The Beginning of Winter solar term begins on November 7th. How to maintain health and health during the Beginning of Winter? What to drink when making soup with traditional Chinese medicine? Listen to the guidance of an old Chinese doctor.
Let’s first analyze the characteristics of Beginning of Winter. "People respond to the four seasons." We must accurately adjust our diet and daily life according to weather characteristics in order to better maintain health.
At the beginning of winter, the ancients had special meanings in naming the twenty-four solar terms. Let’s talk about the word Lidong first.
Li means establishment and beginning. Among the twenty-four solar terms, the beginning of the four seasons is called "Li". When development reaches its peak, it is called "reach".
"Li" and "Zhi" are the eight sections. All "sections" are difficult to pass, and the Qi changes are obvious. Many people are prone to disease or illness at this "section". Aggravated.
Looking at the word winter again, "Shuowen Jiezi" says: "Winter is the end." It means the end. "The grass on the original plain wilts and flourishes every year." Annual herbaceous plants, after growing in spring, growing in summer, and bearing fruit in autumn, have completed their mission and died in winter. It is its descendants that will grow green and sprout next year, not itself. Perennial herbaceous plants, on the other hand, have evolved a step further. By shedding leaves, converging, and hiding, they can withstand severe cold and frost, so that they can continue to thrive in the coming year. Some animals, such as insects, snakes, dogs, and bears conserve their energy through hibernation, while birds avoid the cold by migrating day by day.
What should people do? Human beings are the spirit of all things. They do not migrate or hibernate like animals. Instead, they artificially improve their living environment to achieve the purpose of keeping out the cold, keeping warm, and living healthily. In winter, we need to wear cotton-padded clothes, light a fire bed, and heat a heater. At the same time, we need to take a winter break and consciously reduce going out and activities.
Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine follows the natural principle of health care, which is to maintain health in winter.
The "Huangdi Neijing" emphasizes: "In the third month of winter, this is called closed storage, with water and ice on the ground, without disturbing the Yang." It should be "remove the cold and bring warmth, without any disturbance." This means that the weather in winter is cold, and everything is in a state of convergence and hiding. Therefore, the work and rest arrangement in winter should be to go to bed early and get up late, avoid the cold air, and wait for the sun to rise. Come out and do some activities when the sun comes in.
A simple but very important reminder is to consciously reduce going out in winter. Do not go out for morning exercise before dawn. It is better to wait until the sun is sufficient before exercising to achieve the goal of getting rid of the cold and keeping warm. Purpose.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the most important thing to pay attention to in winter is "winter cold".
Winter is the most suitable season of the year to take supplements, and it is also the time when cold evil is rampant. In winter, the focus is on warming the spleen and kidneys. Tonifying the kidneys and warming the body can help enhance the body's immunity and prevent the invasion of cold evil.
1. Eat more warm foods, such as ginger, green onions, etc. Regarding onion and ginger, I have talked about it separately before. If you are interested, go to my homepage to check it out.
2. Supplement iron. Increase foods with high iron content, such as lean meat, vegetables, egg yolks, animal liver, etc.
3. Avoid raw and cold food. Various ice drinks, fruits with cold nature, such as watermelon, pear, banana, kiwi, etc. (Nowadays, many fruits are not suitable for this solar term, and it is not impossible to eat them at all. It is just that they must be paired with hot foods according to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine. This is very particular)
4. Taboos Eat sour and astringent foods. Such as vinegar, pickled cabbage, pickles, as well as hawthorn, plum, lime, etc.
Don’t say more, just get to the practical stuff.
Can I just tell you what kind of soup you want to make?
Ingredients: 500 grams of mutton, 25 grams of angelica root, 1 section of ginger, 1 small amount of salt, 3 grams of chopped green onion, and 3 grams of red pepper cubes.
Method
1. Blanch the mutton, remove and rinse; wash the ginger, pat lightly and crack.
2. Wash the angelica root and cut into thin slices.
3. Put the mutton and ginger into the stew pot, add 6 bowls of water, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour; add angelica and continue to cook for 20 minutes, add chopped green onion and red pepper cubes. Add salt to taste.
Function:
Angelica can both activate and replenish blood, and can promote blood circulation. Mutton has the effect of warming and dispelling cold, increasing the body's defense ability, nourishing yang, promoting appetite, Replenish physical strength.
This product is suitable for people who are afraid of the cold, have cold abdominal pain, cold limbs, and soreness and weakness in the waist and knees.
Ingredients: 20 grams of wolfberry, 150 grams of mutton, 30 grams of chestnut, 10 grams each of Evodia and Guizhi, and 5 grams of salt.
Method:
1. Wash the mutton and cut into pieces; remove the chestnuts, wash and cut into pieces; wash the wolfberry and set aside.
2. Wash the Evodia and Cinnamomum twigs, decoct and set aside.
3. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add the mutton cubes, slabs, and wolfberry, bring to a boil over high heat, and set aside. Cook over low heat for 20 minutes, then pour in the concoction, continue to cook for 10 minutes, and add salt.
Function:
Mutton, Evodia, and Guizhi all have the effect of dispersing cold evil and warming the meridians;
Chestnut has the effect of nourishing kidney qi.
When used together, it has a good therapeutic effect on patients with liver insufficiency, cold in the lower abdomen, chills, cold pain in the waist and knees.