Sometimes I really feel that modern people live too "clean" lives.
It's as clean as a few tablets of synthetic vitamins can replace a handful of wild vegetables with soil. So much so that I have forgotten that in fact, every time I bite it and taste it, it may be medicine or poison.
At that time, they couldn't tell which mouthful was food and which mouthful was medicine.
Picture that.
For the old man Shen Nong, there was no airs at all. He was just living in the deep mountains and wilderness, chewing the bark of grass roots and trees. The so-called "encountering seventy poisons in one day" is completely risking your life to try dishes for future generations, and you are also trying medicines.
At that time, there was no Michelin star, no prescription list.
If you want to survive, this is the biggest knowledge among them. Those used to fill the stomach and those that can detoxify are mixed together and chewed together before swallowing. Things are so simple and yet so profound at the same time. Medicine and food, from the very beginning, were originally the same thing.
Later people began to understand some "rules"
Yi Yin is a cook and a great wizard (or doctor).
Holding a spoon in his hand, he put ginger, jujube, cinnamon twigs and other spices with spicy properties into the clay pot to cook them. That thing that appears to be gushing and steaming, do you think it is a soup, or is it the earliest soup?
The line has been blurred since then.
Then we came to the "Huangdi Neijing", and a few words jumped out from those ancient books, "Five grains are for nourishment, and the five fruits are for help." Listen carefully, nourishment and help, doesn't this elevate eating to a philosophical level? It’s not meant to make you eat like a spoonful, but it’s meant to make you adjust.
Ginger’s violent temper, lotus seed’s tranquility
It’s quite interesting how Chinese medicine looks at the world.
They are not concerned with the number of calories in your food, nor are they concerned with the amount of protein. What they pay attention to is the 'gas' and 'taste'.
What does ginger use to drive away cold? Is it because it has a burst of "violent temper" with a bit of ruthlessness, which is enough to drive out the hidden cold in the gaps between your bones? What does ginger use to soothe the mind? Because of its sweet and gentle nature, it is like a gentle soothing agent, which can calm and calm the restless heart.
This is the cognitive system of “all things have animism” belonging to the Chinese.
Li Shizhen wrote "Compendium of Materia Medica" and wrote down 1892 kinds of medicinal substances in one breath. Guess what? Most of them are things that may exist in your kitchen.
Grandma from Guangdong and girl from Sichuan
Look at those ordinary people who live a transparent life.
When my grandmother from Guangdong feels uncomfortable all over due to the sweltering heat in summer, she won’t say “I’m short of electrolytes.” She will just slowly cook a pot of mung bean soup, and then invite you back to drink. It not only has the effect of relieving heat, but also can be described as "clearing away heat and detoxifying".
A girl from Sichuan sat in the cold and humid air without thinking about turning on the dehumidification machine. She just knew that if you put an extra handful of Sichuan peppercorns in the hot pot, your lips would feel numb and your body would sweat, and you would feel comfortable.
This is the algorithm of life engraved in your bones. More accurate than any big data.
The new discovery in the laboratory is interesting
For many years, scientists have held such high-precision instruments, turned their heads and observed, oh, the ancestors did not lie.
Lycium barbarum polysaccharide contained in wolfberry has the effect of regulating immunity. The unique viscous juice presented by yam can indeed protect the gastric mucosa. Black sesame seeds are indeed helpful in lowering cholesterol.
What is even more interesting is that someone is investigating the pot of "Angelica Ginger Mutton Soup". They found the volatile components inside, and as if they had agreed beforehand, they went in droves to regulate the uterine microcirculation. Isn't this much more attractive than simply telling you "it can replenish blood"?
careful! Those "Internet celebrity" ingredients that have been held up to the altar
However, I have to pour some cold water on this.
Don’t think that “natural” means “harmless”. This is a huge pit.
Ms. Lin from Fuzhou realized that her body was extremely moist, so she bought and took away several boxes of barley water to replace the boiled water. What happened next? The moisture was not removed successfully, but instead she had diarrhea to the point that her body was extremely weak and collapsed. After all, Why, her dampness was caused by spleen deficiency, and what she needed was "replenishing" methods, not "venting" like barley. After all, barley is slightly cold, and the damage to her spleen and stomach became more serious after drinking too much. This is called adding insult to injury.
There is a milk tea shop named "AI Traditional Chinese Medicine" in Xinjiang, and many young people are queuing up to drink those customized health teas. It sounds pretty cool, right? However, have you ever thought about how powerful the effects of just a small amount of medicinal materials in a cup of milk tea might be? Most of them just give people some spiritual comfort effects.
Don’t think of “diet therapy” as a business deal you can be lazy about.
## Your bowl of soup may be hurting you quietly
A long time ago, there was an old man named Sun Simiao. More than a thousand years ago, in the book "A Thousand Gold Prescriptions", he talked naggingly: "If there is no cure through food therapy, then use medicine."
At present, these words still sound harsh. This is because many people are just the opposite. On the one hand, they wantonly harm the body, and on the other hand, they hope to save their lives by relying on a few bowls of medicinal food.
Don't use "food supplements" to cover up your indulgence.
Staying up late until two o'clock, and then drinking a cup of wolfberry tea, do you think you are on the right track? Don't even think about such things. This is not how your body calculates gains and losses.
What's even worse is "eating the wrong way".
The Miss Lin mentioned earlier is a typical example. In addition, there are some people whose hands and feet are often cold and who suffer from stomachache when eating cold food. When they see that chrysanthemum tea has the effect of reducing fire, they follow the trend and drink it. Isn't this behavior asking for trouble? Chrysanthemum is slightly cold in any case. Drinking it for people with weak spleen and stomach is like pouring cold water on a weak fire.
Pregnant women should be more cautious. Things like barley and mountain red have the effect of promoting smooth blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, but they are also very likely to cause adverse consequences that you simply cannot bear. If you eat it properly, it is nourishing, but if you eat it wrongly, it will be toxins that are invisible and intangible.
Written at the end: Don’t be too superstitious, and don’t deny it completely.
I do not deny the wisdom that medicine and food come from the same origin. On the contrary, I was fascinated.
I just resist the "one size fits all" health dogma and the lazy behavior of simply and crudely stuffing the complex human body into a few "Internet celebrity recipes".
It's not the kind of industrial drink labeled "barley water" in supermarkets. It's the real source of medicine and food, and it's not meant for you to buy.
The true source of medicine and food is that you have to be like Shen Nong and take responsibility for yourself. You need to feel the temperature of your own body, and you need to know the actual situation of cold and heat in your body. Then, in the kitchen, use the most ordinary vegetables and rice to blend it and soothe it.
This is not science, this is intuition and wisdom about survival that is older than science.
It does not give you immortality, but encourages you to find the long-lost balance in every interaction with nature.
So, what kind of soup are you going to have tonight? First, ask about your physical condition. Does it feel cold? Does it seem dry? Does it feel tired?
Ask clearly before taking off your chopsticks.
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