The traditional "Four Famous Supplements"
Do you remember?
Ginseng, ejiao, deer antler, iron maple bucket.
Qi, blood, yin and yang are the four fundamentals of the human body, ginseng tonifies qi, ejiao tonifies blood, deer antler replenishes yang, and iron maple bucket replenishes yin.
Medicine is supplemented for a while, and food is supplemented for a lifetime. In fact, there are four kinds of affordable and natural foods around the people, which have extremely high health preservation value, and can also regulate qi, blood, yin and yang.
What exactly are these affordable versions of the "New Four Famous Supplements" that are comparable to high-end supplements?
beef
replenishes qi, and the function is the same as that of astragalus
Astragalus is sweet and warm, and is the most commonly used qi-tonifying drug in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine theory holds that qi is the driving force of life activities.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that beef has the strongest effect on the body's qi replenishment in food, and it has the effect of strengthening muscles and strengthening muscles and bones after eating. In the book "Han's Medical Tong" written by the Ming Dynasty physician Han Mao, it is mentioned that beef replenishes qi and has the same effect as astragalus. "The Usurpation of Medical Forest" believes: "Beef is sweet in taste and specializes in replenishing the spleen and soil." ”
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that different beef has different sexual tastes, yellow beef is sweet and warm, and buffalo meat is sweet and cool.
Yellow beef has a stronger effect on replenishing qi and blood and strengthening muscles and bones, which is very suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with osteoporosis. In addition, people who usually have symptoms of qi deficiency such as physical weakness and fatigue can also eat more yellow beef.
A healthy way to eat beef
Beef stew with fennel and cinnamon
Ingredients: 250 grams of beef, 3 grams of cumin, 3 grams of cinnamon, 1 tablespoon of rice wine.
Efficacy: Beef has a strong effect on the kidney; Cumin is not only a seasoning, but also a medicine, which can warm the stomach and dispel cold; Cinnamon has the effect of warming and dissipating cold evil, leading fire to return to the source, absorbing qi and relieving asthma, and finally adding rice wine, the effect of warming the meridian and dissipating cold is stronger.
beef + tomato; It is the best blood nourishing and beauty, beauty and skin care food, and the high-quality protein in beef is abundant, which can effectively improve the symptoms of blood deficiency;
beef + red date stew; It helps muscle growth and promotes wound healing;
Beef eaten alone or with cooked ground, wolfberry, mulberry, etc., can improve hair loss caused by kidney deficiency;
Beef + astragalus has the best effect of replenishing qi; Combined with yam can strengthen bones; Combined with gastrodia can lower blood pressure.
peanuts and blood-replenishing, the same work is familiar
Rehmania is a very commonly used blood tonic. Cooked land is sweet and warm and moist, nourishing yin and benefiting essence to generate blood, for nourishing blood and replenishing deficiency, the blood tonic effect of peanuts can be said to be "the same as the familiar land".
Peanuts are rich in lecithin, amino acids, vitamins and minerals, which have the effects of strengthening the brain, promoting cell development and delaying aging.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the effect of peanuts is to strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisten the lungs and dissolve phlegm, but peanut coats have the effect of nourishing blood and promoting blood clotting, which is very good for people with anemia and wound healing.
For people with high blood viscosity, peanut coats can increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, people with high blood viscosity should not eat "peanut red coat"; It is best for the elderly not to eat "peanut red clothes" to avoid blood viscosity.
How to eat peanuts healthily
There are many foods made of peanuts, processed peanut beans, peanut oil, peanut butter, peanut cakes, etc., which are actually not as good as eating peanuts directly. And among the many cooking methods, boiling is usually the best choice.
Boiled peanuts contain more than 4 times more chemicals than fresh, sun-dried and roasted peanuts, and these substances can have a certain preventive effect on related diseases.
Vinegar soaked peanuts can also retain more nutrients as much as possible, and a small amount of vinegar can also stimulate appetite and strengthen the absorption of nutrients.
Red-skinned peanuts are soaked in rice vinegar before eating, which can play a particularly good blood tonic effect, and can also lower blood pressure, and the amount of each consumption should be kept between ten and fifteen grains, once in the morning and once in the evening.
Red dates and longan themselves are common health ingredients for blood replenishment, and using red-skinned peanuts with them to make soup and drink it together will make the blood tonic effect more obvious, and can reduce the symptoms of human qi and blood loss as soon as possible.
These people eat less peanuts:
Patients with high uric acid, gout,
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and hepatobiliary diseases are treated with
and lotus root to replenish yin
[Lotus Root] VS [Mai Dong].
Wheat winter sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold, into the heart, spleen and stomach meridians, has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, benefiting the stomach and rejuvenating the body, clearing the heart and removing troubles. The famous prescription "Shengmai Drink" is composed of ginseng, wheat dong and schisandra.
Lotus root is cold, sweet, into the heart, liver, spleen, stomach meridian, belongs to the cold food, has a variety of effects such as clearing heat, shengjin, cooling blood, dispersing stasis, tonifying the spleen, appetizing, antidiarrheal, etc., suitable for people with warm physique.
How to eat lotus root health
Summer pairing: duck and chicken are acceptable
For friends with high blood sugar and diabetes, if you eat lotus root, you should reduce the amount of staple foods such as rice and steamed bread accordingly, so as not to consume too much starch and affect blood sugar control.
, silver carp replenishing yang, the same function as cinnamon
【Silver carp】VS 【Cinnamon】
Cinnamon is spicy, sweet, and hot, returning to the kidney, spleen, heart, and liver meridians. It has the effect of replenishing fire and helping yang, leading fire to return to the source, dissipating cold and relieving pain, and invigorating blood and menstruation.
Silver carp is a kind of silver carp, also known as "fathead fish" and "bighead carp". Silver carp is warm in nature, sweet in taste, warms the spleen and stomach, dispels dizziness, benefits the brain and marrow, delays aging, and moisturizes the skin.
In particular, it has a good effect on the recovery of the health of the elderly with weak constitution, spleen and stomach deficiency and malnutrition.
It is recorded in the classics of traditional Chinese medicine that fish head can be used to treat rheumatism and headache, and women are dizzy.
In addition, silver carp is rich in phospholipids, which can improve memory, especially the cerebral and cerebral cord content of the head, and regular consumption can remove dizziness, improve IQ, help memory, and delay aging. The ingredients contained in the head of silver carp are also very helpful for the cardiovascular system of the person.
tarpon + tofu: can increase the protein content
Silver carp + yam: It can warm yang and nourish the kidney
Silver carp is rich in protein and warm, so people with spleen and stomach heat should not eat more;
Patients with itchy skin diseases, internal heat, urticaria, and ringworm should be cautious.
