During the winter solstice, the sun shines almost directly on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the northern hemisphere has the least sunlight and the shortest day"The ultimate hidden breath is so far"。As the beginning and end of a natural year, the winter solstice has the characteristics of cathode and yang, and the end and the beginning.
On the winter solstice, most parts of China have the custom of tonic, such as eating ginger duck in southern Fujian, eating mutton in Sichuan, eating fish in Guangdong, etc., there is a record of eating red bean porridge on the winter solstice to prevent the epidemic, and the Taoist Chen Tuan ancestor of the Song Dynasty wrote the "Winter Solstice November Sitting Gong Tu" has been passed down to this day. In this issue, let's talk about the food and supplements of the winter solstice!
1. Why should the winter solstice be healthy?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the yin and yang qi of the human body and the yin and yang qi of nature are connected, and the change of solar terms will have a direct or indirect impact on the human body. The fundamental purpose of winter solstice health preservation is to "prevent disease before it happens", advocate "Tibet" as the core, pay attention to nourishing yin and hiding yang, and avoid discharging yang energy.
The ancients said that "the winter solstice is a yang sheng", and the winter solstice is a good "node", which can lay a good foundation for the health of the coming year. In the north of our country, there is a custom of "not serving dumpling bowls on the winter solstice, and no one cares about freezing off the ears", which has shown the importance of the winter solstice solar terms to health, and different regions also have different maintenance methods.
Second, winter tonic needs to know the way of cultivation
The core of health nourishment lies in the word "hidden", which requires more "saving" and less "overdraft".
1. Eat more foods that nourish yin and latent yang
For example, protein-rich foods such as shrimp, fish, and poultry eggs, combined with fresh vegetables and fruits, eat more vitamin-rich foods such as beans, black fungus, shiitake mushrooms, walnuts, and jujubesYou also need to drink some nutritious soups, and pay attention to the variety of your diet, preferably with cereals. People who are thin and afraid of cold and easy to fatigue can also eat more mutton, which can also resist cold while nourishing qi and replenishing deficiency.
2. Avoid stickiness, hardness, raw and cold, eat more bitter and less salty
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter is the time when the kidney meridian is vigorous, the kidneys are mainly salty, and the heart is bitter, so in winter, we should eat less salty foods and more bitter foods, such as celery, oranges, lettuce, lettuce, etc.
Sticky and hard and raw and cold foods are mostly yin, which is easy to damage the spleen and stomach, so it is best to eat less or not at all.
3. These delicacies are more compatible with the winter solstice
1. Immunity - chicken
In many regions of our country, there is a saying of "191 chickens", and the chicken is slightly warm, biased towards flat sex, and can be eaten more.
2. Replenish qi and blood - mutton
"Drinking and Eating is Coming" said mutton: "Sweet, hot, non-toxic, the Lord warms the .......""Mutton has the effects of warming and colding, nourishing yin and replenishing qi, warming the heart and stomach, especially when eaten with white radish, which is most suitable for winter.
3. Chill - ginger tea
As the old saying goes, "there is ginger in winter, not afraid of wind and frost", ginger has a spicy taste and can ward off the cold, but pay attention to peeling the skin when cooking ginger soup and try not to eat it at night.
4. Tonifying kidney qi - chestnut porridge
As the saying goes: "backache and leg weakness and lack of kidney qi, chestnut porridge race supplement", the amount of meat eaten in winter increases, chestnut porridge not only nourishes the kidneys, but also nourishes the spleen and stomach, and reconciles the gastrointestinal burden caused by meat.
5. Replenish qi and blood - milk rice
In traditional Chinese medicine, milk is sweet, slightly cold, can moisten the lungs and replenish deficiency, laxative and moisturize the intestines, when cooking rice in winter, half of the water is replaced by milk to make a milk meal, which is not only fragrant but also nourishing.
6. Nourish the spleen and stomach - yam
If the grains are not harvested, there is no trouble, as long as there are two acres of yam eggs. Yam is a must-have dish for the people's table, and "Shennong's Materia Medica" is called "the main health in the deficiency, in addition to cold and heat, in the strength of the qi, in the muscles, long-term service ears and eyes smart".
