Why should we pay attention to diet collocation and comprehensive diet?
For this reason, medicinal diet experts have developed a summer medicinal diet recipe: "Five flavors of pork belly", with pork belly, Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, pollen and ebony as raw materials; Spleen-strengthening carp with carp, dried tangerine peel and tsaoko as raw materials; "Fructus Amomi and Carassius auratus soup" with Fructus Amomi and Carassius auratus as raw materials; Lily porridge with lily and japonica rice as raw materials.
Individualization is reflected in catering to different people. Medicinal diet needs to be personalized and different from person to person. For example, gastrodia elata fish head has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney and calming liver wind, but it is not suitable for people with low blood pressure; Amomum villosum porridge has the effect of warming spleen and stomach and dredging stagnant qi, but it is not suitable for people with excess blood stasis and stomachache. Purslane Ejiao decoction has the effects of cooling blood and detoxicating, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, nourishing yin and enriching blood, but it is not suitable for patients with deficiency-cold diarrhea. These dishes show that the constitution of excessive yang heat should be treated with cool medicinal diet; For the constitution with excessive yin-cold, it is advisable to use warm and tonic medicinal diet.
Dieting by place pays attention to differences. According to the research of Chinese Medicinal Diet Research Association, warm tonic medicinal diet should be adopted in the northwest alpine region, and cold tonic medicinal diet should be adopted in the southeast humid region. Since there is yin cold, the dosage of warming tonic in the north is heavier than that in the south.
After a long warm winter and bright spring, the summer of 2007 inadvertently entered people's lives. Summer, the second season of the year, refers to the three months between Long Summer and beginning of autumn, and also refers to the "April, May and June" months of the lunar calendar, including "Long Summer, Xiaoman, Miscanthus, Summer Solstice, Slight Summer and Great Summer". In summer, people eat less and lose weight, which is called "bitter summer". How can we have a healthy and happy summer? Eating medicated diet in summer is a good way to keep fit. Medicinal diet in summer varies from time to time, from person to person and from place to place.
Choosing the right ingredients is the key to eating according to time.
In summer, the sun is shining, the rain is abundant, and the atmosphere of heaven and earth meets, which is the season when everything is thriving. The temperature in summer is often between 37℃ and 39℃, and some are as high as 40℃, which is much higher than the human body temperature. It is easy to make people hate the hot climate, lose appetite, weaken digestive function, and lead to a "bitter summer" characterized by reduced food intake and emaciation. Chinese medicine believes that "summer belongs to fire, corresponding to the heart", "summer is the season when people's hearts are full of fire and their lungs are weak" and "summer is easy to hurt people".
Fight the heat and keep healthy. Medicinal diet experts listed a variety of summer medicinal diet recipes: "Spiced pork belly" with pork belly, Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, pollen and dark plum as raw materials; Spleen-strengthening carp with carp, dried tangerine peel and tsaoko as raw materials; "Chinese yam and poria cocos steamed bun" made of flour, Chinese yam, poria cocos and moss; "Fructus Amomi and Carassius auratus soup" with Fructus Amomi and Carassius auratus as raw materials; "Lily porridge" with lily and japonica rice as raw materials ... These summer medicinal diet raw materials conform to the overall concept of "correspondence between man and nature" in traditional Chinese medicine and adapt to the climate characteristics of "hot spring in summer, hot summer, cool autumn and cold winter". The correct selection of raw materials for medicinal diet is the premise of giving full play to the curative effect of seasonal medicinal supplements.
As a raw material of meat, duck meat is suitable for summer consumption, while venison is suitable for winter consumption. "Daily Materia Medica" says that duck meat can "nourish the yin of the five internal organs, clear away the heat of fatigue, replenish blood and water, nourish the stomach and produce fluid". "Compendium of Materia Medica" has a medicated diet called "Duck with Cordyceps sinensis"; In the Collection of 2006 China Medicinal Diet Food Culture Festival published by China Medicinal Diet Research Association, duck gizzards such as "Green Duck Soup" and "Whole Duck with Ginseng and Jujube" are clearly written into summer medicinal diet recipes. Contrary to "feeding ducks in summer", medicinal diet experts wrote
It is pointed out that venison and mutton with warm and sweet taste should not be eaten in summer. Take "Danggui Ginger Mutton" as an example. Eating a lot of this "hot dish" in summer will cause excessive yang and physical discomfort. There are ginseng, pilose antler and other medicinal food raw materials, which should not be eaten in summer, so as not to violate the principle of catering according to the time and "add fuel to the fire".
