As the saying goes, "winter is replenished, and the tiger is fought in the spring". Winter weather is cold, plants in nature grow slowly or stop growing, animals enter hibernation, human skin is occlusive, yang qi is introverted, metabolism declines, and everything is sealed. At this time, people will choose warm food and drugs that are beneficial to qi and yang to supplement to enhance the body's own immunity and achieve the role of disease prevention and health.
The cold winter is a good time to supplement, and many patients also want to take advantage of this season to make up for it and improve their body's disease resistance. Dr. Wang Wei, director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Cancer Treatment Center of the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Chongqing University, reminded that although the winter supplement is good, it needs to be dialectically viewed, and rushing to supplement regardless of cold and hot physique will cause yin and yang imbalance, which is harmful to the human body and is not beneficial.
1. Supplements vary from person to person. People have the difference between men and women, old and young, and their physique has the distinction between false and real cold and hot. Lidong supplements and Chinese medicine prescriptions can not be one thousand people, but they must vary from person to person. Generally speaking, those who have obvious evidence of deficiency or weakness after illness should be supplemented with drugs in the early stage; those who are not obvious in evidence or who have improved their weakness after drug supplementation can selectively supplement food supplements.
Human physique can be divided into nine categories, namely, peaceful quality, qi deficiency, yang deficiency, yin deficiency, phlegm moisture, damp heat, blood stasis, qi depression, and special temperament. How should these people be replenished?
Peaceful quality. People with a peaceful physique are the healthiest, their yin and yang qi and blood are harmonious, their faces are rosy, their eyes are energetic, they are not easy to fatigue, their tongue is reddish, and their pulses are gentle and powerful, and people with this constitution can not supplement, or make up less.
Qi deficiency. People with qi deficiency have insufficient vitality, shortness of breath, laziness, easy fatigue, lack of energy, weak pulse, people with this constitution are suitable for choosing drugs or foods with healthy spleen and qi, tonic and solidifying effects. Medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, ginseng, white art, licorice, etc., food options such as rice, japonica rice, peanuts, yam, beef, chicken, tofu, yam, potatoes, cauliflower, etc.
Yang deficiency. Yang deficiency of people yang qi is insufficient, afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, lack of energy, pulse is late, this physique of people should pay attention to tonic deficiency, warm tonic kidney yang, optional deer antler, ginseng and other medicinal materials and mutton, beef, ginger, leeks, cinnamon and other foods with qi and yang.
Yin deficiency. Yin deficiency people often have hot hands and feet, dry mouth and throat, dry stool, red tongue, few jin, fine pulses, and their supplements should be based on nourishing yin and lowering fire, moisturizing and drying, calming and calming the spirit, and recommend sand ginseng, jade bamboo, wheat dong, goji berries and other medicinal materials, as well as white fungus, fungus, cabbage, sea cucumber, milk, eggs, sugarcane and other foods.
Sputum moisture. Phlegm wet people phlegm wet condensation, sweaty and sticky, chest tightness, mossy, smooth pulse, which can be spleen and dampness, recommended cloud coix kernel, soil poria, mustard fruit, lotus seeds and other medicinal materials, and barley, corn, orange peel and other foods.
Moist heat mass. People with this physique have damp and hot connotations, such as oily face, bitter mouth, yellow and greasy moss, red tongue, and slippery pulse, and can also strengthen the spleen and remove dampness as the main principle of supplementation.
Blood stasis. Blood stasis physique of people blood is not smooth, often dark skin color, tongue purple, pigmentation, easy to appear ecchymosis, pulse astringent, can be invigorating blood nourishment as the main principle of supplementation, recommended angelica, Tian Qi and other medicinal materials.
Depressed. The popularity of the depressed physique is depressed, depressed, emotionally fragile, bored and unhappy, the tongue is reddish, the moss is thin and white, and the pulse strings are. Supplements can be mainly used to relieve depression, and it is recommended to recommend herbs such as incense and cumin and foods such as coriander and pepper, and avoid raw and cold greasy products.
Special quality. This type of population is what we often call allergies, congenital disorders, susceptibility to asthma, urticaria, hay fever and drug allergies and other diseases. It is recommended to eat more foods that nourish yin and clear heat, nourish blood and qi, such as sesame seeds, mung beans, coix seeds, soybeans and so on.
2. Know how to distinguish between the sexual taste of food
Chinese medicine believes that food has five tastes and four sexes, the five tastes refer to sour, sweet (sweet), bitter, spicy (spicy), salty, and the four natures refer to warm, hot, cold, and cool, so that supplements can also be divided into three kinds: flat supplement, warm supplement and clear supplement. Flat supplement food is a necessary food for life and helps maintain health; warm food can warm the sun to help the fire, improve the symptoms of cold and cold, thereby enhancing the physique; clean up the cold food, can clear the fire.
3. Supplements are not more, the merrier
The quality of the supplement depends on whether it is helpful to our health, even if the high price of Chinese herbal medicine, if not used properly, will have the opposite effect. At the same time, although the supplement is good, it cannot be eaten more vigorously, and everything must be mastered to a suitable degree.
4. Lamb is not suitable for everyone
Winter to eat mutton is the habitual choice of most of the Chinese people, mutton taste sweet but not greasy, warm and not dry, can warm the cold, warm tonic blood, appetizing spleen, the general cold cough, chronic tracheitis, cold asthma, kidney impotence, abdominal cold pain, body weakness and cold, waist and knee soreness and all other false evidence has a therapeutic and tonic effect, so eating lamb in winter, both can resist wind and cold, but also nourish the body.
