Time flies, spring is blooming, many friends around me are more concerned about the spring diet, because there are a lot of friends who have been on fire recently, and I feel that I haven't eaten anything spicy, but the fire in the body is rising, in fact, the spring diet still needs to be paid attention to, in the next month, there are 2 kinds of food, eat less or don't eat.
On the issue of diet and health, we can learn from the health experience of the medicine king Sun Simiao, the medicine king of the Tang Dynasty, was frail and sickly when he was young, and later determined to study medicine and save the world, not only became a generation of health practitioners, but also became an old birthday star.
Sun Simiao's Health Song" said: The spring moon is less sour and should be sweet, the winter month should be bitter and not salty, the summer month should reduce the bitterness and increase the bitterness, and the autumn bitterness can save but teach acid. Tell us that the four seasons and five flavors should be harmonized, and the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the food taste must be harmonized, and the body will be healthy.
In the second half of spring, it is clearly recorded in the "Sun Zhenren's Theory of Maintenance": "In February, the kidney qi is weak, and the liver is the king." It is advisable to reduce acid and increase bitterness to help the kidneys and liver. It is advisable to calm the diaphragm to remove phlegm, and slightly sweat to disperse the hidden breath of Xuandong. Do not eat daylily, aged vinegar, and weed, as you will get sick. Don't eat garlic, it's annoying, and the diaphragm can't get through. Do not eat sunflower and chicken, stagnant qi and blood, and hot sperm. Do not eat rabbit and raccoon dog meat, which is disturbing. ......The mid-spring atmosphere is positive, and the festival wine preservation is true. ”
Our health preservation, what we pay attention to is a "time", conform to the times. This is to follow the law of nature, spring belongs to the wood, the main germination, and the corresponding viscera of the wood is the liver.
In the middle of spring, the liver qi is vigorous, and the water grows wood, so the loss of water will be relatively large, and the corresponding viscera of water is the kidney. Therefore, Sun Simiao will propose, "February kidney qi is weak", therefore, while we are soothing the liver, we should also protect the kidney qi and nourish the kidney essence.
Season of spring: Eat less chicken products
In spring, the liver qi is strong, it is easy for people to breed fire, and the temperature rises and falls, and the yang qi that originally rose and rose was directly beaten back by the cold wind and cold rain, so many people's bodies feel uncomfortable and hot.
Therefore, in the spring, we must eat less food that makes a fire and heat, among which chicken is the most likely food to fan the flames, chicken is the most common food on our table, such as roast chicken, fried chicken, chicken soup, etc., and chicken breast is still the favorite of many fitness people.
But chickens belong to wood animals, and they have the nature of wind and wood, and they can stir up fire in our bodies. Xu Wenbing said that chicken is even hotter than mutton, modern people often have a false fire in their bodies, eating chicken is easy to stir up heat, inciting liver fire, if there is eczema, cough and other disease roots, it is also easy to be hooked out by this meal of chicken.
Especially for friends who have a strong liver and heavy internal heat, don't eat chicken less, otherwise they will become more and more irritable, unstable sleep, and dry mouth. Especially fried chicken, grilled chicken and other foods, just this method makes me feel uncomfortable after eating.
And in "Sun Zhenren's Month-by-Month Health Matters", he also said: "Don't eat chickens, it will make people stuporous for life." "Not only chicken, but also eggs we should eat less, although eggs are nutritious, but the slices are greasy, easy to lead to qi stagnation, and it is also hair, easy to affect our mood.
Of course, friends with a peaceful physique have no problem eating less, but friends with strong liver fire and heavy internal heat can endure it, and it is not too late to eat after the spring season. Otherwise, once the liver is burned, the qi and blood in our body will be depleted, and gradually the body will become more and more weak.
Season and spring: eat less acidic products and eat spicy foods often
Because the sour taste enters the liver, in the spring season (the third month of the lunar calendar), the liver qi will become more and more vigorous, if we eat sour food again, it will be like adding fuel to the fire, causing liver fire, we are prone to dry eyes, red and sore eyes, as well as unstable sleep, short temper, etc., at this time we should eat less sour.
For example, pickled pickles, tomatoes, aged vinegar, orange foods, etc., and eat a little spicy flavor to diffuse it and suppress excessive liver qi.
The pungent taste belongs to gold, Jin Kemu, which can restrain liver qi, and at the same time, gold produces water, which also helps kidney qi. When the kidneys are sufficient, they can prevent the liver from being overpowered, so Sun Simiao proposed the dietary principle of reducing acid and increasing pungent in spring.
These foods, spicy and delicious, are put on the table in the spring
Spicy food, with divergent properties, can dredge our qi and blood, and stimulate the vitality of the five organs. Here are a few spicy delicacies that are suitable for spring.
