During the Spring Festival, when the family gathers together, it is inevitable that the meal will be full of big fish and meat plus snacks before and after the New Year, and many people are prone to digestive disorders. In addition, the rain has passed, the weather has become warmer, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, and various respiratory and digestive system diseases are frequent.
Zhang Zhongde (Uncle De), vice president of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and vice president of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reminded the general public that during the Spring Festival, in addition to adding or subtracting clothes according to weather changes, doing a good job of cold and warmth and moisture prevention, it is also necessary to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control and personal protection in strict accordance with the requirements of prevention and control at all levels, and develop good hygiene habits; if the diet on holidays is not enough to be restrained, after the festival, you can flexibly use medicinal soup to consume food and adjust the spleen and stomach.
Daily living outside the epidemic prevention disease
Uncle De reminded that disease prevention is first of all to do a good job of personal protection in strict accordance with the requirements of prevention and control at all levels and develop good hygiene habits.
Wash your hands frequently, wear masks correctly; go out and return home, properly dispose of clothes, shoes and accompanying items; avoid dinners and gatherings; less public places; often open windows for ventilation; keep your room clean.
Secondly, the change of seasons, windproof and warm can not be ignored. In the morning and evening of each day or when the weather changes, whether you feel cold or not, you should add clothes, hats, and socks in time to protect your head, neck, chest, back, abdomen and feet.
Upper body clothes with high neckline, wind shield is better, loose, large pores of the clothes to wear more, can not block the invasion of wind and cold; hats to be comfortable, not airtight is appropriate; get up in the morning or soak feet, after bathing, to wear cotton socks in time; sweating to change dry clothes in time; young people in Lingnan area should not be so anxious to wear skirts or shorts.
Temper the spleen and stomach within a temperate diet
During the Spring Festival, the temptation of food is really difficult to resist, but overeating without moderation will not only increase the burden on the spleen and stomach and appear food accumulation, but also cause insufficient qi and blood biochemistry, resulting in lung qi deficiency, making the protective wall of the human body weak, and providing opportunities for foreign pathogens. Attention should be paid to a moderate diet, especially indigestible foods such as meat, greasy, and fried.
Take a reasonable break and exercise appropriately
In addition to diet, not working hard to avoid staying up late, ensuring adequate sleep, and exercising properly can also improve the body's ability to resist diseases. Exercise should not be intense, should not sweat, breathless, otherwise it may consume yang qi and be easily invaded by external pathogens. It is recommended to perform rhythmic and slow exercises, such as tai chi, yoga, baduanjin, etc. In addition, when the sun is shining, you can go to a place with few people to bask in the sun.
Chinese medicine food consumption recommends two small tricks
If you eat too much on holidays, you need to help the spleen and stomach conditioning in time. Uncle De is here to support the neighbors: stomach bloating, nausea, bad breath, constipation caused by food accumulation, recommend a tea drink, an acupuncture point massage.
A healthy spleen to eliminate stagnant drinks
Ingredients: 15 grams of hawthorn, 20 grams of malt, 1 sydney pear, 3 to 5 grams of tangerine peel.
Directions: Wash the ingredients, cut the sydney pear into pieces, and boil water instead of tea.
In addition, sore throat, dry throat, or with cough, a little yellow sputum, recommended Traditional Chinese medicine gargle: Gangmei root 20 grams, peppermint 10 grams, platycodon 10 grams, licorice 10 grams, after boiling water with medicinal solution gargling, 1 dose per day.
A set of acupressure massage digestion methods
Selection of caves: Daling, Zhigou, Zusanli.
DaLing: Located at the midpoint of the wrist palm transverse stripe.
Branch groove: Located on the dorsal side of the forearm, 3 inches (4 transverse fingers) on the wrist joint.
Foot 3 Mile: Located on the anterolateral side of the calf, there is a depression below the kneecap on both the inside and outside, the lateral depression is 3 inches down (4 transverse fingers), and the tibia (calf bone) is 1 transverse finger (middle finger) outward.
Operation method: Use the thumb or index finger to the abdomen, placed at the acupuncture point and kneaded, the force should be moderate. Each acupuncture point is rubbed 150 to 200 times a day.
