World No Tobacco Day is celebrated every year on 31 May.
The next day is International Children's Day, please create a beautiful smoke-free environment for your children.
TCM's understanding of the relationship between smoking and disease
Smoking is an independent risk factor for a variety of diseases. The smoke is a fiery gas, and its fiery heat has the harm of barbecue and burning, and it is very easy to move the fire and produce phlegm. Smoke poison into the lungs, with the qi and blood flowing around the body, all over the internal organs and hundreds of skeletons, harmful.
Tobacco was originally included as a drug in the Ming Dynasty physician Zhang Jingyue's Jingyue Quanshu. Materia Medica". From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, tobacco gradually evolved into a common smoking substance, from the evolution of dry smoke, shisha and snus to becoming a bad lifestyle harmful to health.
The physician Wu Cheng listed a chapter on "Smoke Theory" in the book "No Residence Collection", and put forward the view that "those who are vain are the most likely to quit this". He believes that "people without disease frequently burn, solid liquid wither, and secretly damage the heavens and years", pointing out that smoking is a bad habit that damages the internal organs and does not benefit longevity, and is one of the reasons for the weakness of the internal organs.
Zhao Xuemin, a medical scientist of the Qing Dynasty, pointed out that tobacco "consumes the lungs and damages blood, and the world is more yin than aware of its calamity", and in his book "Materia Medica", the harm of smoking is summarized as "hurting qi, hurting the spirit, and damaging blood." Loss of appearance, consumption of lungs, and life span", advising people to "stay far away" and "it is advisable to abstain".
lungs
The lungs are the respiratory organs of the human body and an important hematopoietic organ of the human body, located in the chest cavity, one on the left and one on the left and one, covering the heart.
The lungs have lobes, two on the left and three on the right, for a total of five lobes. The lungs are connected to the larynx and nose through the lung system (referring to the trachea, bronchi, etc.), so the larynx is called the portal of the lungs, and the nose is the extraterrestrial part of the lungs.
The lungs are delicate and are a generalization of the physiological and pathological characteristics of the lungs.
Physiologically, the lungs are full of inhalation, the exhalation is empty, the canopy of the internal organs, the pilgrimage of the hundred pulses;
Pathologically, the evil of the six external sensations enters from the fur or mouth and nose, and is often prone to lung disease; other organ lesions are often affected by the lungs.
Chinese medicine believes that the lungs are delicate organs, cigarettes are hot poison and dry evil, the most vulnerable to lungs, dry heat invades the lungs, causing lung qi to be closed, fire poison is lavendered, burning liquid into phlegm, and eventually causing a variety of symptoms.
Today, Xiaobian will recommend a lung nourishing acupuncture point and five lung clearing soups to help you condition your body.
One. Massage the Taiyuan Cave
Location: Taiyuan Acupoint is located on the flank side of the human wrist on the lateral side of the radial artery, where the radial artery pulsates.
Efficacy: Regulate blood veins, relieve cough and phlegm, relieve and treat cough and asthma, sore throat, chest palsy, wrist and palmar joint pain, pulselessness, etc.
Technique: Both thumbs and fingers press the Taiyuan point and do a circular motion, 3 minutes each time, 2 times a day.
Two. Lung clearing soup
1. Chuanbei Sydney pear pork lung soup
Take 120 grams of pig lung, wash and slice, boil in boiling water for 5 minutes, and then wash with cold water.
Wash and break the 9 grams of Sichuan shellfish, wash the sydney pear with the skin, remove the stem and pear heart, and cut the pear meat into small pieces.
Put all the ingredients into a pot of boiling water, simmer for 2 hours, season and drink as needed.
2. White-eared horseshoe scallop lean broth
20 grams of white fungus, 250 grams of horseshoe, 5 grams of Chuanbei, 250 grams of lean pork. Put all the ingredients into the stew cup, add boiling water to an appropriate amount, cover the stew cup, simmer in water for 2 hours, add salt, and eat.
The soup is sweet and delicious, with a fresh taste. Among them, the white fungus can nourish the yin and moisten the lungs, nourish the stomach and vitality, the horseshoe can nourish the yin and clear the lungs, the phlegm, and the Chuanbei can clear the heat and moisten the lungs, dissolve the phlegm and suppress cough.
3. Almond Sydney yam paste
Take 10 grams of almonds, 1 sydney pear, yam, Huaishan rice flour, sugar to taste. First soak the almonds in boiling water, remove the clothes, wash the sydney pears, peel them, wash them, and cut the meat into small pieces. Then put the almonds and pear kernels in a blender and stir to form a puree.
With an appropriate amount of water, mix the almond puree, pear puree, yam, Huaishan rice noodles, and sugar into a paste, pour into a pot of boiling water (about 100 ml of boiling water), stir continuously, and cook.
4. Sand ginseng jade bamboo apricot stew broth
10 grams of northern sand ginseng, 20 grams of jade bamboo, 5 grams of southern and northern apricots, 250 grams of lean pork, 2 dates, 2 slices of ginger. Wash all the ingredients, put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, simmer for 2 hours, add salt to an appropriate amount, you can drink soup and eat meat.
5. Shiitake mushroom snow ear pig pancreatic soup
Take 1 pork pancreas, 60 grams of lean pork, 15 grams of shiitake mushrooms, and 9 grams of snow ear. First wash the mushrooms and soak them in the snow ear, pick a small pig pancreas, wash the lean pork, and slice it. Then put the shiitake mushrooms and snow ear into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over low heat, simmer for 20 minutes, put the pig pancreas, pork lean meat, and then boil, seasoning.
Smoking is never a one-man affair, and when you pull out a cigarette, it may hurt your family.
For the health of yourself and your family, stay away from tobacco! Say no to tobacco smoke, don't smoke firsthand, refuse second-hand smoke and be wary of third-hand smoke.