There is a saying in the folk that "it's better to make up for winter than frost", which shows the importance of the solar term health preservation. Yesterday was the frost in 24 solar terms, so what kind of adjustment should be made to the frost diet? How to supplement the frost solar terms?
It is advisable to patch up. Traditional Chinese medicine health science puts forward "four seasons and five tonics": tonic in spring, tonic in summer, tonic in long summer, tonic in autumn, tonic in winter.
Frost term is most likely to hurt Yin, lung, spleen and stomach, dry skin, peeling hair, dry mouth, thirsty, sore throat, defecation secret knot, etc. This season's tonic principle should be based on Nourishing Yin, moistening lung and harmonizing spleen and stomach.
Less pungent, keep fire away. "On the method of visceral Qi" said: 'the lung dominates autumn. The lung wants to collect, eats acid to collect, uses acid to supplement and purgative. 'it can be seen that the sour taste astringes the lung qi, the pungent taste diffuses and diarrhea the lung, and it is better to collect in autumn than to disperse.
Therefore, we should eat less spicy food, such as ginger, onion, garlic, pepper, etc., especially spicy hot pot, barbecue food, in order to prevent 'fire'.
Less spicy hot pot, diet supplement should be nourishing yin and lungs, and spleen and stomach.
Eat more fruits and vegetables with sufficient moisture and moistening Yin, such as pear, grape, banana, apple, pomegranate, mango, carambola, grapefruit, lemon, etc. In addition, it is also suitable for persimmon, chestnut, radish, onion, etc.
[moistening and preventing humidity]
Yuan Dynasty physician Hu Sihui said in "just about to drink and eat" that the air is dry in autumn, and it is suitable to eat Ma run its dry. Therefore, we should eat more sesame, honey, tremella, vegetables and other soft food in frost season.
In addition, if the spleen is injured by dampness in autumn, it will plant the root of chronic bronchitis and other diseases in winter, so it is necessary to prevent dampness while preventing dryness. But frost health and dampness prevention should be mainly based on the diet of eliminating dampness and stagnation, and strengthening the stomach and spleen. Such as lotus seed, Yimi, wax gourd, lotus root, yam, etc.
[three seasonal vegetables are recommended]
Persimmon. There is a custom of persimmon eating in some areas of China. People say: 'persimmon is eaten in frost, but not cold in winter'. Persimmon is sweet, astringent and cold in nature. It has the functions of clearing away heat and moistening dryness, nourishing lung and resolving phlegm, relieving thirst and promoting body fluid, softening and firming, strengthening spleen, hemostasis, etc. it can relieve the symptoms of stool dryness, hemorrhoids pain or bleeding, dry cough, sore throat, high blood pressure, etc.
Chestnut. Chestnuts are a good tonic after frost. Eating chestnut can prevent and cure the chronic diarrhea caused by kidney deficiency, waist and leg weakness, increased urination and spleen and stomach deficiency cold, improve human immunity and enhance the ability to resist cold.
Radish. After the frost season, the taste of radish becomes delicious. There is an agricultural saying in Shandong Province: heat sorghum, Bailu Valley, frost to pull radish. Radish has the effects of following Qi, widening the middle, promoting body fluid, detoxifying, eliminating accumulation and stagnation, widening chest and septum, resolving phlegm heat and dispersing blood, and it is also a good health care product in frost.