Heat, one of the twenty-four solar terms. The "Seventy-two Episodes of the Moon Order" says: "Place, go also, the heat ends here." "Place" has the meaning of hiding and terminating, and the hot summer means that the hot summer day is over. People often say that "the summer is not hot, the heat is at noon", after the summer festival, the temperature of the morning and evening during the day has gradually decreased, but the noon weather is still relatively hot. At this time, people are prone to dry mouth and nose, dry throat and hot lips.
The SuQin Dirty Qi Fa Shi Shi Shu Says: "The Main Autumn of the Lungs... The lungs want to collect, urgently eat acid to collect it, supplement it with acid, and diarrhea. "Autumn is gold in the five elements, relatively dry in the six qi, and relatively dry in the five organs, so autumn is dry and evil, corresponding to the lungs." Among the five tastes, the sour taste astringent to supplement the lungs, the spicy taste diverges the lungs, and the autumn should be harvested and not scattered. Spicy food is easy to make the internal fire hyperactive, easy to cause injury to the yin, sour taste can be moist and dry, but also to alleviate the role of dry mouth and tongue and other discomfort caused by autumn dryness, so in the autumn dry and evil yin, eat less spicy and eat acidic food, as far as possible eat less onions, ginger, garlic and other spicy foods, appropriate to eat more sour fruits and vegetables.
Autumn health care must follow the principle of "harvesting", of which diet and health care should be centered on moisturizing and improving qi, with healthy spleen tonic liver and lung as the main content, qingrun glycic acid as the dafa, cold and cool mixing as the key. In the early autumn, it is mainly to be hot and moist, autumn is also a good time to nourish the stomach, it is recommended that the diet method of two porridges and one soup is recommended, that is, eat porridge for breakfast and dinner, and drink soup for lunch.
1. Lily almond loquat porridge
Ingredients: 20g of duck pear, 12g of almonds, 15g of lilies, 20g of loquat fruit, 50g of japonica rice, a little honey.
Preparation: First put the appropriate amount of boiling water in the pot, then pour the washed lilies, almonds and japonica rice into the pot in turn, cook over high heat, and stir while cooking. Let the porridge remain slightly rolling until the rice begins to expand, the rice water merges, soft as ever, and replaces it with a small heat. Place the diced duck pears and loquat in a pot and stir until soft.
Efficacy: Suitable for autumn dry wound yin, dry cough less phlegm, dry skin.
2. Rock sugar silver ear glutinous rice porridge
Ingredients: 100g glutinous rice, 1 white fungus, 10g goji berries, 4-5 dates, rock sugar to taste.
Preparation method: Round glutinous rice and white fungus soaked for two hours in advance, after the white fungus bubbles, remove the yellow root to tear into small flowers; goji berries and red dates are cleaned; put the white fungus, glutinous rice and water into the electric saucepan, slow simmer for an hour and a half; then add the red dates and simmer for half an hour; add rock sugar and cook for another ten minutes, cook until the rock sugar is completely melted; after putting in the wolfberries, you can turn off the power and simmer for another ten minutes.
Efficacy: It has the effect of nourishing yin, clearing heat and moisturizing. Suitable for autumn dry yin, lung fever cough.
3. Dried duck kidney honey date soup
Ingredients: 4 duck kidneys, 500 grams of lean pork, 250 grams of dried cabbage, 4 dates.
Preparation: Cut into dried vegetables; soak and slice the duck kidneys with warm water; wash the lean pork. Put all the ingredients into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over low heat, and simmer for about 2-3 hours.
Efficacy: Suitable for dry cough without sputum, dry throat, dry stool. This soup is clean and cold, suitable for all ages, and is a soup commonly used in autumn families.
4. Pork lung soup with white grass root Sydney pear
Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh white grass root, 4 sydney pears, 1 pair of pork lungs, 500 grams of lean meat, 5 grams of tangerine peel.
Preparation: Wash the pork lungs, put them in boiling water and cook for 5 minutes; cut the pear into pieces, cut the white grass root into sections; and soak the tangerine peel with water. Put the ingredients together in the soup pot, first boil over the fire, and then use a simmer for 2 hours.
Efficacy: It has the effect of clearing heat and vitality, reducing phlegm and cough, especially suitable for people who are hot and dry in autumn, nosebleeds and coughs.
5. Stewed chicken feet with lentils and rice
Ingredients: 100 grams of chicken feet, 10 grams of lentils, 10 grams of amaranth, 6 grams of yunling, 1 slice of ginger.
Preparation: Remove the chicken feet and wash the flying water, and then put them into the stew cup together with the washed herbs, add 300 ml of water, simmer for 2 hours and then take it.
Efficacy: Lentils taste sweet and warm, replenish the spleen without greasy, warm and not dry; The taste of amaranth is sweet and flat; And the effect of strengthening the bones is the chicken foot as the most.
6. Red ginseng Dendrobium bamboo silk chicken
Ingredients: 3 grams of red ginseng, 3 grams of dendrobium, 150 grams of bamboo chicken, ginger slices to taste.
Preparation method: Remove the bamboo wire chicken and wash and cut into pieces, and then put the washed herbs into the stew cup, add 300 ml of water, and simmer for 2 hours.
Effect: Red ginseng can greatly replenish vitality, tonify the spleen and lungs, and rejuvenate the spirit. Dendrobium tastes sweet and flat, nourishes stomach yin, raw liquid, nourishes kidney yin, moisturizes the lungs and spleen to remove hypothermia. Black chicken cures fatigue, thirst, slippery discharge, lower profit, collapse, belt down and other symptoms.
【Source: Qingyuan City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine】