Spring returns to the earth, the weather began to slowly warm up, but experts remind this time must not be taken lightly. Every year in March, there is a "cold spring" that catches people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases by surprise.
In the process of warming up in the spring, due to the intrusion of cold air, the temperature is significantly reduced, and this "warm before spring, cold after spring" weather is called inverted spring cold.
Many middle-aged and elderly people with cardiovascular diseases, after the weather warms up in the spring, they begin to be careless.
But as the saying goes, "spring covers autumn frost, do not produce miscellaneous diseases"!
Don't rush to take off your cotton coat at this time
Otherwise the cold air will suddenly hit
Blood vessels contract in cold, narrowing and hardening
Causes slow blood flow, causing blood clots!
In addition to the warmth on the clothes, the health kitchen also brings you 2 ingredients to activate blood stasis and protect blood vessels, helping you to welcome spring with health and health
"Natural statin" – red yeast
Red yeast rice is a fungal thing that parasitizes and ferments in rice, and the color is dark red or brownish red. Known as "natural statin", it is a medicinal and food homologous ingredient.
Red yeast music originated in China, called "Danqu" in ancient times, and has a history of production and application for more than a thousand years. It is mainly prepared by a fungal parasitism fermented in rice.
Red yeast rice ganwen, into the liver, spleen, large intestine meridian.
Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty once recorded in the "Outline": "It is used for women's blood and gas pain and postpartum blood inexhaustibility." "
The selection of red yeast is quite exquisite:
First look at the color, good red yeast rice is dark red or brownish red;
Secondly smell the taste, the smell of wine, slightly sour;
Touch three times, rub without fading;
Four tastes, choose a slightly sour bitter is better.
01 Red Yeast Buns
Red yeast rice steamed buns
make:
1. Pour red yeast rice into cool water, knead and filter by hand to make red yeast rice water for later use;
2: Add sugar and yeast powder to the flour, pour red yeast rice water into a dough, let it stand for half an hour to make the flour fully fermented;
3: Then knead into the size of an edible steamed bun and steam for 20 minutes before serving.
02 Red Yeast Blood Protection Drink
In daily life, you can also use red yeast water to activate blood and dissolve stasis, and Yu Qiuping Yu Lao brought us a cup of blood protection pulse drink.
It is suitable for people with a yin deficiency, thin body, and a family history of arteriosclerosis. People who are obese, have heavy phlegm, and even have yang deficiency are not suitable for use.
Blood Nourishing Drink
Medicinal herbs: Kudzu root 5 grams, raw land 5 grams, white peony 5 grams, red peony 5 grams, raw hawthorn 5 grams, red yeast 2 grams
Directions: Fry or soak, this is the amount of the day.
Source: BTV Health Hall