Modern medicine has also certified that yam polysaccharides have the effect of stimulating and regulating human immune function, and are dual-purpose products for medicine and food to nourish the spleen and stomach.
Fourth, follow the experts to make medicinal diets
1. Five-flavor chicken soup wontons
Ingredients:Grass chicken, small wontons, carrots, 20 grams of black fungus, 30 grams of barley rice, 50 grams of lilies, 250 grams of yams.
Medicated Meal Pack:15 grams of Codonopsis, 15 grams of Poria cocos.
Method:Wash about two catties of grass chicken, rub it on the chicken with salt, then smear the chicken belly with fine salt, and pour 2 tablespoons of cooking wine evenly. Take 20 grams of ginger, pat flat, roll 20 grams of shallots into a bunch, put the chicken belly into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, barley rice, and simmer over medium heat for 90 minutes. Codonopsis and Poria cocos are wrapped in gauze, and boil in a small pot for about 30 minutes, taking about 300 ml of juice. When simmering and half-cooked, add fresh lily, yam, carrot and black fungus in turn, pour the codonopsis and poria cocos juice into the chicken broth and simmer over low heat. When the chicken is soft, turn off the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Boil water in another pot, cook the wontons, and put them in the chicken broth.
Zhang Sumin is the chief physician of Nanjing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
2. Pork belly soup with sand kernels
Ingredients:One pork belly.
Medicated Meal Pack:10 grams of sand kernels, 5 grams of Sichuan peppercorns.
Method:Remove the fat from the pork belly, wash and cut into cubes for later use. Wash the sand kernels and Sichuan peppercorns separately, grind the galangal and ginger into puree, put them into a stew pot with pork belly, add an appropriate amount of water, cover the stew cup, simmer for 2 hours over water, and drink after seasoning.
Zhou Xiaohong is the chief TCM physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
3. Healthy fish fillet soup
Ingredients:A pound of mandarin fish.
Medicated Meal Pack:10 grams of Dendrobium, 5 grams each of Codonopsis, Poria cocos, Polygonatum japonica, and wolfberry.
Method:Wash and remove the bones of the mandarin fish, slice them into fillets, add an appropriate amount of salt, sugar, cooking wine, starch, and egg whites, grasp and marinate for about 10 minutes. Codonopsis, Poria cocos, Polygonatum japonica, Dendrobium officinalis, and wolfberry are wrapped in gauze, add 400 ml of water, a few drops of cooking wine, boil over low heat for about 30 minutes, and take about 300 ml of juice. Boil water in another pot until boiling, add an appropriate amount of soybean sprouts, blanch and drain the water and spread it on the bottom of the bowl. In another pot, stir-fry the fish head and fish bone oil in a pot, add an appropriate amount of boiling water to make a soup, and add the medicinal juice. Put an appropriate amount of sunflower oil in a cold pot, put in minced ginger, minced garlic, minced green onions, and peppercorns when it is hot until it is five or six hot, stir until fragrant, add the prepared fish soup, salt, sugar, light soy sauce, and sesame oil to taste. After boiling, add the fish fillets, boil over high heat for 2 minutes, turn off the heat and start the pot, pour into the soybean sprout soup bowl, sprinkle a little heated garlic in the bowl, and put in the spare white sesame seeds, chopped coriander, and white pepper.
Xu Jin is the director of the Department of General Surgery of the Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Jiangsu Province.
4. Goji berry mutton porridge
Ingredients:30 grams of wolfberry, 100 grams of mutton, 150 grams of rice, appropriate amount of green onion and refined salt.
Medicated Meal Pack:30 grams of wolfberry, appropriate amount of green onion and refined salt.
Method:Wash the goji berries. Wash and chop the lamb. Wash the rice, put it into a casserole with mutton, wolfberry and green onion, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, cook it into porridge over low heat, and add refined salt when eating.
Zhang Ming, Nanjing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Conclusion
China has a vast territory, and the 24 solar terms originated in the Yellow River Basin, the climate difference between the north and the south is large, so the way to make up for winter is not the same, such as the winter solstice in Guangzhou has the custom of eating yusheng to "help yin qi and suppress yang qi", but in any case, we must take "the winter solstice as the key node of yin and yang transformation" as the central idea, to pay attention to food and health.
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