Sometimes I feel that the pots and pans in the kitchen are more magical than the medicine cabinets in the pharmacy.
The same is true for eating, how to eat, and when to eat. The precise grasp contained in it is part of the wisdom we have inherited from ancient times to the present. It's not some profound knowledge, it's just a little thought in daily life. Use the power of food to assist medicine, and use the power of food to enhance the power of medicine. These eight words explain everything thoroughly.
Looking through the almanac, this has happened a long time ago.
It is recorded in the "Nei Jing" that people at that time knew that placing medicinal materials such as cuttlefish bones and madder together with sparrow eggs and abalone juice was not to satisfy the need to fill their stomachs, but to uphold the concept of "nurturing". The angelica, ginger and mutton soup created by Zhang Zhongjing in the Han Dynasty applied this idea to the home-cooked table. One pot presents a warm and warm state, dispelling cold evil and replenishing the internal damage suffered by the body.
Hu Sihui's "Yinshan Zhengyao"
It writes about things used by the emperor to eat, among which medicinal foods appear frequently. Look, even the most respected people understand that such food contains reasons for its effectiveness in supporting the continuation of life.
Who hasn’t drank ginger syrup?
Autumn is getting thicker and the wind is getting colder. I accidentally caught a little cold, my head felt tight, and my nose became unblocked. Don't rush to the medicine box at this time. Go to the kitchen and cut three or five slices of ginger as thick as a fingernail. Add some brown sugar and brew with boiling hot water. Drinking it while it's hot, the spicy taste warms from the throat to the stomach, and then spreads to the limbs. A thin layer of sweat appears on the back, and the cold evil dissipates with the sweat. This is the simplest "medicine" hidden in the kitchen.
In spring and summer, it's hot outside, dry inside, and my throat is on fire and a little painful.
Dig up fresh grass roots and fresh reed roots, two common things found in the fields, wash them and cut them into pieces. Add fresh mint leaves and pound the juice directly to drink without cooking. The taste is sweet and the coolness can extinguish the fire in your throat.
Regarding the body and bones, each has its own symptoms.
There is such a kind of swelling, which is not caused by drinking too much water, but because the "qi" inside the body cannot be retained, causing the protein to escape from the urine. At this time, just drinking plain water has no effect.
I want to find a fresh crucian carp, preferably half a catty or more, and handle it cleanly. Pair with adzuki beans, add a little astragalus and ginger, place in a pot and simmer slowly. Watching the soup change from clear to white, as thick as milk. Drinking this soup is not to act as a diuretic, but to add nutrients to the body and repair the gaps. The milky white soup contains the power to lift Qi upwards and the power to transport water downwards. The two converge into a combined force.
When I cough, my throat feels like there is a bellows, and there is a clammy phlegm.
If there were no symptoms of fever and cold sensitivity, it would just be a dry cough that would make people uncomfortable. At this time, white radish becomes a treasure. Take out half a kilogram of radish, remove its skin, and cut it into cubes. Put the prepared food into a food processor and run it for a few times. The juice extracted from the raw material will have a spicy smell. If you're afraid of the cold, boil it in a small pot until it bubbles and drink it while it's still warm. That smell goes downwards, which can smooth the air, help digestion, and can also stop the cough.
The old man's cough is weak, like a candle burning at both ends.
There is a fresh lily used to moisten the lungs, add some Sichuan clam powder, and a small piece of rock sugar, and then simmer it through water. After being stewed, it will appear soft and glutinous. If you eat it, you will feel comfortable inside. When a child coughs, it is a different situation. The texture of the sputum is very sticky, making it difficult to cough it out. Pick a pear, dig out its core, fill it with Sichuan clam powder, then cover it and steam it. At this time, the pear flesh will become transparent and taste sweet. Children love to eat it, and their cough symptoms will also improve.
The spleen and stomach are a matter of acquired nature.
The child doesn't eat well, his face is sallow and his muscles are thin, and his belly is quite big. That's due to food accumulation.
Earlier, the old people used to steam a kind of cake with the effect of strengthening the spleen and reducing accumulation. It is made by grinding the ingredients such as Codonopsis pilosula, Poria cocos, lotus seeds, hawthorn, Shenqu, and chicken gizzard into very fine powder, and then mix it with fried millet noodles, mix them evenly, add a little water, and make small cakes, which are steamed or baked in a pot. Eat it as a snack for your children. As your children eat, their appetite will develop.
Stomach pain, that kind of vague, lingering pain, especially worse on an empty stomach.
This means that the body is weak and needs gentle and soft methods to recuperate and nourish it. Yams, jujubes, they are all ordinary things. When making porridge every morning, grab a handful and cook together, then eat it as breakfast. Don't underestimate these ingredients. If you continue to eat them for a month or two, your weak state will gradually be adjusted back to the original state and supported.
There are also those who are hungry and full, and their stomachs are hurt.
The older generation talked about a treatment method called "replenishing the internal organs with the internal organs." It sounds a bit crude, but there is truth in it. Go buy a fresh beef louver, carefully cut it into small pieces, add some shredded ginger and coriander, and stir-fry quickly over a strong and fierce fire. When that fragrance comes out, people's saliva will flow involuntarily. If you eat this kind of food for three to five days in a row, more than half of the uncomfortable feeling in your stomach will be eliminated. The condition is that you don't stimulate it with cold, greasy and spicy food.
If the weakness is deep, you need to use moisturizing methods
Duck stewed with cordyceps is a good thing, but it’s too expensive and ordinary people can’t afford to eat it more than once.
However, lily and ginkgo soup can be made by every household. Lily has moisturizing properties, and ginkgo has a convergent effect. One moisturizes toward the inside, and the other converges toward the inside, which can just deal with the situation of being weak and in a state of dispersion.
Astragalus eel soup, the same path. Astragalus has the effect of nourishing qi, eel has nourishing properties, qi can lead the movement of yin, and yin can carry qi to nourish. The two are interdependent and indispensable.
People passing middle age are like these autumn trees
The leaves still look green, and the roots underneath have begun to grow back bit by bit.
At this time, it is not necessary to take those so-called precious tonics with great names. Siwu Decoction, which contains angelica, chuanxiong, white peony root and rehmannia glutinosa, is an ancient formula used to replenish qi and blood. Go buy some spareribs, cut them into pieces, blanch them in water, put them in a casserole along with the package containing the medicinal ingredients of Siwutang, and continue to stew them for two hours. The color of the soup changes to a light color with medicinal properties, and it has a sweet aftertaste when you drink it. This is a way to add support to the energy and blood consumed by losses.
The Four Gentlemen Soup, which consists of ginseng, atractylodes, poria and licorice, has the effect of replenishing qi. When it is stewed with a young hen, the resulting soup is clear, but its aroma is extremely rich.
Now, restaurants outside are starting to do this too.
Medicinal hot pot and wolfberry bread are also regarded as health-preserving products by young people.
However, a little taste of that item is fine, but if you really want to think about its nourishing effect, it must be something that has been simmered over low heat for a long time in your own kitchen. What the restaurant provides is for commercial purposes and is expensive. As for the effect, who knows.
What makes medicinal food so appealing is not the rare and rare nourishing herbs, but rather the consideration that can accurately respond to symptoms.
Drink some ginger syrup when there is wind and cold, drink Maogen drink when it is hot, drink white radish when you have cough and asthma, and drink crucian carp soup when you have edema. These prescriptions are not written in medical books to be scary, but are integrated into every porridge and meal, making people feel quite appropriate and safe.
In fact, wherever there is a situation where medicine and food can be separated separately, they are all gifts given by God. The key depends on whether you can use them, who you use them on, and when you use them. That's all.
This is roughly it. The simplest meaning of "medicine and food come from the same source" is to integrate the principle of maintaining life into the daily smoke, so that people can live longer and more stable lives without even realizing it, just by eating three meals a day.
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