First food of spring: leeks
The spring leeks are the most tender and delicious, the nutritional value is high, the spring temperature is up and down, the cold and warm changes are free, we will be attacked by the cold if we don't pay attention to it, and the leeks have the effect of divergence, the sex is warm, the taste is pungent, in addition to refreshing the spirit, there is also the effect of dispersing stasis and strengthening the spleen.
Leeks contain plant-based aromatic volatile oils, which will emit a strong special smell, and this spicy aroma is conducive to qi stagnation and dredging our body's qi.
Moreover, in the spring, the yang energy of our body is also in the rising stage, and the leeks are warm, which has the effect of nourishing the kidney qi and replenishing the yang qi, so friends with yang deficiency can also eat leeks in the spring.
Many people eat leeks because they like its pungent smell, which also has the effect of sterilization and anti-inflammatory, but although leeks are fresh and tender in spring, people with body heat still have to eat less, such as dry mouth, sore throat, constipation friends, eat in moderation, not more.
Second food in spring: coriander
Coriander is often served as a side dish, sprinkled on dishes or soups to add the finishing touch. In fact, coriander is warm, can sweat and rash, nourish the stomach, and eating coriander in spring can also diffuse the cold in our body, especially suitable for eating when it is hot and cold now.
Many people will add coriander as a seasoning to help increase appetite, and if you cook porridge with coriander, tangerine peel and ginger, it can also dissipate cold and relieve pain, strengthen the spleen. If cloves, tangerine peel and coptis are added to the coriander, boiled water and drunk together, it can also play a role in dredging the stomach and intestines, and friends with spleen and stomach deficiency can also eat some coriander to dissipate the cold.
Many friends will cook a bowl of ginger syrup to drink whenever they are cold and have a cold, sweating, and feel very comfortable. In fact, coriander boiled water also has the effect of dissipating cold and heat dissipation, suitable for heat caused by wind cold, generally used without sweating, half a catty of coriander three bowls of water, boiling.
The smell of coriander can also promote our sweating, diaphragm, evacuation of wind and cold, if our body feels allergic, but this rash can't come out, when it is uncomfortable, you can drink some coriander soup, or dip coriander soup to wipe the body, can help the rash come out.
However, coriander has a spicy taste, and eating it for a long time will deplete qi and spirit, causing qi deficiency, so it should be eaten in moderation.
The third food of spring: ginger
When it comes to spicy food, ginger must not be missing, ginger is warm and spicy, which can get rid of the cold in our body, after eating ginger, our backs will sweat slightly, which is divergent, helping us to discharge turbidity in the body, turbidity, etc.
However, we should also pay attention to the distinction when choosing ginger varieties, which are generally divided into ginger, old ginger and dried ginger, which are the most common. According to the effect of the line dispersion: ginger, old ginger, dried ginger (after the old ginger is dried). According to the effect of warming: dried old ginger Dried ginger (after ginger is dried) Ginger.
We eat ginger in spring, the purpose is more to disperse, evacuate our excessive liver qi, and emit out the toxins and turbidity accumulated in our body, so it is recommended to choose ginger to eat.
And the temperature in spring is hot and cold, once soared to 30 degrees, and now it has plummeted to single digits, this temperature difference, our body is also difficult to adjust, if you are not careful, you will catch a cold, at this time it is also good to eat some ginger, the cold in our body to radiate out.
It's just that many people think the taste of ginger is too spicy and unaccustomed to eating, in fact, it is the divergence of this spicy taste that is very strong.
Ginger slices preparation: Prepare ginger, brown or white sugar, salt. Tender ginger is better, cut into thin slices, the thinner the taste, the better the taste, the cut ginger slices are salted for about 10 minutes, the pickled ginger water is poured out, and the water is washed repeatedly to wash off the salt;
Add an appropriate amount of water to soak the ginger slices for about 1 hour, you can soak out the spicy juice of the ginger, it is not so spicy to eat, and the pungent heat of the ginger is not so heavy; Squeeze out the water of the ginger slices, add sugar to mix, marinate until the sugar melts, the ginger slices become soft, pour the pickled ginger slices into the pot, boil over high heat, do not need to add extra water, wait until the syrup in the pot becomes less, turn to low heat when crystallizing, keep stir-frying, and fry until the ginger slices are covered with frosting.
If you are a female friend with uterine cold and menstrual pain, it is recommended to replace white sugar with brown sugar, and the method is the same. This stir-fried ginger slices can be eaten as a snack and taken with you.
Especially friends with cold dampness and yang deficiency, coupled with the warmth of brown sugar ginger slices, internal and external strikes, can drive out the accumulation of cold in the body. If you always have cold hands and feet, cold waist and abdomen, poor appetite, and unformed stools, look at your tongue in the mirror, if the color of your tongue is light, and the tongue coating is white and thick, eat 3 pieces of brown sugar ginger slices a day.
