The dietary treatment of medicinal food

The four seasons have different physical and nutritional needs, and they are also good times for dietary regimen. There is a wealth of medicinal ingredients that can be used in medicinal meals, dietary treatments or health teas, and learning to use them appropriately can energize the spirit, strengthen the body and enhance the ability to resist various seasonal pathogens. Here are a few examples of medicinal food for reference and selection. In addition to food therapy, we also need to pay attention to the appropriate amount of work and rest, and the mood and harmony. (1) warming qi and blood of angelica lamb soup – for patients with deficiency of qi and blood, fear of cold in winter, pale white tongue. Production method: lamb cut into a casserole, add a small amount of clear water and boil; pour off the first soup, then add an appropriate amount of water, angelica, red dates, peel, wolfberry appropriate amount, onion, ginger, salt, sugar or white pepper powder a little, stew until the lamb is cooked. (2) nourish the kidneys and strengthen the waist of dulcimer lumbar flower soup – for those with lumbosacral i pain caused by deficiency strain injury. Choose a pair of fresh pig kidney, cut open, remove the middle of the larger tendons, and cut finer crosses, soak in salt water for 2 hours, rinse with water to remove the smell. Add an appropriate amount of water, 10 grams of juniper, 10 grams of hyssop, onion, ginger, salt, sugar or a pinch of aniseed, and stew for 30 minutes. (3) Gorgonian barley porridge for strengthening the spleen and resolving dampness – for chronic diarrhea and malnutrition caused by spleen deficiency and dampness gathering and deficiency of qi and yin. Barley, gravy or lotus seeds, red dates (date skin is not easy to digest, do not eat), glutinous rice in appropriate amounts to cook the porridge, boil until barley, gravy and lotus seeds are cooked and rotten. In the hot summer, you can also add a little fresh lotus leaves to enhance the power to clear the summer heat and remove dampness. In winter, glutinous rice can be fried yellow and then cooked porridge, warming the spleen, stopping diarrhea and appetite will be a little stronger. (4) Clear heat and moisten dryness with silver fungus and lily soup – suitable for patients with irritable and dry heat, little sleep and dreams, and mouth and tongue ulcers. Add water and simmer over medium-low heat until the fungus is cooked and rotten or the soup is sticky. (5) Warm the middle and drive away the cold onion and ginger sugar date tea – for those who have a weak and cold constitution, fear of cold in the abdomen and stomach, or suffer from cold due to careless diet and living, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, dysmenorrhea and other patients. Cut 3~5 slices of ginger, tear 10~12 red dates, add a little brown sugar and black tea, add 300~500ml of water and boil it; for those who also have wind-cold, sneezing and clear water nasal discharge, add 3~5 more white onions and boil it for 3~5 minutes. Drink while it is warm. (6) Shiso Buddha’s hand tea for relieving depression and resolving phlegm – for bad breath, throat discomfort, chest and epigastric fullness caused by liver qi stagnation, spleen failure, phlegm and damp heat. Perilla leaves or stems, patchouli leaves or stems, sliced Buddha’s hand or orange peel, with a little rock sugar, make tea. If there is also red tongue body or red tongue tip, yellow moss, dry and sticky mouth, hot hands and feet, impatience and irritability, etc., replace perilla with mulberry leaves, add lotus seeds to clear the heart and lung, liver and spleen, or add honeysuckle and wild chrysanthemum to clear heat and detoxify.