Facing endless homework and extra classes, do you feel like your brain is not enough? It is important to regulate your diet when you use your brain too much. In addition to providing the calories needed for the brain, students' dietary nutrition should also pay special attention to adequate supply of nutrients. Therefore, it is very important for teenagers to have a healthy and brain-boosting diet. Traditional Chinese medicine recommends three types of medicinal diets for students, which can make you smarter.
Students' Brain-Boosting Medicinal Diets in Traditional Chinese Medicine
1. Fish Head Soup with Gastrodia Elata
Ingredients: 1 carp fish head, 15g of Gastrodia Elata, mushrooms, shrimp, and diced chicken as needed.
Instructions:
1. Clean the carp fish head and set aside;
2. Heat oil in a pot and pan-fry the carp fish head until both sides are golden brown;
3. Add mushrooms, shrimp, and diced chicken and stir-fry briefly;
4. Add Gastrodia Elata slices, water, and seasoning, and simmer over medium heat for about 20 minutes.
Effects:
1. Gastrodia Elata: enhances brain function, replenishes energy, strengthens muscles and bones, and improves blood circulation;
2. Carp fish: prevents cardiovascular diseases, promotes brain development, and improves skin quality;
3. Shrimp: boosts immune system, relieves neurasthenia, and provides necessary nutrients;
4. Mushrooms: anti-cancer, aids digestion, and anti-aging;
5. Fish Head Soup with Gastrodia Elata: improves brain function, relieves dizziness, headaches, mental stress, insomnia, poor concentration, and memory decline.
2. Peanut, Walnut, and Sesame Porridge
Ingredients: 10g black sesame, 20g peanuts, 20g walnuts, 70g rice, and 4g sugar.
Instructions:
1. Soak and wash the rice, wash the red dates, remove the pits, and cut into small pieces;
2. Boil the rice and peanuts with water;
3. Add red dates and walnuts, and simmer until the porridge thickens. Stir in sugar.
Effects:
1. Peanuts: nourishes blood, promotes lactation, enhances development, improves memory, and has anti-aging effects;
2. Walnuts: nourishes liver and kidneys, strengthens muscles and bones, enhances brain function, and boosts immune system;
3. Black sesame: nourishes kidneys and liver, nourishes hair, moistens intestines, nourishes liver, strengthens the body, and has anti-aging effects;
4. Peanut, Walnut, and Sesame Porridge: nourishes the spleen and stomach, strengthens the body, enhances brain function, nourishes the liver and kidneys, anti-aging, and improves skin quality.
3. Shanyao Eel Soup
Ingredients: 1 eel, 25g Chinese yam, and 5g goji berries.
Seasoning: 5g salt, 2g scallion, and 2 slices of ginger.
Instructions:
1. Clean the eel and cut it into sections, blanch it in boiling water;
2. Peel and clean the Chinese yam, cut it into slices; wash the goji berries;
3. Heat a pot, add salt, scallion, and ginger;
4. Add eel, Chinese yam, and goji berries, and cook until done.
Effects:
1. Chinese yam: tonifies liver and kidneys, nourishes yin and clears heat, strengthens spleen and stops diarrhea, delays aging, prevents and treats osteoporosis, and replenishes blood;
2. Eel: nourishes blood, nourishes qi, reduces inflammation, disinfects, and relieves rheumatism;
3. Shanyao Eel Soup: strengthens spleen, dispels dampness, strengthens kidneys, replenishes qi and blood, dispels wind, invigorates collaterals, protects eyes, enhances brain function.
