Grain Rain solar terms food practice

As the saying goes: "After the Qingming Festival, it is Grain Rain, and the year's plan lies in spring." Grain Rain is the sixth solar term among the 24 solar terms and the last solar term in spring. Every year from April 19 to April 2 1 day, when the sun reaches 30 degrees, it is Grain Rain, which comes from the old saying "Grain Rain is full of valleys".

Before and after Grain Rain, you can often choose these foods to recuperate your body:

Stewed duck with cordyceps sinensis

(Cordyceps sinensis is the daughter of Cordyceps sinensis of ergot family and the warm corpse of its host, the green bat moth. It is sweet and flat, and enters the kidney meridian and lung meridian. Cordyceps sinensis can replenish yin and yang, enter the kidney and yang, enter the lung and replenish lung yin, stop bleeding and resolve phlegm. "Materia Medica from the Heart" says "Ganping, protecting lung and benefiting kidney, stopping bleeding and resolving phlegm, has caused cough". "Examination of Medicinal Properties" refers to "secret, thinness, health and longevity". Duck meat is sweet and cool, and it belongs to spleen, kidney and lung meridians. Materia Medica says, "Nourishing yin and eliminating steaming, eliminating deficiency and resolving phlegm". Braised duck with Cordyceps sinensis is a kind of delicious food suitable for all seasons, especially for people with lung and kidney deficiency.

Ingredients: Cordyceps sinensis 10, duck 1, ginger, salt and other seasonings.

Production: Slaughter the duck first, then put the Cordyceps sinensis into the duck's belly, add ginger and other seasonings, tie it tightly with thread, stew for about 1 hour, and easily pass through the duck with chopsticks.

Scope of application: tonifying kidney and lung, relieving cough and asthma, and strengthening body. It is suitable for the elderly with chronic cough, dyspnea, cough, hemoptysis, chronic bronchitis or lung qi deficiency.

Taboo: Ducks are cool, and those with spleen-stomach yang deficiency do not eat them.

Yam pork tripe porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of yam, 200 grams of pork belly and 200 grams of japonica rice.

Production: sliced yam and cooked japonica rice. After boiling, cut the pork belly into filaments or thin slices and put it in a pot to boil. After boiling, cook with slow fire until the pork belly is cooked and the rice is rotten.

Scope of application: invigorating spleen and qi, warming spleen and yang. It is suitable for anorexia, diarrhea, emaciation, fatigue, frequent urination, gastroptosis, stomach cold and pain.

Taboo: Do not eat dirty or fresh pork bellies. Avoid food poisoning and gastrointestinal infection.

Cabbage glutinous rice porridge

Ingredients: 500 grams of Chinese cabbage and 60 grams of coix seed.

Production: Cook the job's tears into porridge first, then add the cut and washed Chinese cabbage and cook for two or three times for a long time.

Scope of application: invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, suitable for patients with acute nephritis, edema and oliguria.