Do you drink coffee? If you are avoidant of coffee, you might as well learn about its goodness, if you have been relying on coffee to survive, or drink a little occasionally, then you should understand its temperament and use it better for you.
How does Chinese medicine view coffee?
Coffee is an imported product, and it has not caught up with the era of Shennong tasting materia medica.
Later people, according to the way of the ancients, observed coffee and found that coffee is fermented and deeply roasted, so it is warm. Take a sip: the coffee tastes bitter, sour, burnt, and refreshing. The color is black, and it enters the kidneys.
Hence coffee: bitter and damp; incense and awaken the spleen; Warm and yang, into the kidney, and can mobilize kidney essence.
Why is this year so good for coffee?
The taste of coffee remains the same from year to year, but it will be different from year to year.
The Year of the Dragon is a year of great cold and wetness, and the beginning of spring is not very peaceful: it snows in spring, pours spring cold, cools down and returns to the south of the sky ......In the first half of this year, the cold water was in charge, and the wet soil was in order in the second half of the year. The most obvious feeling throughout the year is that it is wet, and the climate is more rainy, and there will be more wet days in the south.
Under the influence of such weather, the body is prone to heavy body, lack of energy, edema, bloating, etc. People with a bad spleen and stomach who are deficient in yang, phlegm and dampness must eat less cold and greasy food to avoid making matters worse.
At this time, maybe a cup of coffee is a good drink.
Phlegm, dampness and yang deficiency include people who are depressed, and they don't look energetic, and the warmth of coffee can help raise yang, and as soon as yang energy rises, the whole person will be refreshed. Coffee is the most bitter taste, bitter can dry and damp, and go to the kidneys, so after drinking coffee, the urine becomes more, and even a little coffee taste, and the excess water in the body will be eliminated from the urine.
The aroma of coffee can awaken the spleen, and the spleen that is trapped by moisture and the spleen and stomach that cannot function will also slowly open. Some people just smell the coffee and instantly feel their spleen and stomach open.
Therefore, people with yang deficiency, phlegm dampness, qi depression, and spleen and stomach trapped by cold and dampness are very suitable for tasting some coffee in the Jiachen year. If the body can accept it, it is recommended to drink it in moderation at 7 to 11 a.m. according to your own tolerance.
Help you to instantly raise the little sun in your body, raise and stimulate the yang energy of the whole body.
Drink a cup of healthy coffee, no panic, no palpitations, no diarrhea
Some people drink coffee to help poop usually, and some people drink black coffee to have diarrhea because of the warmth and bitterness of coffee. My experience is to add a little oat milk or milk, a faint sweetness, a soft taste, and let this process of leaking happen slowly, and you won't have diarrhea. Some people will add coconut milk, soy milk, rice soup, and the same is true.
On the basis of this milk coffee, it is recommended to sprinkle a little cinnamon powder (not cinnamon) on it, the most unique point of cinnamon is to bring fire back to the source, help you drag down the yang energy running around, help the body to be smooth, and the taste is better.
Coffee can make people excited, but in fact, it is also a bit consumed, excessive consumption of gas and energy, and it helps to generate internal fire. When drinking coffee, I like to add a little reishi spore powder to my coffee.
As a kind of fungus, Ganoderma lucidum lives in a relatively dark corner, has the energy of yin, can balance the dryness of coffee, Ganoderma lucidum replenishes qi and calms the nerves, and can also nourish kidney yin, qi and blood. Just enough to make up for the blood consumed by coffee.
Ganoderma lucidum spore powder, the energy of countless small seeds of Ganoderma lucidum, has a faint nutty aroma, you can put a spoonful (with a small spoon) after the coffee is brewed, when the water temperature is not so high, while enjoying the yang energy brought by the coffee, while peacefully replenishing.
Drinking coffee for a pick-me-up? Wrong!
The people who are least qualified to drink coffee are actually the ones who always stay up late and have bad rest.
If you're sleepy and tired, it's great to suddenly have a cup of coffee that makes you feel alive, but if you think about it, do you panic? I didn't sleep, I didn't rest, I didn't eat anything to replenish my qi and blood, I instantly became like I was fully charged. **What about the spirit head?
The supplies brought by a small cup of coffee are suddenly like small loans, isn't it a bit dangerous to be inexplicably rich?
When people exercise, if they feel particularly tired and forcibly exercise for a while, they will feel that I think I can do it again, because I have mobilized my essence in advance, because the body finds that you want to exercise vigorously, in order not to let you die, I have to withdraw some essence in advance to make up for it.
Coffee is the same, it invigorates the heart yang, yang energy is enough, people will be alive and vibrant, inspiration, once you move too much, the heart can't keep up with the rhythm, the qi also begins to run wildly, it will become the heart pounding that kind of palpitation.
Many people rely on coffee to survive, and they have to have a cup of coffee every morning, and if they don't drink it, they will become very depressed throughout the day. Because coffee mobilizes kidney essence, our kidney essence is more precious, staying up late itself has consumed kidney essence, and coffee has to mobilize it.
Isn't it a bit scary if you've been living on plug-ins and can't give yourself the spirit of your own?
A good night's sleep should be a day the next day without relying on any stimuli to refresh you.
It's not the coffee that really hurts us, it's our poor routine.
If you sleep well and like the taste of coffee, or if it's a ritual for your life, a break for your soul, drink a cup or two.
If you don't stay up late, but you happen to have yang deficiency, phlegm and dampness, or occasionally encounter a little unhappiness, you want to invigorate your heart and yang, dry and damp, and drink a little coffee.
If you have yin deficiency in your body, especially kidney yin deficiency, you are very tired after staying up late, your heart is not strong, and you want to use coffee to refresh yourself, in fact, you are overdrawing your vitality.
So when you're in a different state, coffee can be an angel or a devil.
What the body really needs: a good night's sleep, replenish energy, and replenish qi and blood
If you really don't sleep well all the time and need coffee to refresh yourself, you might as well really get a good night's sleep. Maybe your fall asleep is not so steady, the time to fall asleep is relatively late, and the deep sleep is not enough, you can try to drink a little sour jujube kernel paste 1 hour before going to bed, sour jujube kernel is the top grade in the "Shennong Materia Medica", the top grade, is a food that can be eaten all the time, and there is no damage to the body but will be lightweight.
The sour jujube is calming the nerves, so that your god can be firmly in the body, it does not move, and you will sleep more deeply.
Or you can also prepare a can of this sour jujube kernel paste, which is ready to eat when the lid is opened, which is more convenient to eat, and the taste is also better, all of which are modulated, and the ingredients are richer.
This sour jujube kernel paste is made of sour jujube kernels, poria cocos, mulberry, longan, lotus seeds, honey and rock sugar.
For example, mulberry is to nourish yin, and longan nourishes qi and blood and has the effect of calming the nerves. Poria cocos and lotus seeds are both nourishing the spleen and stomach, and honey and rock sugar harmonize the taste, and taste sweet and sour.
In order to ensure the quality, we only select the full, purple-brown sour jujube kernels on the surface, which nourish the liver and blood, and the effect of nourishing yin and calming the nerves will be better. And the whole process is artificially boiled, with no preservatives, no thickeners and no sweeteners, so you can eat it with more confidence.
The nutritional essence of various ingredients is concentrated, and you can dig a spoonful of soaked water and drink a cup before going to bed.
This small fruit that enters the liver and kidney, the kidney yin and kidney yang will be replenished. Drinking it during the day will make you feel more energetic, and unlike the refreshing coffee in that it is a tonic, not a motivating.