University of Chinese medicine professor teaches you how to turn snacks into medicine

19-01-24 life times mobile

Gelatin three cakes, FuLingBing, turtle cream, mint, herbal tea, plum juice, a lot of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) snacks have been popular with people, think how much will be some health role. Li xiaojun, a professor at Beijing university of Chinese medicine, and sui jing, director of the department of traditional Chinese medicine at the first affiliated hospital of tsinghua university, warned that the snacks themselves also bear the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine and should be eaten selectively according to their physical conditions and environment.

Ejiao cake. E-jiao, together with ginseng and deer antler, is the "three treasures of traditional Chinese medicine". There are many health food made of e-jiao in the market, such as e-jiao cake and e-jiao jujube. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that e-jiao has a pleasant taste and can nourish Yin and dryness, and has good nourishing effect on diseases and syndromes such as blood deficiency, sallow complexion, vertigo, palpitation, restlessness and cough with dry lung. But e jiao belongs to be bored with food, should distinguish before eating constitution, such as defecate not formed spleen deficiency patients, mouth bitter hot and humid people, high blood viscosity, menstrual women, cold fever should not take. Additional, eat e jiao to still have a few exquisite. Winter is the best season for replenishment in the four seasons of the year, so it is best to take e-jiao after the winter solstice. Eat 3-5 e-jiao cakes or e-jiao jujube every day. During taking food to light, try to avoid eating cold, greasy, spicy and not easy to digest food.

FuLingBing. FuLingBing is mainly composed of poria cocos powder, rice flour, sugar, etc and its health benefits derived from traditional medicines are used such as water and moisture penetration, poria cocos. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, tuckahoe taste is sweet, weak, the gender is even, enter heart, lienal, kidney classics, have jianpi and medium, the effect that ning xin anshen. Usually eat in moderation FuLingBing can enhance appetite, digestion, adverse to the limb edema, urine caused by kidney also has the effect of diet, but not excessive edible. In addition, FuLingBing contains honey, sugar, etc., partial high blood sugar should try to eat less or don't eat.

Turtle three creams. Turtle ling paste has qingrejiedu, ziyin tonifying kidney, runchangtongbian efficacy, as early as the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the qing dynasty, the royal nobles love eating turtle ling paste health. Nowadays, the formula of guiling ointment is more scientific and popular. Nevertheless, chelonian ling ointment has clear heat to discharge poison effect, slant cold cool, the person with cold and weak stomach suggests to eat less. Additional, the glans in gu ling ointment has excited uterus, the effect that invigorates blood changes yu, so pregnant woman had better not eat.

Mint. Mint (scientific name "yindan grass") is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in clinical practice. The peppermint candy that everybody often eats contains extract of a few mint, have the effect that diverges wind heat, qing li guttural, cool and refreshing mouthfeel makes a lot of the person with uncomfortable throat like to contain on one. But peppermint medicine cold, cold spleen and stomach deficiency, diarrhea and dyspepsia people should not take.

Herbal tea. Modern taste is heavy, hot pot, barbecue, spicy pot and other food may let people get angry, a lot of people's relief is to drink herbal tea, some people even often take it as a drink. Herbal tea is made by boiling chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, licorice and other traditional Chinese medicine with sugar, can qingrejiedu, qingfei runzao, heat, loose knot, detumescence, from this point of view, herbal tea can be regarded as an effective health drinks. Although cool tea is good, but absolutely cannot drink in large quantities. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, herbal tea flavor as its name, Yang deficiency, cold syndrome physique (performance of fear of cold, cold limbs, pale) should not be drunk. Children and the elderly should also drink less, children's spleen and stomach function is not perfect, can not adjust and adapt to cold stimulation, easy abdominal pain, diarrhea; Old people often drink herbal tea, Yang easily damaged, or lead to digestive diseases.

Plum juice. Sour plum soup is made of dark plum, hawthorn and licorice. But the plum soup on the market contains a lot of sugar, and is usually cold, so it is not recommended for diabetics, poor function of the spleen and stomach, often heartburn and heavy humidity.