Heat treatment is one of the 24 solar terms and the first solar term after autumn. In fact, heat treatment is "heat treatment". In the future, the weather will be cool and the temperature will be lower and lower, so it is a good time for health preservation. How can heat treatment keep healthy? What's good for summer regimen? Let's study together!
The specific time of summer heat treatment in 2018 is 12:9 on August 23. The solar term of summer heat treatment comes, and the temperature drops gradually, but 'summer heat treatment is still hot, like autumn tiger'. At this time of the festival, we need to get enough sleep and energy; we need to stick to the autumn fat step by step. We should not eat too spicy and greasy food, drink more water, often drink porridge to prevent dryness in autumn. What's good for summer heat preservation? Check the food that should be eaten during summer heat:
What do you like to eat in summer
Tremella
It can moisten the lung and stop coughing, promote body fluid and nourish yin. It also has the functions of eliminating muscle fatigue, strengthening the brain and preventing senility. Recommended way to eat: first wash the tremella and put it into a casserole to boil until it is thick and soft, then wash the tomatoes and mash them, put them into the tremella soup to boil, add some ice sugar to taste; or wash the tremella and black fungus together and dip them in mustard soy sauce to eat, which is delicious.
pomegranate
Summer is the season to eat pomegranate. The content of vitamin C and vitamin E in pomegranate was higher than that in apple and pear. Red peel pomegranate has high vitamin C, while green peel pomegranate has high vitamin E. Pomegranate is warm, sweet, sour and astringent. It has the functions of promoting body fluid and relieving thirst, killing insects and dysentery. Pomegranate can be eaten directly, and can also be juiced for drinking. Acid pomegranate is very effective to prevent diarrhea, sweet pomegranate can prevent thirst.
Corn
Heat treatment is the mature season of corn. Lysine in fresh corn is an essential amino acid for human body, which can only be taken from food, while the content in other foods is very little. Therefore, fresh corn is one of the main sources of lysine. The nutritional value of special corn is higher than that of common corn. For example, the content of protein, vegetable oil and vitamin in sweet corn is 1-2 times higher than that in common corn, and the content of 'life element' selenium is 8-10 times higher.
Yam
It can clear the heart, calm the mind, nourish the middle and Qi, help the five internal organs, strengthen the muscles and bones, keep the elasticity of blood vessels and prevent arteriosclerosis. Recommended way to eat: mash the cleaned yam and add sugar to make filling, and then make it into Tangyuan with glutinous rice flour for eating; it can also be used to draw silk yam; or peel it and wash it with light salt water, then cut it into small pieces, add some sweet osmanthus jam, and serve as a cold dish.
American ginseng
It can resist fatigue and anoxia, and people will suffer from deficiency of yin and lack of Qi, thirst and fatigue in summer. When cooking porridge or stew, some American ginseng can not only calm and prevent autumn dryness, but also mildly nourish. Recommended way of eating: it can be brewed and drunk with American ginseng tablets, which is very simple. Even when eating hot pot, put American ginseng in it, it can also effectively supplement.
Jujube
As the saying goes, 'when I see red dates in the summer, I'll get rid of them at the autumn equinox. 'the fruit of fresh jujube is sweet. Eating jujube can replenish blood, reduce blood pressure and enhance human immunity. At the same time, jujube also contains a lot of vitamins, microelements and sugars. The research shows that it has certain effect on protecting liver and protecting liver, calming and calming nerves.
Mushroom
August and September are the rainy season in Yunnan, and also the season for mushroom conference. At this time, when I went to Yunnan, I didn't get dried Tricholoma matsutake and dried Boletus, but fresh wild mushroom elves. Or make soup, or stir fry, or fry, in short, any kind of cooking, is the best experience in the tip of the tongue.
Four King Kong's best body care
During the summer season, the ancestors left many eating customs, the most prominent of which is to drink a bowl of oats and pumpkin porridge, eat longan with porridge, drink a cup of herbal tea and eat a bowl of duck meat. These health food can be called "four body protection King Kong". It's very good to eat in summer!
One porridge oats pumpkin porridge
Reduce fat, sugar and cholesterol
Practice:
1. Wash pumpkin, peel and cut into slices. Wash oatmeal. Add proper amount of water to pumpkin slices and oatmeal, put them in the pot of porridge, boil over high heat and turn to low heat for 20 minutes.
2. When the pumpkin slices are soft, mash them with a spoon and cook for another 10 minutes.
Pumpkin is called "the first melon in autumn". It can reduce blood fat and sugar, promote intestinal peristalsis, and help the body to discharge free radicals and other metabolic wastes. Oats can effectively reduce cholesterol content in human body and improve blood circulation.
One meal & "longan with porridge"
Benefiting the heart and spleen, nourishing qi and blood
Method: peel a bowl of longan and eat it with porridge.
In summer, you should eat longan with porridge, because the weather is hot in summer, the human body consumes a lot of heat, eating longan can supplement heat.
Longan is warm, which is beneficial to the heart and spleen, Qi and blood, and Qi.
A herbal tea
Clearing away heat, eliminating fire, eliminating food and removing lung heat
This custom has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. Every family has the habit of frying herbal tea during the summer heat. First go to the drugstore to prepare a prescription, then fry tea at home for drinking, which means to have some 'bitter' in autumn.
Herbal tea is good in clearing away heat, eliminating fire, eliminating food, eliminating lung heat and so on. Here is the usage of a kind of herbal tea:
Materials: take 15 grams of chrysanthemum, chicken bone grass, Prunella vulgaris and Lysimachia, and 1 Luohanguo.
Method: break the Siraitia grosvenorii in half, soak other materials in water for 10-15 minutes, wash them 3-4 times, and then clean them; put all materials into a large pot, fill with water, and turn it into a small pot for 1 hour.
Efficacy: chrysanthemum can disperse wind heat, clear the liver and eyes, calm the liver Yang, and detoxify; chicken bone grass can clear away heat and dampness, benefit the stomach and spleen; Prunella vulgaris can clear the fire and eyes, disperse knots and swelling; Lysimachia can clear away heat and toxin, disperse blood stasis and swelling, and remove dampness and yellow.
Siraitia grosvenorii, also known as immortal fruit, is rich in glucose, fructose and vitamins. It can clear the lungs and stop coughing, benefit the throat and moisten the intestines.
After 'summer heat treatment', you should not drink herbal tea, but rather eat more 'Invigorating Qi' and 'invigorating blood' things, such as the above-mentioned longan boiled porridge after shelling.
One meat
Nourishing Yin, nourishing stomach, benefiting water and reducing swelling
There is a tradition of eating duck in summer. Duck meat is sweet, salty and cool, which has the functions of nourishing yin and stomach, benefiting water and detumescence.
Black bone duck has more medicinal value, which can reduce the fever and cough of tuberculosis patients. The old duck can nourish the deficiency and Yin, and it is beneficial to those who have been sick for a long time or who are tired and spit blood.
There are also many kinds of duck meat practices, including white cut duck, lemon duck, roast duck, lotus leaf duck, etc.
Stewed duck soup with lotus root
Materials: half duck, 1 jin lotus root, proper seasoning.
Method: cut the duck into pieces, blanch it, and cut the lotus root into large pieces; then put the lotus root and the blanched duck into the pot together, boil it with water and simmer for 2 hours, and add some seasoning.