Really, do you feel this way?
When I turn on my phone, the screen is full of "late-night water", "slimming milk tea" and "damp-removing bread".
As if just overnight, we have all evolved into that middle-aged man who desperately wants to soak himself in wolfberry, even though I am actually born in 1995, or even the rarer generation born in 2000.
Don't rush to stuff it into your mouth. Are you eating right?
I watched the development conference of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and what the experts said was very true.
Medicinal diet is not just a handful of astragalus that can be randomly placed in the soup. As a "meal", the most important thing is that it must be delicious. If it is difficult to swallow, it belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine soup, not a medicated diet.
My aunt used to be like this. She heard that Angelica sinensis was quite beneficial, so she always put it in when stewing meat. In the end, her mouth was filled with blisters and her nose bleeds.
This is a typical "wrong way".
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to "three factors", namely, the person, the time, and the place.
The South makes soup and the North eats meat, don’t do it the other way around.
It makes sense that Cantonese people love making soup.
Dean Zhang Zhongde expressed it very vividly. During the Xiaoman solar term, the climate in the south is humid and hot, and people sweat more. The Yang Qi floats on the outside, but is weak inside.
If you go to eat Chongqing hot pot at this time, it will add fuel to the fire.
You have to use white lentils, adzuki beans, and coix kernels to make soup to drive away the moisture.
In the north, the situation is different. When it's winter and the temperature reaches minus ten degrees, you need to eat mutton. When eating mutton, you should also add some angelica root and mugwort leaves. Only by replenishing the yang energy can you have the ability to resist cold.
A colleague from the Northeast came to Guangdong to start work. He still followed the diet of his hometown and took mutton for nourishment every day, which eventually caused a sore throat that lasted for half a month.
I am really not acclimatized.
The elderly and children cannot eat from the same pot
Can pregnant women eat it? How to eat?
There is a pregnant woman at home, and the whole family is nervous.
Experts say that pregnant women need to expend Qi and blood to feed their fetuses. This group of people often have relatively weak Qi and blood, and show symptoms such as being easily tired, being particularly afraid of cold, and suffering from memory loss.
At this time, you can make soup with Codonopsis pilosula, mulberry, and longan meat to replenish qi and blood.
Please be careful not to act arbitrarily on your own. When my neighbor was pregnant, she drank ginseng soup every day. The end result was that she over-supplemented her body, which actually caused her sleep to become unreliable.
In Guangdong, during the confinement period, mothers like to use pig's trotters, ginger, and food cooked with rice wine and rice wine to dispel cold and nourish blood. This is the wisdom passed down from our ancestors.
It's different for the elderly.
My father is seventy years old. He always says that his waist and legs will be sore, he will urinate a lot at night, and he will not be very stable after falling asleep. These conditions are typical liver and kidney insufficiencies.
Ingredients such as Morinda officinalis and Beef Dali need to be used to make bone soup or chicken soup to achieve the effect of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, and at the same time tonifying the liver and kidneys.
But nourishment must not be carried out blindly. Elderly people who are prone to internal heat need to add some Adenophora ginseng when making soup to nourish Yin Qi; and for those who are prone to food accumulation, some malt should be added to assist digestion.
Can those Internet celebrity Chinese medicine breads be eaten?
Of course you can. But the score is clear.
Last year, there was a store in Chongqing where herbal bread became so popular that the "Seven White Berry Buns" were all sold out within an hour.
There are also Tianjin’s “Health European Buns” and Shanghai’s traditional Chinese medicine ice cream.
It seems quite mysterious, but in fact, the ingredients that have the same characteristics as medicine and food are made into styles that suit the preferences of young people.
The nationally prescribed list of medicinal and food homologous substances now covers 106 substances.
Cistanche deserticola, Codonopsis pilosula, and Dendrobium officinale used to be considered medicinal materials, but now they can be made into foods.
But there is a pitfall.
There are many online celebrity stores that only add a small amount of traditional Chinese medicine for the sake of taste, and the psychological comfort is greater than the actual effect.
There are also some stores that mix the ingredients randomly. Even though you have a hot constitution, they actually add warm medicinal materials to you, causing you to get even more angry after eating it.
How to choose the right path? Remember these three points
Look at the season.
When the humidity is heavy in spring, use ginger, perilla leaves, and patchouli to soothe the liver, strengthen the spleen, and reduce dampness.
In dry autumn, pear, pomegranate and honey can nourish yin and moisturize dryness.
Winter is cold, angelica and mutton soup can warm yang and dispel cold.
At this time, it is the transition between spring and summer, and the humidity is gradually increasing. It is suitable to boil some barley water or use kapok to make soup to achieve the effect of clearing away heat and reducing dampness.
Depends on the region.
When southerners make soup, they often use ingredients that can clear away heat and remove dampness: lotus leaves, adzuki beans, and winter melon.
When northerners stew meat, they often use ingredients that can replenish the qi and yang: mutton, beef, star anise, and Sichuan peppercorns.
Don't do the opposite.
Look at yourself.
The tongue is fat and has tooth marks, indicating heavy moisture. Eat barley and adzuki beans.
A red tongue with no coating indicates yin deficiency. Eat lily, Polygonatum odorifera, and Ophiopogon japonicus.
If your hands and feet are cold and you are afraid of cold, it means Yang deficiency. Eat ginger, mutton, and longan.
Finally, tell the truth
Medicinal diet is not medicine and cannot cure diseases.
It helps you adjust your body to a balanced state before you are sick.
As President Jiang Jian said, “Prevent disease before it’s too late.”
If you are really sick, you should see a doctor and take medicine.
Don’t expect that you can get rid of diabetes by drinking health tea for a few days.
Don’t listen to those exaggerated propaganda that say “a one-month cure” and “three days of effective results”.
It's all lies.
People who really know how to maintain health are those who "combine medicine with food".
Incorporate health into three meals a day, without being deliberate or fussy, eating comfortably and in the right way.
This is the true meaning of "food is nourishment first".
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