Traditional Chinese medicine believes that one's diet, living habits, and clothing should be adapted to the four seasons. The dietary therapy for different seasons varies greatly. Let's learn about the principles of Chinese medicine dietary therapy below.
【Principles of Chinese Medicine Dietary Therapy】
1. Balanced Diet
A balanced diet emphasizes diversification in food content and the reasonable combination of meat and vegetables, main and side dishes, and main meals and snacks.
2. Regular Eating Habits
Regular eating habits mean eating at fixed times, in fixed quantities, without being picky or selective. It mainly includes two aspects: the amount of food and the timing of meals.
3. Appropriate Quantity
Quantitative eating emphasizes moderation and avoiding overeating or excessive hunger, especially avoiding binge eating. Otherwise, it may disrupt the function of the digestive system and lead to the development of diseases.
Eating at relatively fixed times helps ensure rhythmic digestion and absorption activities. This allows food to be digested, absorbed, and utilized in an orderly manner.
4. Proper Combination
In the three meals of the day, it has always been advocated that "breakfast should be good, lunch should be filling, and dinner should be light." This statement has a certain scientific basis and is related to the physiological changes in the human body during day and night.
【Summer Health Dietary Therapy】
1. Snow Pear and Tremella Soup
Ingredients: 1 snow pear, 30g dried tremella, 5g Fritillaria, appropriate amount of white sugar.
Instructions: Remove the root and impurities from the dried tremella and tear it into small pieces. Peel and deseed the snow pear and cut it into multiple pieces. Place the tremella, snow pear, Fritillaria, and white sugar in a steaming dish and steam for 30-40 minutes. Remove from heat and serve.
Effects: This soup nourishes yin, clears the lungs, and reduces phlegm and internal heat.
2. Lotus Seed and Lily Porridge
Ingredients: 15g lotus seeds, 15g dried lilies, 1 egg, appropriate amount of white sugar.
Instructions: Remove the cores from the lotus seeds and place them in a clay pot together with the dried lilies. Add an appropriate amount of water and simmer over low heat until the lotus seeds are soft. Then add the egg and white sugar. Once the egg is cooked, it is ready to be consumed.
Effects: This porridge can nourish the spleen, stomach, and lungs, and calm the mind.
【Seasonal Health Dietary Therapy List】
January: Green vegetables, cabbage, spinach, celery, radish, oyster mushroom, etc.
February: Green vegetables, cabbage, spinach, celery, vegetable tips, etc.
March: Green vegetables, spinach, celery, vegetable tips, cauliflower, chives, etc.
April: Green vegetables, lettuce, chicken feather vegetable, celery
May: Green vegetables, cabbage, lettuce, chicken feather vegetable, cucumber, fava beans, lotus root, tomato, etc.
June: Cabbage, cucumber, tomato, potato, chicken feather vegetable, snap beans, eggplant, pumpkin, etc.
July: Cowpeas, eggplant, chicken feather vegetable, cabbage, winter melon, luffa, edamame, chili pepper, potato, green beans, cabbage, water spinach, etc.
August: Winter melon, cowpeas, eggplant, green vegetables, chicken feather vegetable, pumpkin, luffa, edamame, chili pepper, potato, green beans, cabbage, water spinach, etc.
September: Green vegetables, winter melon, radish, luffa, edamame, cowpeas, eggplant, chili pepper, taro, lotus root, cabbage, green beans, etc.
October: Green vegetables, cabbage, spinach, celery, radish, taro, lotus root, cauliflower, shepherd's purse, lettuce, wax gourd, etc.
November: Green vegetables, cabbage, spinach, celery, radish, lettuce, lettuce, shepherd's purse, grass head, lettuce, oyster mushroom, green garlic, etc.
December: Green vegetables, cabbage, spinach, celery, radish, kelp, shepherd's purse, oyster mushroom, cauliflower, etc!
