Why do you have to eat hard in the small full season?
Although Xiaoman symbolizes the arrival of a bumper harvest, it is only a time when the green and yellow are not connected. Therefore, in the past, many people had to satisfy their hunger with bitter vegetables. Bitter vegetables have become a unique dietary custom in Xiaoman solar terms. There are many ways to eat bitter vegetables. Stir-frying, cold salad, stir-frying meat, pickling, making soup and stuffing are the important reasons for the formation of this folk custom.
Since Xiaoman, summer crops such as barley and winter wheat have borne fruit, and the seeds are gradually full, but not yet mature, so it is called Xiaoman. But at this time, because the climate will start to blow some extremely dry and hot winds, it is also one of the dangerous moments for crops.
These high temperature and low humidity winds are not only harmful to crops, but also very easy to hurt yin and body fluids, leading to an increase in body heat, which is called "heat syndrome".
At this time, bitter vegetables everywhere are the best choice to deal with fever. Bitter vegetables have the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. The dry and hot wind that often appears in Xiaoman often causes people to have dry and hot symptoms. At this time, bitter vegetables are good for your health.
Nutrition experts say that bitter vegetables contain nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, various inorganic salts and vitamins, which can clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify, and have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on furuncle, hematemesis, nosebleeds, constipation and colds. Sterilization and anti-inflammation, it has certain curative effect on jaundice hepatitis, pharyngolaryngitis, bacillary dysentery, cold and fever, chronic tracheitis and tonsillitis. It can also prevent and treat diabetes, cervical cancer and rectal cancer.
People in Ningxia like to cook bitter vegetables, wash them and eat them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cool and spicy, and eat steamed bread and rice, which greatly increases their appetite. Pickling bitter vegetables in yellow rice soup is also useful. It tastes sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil bitter vegetables with boiling water, and squeeze out bitter juice to make soup, stuffing, stir-fry and cook noodles, each with its own flavor.
Be sure to blanch bitter vegetables with boiling water first, so as to remove oxalic acid and absorb calcium. Ordinary people, patients with obesity, diabetes, icteric hepatitis, influenza, dry stool and other diseases can eat, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold can fast.
After a short day, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. With the change of weather, we should adjust our daily life and diet in time, and eat some bitter food in moderation, which not only has the effect of clearing away heat and cooling blood, but also helps digestion.
In fact, the "family" of bitter food is huge, and vegetables include lettuce, bitter gourd, houttuynia cordata, bitter bamboo shoots, lettuce, kale and bitter chrysanthemum. And dried and fresh fruits that can be used as medicine and food, such as lotus plumule, mint leaves and bitter almond. But it should not be too bitter, so as not to harm the healthy qi in the human body and induce diseases.