Traditional food and health points for Xiaoman Festival weather

The Xiaoman Season signifies the entry of the rainy season of significant precipitation, when rainfall begins to increase, often with sustained and widespread heavy precipitation. Xiaoman is a festival that directly reflects precipitation, just like rain, grain rain, light snow and heavy snow. Here is my compilation of traditional food and health points for Xiaoman festival, I hope it can help you.

What traditional food to eat in Xiaoman

1. Eat wild vegetables

Eating wild vegetables is the custom of Xiaoman. Bitter cabbage is one of the earliest wild vegetables consumed by Chinese people. When the wind blows in spring, bitter vegetables grow, and the wild land is a granary. The Book of Zhou: the day of the small full of bitter vegetables show. The Book of Changes: Bitter Vegetable Showing on the Day of Little Fullness. Compendium of Materia Medica: (bitter bitter vegetable) long service, peace of mind and benefit gas, light body, old age resistance. Medical use of bitter bitter vegetable to treat fever, the ancients also used it to sober up. Bitter bitter vegetable all over the country, medically called it sepsis grass. Bitter bitter cabbage, bitter with astringent, astringent with sweet, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender fragrance, rich in nutrition, containing a variety of vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol, etc., which the body needs, has the function of clearing the heat, cooling the blood and detoxification.

2. wheat cake

Since ancient times, legend has it that Xiaoman is the birthday of the god of silkworms, because the south of more silkworms, Xiaoman is the hatching of young silkworms, mulberry leaf growth of an important time node, and therefore the "sacrifice to the god of silkworms," is relatively more important. At this time, people will be rice flour or flour as raw materials, made in the shape of the cocoon of wheat cake wheat cake to enjoy together, in the hope that the cocoon can be a good harvest.

3. Bitter melon

Bitter melon for the summer edible good, nutritious, mainly containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and other nutrients. Uncooked young fruit for vegetables, mature fruit flesh can be eaten raw, both cold, and can be fried meat, fish, crisp and refreshing, unique flavor. Bitter melon has the role of increasing appetite, digestion, in addition to heat, fatigue, clear mind and eyesight, benefit qi and Yang and so on. In addition to the bitter taste of quinine, bitter melon also contains protein. Studies have found that protein stimulates immune cells and has an anti-cancer effect.

4. Lycium barbarum seedling

Lycium barbarum seedling is also called the tip of the wolfberry. Chinese medicine believes that the whole plant of wolfberry seedling is cool in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the effect of clearing away heat and nourishing yin and brightening the eyes. It is suitable for the treatment of yin deficiency and fever, thirst and dry mouth, heat in the hands and feet, as well as deficiency of the liver and kidney, dryness of the eyes, false fire and toothache and other diseases.

5. Dandelion

Dandelion, also known as Borneo, yellow flowers, etc., for the dandelion root of the plant Asteraceae, the whole grass, the country has a distribution. Dandelion is a nutritious vegetable, mainly containing protein, fat, carotene, riboflavin and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. According to traditional Chinese medicine, dandelion is sweet, bitter, cold, and enters the liver and stomach meridian, with the role of clearing heat, detoxification, antidiarrheal, choleretic, hepatoprotective, stomachic, and lowering blood pressure.

Small full season health points

1, diet: remove heat, light vegetarian

Small full season, the focus of health is to "prevent heat and humidity". Chinese medicine believes that "summer is more wet", that is to say, the summer heat is most likely to invade the human body with the evil of humidity.

To prevent heat and dampness, in the diet should be refreshing, light vegetarian diet, often eat foods that have the effect of removing heat and dampness, such as winter melon, bitter gourd, melon, lotus root, tomatoes, watermelon, pears and other fruits and vegetables, which have the effect of heat and fire, but also to supplement the body's vitamins, proteins and so on.

In addition, it is also necessary to drink more water to warm boiled water is good, can promote the metabolism and the discharge of internal heat. In addition, the "Neijing" also believes that "all wet swelling, all belong to the spleen". Therefore, in order to get rid of dampness, it is recommended that the public usually also eat more food that can remove dampness and strengthen the function of the spleen and stomach, such as yam, corn, water chestnuts, coix seed and so on.

2, dress: loose, don't show umbilicus

After the small full, the temperature is gradually rising, at this time the dress should be loose and comfortable, not only easy to move around, but also ventilated, cool, conducive to heat dissipation. Generally speaking, the smaller the area of clothing covering the body, the faster the body temperature is dissipated, but in the hot summer, do not mistakenly think that the more exposed to wear the cooler it will be.

