Send away 2023 and usher in 2024, a new year, starting from the "heart".
The five elements of the heart belong to 'fire', which is an organ that likes warmth, and the temperature is low in winter, and people with weak constitution, especially those who have had heart disease in the past, may feel heart discomfort. Su Jingze, chief physician of the cardiovascular department of Beijing Xuanwu Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold evil will not only damage yang qi, but also cause blood veins to contract, and the blood flow rate in the veins will slow down or even stagnate. Western medicine also believes that cold stimulation can cause peripheral blood vessels to constrict, which can increase people's blood pressure. In addition, cold stimulation can also cause the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart to contract, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the human heart, and people will feel chest tightness, palpitation, or chest pain.
Su Jingze reminded that winter heart protection is suitable for all groups of people, and people should keep warm in their daily lives to avoid developing pneumonia due to colds and colds, which will aggravate heart problems. In addition, in winter, it is advisable to "lie down early and get up late, and wait for the sun", and the elderly should not get up too early in winter for morning exercises, so as to avoid dangerous situations such as angina pectoris and even myocardial infarction caused by cold stimulation of vasoconstriction.
In winter, the yang qi is relatively weak, and people can take some medicinal diets that warm and nourish yang qi at home to achieve the effect of "protecting the heart", such as angelica ginger mutton soup, radish mutton soup, etc.
Angelica ginger mutton soup.
Production method: Wash the mutton and cut it into pieces, slice the ginger, put it in the casserole with angelica, add an appropriate amount of water and cook until the mutton is cooked and rotten, go to angelica and ginger, take it in 2 times, eat meat and drink soup.
Angelica mutton and ginger soup is the name of the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine, from the "Jin Kui Yao Lu Juan Shang", which has the effect of tonifying deficiency, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and is suitable for people with yang deficiency, lack of qi and blood, and anemia.
Lamb soup with turnips.
Production method: Put the cleaned mutton into the casserole, add enough water, add green onion and ginger, cooking wine and a few hawthorns, boil for about 4 hours, boil until the mutton is soft and rotten, then put in the radish (without peeling), continue to boil for about 30 minutes, add salt to taste, and then sprinkle some pepper.
Mutton is a fire, warm, with the effect of invigorating qi and replenishing weakness, suitable for people with yang deficiency physique and fear of cold.
Beijing News reporter Zhang Zhaohui.
Proofread by Liu Baoqing.