Individualization is reflected in catering to different people.
In the view of Chinese medicine, medicated diet is to regulate the eating behavior of yin and yang in order to achieve the "balance of yin and yang" of the human body. Since ancient times, the medical and nutritional circles in China have advocated "dietotherapy, and if the dietotherapy is not cured, you will be treated again." Medicinal diet is a special diet between "medicine" and "food", which needs to be personalized for different people.
Open different versions of medicated diet books. In the list of recipes, it is common to mark "appropriate" and "inappropriate" for different people, different ages and different diseases. For example, gastrodia elata fish head has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney and calming liver wind, but it is not suitable for people with low blood pressure; Amomum villosum porridge has the effect of warming spleen and stomach and dredging stagnant qi, but it is not suitable for people with excess blood stasis and stomachache. Purslane Ejiao decoction has the effects of cooling blood and detoxicating, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, nourishing yin and enriching blood, but it is not suitable for people with deficiency cold. Fried dog meat with Lycium barbarum has the effects of warming spleen and stomach and nourishing liver and kidney, but it is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and fire. These dishes show that the constitution of excessive yang heat should be treated with cool medicinal diet; For the constitution with excessive yin-cold, it is advisable to use warm and tonic medicinal diet. Children should adopt medicated diet to promote growth, intelligence and strength; The elderly should adopt anti-aging medicated diet; Women should also choose the corresponding medicated diet according to their pregnancy and childbirth.
However, some people mistakenly think that with drugs and food, they can make medicated diets at will. In fact, medicated diet is not a simple combination of medicine and food, but a dietotherapy method under the guidance of TCM dietotherapy and health preservation theory: the nature of taking medicine, the taste of eating, the nature of borrowing food, and the use of medicine to help food complement each other.
Medicinal diet in summer is not only different from medicine, but also different from ordinary food. Color, fragrance, taste and shape are both helpful for different people to relieve summer heat and detoxify, prevent diseases and strengthen the body.
Pay attention to the different ways of eating.
A medicated diet restaurant in Taiwan Province Province airlifted five sets of medicated diet recipes and herbs from Beijing, which was very satisfactory. That's because the formula of medicated diet is "tailor-made" according to the subtropical geographical environment of Taiwan Province Province; The medicinal materials transported by air are also "what they want".
China is a vast country. Due to the different climatic conditions and living habits in different regions, people's physiological activities and pathological characteristics are also different. Therefore, medicated diet should also vary from place to place, and pay attention to the differences. According to the research of Chinese Medicinal Diet Research Association, warm tonic medicinal diet should be adopted in the northwest alpine region, and cold tonic medicinal diet should be adopted in the southeast humid region. Since there is yin cold, the dosage of warming tonic in the north is heavier than that in the south.
From the south to the north, you can hear similar voices: "There are 48 kinds of Chinese medicines in our medicated diet hot pot", "There are precious medicinal materials in our medicated diet food" and "As long as you call a restaurant, you dare to cook medicated diet". These are all discordant voices that hinder the healthy development of medicated diet. The more medicinal materials in the medicated diet, the better. As the saying goes, "it's a three-point poison." Medicinal herbs in medicated diet need to be processed before use to remove or weaken their harmful components to the body. For example, Pinellia ternata is irritating to the throat and needs to be soaked in alum water before eating. In 2002, the Ministry of Health announced 87 items that are both food and medicine.
The preparation of medicated diet should prevent blindness and randomness. Operators of medicated diet should strictly follow the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine and treat according to syndrome differentiation under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine. Family medicated diet formula should have scientific basis, or consult Chinese medicine. In a word, we can neither mystify nor vulgarize the medicated diet.