Keep healthy from the winter solstice, when is the solar term from the winter solstice, and what to eat in the winter solstice season?

The winter solstice begins when the sun reaches 270 degrees of the yellow meridian, which is about 65438+February 22 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat and mutton on the winter solstice, and in the south, they also like to bring mutton to hot pot on the winter solstice. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the function of strengthening yang and tonifying deficiency.

Mutton is sweet and warm, and has the function of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. It has always been a good aphrodisiac and one of the important foods for tonic in winter.

Mutton has higher calories than beef, and its iron content is six times that of pork, which has a significant effect on hematopoiesis. Eating mutton often in winter can replenish qi and deficiency, enrich blood and help yang, promote blood circulation and enhance the ability to keep out the cold.

Hot eight-treasure porridge is very suitable for a warm diet in winter. Chinese medicine believes that eating porridge can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and it has a certain effect of nourishing yin, just against the characteristics of dryness in winter.

In order to keep out the cold, you can choose warm or mild foods that can strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as coix seed, jujube, walnut, peanut, chicken, mutton, glutinous rice, longan, yam, tremella and so on.