New Year cold, what are the heart-warming desserts, healthy and sweethearts?
Lin Juxuan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, said that according to the view of "heaven and man corresponding" in traditional Chinese medicine, the cold qi should be in the kidneys of the human body, which belongs to the "water" line of the five elements, which corresponds to black in color. Black into the kidney meridian, can benefit the kidneys and strengthen the kidneys, with black food to supplement the kidneys, is "conform to the heavens".
Eat more black food in winter
You may wish to eat more black beans, black rice, black sesame seeds, black fungus, black chicken and other foods in winter. With black sesame seeds as the main ingredient, there is a health soup that is very suitable for dessert after the New Year's feast.
Childhood taste, but also healthy
Hand-ground sesame paste, this traditional dessert, is almost the memory of many Cantonese children. Now, this soup (cantonese commonly known as "paste") can also have a more healthy way to eat.
Cantonese childhood taste
Black sesame seeds are a dual-use medicine, the effect is to tonify the liver and kidneys, improve sperm and blood, moisturize the intestines. It is used for dizziness and dizziness with insufficient liver and kidney sperm, early whitening, hair loss, waist and knee soreness, etc., and is also used for constipation caused by blood deficiency. It can be used for habitual constipation in the elderly, and long-term use has the effect of tonifying the liver and kidneys with black hair.
Peanuts, also known as long-lived fruits, are flat and sweet, have the therapeutic effect of nourishing the spleen and nourishing the blood. As stated in the "Materia Medica", it has the effect of "tonifying the spleen and moisturizing the lungs". Peanuts can help correct deficiency, moisturize the lungs and dissolve phlegm, nourish and replenish qi, raw milky slippery intestines, delay the decline of brain function, moisturize the skin, suitable for indigestion, all ages.
Peanut sesame paste
Almonds, belonging to the lungs, spleen, and large intestine meridians, are divided into southern apricots and northern apricots. South apricot is also known as sweet almonds, loose quality, slight sweetness, fat and full, often as the necessary soup for the old Cantonese soup, has the effect of moisturizing and nourishing the lungs; northern apricot is bitter almonds, solid, some slightly bitter taste, slightly dry shape, the main function is to calm asthma and cough, mostly used for dispensing.
Note that the almonds selected in this soup are southern almonds, because the southern apricots are sweet and have a better taste, and the therapeutic effect is biased towards dry lungs and laxatives.
In this soup, the combination of black sesame seeds and peanut kernels that supplement the liver and kidneys is used to double the effect of strengthening the spleen and replenishing the kidneys and moisturizing the intestines, which has a good conditioning effect for those with insufficient spleen and kidney constipation; with the southern almonds in addition to moisturizing the lungs and lungs, it can also moisturize the intestines and help detoxify. The black sesame peanut almond soup recommended in this issue is not only a popular therapeutic health soup in winter, but also a good auxiliary therapeutic medicinal diet for people with constipation in winter.
Black sesame peanut almond paste
【Ingredients】 100 grams of black sesame seeds, 300 grams of peanut kernels, 60 grams of southern almonds, brown sugar to taste.
【Preparation】 Stir-fry black sesame seeds and peanut kernels, add an appropriate amount of water and mix the southern almonds with a blender to make a paste, put them in a pot and boil, and eat brown sugar according to personal taste before eating. This is a serving size of 3-4 people.
【Effect】Strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidneys, moisturize the intestines and laxative.
Text/Yangcheng Evening News reporter Lin Qingqing
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