Really, do you believe it? Can a bowl of chicken soup replenish your health?
My mother believes it. In the winter last year, she insisted on stewing angelica and mutton for three months, claiming that my brother was tired from working overtime and had to take a good supplement.
The result? My brother's oral ulcer never stopped, and he was so dry in the middle of the night that he kicked off the quilt.
Later, when I went to see a Chinese medicine doctor, they said that your brother has a damp-heat constitution, so warming and tonic in this way is just like heating oil on a fire.
Medicinal diet is not a big pot of rice, don’t drink it blindly
I actually like tinkering with these too.
Soaking wolfberries in a thermos cup, who doesn’t have the kind of crisis faced by middle-aged people? However, when I read the news later, an expert said something very painful and unacceptable, that is, diet therapy is not the same as treating diseases.
Many people, like my mother, regard medicated diet as a panacea.
Aunt Wang next door, who heard that food like hawthorn has the effect of lowering blood lipids, cooks hawthorn water and drinks it every day. After drinking like this, I developed acid reflux, and then I rushed to the hospital for examination. It was found that the gastric mucosa had been damaged.
Alas, too much is too little. We always fail to remember the words of our ancestors.
What does "complementing the form with form" in Chinese medicine mean?
When I was a kid, I ate fish. My dad said that eating more fish eyes is good for your eyes.
I took it hard for many years, and now I am still 500 degrees myopic.
I read a popular science article during this period that made me laugh so hard - can pork kidneys nourish the kidneys? That's where high cholesterol is concentrated! Eating too much may increase the burden on the kidneys. Bone broth for calcium supplement? I didn’t supplement much calcium, but I did get a lot of purine.
In fact, what the ancients said about "complementing shape with shape" is a kind of philosophical thinking, which conveys the meaning of "seeking each other with the same spirit". But in our place, we simply understand it as supplementing what we eat. This approach is as crude as replacing parts.
### Only those who really understand you will give you prescriptions
I have a friend in Shandong who said that traditional Chinese medicine hospitals have now become "health canteens."
It is not the kind of haphazard stew, but you need to go and do a personal physical identification first, and then the doctor will prescribe a meal prescription for you based on this. If you have qi deficiency, you have to drink astragalus stewed chicken; if you have blood deficiency, you have to eat angelica and mutton. Only in this way can it be called "prescribing the right medicine to the case".
By the way, I went to Yunnan during the Dragon Boat Festival last year, and a local friend cooked me a bowl of "Three Roots Tea".
Reed roots, thatch roots, and dandelion roots are all dug out of the ground. It is claimed to be a prescription passed down by Zhang Zhongjing, which is used to clear away stagnation and heat. As for how to describe the taste, it is a little sweet and a little fishy. After drinking it, my whole body feels smooth and refreshing.
At that moment I suddenly understood.
Medicinal diet is not something mysterious and mysterious, nor is it a magical medicine that can cure all diseases. It is actually the steaming pot of soup on your stove. It is the handful of wolfberries that your mother secretly put in based on your complexion.
What to drink in spring and what to drink in autumn, God has arranged it for you.
Have you ever discovered that your body is actually very smart?
Once spring comes, you will want to eat some fresh and tender things, such as shepherd's purse and spring bamboo shoots. They help you generate yang energy. Once the weather gets hot, you will want to drink mung bean soup. This is your body's request for you to clear away the heat.
My grandma couldn't read, but she understood this.
At the beginning of autumn, she would definitely stew a pot of snow pear and white fungus. She states that the weather is dry in autumn and needs to be moisturized. You see, the twenty-four solar terms are clearly a dietary calendar given to us Chinese people.
Nowadays, the younger generation has become smarter. They no longer go to the nightclubs they used to go to, and start drinking ginseng milk tea instead. Another survey shows that among many young people, 78% are willing to pay for medicinal meals.
Not bad. While staying up late, holding a thermos cup in hand, although there is a certain sense of self-deception, it is better than doing nothing, right?
careful! How many of these "health pits" have you stepped on?
① The more expensive it is, the better it is?
Wake up quickly. Cordyceps sinensis is indeed relatively good, but it is not suitable for you. You have a situation of yin deficiency and fire exuberance. Eating ginseng is like adding fuel to the fire. What suits you is the most suitable. The dandelion root picked up on the roadside may be more suitable for your symptoms than the Ganoderma lucidum stored in your cabinet at home.
② Can’t eat ginger at night?
False reasoning. I like to add ginger when cooking, but I haven't seen it turn into arsenic. All experts have already said that whether you can eat ginger depends on your own physical constitution. This has nothing to do with breakfast or dinner.
③ Mung bean antidote?
Not so! If you are suffering from a fever, mung beans can actually play a supporting role when drinking coptis and honeysuckle. Therefore, don’t run away from mung beans as soon as you hear them. Isn’t this unfair?
In fact, in the final analysis, medicated diet is just eating.
Don't imagine it to be too magical and weird, and don't completely deny it and make it lifeless. It is actually the slight concern you have for your body. In this era where the pace is as fast as a rushing torrent, you are still willing to spend two hours to simmer the ingredients slowly like a slow fire.
For example, there is a custom of "Three Root Tea" in Dengzhou. Drinking a bowl of it in spring will keep people healthy all year round. It’s not that this bowl of tea has miraculous effects, but that when you drink it, spring has arrived.
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