Dog days are here! Please keep this practical diet guide
Dog days are the hottest, wettest and sultry days of the year.
At this time, the natural yang qi is growing, which is when the yang qi is most prosperous.
The human body also adapts to changes in the external environment. At this time, the yang qi in the human body is strong and the yin qi is weak.
Zou Mengying, the attending physician of the Chinese Medicine Department of the Rocket Army Special Medical Center (formerly the Rocket Army General Hospital), reminds everyone that during the dog days, we should focus on clearing and tonic. First, remove the heat, dampness and other evils, toxins, and greasy substances in the body. , And then replenish the yang energy of our human body to achieve the purpose of reconciling yin and yang, maintaining health, and prolonging life.
In terms of specific operations, how does the dog days achieve the goal of health preservation from the diet?
Here are some tips for you.
Keep in mind the principle of clearing and supplementing the diet in the dog days
Good food for relieving heat and preventing dryness
Loofah soup and mung bean soup are essential
The first choice for Futian food is loofah, which relieves heat and prevents dryness. Loofah contains saponins, an ingredient in ginseng, which is especially suitable for Futian.
After entering the vat, the weather is hot, and the appetite is often poor, and the digestion is not good. The cold loofah is cool in the mouth, tender and juicy, and full of fragrance; making a clear soup or making a soup with ribs and chicken soup can relieve greasiness, which is appetizing. .
The method of cold loofah is simple. You can use a little salt and sesame oil instead of soy sauce, vinegar and MSG to highlight the original flavor of loofah.
It is comparable to loofah soup, of course mung bean soup.
Mung bean soup has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, quenching thirst and relieving heat.
The color of the soup is clear and green, which can achieve the effect of clearing heat. The color of the soup is turbid and has a poor effect on relieving heat, but it has a strong effect of clearing away heat and detoxification.
The heat-clearing power of mung bean lies in the skin, and the detoxification function lies in the inside. How do you cook mung bean soup that tastes delicious and suits your physique?
First boil 10 times the ratio of mung beans, then add mung beans, continue to simmer for 8-10 minutes, then pour out the mung bean soup. At this time, the color of the soup is turquoise green, which has a strong heat-clearing effect, and it is easy to diarrhea for the deficiency and cold of the spleen and stomach. And people with dysmenorrhea, it is best not to drink such mung bean water.
After the mung bean soup is taken out, you can add a little more water to the pot and cook for about 30 minutes more to turn into blooming mung bean soup, mung bean paste or even mung bean porridge.
Mung bean and coix seed boiled in the same proportion of mung bean and barley soup can eliminate heat and dampness.
The method is very simple. Soak the washed coix seeds and mung beans in clean water, first cook the coix, boil the water on a high fire, simmer for 30 minutes on a low fire, then add the mung beans to the boil, add a little rock sugar to taste. .
Mung bean ribs soup is also a common delicacy on the summer table: prepare 1 catty of ribs, 50g mung beans, 10g ginger, 5g tangerine peel, and appropriate condiments.
Cut the ribs into sections and boil the water, put them in the pot together with the sliced ginger, mung beans and tangerine peels, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, and cook the soup on medium heat for 45 minutes to 1 hour to season.
The medicine that strengthens the spleen and stomach is the same as eating yam, which can be cooked in soup or directly steamed.
If it is combined with barley and chixiaodou soup, it has a significant effect on removing dampness.
Foods that replenish a lot of water lost in summer, such as pineapple, watermelon, lotus seeds, wax gourd, tomatoes, and lentils, are common in Chinese medicine. This is what Chinese medicine means.
In addition to the common mung bean soup, the foods for clearing heat and relieving heat include bitter gourd, tartary buckwheat, and bitter vegetables. They are not easy to accept because of the bitter taste, and people with weak spleen and stomach are not suitable for eating more.
Warm and nourish yang during dog days
Lamb soup and ginger tea are good choices
Speaking of foods for clearing away heat and relieving heat for a long time, what to eat for yang during dog days?
Dog days diet emphasizes keeping up with the times, focusing on the maintenance of Yang Qi in the body.
"Drink Fuyang", people in the north should have heard of it, that is, drinking mutton soup during dog days.
Lamb is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the kidney meridian, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold yang, and people who drink mutton soup have a good effect of warming the middle and warming the kidney and replenishing qi and blood.
After drinking the mutton soup, you will have a hot sweat, which can nourish the internal organs and at the same time sweat and detoxify, which is good for your health.
Some people are not accustomed to the smell of lamb soup, they can drink a small amount of ginger tea during the day to sweat, especially those with weak stomach and intestines.
There are also several types of ginger tea. Generally, ginger is used at home to boil water. It has the effect of relieving the appearance and dispelling cold, warming and relieving vomiting. It tastes better with brown sugar; dried ginger is good for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, diarrhea, and cold limbs. It has the effect of warming the middle and dispelling cold, and regaining Yang and promoting the pulse; Paojiang mainly has the effect of removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and it is effective for women with blood stasis dysmenorrhea.
Ginger tea is spicy and stimulating, which can improve the blood circulation of the human body and improve the yang energy of the body.
But for people with a hot stomach, they can't drink ginger tea to "add blockage" to themselves.
If you don’t like ginger tea, you can also use 3-5 grams of American ginseng slices, with 3-5 grams of wolfberry, 3-5 grams of adenophora, 3-5 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, and 3-5 grams of dendrobium. Water, nourishes qi and blood, balances yin and yang.
If there is no blood sugar problem, Futian can always drink.
Futian is hot though
Don't be too cold
In some areas, the summer is very hot and humid, and people are prone to sweating, not only the loss of a lot of water, but also the consumption of many trace elements.
When sweating, Yang Qi is easy to leak out. If the external environment is densely covered with rivers and the cold and damp qi is heavy, people who are gluttonous and cold can easily lead to cold and dampness in the internal environment, spleen and stomach disorders, in fact, phlegm and dampness are blocked, and deficiency is cold and cold Health, laying the groundwork for the winter disease.
Therefore, you should choose the right food according to your own physique.
If people with spleen deficiency and dampness can eat some foods that invigorate the spleen and dispel dampness; those who love to blow air-conditioners and drink cold beer can cause spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, they can choose foods that warm and nourish yang to replenish yang.
In addition, sweating during the dog days will lose a lot of protein, amino acids, B vitamins, vitamin C, and minerals such as potassium and sodium.
As the old saying goes: first-fu dumplings, two-fu noodles, three-fu pancakes and eggs, it can be seen that the staple foods eaten in do-fu days are also particular.
From the perspective of nutritional value, comparing white flour with rice, the protein in white flour is higher, and the B vitamins and various minerals are about twice as high as those in white rice, so eating noodles is more conducive to nutritional supplements. .
Noodles do not always need to be made of refined white flour. They can be replaced with soba noodles, mung bean noodles, mixed bean noodles, etc., with a richer taste, and with cucumber shreds and tofu shreds for higher nutritional value.
Text/Mo Peng (Rocket Army Characteristic Medical Center)