Chapter 138 Medicine and food come from the same source, so we need food supplements!
The so-called medicated diet is to add some ingredients with medicinal properties during the cooking process of food, so that the two complement each other and create delicacies with high nutritional value.
If you want to divide it in detail, there are various types.
It can be said that any food that people eat in daily life has medicinal preparation methods.
It is nothing more than the difference between visible medicinal materials and invisible medicinal materials.
The more common ones are chicken soup with five-finger peach stew, which can strengthen the spleen and remove dampness; stewed pork bones with Huaishan tonify the spleen and lungs; and red bean and dace fish soup, which can diuresis and reduce swelling.
Soup is the medicinal food most commonly seen by Lingnan people, and most of the time it is used to remove dampness.
Eliminating dampness is really the lifelong enemy of Lingnan people!
Because of its geographical location, abundant rainfall and year-round heat, Lingnan has a unique hot and humid environment. People here have more or less physical problems and need to strengthen the spleen and stomach, clear away heat and detoxify from time to time.
Over time, a soup and food supplement culture with local characteristics was formed.
That’s why there is a saying that “the most fearful thing is having to make soup every day”.
This is determined by the climate in Lingnan, so it may not be suitable for friends from other places. Some people don’t understand why people in Lingnan like to drink soup so much, which is normal.
As long as you stay here in Lingnan for a few years, you will understand.
If you don’t want to take medicine, drinking soup is the best choice.
In fact, diet therapy is also therapy, and medicine and food have the same origin.
Meng Shen, a famous medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, already pointed out in "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica" that in addition to paying great attention to the seasonal changes in dietary therapy, he also emphasized the regional nature of dietary therapy, the different eating habits of the south and the north, and the different effects of eating the same food. , made a detailed description.
Therefore, for Lingnan people, these soups are not just food, but detoxification medicine with medicinal properties.
"Is it too exaggerated?" Some people may not believe it.
In their lives, there have never been problems such as moisture and heat.
This is determined by the climate, water and soil. Only by truly experiencing it can we understand it and practice it to gain true knowledge.
Before seeing the Cantonese-style double ponytails, people would not believe that there could be such a big cockroach in the world that could fly and attack the face.
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How wet are Lingnan people?
Give an example.
When Chen Jingle was working in the provincial capital, he accompanied some friends from other provinces to the hospital for physical therapy.
Two of them are from Northeast China, one is from Shonan, and he is a local.
The projects I do are scraping and cupping.
Among the four people, Chen Jinngle is the most humiliated, followed by the one from southern Hunan, and finally the two eldest brothers from Northeast China.
My Northeast eldest brother had nothing to do after shaving, only some light red marks, and felt comfortable all over. A friend from Shonan has a little redness on his back because he often travels between places.
Only his entire back was black.
This is the physical difference caused by regional climate, water and soil.
It is said that because he screamed so loudly, it was almost like killing a pig, and he scared away two patients who were originally planning to undergo surgery.
Chen Jingle didn't like to drink soup, he preferred the high-purine diet.
Later I discovered that it was impossible not to drink.
Too much moisture can cause many problems such as thick and greasy tongue coating, bad breath, weak limbs, loss of appetite, fishy urine, loose stools, etc., seriously affecting work and life.
Unless you take Guipi Pills, Bazhen Decoction and other medicines regularly.
The problem is that the medicine is three-thirds poisonous. If you keep taking the medicine, what is the difference between high purine and high purine?
After all, drinking soup can satisfy your cravings.
Taking medicine every day makes me feel like I have some kind of chronic cancer that doesn't seem serious but is actually incurable.
unlucky!
On the contrary, if you take a cup of dampness-removing soup every three to five days, your energy and energy will be better the next day.
In this case, should I drink it or not drink it?
It seems to be a multiple-choice question, but in fact there is no choice.
No matter how others evaluate medicinal dietary supplements, as long as it can cure spleen deficiency and kidney deficiency, in the eyes of Chen Jingle’s friends, it is a good thing.
Moreover, Chen Jinngle does not need to be a pharmacology expert, or even take the postgraduate entrance examination.
He only needs to understand pharmacological knowledge in a simple way, learn the basic parts well, and be able to use it in cooking and making soup.
If you want to make a pot of medicinal soup and prepare a medicinal dish, it is very important to understand the basic pharmacological knowledge. At least you should not mistake the gallbladder grass as the five-fingered peach, chicken bloodvine and honeysuckle.
Otherwise people will die!
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Chen Jingle's interest in the pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine can be traced back to when he was a child and read a full-color "Compendium of Materia Medica" at his friend's house.
In that era when pirated copies were everywhere, a genuine and beautifully printed plant encyclopedia made his eyes light up.
Unfortunately, he had no medical talent, and he was not very literate at that time, so it was very difficult to read.
It’s quite enjoyable to look at the pictures. Because the Chinese herbal medicines described above can actually be found on many roadsides, but their names are different from those in Jiangbei.
It is true that from today's perspective, there are many errors in "Compendium of Materia Medica", but it still has certain learning reference significance.
