What is better to eat on hazy days? What can you eat on hazy days to clear your lungs?
Smog is a relatively common weather nowadays. Smog actually does some harm to the body. For example, inhaling smog will affect the lungs, so we try to wear masks on hazy days. Go out, and if the haze days last for a long time, you can adjust your diet to clear your lungs. So, what is better to eat on hazy days? What can you eat on hazy days to clear your lungs?
1. Lung-cleansing foods
(1) Radish
Food introduction: Detoxifying food for the lungs.
Principle of clearing the lungs: The large intestine and the lungs have the closest relationship. The extent of the lungs expelling toxins depends on whether the large intestine is unobstructed. The function of radish is that it can help the large intestine excrete feces. It is a good choice to eat it raw or mixed into cold dishes. .
(2) Black fungus
Food introduction: Black fungus is rich in plant collagen and has strong adsorption.
Principle of Qingfei: Dust, impurities, garbage and other pollutants that enter the human body due to breathing can be absorbed and expelled from the body, thereby achieving the purpose of cleansing the stomach, nourishing the lungs and clearing the lungs; at the same time It also has dissolving and oxidizing effects.
(3) Mushrooms
Food introduction: Improve the anti-toxic ability of the lungs.
Principle of lung cleansing: In dry conditions, the lungs can easily accumulate toxins. Mushrooms are very good at nourishing the lungs and nourishing yin, which can help the lungs fight toxins.
(4)Sydney pear
Food introduction: Contains malic acid, citric acid, vitamins B1, B2.C, carotene and other trace elements.
Principle of clearing the lungs: White food enters the lungs, so white food has a protective effect on the lungs. Sydney pear has high water content and slightly cold nature. It can produce body fluid, moisturize dryness, clear away heat and reduce phlegm.
(5) Lotus root
Food introduction: Its roots, leaves, flowers and fruits can all be used as nourishing medicine.
Principle of lung-clearing: Ripe lotus root can replenish the heart and generate blood, strengthen the stomach and open the spleen, nourish and strengthen the body. Lotus root decoction can facilitate urination, clear away heat and moisturize the lungs.
2. Recipe for clearing the lungs
(1) Apple and Sichuan Scallop Chicken Soup
Ingredients: half a three-yellow chicken; 2 apples, 15 grams of longan meat, Sichuan Scallops 15 grams of mother; appropriate amount of ginger and water.
Method: Wash the three-yellow chicken and cut it into small pieces; blanch the chicken pieces in boiling water, rinse with water, and drain; add 6 bowls of water to the soup pot, and blanch the chicken pieces Put it in the pot; wash the apples, cut them into pieces, and remove the core; put the washed longan meat, Sichuan clams, apples, and ginger slices into the soup pot; bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 2 hours.
Efficacy: In an environment with serious air pollution in haze weather, eating more apples can protect the function of the respiratory system and lungs, and protect the respiratory system from damage by dust in the air; longan is sweet and Warm in nature; returns to the heart and spleen meridian; has the effects of appetizing, nourishing blood and spleen, tonifying the heart and calming the nerves, tonifying deficiency and increasing wisdom; Sichuan Fritillaria has a bitter, sweet and cool nature and taste, and enters the lung meridian. It has the effects of relieving cough and reducing phlegm, clearing away heat and dissipating stagnation, and moistening the lungs. However, if you have a cold cough, it is not suitable to take Chuanbei.
(2) Loquat and Tremella Soup
Ingredients: 150 grams of loquat, 10 grams of Tremella (dry); 150 grams of white sugar.
Method: First soak the white fungus in cold water, remove the roots and wash it, put it in a bowl with a small amount of water, and steam it for about 1 hour to make the white fungus sticky and mature. Peel the loquat skin, scoop out the seeds, and cut into nail slices. Add 500 grams of water to a clean pot and bring to a boil. Add the steamed white fungus first, bring to a boil, then add loquat slices and sugar, then put into a large soup bowl and serve.
Efficacy: Tremella in the soup is rich in colloid, which has the effect of clearing and moistening the lungs. Its rich fiber can also clear the intestines and clear stools. Loquat contains amygdalin, which can moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Expectorant and treat various coughs.
(3) Pumpkin and tomato soup
Ingredients: pumpkin, apple, carrot.
Method: Remove the pulp from the pumpkin, peel the apples, and cut the carrots into small pieces for later use. Add enough water to the pumpkin and carrots, bring to a boil over high heat, and after boiling, reduce to a simmer and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the apples and bring to a boil over high heat, add the cherry tomatoes, bring to a boil over high heat, and finally reduce to a simmer and simmer for 10 minutes.
Efficacy: Pumpkin contains vitamins and pectin. Pectin has good adsorption properties and can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals. Can play a detoxifying effect.
3. The best time to clear the lungs and moisturize the lungs
According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, winter diseases are treated in the summer. If the lungs are helped to remove garbage in time in the summer, and appropriate methods are adopted to nourish the lungs It will play a role in preventing lung disease in winter.
In addition, in each period of time in the human body, there will be corresponding organs that are in an active period. At this time, the corresponding organs perform work more efficiently than at other times and play a more significant role. The lungs of the human body are in their prime (active phase) between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. every morning, so choosing to clear and moisturize the lungs at this time will definitely be more effective than at other times.