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What's delicious about cold dew?

Diet and health care should be based on the balance of five flavors. According to the individual's specific situation, eating more sweet and moist food can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also moisten the lungs and intestines to prevent dry throat.

Fruits include pears, persimmons and bananas. Vegetables include carrots, wax gourd, lotus root, tremella and beans, fungi, kelp and seaweed.

Eat warm food for breakfast, and it is best to drink hot medicinal porridge, because both japonica rice and glutinous rice have good functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach and invigorating the middle qi, such as sugarcane porridge, Yuzhu porridge, Adenophora adenophora porridge, raw porridge, Yuzhu porridge and so on. Middle-aged and elderly people and patients with chronic diseases should eat more red dates, lotus seeds, yams, ducks, fish, meat and other foods.

Since the "cold dew" season, there has been less and less rain, dry weather, hot days and cool nights. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the biggest feature of the southern climate is the "dry" season, which is the most likely to hurt the lungs and stomach. During this period, people's sweat evaporates quickly, so there are often dry skin, increased wrinkles, dry mouth and throat, dry cough and less phlegm, and even hair loss and constipation. Therefore, the focus of health care is to nourish yin and prevent dryness, moisten the lungs and benefit the stomach. At the same time, we should avoid the loss of essence and body fluid caused by strenuous exercise and overwork. In the diet, we should also eat less spicy, spicy, dry, smoked, roasted and other foods, and should eat more foods such as sesame, walnut, tremella, radish, tomato, lotus root, milk, lily, and adenophora with the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production. At the same time, keep a certain humidity indoors, pay attention to replenish water, and eat more fruits such as Sydney, bananas, cantaloupes, apples, persimmons and raisins. In addition, you should also pay attention to applying skin cream to protect the skin and prevent chapping.

In this solar term, health-preserving soup should mainly moisten lung, promote fluid production, strengthen spleen and benefit stomach, such as palm melon stew (month+exhibition), carrot and fig raw fish, Radix Pseudostellariae, Ophiopogon japonicus and Sydney stew, Chinese cabbage and jujube stew sheep lung, glutinous rice stew, millet stew beef (month+exhibition), coconut medlar stew chicken and abalone soup, etc.

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