How to learn the pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine specifically, just like other subjects before, follow the professional training program of pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine.
"There is a ready-made Avenue to Heaven, why not follow it?"
You need to read books such as Chinese medicine identification, clinical Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine pharmacology, and Chinese medicine processing.
You can't imitate some rubbish herbal tea shops and put Viagra in the tonic soup, right?
What he is interested in and wants to take is medicinal food, not pure medicine.
The pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine has developed to this day. Under the promotion of the state, major research breakthroughs have been made in serum pharmacology methodology, single drug pharmacology, effective parts, effective monomer pharmacology, and compound pharmacology.
The most common form is compound pharmacology.
For example, Guizhi Decoction, Liuwei Dihuang Decoction, Sijunzi Decoction, etc. have already researched the principles and optimal proportions of these traditional prescriptions, and Chen Jingle can definitely copy them.
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"Why study pharmacology?"
Chen Jingle didn't understand it at first, but it dawned on him later.
We know that this medicine can have this effect, and we also know what the main ingredient of this medicine is, but we are not sure whether it is really this ingredient that works on this disease. Or do you need other ingredients to play a catalytic role?
This is pharmacology.
Some capsules of Western medicine cannot be bitten directly in the mouth. They must be sent to the intestines to be dissolved in order to be better digested and absorbed and have their effects.
Another example is the common roasted sugar cane, which can clear away heat, moisten the lungs, relieve cough and reduce phlegm in winter. The main component of sugar cane is undoubtedly sucrose, followed by vitamin C, vitamin B2, etc. So can we eat these things directly? Would it have the same effect if eaten alone?
This reflects the necessity of the development of pharmacological research on traditional Chinese medicine.
The famous arsenic trioxide (arsenic) therapy for cancer treatment was invented by Professor Zhang Tingdong, an expert in hematology of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, after in-depth research on folk prescriptions and confirming the correctness of pharmacological treatment.
If you are just making medicated meals, you don’t need too in-depth pharmacological research, as long as you understand the compatibility of the seven emotions.
Knowing how to use drugs with similar effects together can enhance the effectiveness of the original drug. For example, ephedra combined with cinnamon twig can enhance the effect of sweating, relieving the surface, dispelling wind and cold.
We also know that a certain drug is the main drug and another drug is the auxiliary. If the two drugs are used together, the auxiliary drug can improve the efficacy of the main drug. For example, astragalus combined with poria, with astragalus as the main ingredient and poria as the supplement, can treat spleen deficiency and edema.
People often say that persimmons and milk cannot be eaten together, and they are also compatible.
The compatibility of the seven emotions is the characteristic and advantage of traditional Chinese medicine, which cannot be replaced by chemically synthesized medicines.
After learning these, Chen Jinngle can solve common problems such as moisture, obesity, poor breasts, kidney deficiency, internal heat, acne, etc. by making medicinal diets.
While ensuring that the food is delicious, it has the same medicinal value as prescription drugs. This is the charm of medicated diet!
For example, Guiling jelly.
What Chen Jinngle likes to cook the most is soup.
Most Lingnan people can cook some simple dehumidifying soups, and many housewives or husbands are proficient in various types of nutritious soups, so that they can truly make the same soup every week or even month.
If you really don’t understand, you can also go to a restaurant or a specialized stew shop to drink it.
If you can't trust the herbal stew shop on the roadside, you can check the traditional Chinese medicine hospital in your city to see if there is a herbal food shop. You can take your pulse first before ordering and prescribe the right medicine.
Chen Jinngle prepared a stew pot of medicinal soup for dinner to try.
I feel like I’ve been exercising too much lately and my nutrition is a bit behind me, so I need to take some supplements.
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"Codonopsis pilosula, astragalus root, angelica root, red dates."
Some of the medicinal materials he went to the drugstore to buy during his break, and he was going to make chicken soup.
These days, only old pharmacies can buy good quality medicinal materials and decoction pieces, and the market outside is really a mixed bag.
It’s true that there are four kinds of medicinal materials, but there are specific details about each medicinal material.
For example, the head of Angelica sinensis is good for stopping bleeding, and the tail of Angelica sinensis is good for activating blood circulation. They are both hot and dry, so they are not suitable for people in Lingnan area. Otherwise, making soup and drinking it will make you more angry.
Therefore, you should buy Dang Gui Shen, which replenishes blood.
Astragalus is the best type of astragalus, which has the effect of benefiting qi and raising yang. Stewing pork bones with Cistanche deserticola is also a good choice.
Chen Jingle was born with insufficient blood and blood. He had been weak since he was a child. Although he had improved through exercise, he was still not good enough compared to others.
At this time, you can take appropriate dietary supplements.
Use Codonopsis, Astragalus, Angelica and Red Dates to make chicken soup, which nourishes Qi and blood and is very suitable for people with Qi and blood deficiency.
"Take 20 grams of each sample and remove the pits from five red dates."
Wash the chicken, place it in the pot whole, cook it later, and cut it into pieces.
The next focus is how to stew the soup in a casserole and make it delicious.
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