Protection of susceptible populations Is recommended for medicinal dietary prophylaxis
Perilla astragalus ginger jujube drink
Ingredients: 15 grams of perilla leaves, 15 grams of astragalus, 5 grams of tangerine peel, 4 to 5 slices of ginger, 2 to 3 red dates (pitted), rock sugar to taste.
Suitable people: Qi deficiency is the mainstay, manifested as plain susceptibility, easy fatigue, or nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, afraid of wind and cold.
Tangerine peel five finger peach stew bamboo silk chicken
Ingredients: 1 bamboo chicken, 40 grams of five-fingered peach, 3 to 5 grams of tangerine peel, 3 to 4 slices of ginger, salt to taste.
Suitable for people: Yang deficiency, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold as the mainstay, manifested as poor appetite, light mouth, saliva is too much, easy to bloat after eating, stool is rotten and so on.
Angelica stewed lamb
Ingredients: 350 grams of lamb, 100 grams of white radish, 50 grams of carrots, 10 grams of goji berries, 5 grams of angelica, 2 to 3 slices of ginger, fine salt to taste.
Suitable for the crowd: kidney yang deficiency as the main person, afraid of the wind and afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, waist and knees are sore and soft, frequent nocturnal urination, stool rotten and so on.
Dendrobium tangerine peel stewed turtle
Ingredients: 1 turtle, 150 grams of lean pork, 100 grams of yam (fresh products), 15 grams of dendrobium, 5 grams of tangerine peel, 2 to 3 slices of ginger, salt to taste.
Suitable for people: yin deficiency as the mainstay, throat discomfort, frequent throat clearance, dry throat, dry mouth, or accompanied by dry cough, less phlegm, dry stool, etc.
Healthy spleen wet soup
Ingredients: 1 carp, 20 grams of fried malt, 20 grams of coix seeds, 3 to 5 grams of tangerine peel, 15 grams of bai shu.
Suitable for people: phlegm wet mainly, easy to be sleepy, heavy head and body, chest tightness, phlegm, stomach distension, stool leakage or stickiness, thick and greasy moss, etc.
Post-holiday diet Recipes for de-greasy are recommended
What if the diet is not moderate, eating too fat, and the intestines want to strike? Zeng Qingshan, director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of the Third Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, recommended that these snacks, staple foods, pastries and tea drinks should be eaten appropriately to not only relieve greasiness but also help digestion-
Tapas - vinegar radish
Festival dinner, most of the fish have meat and a lot of portions, Zeng Qingshan suggested that before eating the meal, you can first eat some vinegar radish - vinegar helps to enhance appetite, white radish is stomach digestion, soaked into vinegar radish, the taste is crisp and appetizing, not only before the meal, the meal with appropriate eating is also very greasy and stagnant.
Staple food - tricolor quinoa rice
Zeng Qingshan reminded that no matter how many big fish and meat are on the festival table, they should also eat some staple foods appropriately. She suggests eating coarse grains such as tricolor quinoa rice, a rice cooked in a 2:1 ratio of rice and tricolor quinoa.
Tricolor quinoa is rich in plant protein, a variety of amino acids and minerals, low calories and low fat, mixed with rice into rice, it helps to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and speed up metabolism.
Pastry - hawthorn cake
Hawthorn cake is made of hawthorn juice with sugar and agar frozen, the taste is smooth, delicate and delicious, which helps to reduce accumulation and stagnation.
Tea drink - green tea Pu'er tea
Green tea: Green tea refreshes and relieves fatigue, contains a large number of amino acids and vitamins, has the effect of quenching thirst, antioxidant, promoting metabolism, alleviating oral odor and so on. However, Zeng Qingshan reminded that those with an empty stomach and a cold stomach should drink less.
Pu'er tea: Pu'er tea to relieve the difficulties and wake up the brain, Pu'er ripe tea is warm, helps to promote metabolism, warm the stomach. Zeng Qingshan said that the mellow Pu'er tea enters the stomach and intestines to form a membrane attached to the gastric surface, which has a protective effect on the stomach. However, Pu'er tea is suitable for warm drinks, not hot drinks, cold drinks, should be light, less drink too strong tea.
(Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Weng Shuxian correspondent Bai Tian)
Source: Guangzhou Daily