Families with children are also best to always have some brown sugar ginger slices. Children are pure yang bodies, and usually do not need to deliberately warm yang. But there are also many children who love to eat cold drink sorbet since childhood, hurt their spleen and stomach, appear picky eaters, have a bad appetite, eat a little bit and are full but will soon be hungry, and thin, pale, and always shout stomach pain. If this is the case for the child, then you can also drink a little brown sugar ginger slices every day to regulate.
If you feel that you are troublesome to cook, you can also try this ready-made brown sugar white sugar ginger slices, ginger is a Tongling specialty, white ginger, it is characterized by tender and juicy, known as the reputation of Chinese white ginger, praised by Emperor Qianlong: "white as snow, cool as ice, sweet and mellow, there is the beauty of ice jade, there is a feeling of overnight fragrance after eating", and the Tongling white ginger is listed as a tribute.
In the local area of Tongling, almost every household grows white ginger, the white ginger just dug out, the shape is in the Buddha's hand, the epidermis is white, slightly yellowish, you can see the overflowing ginger juice when you break it, the water content is as high as 90%, almost no fiber, this crisp and tender degree is drooling when you think about it, so the local people use white ginger to eat it coldly, crisp and tender.
The ginger with a fresh and tender taste is immediately pulled to the factory for processing and production after it is unearthed.
After decades of ginger frying skills, after boiling, stir-frying, the heat and sweetness are just right, all the ginger slices are machine sliced, thin and even, and it is more chewy to eat after stir-frying.
The thin slices of ginger are covered with frosting, the entrance is sweet and silky, and when this layer of frosting melts, the spicy taste of ginger gushes out, but the spicy taste of white ginger itself is not heavy, and this warm feeling from the throat to our stomach after chewing is particularly comfortable.
Each pack is an individual small package, clean and hygienic, and easier to preserve, not easy to get wet, one pack at a time, will not cause waste. And three or four slices of brown sugar ginger, poured with hot water, can also be turned into brown sugar ginger tea in seconds, it is the favorite of female friends, and you can drink it on the uncomfortable days of the month.
Fourth food in spring: black sesame seeds
The little man in this black family, black sesame, is a real civilian tonic, sesame is warm, slow, cool, heavy, pungent, and has a faint bitter taste when eating, black sesame is a good product for nourishing kidney qi and kidney essence, don't look small, nutrition can really be a lot.
Black sesame seeds belong to seeds, seeds contain very large energy, many foods in nature are germinated and grown by a small seed, the essence of life is concentrated here, eating seeds, is to eat the energy into the stomach.
Tao Hongjing, an ancient health preservationist, praised sesame: "The immortal family makes bait for rice, and the valley is immortal." "Many Taoist practitioners use black sesame seeds as a seasoning, and they can live forever even if they don't eat other grains.
Black sesame is known as the "crown of grains", nutritious, and not expensive, many people black sesame are from snacks to large, but what they don't know is that there is a protective shell on the surface of black sesame, this thing is not broken, it is difficult for our body to absorb the nutrients in black sesame.
For this reason, before we eat black sesame seeds, we must fry them thoroughly, and it is best to fry them until the sesame shell can be broken by twisting them by hand, which is the best.
Friends who like to eat sesame seeds can try this homemade black sesame crispy, crispy and dregs, the more you chew, the more fragrant it is.
Black sesame seeds are fried over high heat, red dates are pitted and chopped, and walnuts are chopped, and these ingredients should be fried in advance. Then put it in a bowl, add the eggs, honey and cornstarch, stir well, press it into a small cake by hand, and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
If you are too lazy to make your own, you can also try this ready-to-eat black sesame shortbread, which is super mellow and rich, and it is full of sesame aroma when you bite into it.
The ingredients are also very simple, there are three kinds of black sesame, eggs and honey, and there are no other additives, so our pregnant mothers, the elderly and children can eat with confidence, without miscellaneous additives and preservatives.
Before making it is also stir-fried over high heat, which can not only remove the heat of the black sesame itself, but also crush the hard shell to facilitate the body's absorption.
After that, the masters hand press the round cakes, and in order to compaction, they also use a pressure hammer at the end, so that the sesame seeds stick together, and each piece is full of material.
After roasting, you can smell the burnt sesame seeds during the roasting period, which is very attractive. Gently break it to break, the sweetness of honey can well neutralize the original faint bitterness of black sesame seeds, eat the mellow aroma of the remaining sesame seeds and the sweetness of honey, a bite is very crispy, the more you chew, the more fragrant!
In the spring season, eat less sour food, eat less sour food such as chicken, and appropriately increase the pungent taste, help our body diverge, and nourish kidney qi and kidney essence.