can I replace it with another mother-of-pearl? For example, Pingbeimu and Zhejiangbeimu. Although these three kinds of shellfish taste bitter cold and are longer than phlegm, sichuan shellfish taste bittersweet, slightly sweet, and longer than moisturizing the lungs to clear the heat and dissolve phlegm; pingbei taste bitter cold, mainly used for diseases such as sputum nucleus coagulation, longer than the spread of knots and swelling; and Zhejiang shellfish bitter cold, focusing on the promotion of lung heat and phlegm. Whether from the taste or efficacy, the treatment of dry cough, Sichuan shellfish is more suitable.
Lily, sweet and slightly cold, peaceful effect, can supplement the lung yin, and can clear the lung heat. Although the power of moisturizing the lungs and clearing the lungs is not as good as that of northern sand ginseng and wheat dong, it also has a certain cough and expectorant effect. Therefore, it is often used for upper respiratory tract infections, laryngitis, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pregnancy cough, and tuberculosis.
Rock sugar, sweet taste, flat sex, tonic scorched spleen and stomach, moisturizing lungs and cough, suitable for spleen and stomach qi deficiency, lung dry cough. However, it is not easy to be too much. Although sweet things enter the spleen and nourish the spleen, too much sweets are easy to hurt the spleen, hinder the transport of the spleen and stomach and water metabolism, not only do not dissolve phlegm, but are prone to phlegm. Therefore, the rock sugar can not be put more, 15g is enough. A reminder: diabetics should not put rock sugar.
When out of the pan, sprinkle a little dried osmanthus flowers slightly. Smelling the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, drinking sweet and sour pear soup, ah, delicious.
This mother-of-pearl autumn pear can nourish yin and dryness, moisten the lungs and clear heat, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough, which is especially suitable for dry and hot cough, and at the same time has the function of purifying the heart and calming the mind. It is especially suitable for the elderly with dry cough, dry throat and less phlegm, and can be eaten regularly.
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