Yangzi Evening News Network January 19 news (correspondent Yang Pu reporter Yu Dandan) January 20 is a cold festival, cold weather so that many citizens are a bit overwhelmed, coupled with the end of the year more socializing, busy work, lack of exercise and exercise, indoor heating and outdoor cold take turns to test everyone's resistance, many citizens feel that a careless cold. Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Center experts reminded that the winter climate is cold, in addition to strengthening exercise, preventing colds can also increase resistance through the method of dietary therapy, and the more serious disease needs to be treated in the hospital in time, and patients with milder colds may wish to try dietary therapy. Colds suffered in winter, in addition to influenza, can generally be roughly divided into three types from the perspective of Chinese medicine: wind chill, dry evil and qi deficiency. All can be initially conditioned through our common ingredients.
Wind chill cold: "fairy porridge" warm up and disperse the cold
Xia Gongxu, deputy director of the Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that the most common type of cold in winter is the wind chill, and many citizens often tell the doctor that they accidentally get cold and have a cold, but many times they get cold unconsciously.
The main clinical manifestations of cold and cold are: cold intolerance, low-grade fever, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough phlegm, thinning, no sweating, headache, limb pain, thin tongue. From the perspective of dietary therapy, it is generally necessary to choose some ingredients that can solve the table and spread the cold in the lungs, such as the "immortal porridge" in the "Huizhitang Experience Fang" written by the famous Qing Dynasty doctor Tao Chengxi and Wang Chengxun, which is a good food remedy for the early stage of wind and cold. China's folk also have a widely spread "fairy porridge" song recipe: a handful of glutinous rice boiled into soup, seven green onions and seven slices of ginger, boiled into half a cup of vinegar, cold defense and security.
Fairy porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of glutinous rice, 7 white shallots, 15 grams of ginger, 30 ml of vinegar.
Preparation method: first wash the glutinous rice, add the right amount of water to cook into porridge, then mash the green onion and ginger, boil for 5 minutes, add 30 ml of vinegar, stir well.
Food: warm clothes, bed cover, slightly hot and sweaty. Take 1 time in the morning and 1 time in the evening, 4 times a day.
Dried cabbage root soup
Ingredients: 1 piece of dried cabbage root, 25 grams of brown sugar, 3 slices of ginger,
Preparation method: Wash the raw materials, add water to a bowl and fry the soup.
Diet: Warm, 3 times daily.
Ginger sugar drink
Ingredients: 6 slices of ginger, 15 g brown sugar.
Cooking: Wash and shred the ginger, place in a porcelain cup, brew in boiling water and cover with a lid. Steep for 5 minutes and add the brown sugar. Sugar should not be too much, there should be enough spicy taste.
Diet: Take warm and frequent drinks.
Dry evil cold: rock sugar drink clear lungs dry
Yan Yanfeng, chief physician of the Department of Pulmonary Diseases of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that although it is generally easy to threaten in the autumn of XiaoSer, due to the cold winter now, many people, especially white-collar workers, like to be cared for by heating everywhere, plus they are too late to drink water when they are busy at work, and they like to eat spicy food such as hot pot. Over time, it is slowly injured by dry evil, resulting in headache without sweat, dry nasopharynx, cough and phlegm, dry lips and thirst, dry skin, red tongue and other symptoms of dry evil colds. If this kind of cold is mild, you may wish to eat a dietary remedy that has the effect of clearing the lungs and moisturizing the lungs and lowering the lungs to condition the body. The most common is Sydney rock sugar drink, but in order to increase the effect of moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough, reducing phlegm and asthma, it is recommended to add a traditional Chinese medicine - Chuanbei under the guidance of Chinese medicine practitioners, which has a better effect.
Sydney River Shell Ice Candy Drink
Ingredients: 1 large Sydney pear, 5 grams of Sichuan shellfish, rock sugar to taste.
Preparation: Wash the pears, cut the top and shell them. Put the minced Sichuan shellfish and rock sugar into the pear, add an appropriate amount of water, and steam for 30 minutes on the water and heat.
How to eat: Eat pear and drink soup.
Lily almond porridge
Ingredients: 50 grams of fresh lilies, 10 grams of almonds (peeled and broken), 50 grams of japonica rice.
Preparation method: boiled porridge on 3 flavors, add an appropriate amount of sugar and serve.
Feeding method: take warmly, take as much as you want.
Lung-moisturizing cough tea
Ingredients: 60 grams each of Xuan Ginseng and Mai Dong, 24 grams of WuMei, 30 grams of Platycodon, 15 grams of licorice.
Preparation method: after the medicine is dried, it is crushed, mixed, packed, 18 grams per bag.
How to eat: Take 1 sachet per serving, 2 times a day, brewed with boiled water, substitute for tea.
Qi deficiency cold: wheat embryo cake solid kidney and qi
Xia Gongxu, deputy director of the Center for the Treatment of Diseases in Nanjing Integrative Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital, said that many people always feel that whether they eat cold medicine to treat wind chill or cold medicine to treat wind fever, they do not see the cold symptoms improve, and the hanging water is more and more empty. In this case, you should ask a senior Chinese medicine practitioner to see if it is easy to catch a cold repeatedly because of qi deficiency.
Xia Gongxu, deputy chief physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that Chinese medicine believes that people with qi deficiency and physical fitness are obviously lacking in physical strength and energy, and there is a feeling of fatigue and discomfort when they move a little or work or exercise. Modern medicine classifies this condition in the category of sub-health. People with qi deficiency physique have a significantly lower body immunity and ability to resist diseases than those who are healthy, often less breathy, lazy, low voice, fatigue and tiredness, often sweating, once a cold is not surprising. For those with qi deficiency, they can be nourished by diet, ointment and other methods. In general, you should choose medicinal and food-using ingredients to replenish qi, such as millet, japonica rice, glutinous rice, and yarrow. These foods have a good spleen and qi effect, but the amount of consumption should not be too much, to eat according to their own specific conditions, you can also cooperate with medicinal food, the effect will be better.
Assorted wheat crackers
Ingredients: 20 grams of raisins, 10 grams of longan meat, 10 grams of peanut kernels, 10 pieces of dates, 100 grams of wheat germ powder, 20 grams of sugar (or brown sugar).
Directions: The grapes are cleaned, chopped together with the longan meat, the peanut kernels are fried, the dates are washed and pitted, the above two foods are also chopped, the wheat germ powder is slightly blanched with boiling water, after adding the above raw materials, kneading evenly, making a pancake, and baking.
Effect: Qi, blood nourishment, calm.
Astragalus stewed chicken soup
Ingredients: 750 grams of chicken, 40 grams of astragalus, 3 slices of ginger, old wine to taste.
Method: Astragalus is fried in 2 bowls of water into 1 bowl; chicken (with bones) cut into small pieces, washed and boiled with 7 bowls of water, the water is boiled to remove foam, change to slow heat, add old wine and ginger slices, cook for 30 minutes on medium heat and then add astragalus juice, cook on low heat for 2 hours.
Benefits: Beneficial gas solid table.
Yam cinnamon porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of yam, 15 grams of cinnamon meat, 3 lychee meats, sugar to taste.
Directions: Peel and cut the yam into thin slices. Cook the yam tablets, cinnamon balls and lychee meat together, cook well, and add sugar.
Effect: Tonify and strengthen the qi, improve the lungs and strengthen the essence.
Warm reminder: Please take the food treatment prescription under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner.