Excessive humidity is one of the factors that cause illness in spring. When the body's righteous qi is insufficient and its resistance is reduced, dampness and evil invade the human body, which can cause a series of discomforts - feeling that something is wrong with the whole body, or symptoms such as abdominal distension and stuffiness, lack of appetite for food, abdominal pain, heavy head and heavy body. Therefore, dispelling dampness and strengthening the spleen is a major priority of spring health care.
Determine whether you have "moisture" or not
1. Tired, heavy and weak all over the body, sleepy, unable to wake up, drooling, and chills.
2. The tongue coating is white and thick, or yellow and thick, or yellow and white, and there are tooth marks on the edges.
3. Heavy breath, sticky saliva, sweet mouth, and light mouth.
4. Poor appetite, easy to bloate after eating too much.
5. The stool is thin, sticky and hanging to the toilet, and it is not formed; Or just after detoxifying the stool but still having a sense of defecation.
6. Greasy face and hair.
Here are six recommended dampness-dispelling medicinal diets for you to choose from
Lotus seed lentil dampness soup
Ingredients
Lotus seeds (with heart), lentils, lean pork, tangerine peel.
Ingredient efficacy
It is suitable for children with loss of appetite, irritability, poor stool, and thick tongue.
Cooking method:
Put the required ingredients into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water and salt and boil for about an hour, and then drink.
Duck soup with tangerine peel and barley
Ingredients
Duck meat, tangerine peel, fried barley, lotus seed meat, Huaishan, ginger.
Ingredient efficacy
Tonify the spleen and stomach, dispel dampness and stop diarrhea. This soup is especially suitable for people with heavy moisture, loose stools, and spleen deficiency.
Cooking method:
Cut the duck into pieces, soak the barley seeds and lotus seeds in cold water for 2 hours, put all the ingredients into the pot, boil over a simmer for 2 hours, add ingredients and remove from the pot.
Atractylodes tangerine peel pork belly soup
Ingredients
Fresh pork belly, tangerine peel, atractylodes, sand kernels, ginger.
Ingredient efficacy
This soup can strengthen the spleen and appetize, promote appetite, especially for those with bloating, poor appetite and indigestion.
Cooking method:
Put the required ingredients into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water and salt and boil for about an hour, and then drink.
Shijin soup
foodmaterial
Pork belly (or pork intestine or pork chop meat), fresh Huai Shan (or dried Huai yam), lotus seeds, seeds, poria cocos.
Ingredient efficacy
Strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, nourish yin and reduce dryness. It is suitable for people with fatigue, diarrhea, lack of food, loose stools, excessive vaginal discharge, indigestion, irritability and other people due to spleen deficiency and dampness.
Cooking method:
1. Wash all the preparations;
2. Chop the pork into small pieces for later use;
3. Put all the ingredients into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, and boil over low heat for 1For 5 hours, add a little salt and rice wine.
Mung bean lily tangerine peel ginger shredded porridge
Ingredients
Mung beans, fresh lilies, coix seeds, japonica rice, rock sugar, tangerine peel, shredded ginger.
Ingredient efficacy
It is suitable for people with cold and dampness. However, diabetic patients, people with physical deficiency and diarrhea should take it with caution.
Cooking method:
Rinse the coix seeds, mung beans and japonica rice and soak for 20 minutes; Wash the lily and cut it; Put mung beans and coix seeds in a pot of boiling water, boil for a few minutes, then switch to low heat and cook until flowering; Add japonica rice, lily, tangerine peel and ginger shreds, cook into porridge and add rock sugar.
Kapok wet tea
Ingredients
Kapok, locust flower, chrysanthemum, monk fruit, tangerine peel or sand kernel.
Ingredient efficacy
This tea drink is especially suitable for people with heavy phlegm and dampness, heavy and weak body, sore throat and phlegm, but not suitable for people with cold constitution and poor appetite.
Cooking method:
Kapok, acacia flowers, tangerine peel or sand kernels are washed and put into a clay pot, add 600ml of water to boil over high heat, and then turn to low heat for one hour.