What tonic is suitable for winter?
Radish:
White radish is a seasonal vegetable in winter, and it is also a good food for your health. There is a saying among folks that "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor to prescribe a prescription". The content of vitamin A and C in radish is particularly rich. When eaten raw, it has the effects of clearing away heat and producing body fluid, cooling blood to stop bleeding, and anger; cooked food can benefit the spleen and stomach, and reduce qi.
Cabbage:
"A hundred vegetables are not as good as Chinese cabbage". Chinese cabbage is slightly cold in nature and sweet in taste. Anyone who is upset, thirsty, having poor bowel movements, or urinating yellow can often eat cabbage. Cabbage contains more crude fiber, and also contains vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C and so on.
Lotus root: Lotus root is the king of oriental vegetables. After the lotus root is processed until it is ripe, its nature changes from cold to warm. Although it loses its heat-clearing performance, it is beneficial to the spleen and stomach. Especially putting lotus root and ribs together in a stew soup can nourish blood and invigorate the spleen.
What are the prescriptions for a tonic diet in winter?
1. Lung Nourishing Tremella Soup
3 grams of American ginseng, 6 grams each of Northern Adenophora, Asparagus, Chuanbei, and Bletilla striata, put them in a gauze bag, add 100 ml of water, and cook for 1 hour. Add 25 grams of dried white fungus to soak and add to it, simmer until thick, seasoning to thicken and serve) nourish yin and clear heat, nourish qi and promote fluid disease.
2. Red bean lilies
It is just the opposite of stewed pear with rock sugar. It is suitable for people with the above-mentioned deficiency and cold constitution. The red beans are warm and the lily can slightly neutralize the firepower of the red beans. This supplement will not be used in the autumn to get angry, but it can improve immunity and make the hands and feet cold. The cold of the people has been relieved, and it is especially suitable for Beijing when the heating is just cut off in the spring when the temperature is not so warm.
3. Chrysanthemum, jujube and wolfberry porridge
Modern medicine has proved that chrysanthemum has a good conditioning effect on chronic diseases such as high blood fat, high blood pressure and sub-health of modern people.
Lycium barbarum has antipyretic, treats diabetes, relieves cough and reduces phlegm, etc. The lycium barbarum root can lower blood pressure after being decocted. Lycium barbarum tea has the effects of treating physical deficiency and cold, invigorating the stomach, liver and kidney diseases, tuberculosis, constipation, insomnia, hypotension, anemia, various eye diseases, hair loss, stomatitis, skin care and so on. People with weak physique, common colds, and poor resistance are best to consume it every day.
What is the principle of winter tonic?
1. Eat less salty and eat more bitterness
According to the theory of the five elements, salt overcomes bitterness and kidney water overcomes heart and fire. If you eat too much salty taste in winter, it will make the already hyperactive kidney water more hyperactive, thereby weakening the power of the heart yang, so you should eat more bitter foods to help the heart yang, so as to resist hyperactivity. The kidney water is gone. "In fact, now everyone pays attention to the ‘less salty’ diet, too salty is useless, but it’s not bad to eat bitter foods this season.
2. Juvenile resuscitation, middle-age re-adjustment, old-age reinstatement
Lidong Jin's "buying" also varies from person to person. Wang Xuemei mentioned that people are different between men and women, old and young, and the body (physique) has the distinction of cold and heat. The principles of traditional Chinese medicine should be: young people, middle-aged, and old.
3. The south is clear and the north is warm and nourished.
The winter weather in the northern region is cold, and it is good for tonic products such as beef and lamb. Although it has entered winter in the area south of the Yangtze River, the temperature is much warmer than that in the north. The tonic should be based on the taste of clearing and warming, such as chicken, duck, and fish.
Who is suitable for winter tonic?
1. Chronic patients:
Originally suffering from chronic diseases, in the winter season, you can combine the symptoms to supplement and cure the disease at the same time. This will have a greater effect on the treatment and rehabilitation of the disease.
2. Sub-healthy people:
The work and life pressure and labor intensity of young people in modern society are very high (mainly mental stress, mental overdraft). At the same time, a lot of entertainment, excessive drinking and smoking habits, long-term insufficient sleep and rest can cause the human body. The various normal physiological functions of the disease have changed drastically, and the disease resistance ability has decreased.
3. Elderly:
Due to their physiological characteristics, the various functions of the human body will tend to decline with age, and winter tonic can enhance physical fitness and delay aging.
4. Women:
For women, the spleen and stomach control the vitality of the whole body, and the weakness of the spleen and stomach will easily cause women's aging; if the spleen and stomach can absorb the nutrients in the diet, fully nourish the body's organs and skin, when the spleen and stomach function normally. At this time, the body's nutrition is constantly being replenished, and people's anti-aging ability and vitality will be enhanced, the face will be ruddy, and the skin will be full of luster and elasticity.
What to pay attention to in winter tonic？
1. Nothing but no supplement
Tonics are aimed at the deficiency of the syndrome to make the body strong, and people with no deficiency should not be tonic even if they are sick. Nairui's health care expert pointed out that because the person who has no emptiness is tonic, it is a waste in the slightest, and it can also cause serious adverse consequences. If people with no deficiency use ginseng, velvet antler and other tonics indiscriminately, it will often cause symptoms such as internal heat and yang hyperactivity, such as excitement, irritability, epistaxis and other symptoms.
2. The elderly should not blindly take medicine tonic
Elderly people should not blindly take medicine supplements. They must combine the four diagnosis methods to provide supplements based on syndrome differentiation. On the basis of clarifying whether it is Yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, Qi deficiency, blood deficiency, or the deficiency of the five internal organs, it depends on the person, place, and cause. Proceed in a timely manner.
3. Beware of deficiency
Generally speaking, the digestive ability of the elderly and the weak is also weak, and there are more tonics that are nourishing and difficult to be absorbed by the stomach and intestines, which can increase abdominal tension and anorexia. Therefore, the application of tonics must take into account whether the spleen and stomach can be absorbed. If necessary, the spleen and stomach can be adjusted first, or the supplements should be appropriately compatible with the spleen and stomach products (such as Amomum villosum, Baikouren, etc.).
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