Because only when the outside air temperature is lower than the skin temperature, exposure will be cool. When the outside air temperature is higher than the skin temperature, the exposure area should not exceed 25% of the total surface area of the human body, otherwise heat radiation will invade the skin, but more hot.

In the hot summer, wearing short fir, short skirts and shorts is a good choice. In addition, the opening part of the summer clothes should not be too thin, it is best to open some, in order to facilitate ventilation and heat dissipation. It should be reminded that women who love to wear navel dresses, halter dresses, in and out of air-conditioned places, should avoid the abdomen and shoulder cold, so as not to cause gastrointestinal disorders and frozen shoulder, neck and shoulder syndrome and other disorders.

3, sleep: to ensure sleep, pay attention to warmth

After the small full of the temperature rises significantly, the amount of rain increased, but the morning and evening will still be cooler, the temperature difference between the day is still large, especially after the rainfall temperature drop is more pronounced, so pay attention to the timely addition of clothing, especially at night when you go to bed, pay attention to warmth, to avoid catching a cold and suffering from a cold. At the same time should also comply with the law of the summer yang消阴长, get up early and go to bed late, but to ensure that the sleep time, to maintain energetic.

At this time, the sunshine is getting longer, you can get up earlier and go to bed later. In order to ensure that the sleep time, to maintain energetic, you can take the method of segmented sleep, in the midday as well as a nap after dinner, midday sleep to half an hour to an hour better, time should not be too long, if you sleep after dinner, it is better to 15 minutes to half an hour.

Some people at noon will lie on the desk or desk morning nap, in fact, this is not conducive to the elimination of fatigue. Because the human body is in a state of sleep, the whole body muscle relaxation, blood circulation slows down, the head blood supply is reduced. If the sitting position, the person wakes up, will feel dizziness, tinnitus, leg weakness, blurred vision, pallor and other symptoms of cerebral ischemia, hypoxia. In addition, resting on the table, so that the eyeballs are pressurized, eye pressure increases, easy to induce eye disease.

4, bathing: diligent bathing, cautious of cold showers

At this time the temperature rises, the human body is easy to sweat, the public should be diligent in bathing, but the water temperature should not be too high, because it will make the skin stimulation, protective sebum is washed away, the skin is more dry, easy to damage.

Bath water temperature to about 35 degrees Celsius, and body temperature close to the best. Be sure to dry off after the bath, and it's best to apply talcum powder after drying off.

After the small full, because the weather is getting hot, many people like to take a cold shower. Although the cold shower is good, but not everyone is suitable, such as weak or suffering from high blood pressure, arthritis, should not take a cold shower, so as not to cause harm to the body.

Small full of dietary principles

Small full of eating bitter vegetables

China's ancient small full of divided into three waiting: "one waiting for the bitter vegetables show; two waiting for the death of the grass; three waiting for the arrival of the wheat autumn." The book of Zhou", that is, "the day of the small full of bitter vegetables show" said. Nutrition experts say, bitter vegetables contain protein, fat, carbohydrates and a variety of inorganic salts, vitamins and other nutrients, can clear heat, cool blood, detoxification, boils, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, constipation, colds and other good prevention and treatment.

Small full see "three fresh"

Cucumber, garlic table, cherry

Chinese medicine believes that: cherry temperature, taste sweet and slightly acidic; into the spleen, liver meridian, has a tonic in the gas, spleen and stomach, wind and dampness, whitening the skin, wrinkles and spot effects." Nutrition Society, deputy director of the Nutrition Division, experts focus on "tasting" cherries. Cherry can be nutritious skin, improve immunity, prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer prevention and anti-cancer; its rich in carotene, help maintain normal visual function, promote children's growth and development, maintain the integrity of the epithelial cells and prevent respiratory tract infections and diarrhea.

Mulberry seasonal eating mulberry

Eating mulberry, can be nutritious skin, delay aging, eyesight, relieve eye fatigue and dryness; improve cataracts and diabetic blindness visual function; can improve immunity, protection of cardiovascular function, prevention of atherosclerosis. Apply to anemia, self-sweating and night sweating, premature whitening of hair, eyesight, spermatorrhea ......

Do not eat ginger easy to hurt the yin

Small full of season, due to the characteristics of the heat and humidity is more obvious, therefore, all the impact of the yin and Jin, to help the fire and heat of the food should not be eaten more. For example, ginger is warm and dry, easy to hurt the yin, so should not eat more. For the body has real heat, or suffering from hemorrhoids, hypertension, patients must avoid eating; pomegranate is easy to help fire phlegm, should not be eaten, suffering from constipation, urethritis, diabetes patients should not eat.