Although the lamb is warm, it is easy to catch fire when eaten more. When eating lamb, it can be accompanied by turnips, winter melon, spinach, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, mushrooms, white, bamboo shoots and other cool and sweet vegetables, which can play a cooling, detoxifying and fire-removing role.
In addition, lamb is not suitable for everyone. Those who have inflammation in the body should be cautious. There are certain inflammations in the body, and eating lamb will aggravate the inflammatory response, so patients with high blood pressure, acute enteritis or other infectious diseases need to eat with caution.
Patients with liver disease should not eat it. The high content of protein in lamb may cause the liver to be unable to fully metabolize after eating, increasing the burden on the liver and causing liver disease to recur or aggravate the disease.
The following is a few medicinal foods suitable for winter supplementation.
1. Eight treasure ginseng soup
Function: Replenish qi and vitality, replenish the spleen and lungs, calm the nerves and nootropics.
Ingredients: 10 grams of ginseng, pineapple, apple, fresh peach, mandarin, pear, lotus seeds 15 grams each, rock sugar, banana essence, water starch each appropriate amount.
method:
■ Wash the ginseng and lotus seeds in a bowl, add water and rock sugar and steam for 4 hours.
■ Peel and cut apples, pears, fresh peaches, pineapples and mandarin oranges into small pieces.
■ Put boiling water into the pot, pour the steamers into the pot together with the original juice, and then put ginseng, apples, lotus seeds, pears, fresh flowers, pineapples, mandarin oranges, etc. into the pot, add rock sugar to boil, hook with water starch, dip a drop of banana essence with chopsticks, and put it in a bowl.
Warm reminder: Ginseng is a kind of tonic medicine, people with strong physique, no weakness, then do not have to use the product. If misuse or multi-use, it often leads to aeration of breath, chest tightness and bloating.
2. Steamed chicken with goji berries
Function: Nourish the yin and tonify the kidneys, and know the ears.
Ingredients: 30 grams of goji berries, 15 grams of dogwood, half a chicken (about 600 grams), 50 grams of sausage, soy sauce, oil consumption, cooking oil, cooking wine, white salt, sesame oil, pepper.
■ Slice the sausage, chop the chicken into 3 cm square chicken nuggets, add soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking oil, cooking wine, sugar, corn starch, salt, sesame oil, pepper and mix well, marinate for 15 minutes.
■ Mix the goji berries, dogwood, sausage slices, ginger slices and chicken nuggets, put them in the basin, cover them and put them in the microwave, turn them on high heat for 8 minutes and then take them out, flip the chicken nuggets, sprinkle a little green onion, and turn for another 1 minute.
Warm reminder: Wolfberry is the best produced in Yinchuan, Zhongning and Zhongwei in Ningxia. Goji berries have a significant effect on warming the body, and it is best not to eat them for those who have colds and fevers, inflammation and spleen deficiency and diarrhea.
3. Cordyceps quail
Function: Tonify qi and blood, benefit the lungs and kidneys, stop cough.
Ingredients: Cordyceps sinensis, ginger, green onion 10 grams each, 8 quails, 2 grams of pepper, 5 grams of salt, 3 grams of chicken broth.
■ Remove the crumbs, soak in wine, wash; after the quail is slaughtered, drain the blood, blanch it thoroughly with 70 degrees warm water, remove the hair, internal organs and claws, and then blanch it in boiling water for 1 minute, then remove it and let it cool; cut the green onion into sections and slice the ginger.
■ Put 2 to 3 cordyceps in the belly of each quail, then wrap them tightly with threads one by one and put them in a pot, add chicken broth, salt and pepper to make a good taste, seal it with wet cotton paper, and steam it for 40 minutes.
Warm reminder: rheumatoid arthritis patients should take a reduced dose, children, pregnant and lactating women, cold fever, cerebral hemorrhage people should not eat, there is a real fire or evil should not be used.
4. Eucommia waist flower dish
Function: Tonify kidney, rationalize qi and blood.
Ingredients: 15 grams of eucommia, 1 pair of pork loin, 25 ml of rice wine, green onion, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, salt, sugar, etc.
■ Wash the pork loin, cut the fascia into loin flowers and put them in a bowl, add sugar, salt and wine and mix well.
■ Cut the thick juice of eucommia and add it to the waist flowers, use a samurai fire to cook, pour in the waist flowers and fry, then add the condiments and eat.
Warm reminder: Yin deficiency fire strong people should be cautious.
5. Ejiao soup
Function: Tonify blood and nourish yin, moisturize.
Ingredients: 250 grams each of ejiao, rice wine, black sesame seeds, walnuts, 200 grams of rock sugar.
■ Take ejiao and smash it, put it in a soup bowl or porcelain bowl with a lid, add rice wine, soak for 1 to 2 days, until soft.
■ Take rock sugar and add 250 ml of water to make rock sugar water, pour into the soft ejiao.
■ Place the container containing the glue in a normal pot or rice cooker and steam it in water for 1 to 2 hours until it is completely dissolved.
■ Sauté the fragrant black sesame seeds and walnut kernels and continue to steam for 1 hour and stir into a soup.
■ Remove the container, put it in the refrigerator after cooling. Take 1 tablespoon in the morning and evening with warm boiled water.
Warm reminder: do not take ejiao when you have a cold; when women take it during menstruation, if there is a change in menstrual volume, please stop or reduce the dosage.