Northern small year health recipe

"Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky" "twenty-three, sacrifice to the king of the stove", January 14, the twenty-third day of the lunar month, is the northern small year, which kicked off the Spring Festival and entered the countdown
to the New Year.
On this day, people generally carry out folk activities such as sweeping dust, sacrificing stoves, and cutting window flowers, while eating dumplings, sugar melons, hemp sugar, steamed sticky cakes, etc
.
The following will introduce several healthy recipes suitable for the northern small year for everyone to choose
.

Stove king sugar

Stove candy, also known as "Kanto sugar", is a sugar product made from malt and millet, and is eaten
before or after childhood.
The people generally used it to sacrifice the king of the stove, which means "good things are said by the heavens, and the lower realm is safe
.
" ”

Modern research shows that malt mainly contains α- and β-amylase, catalytic enzymes, maltomine and other active substances, as well as rich protein, amino acids, vitamin B, vitamin E, etc
.
"Rihuazi Materia Medica" records that "warmth, lower breath, appetizing, stop cholera, eliminate irritability, eliminate phlegm, break the crux, and can promote the birth of a fetus
.
" "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Wide, lower breath, stop vomiting, eliminate overnight food, stop swallowing acid and spitting acid, stop diarrhea, eliminate stomach and wide diaphragm, and cure women's milk is not collected, milk does not stop
.
" "It helps to dissipate qi and food, strengthen the spleen and appetize
.
"

Radish lamb soup

Preparation of ingredients

800 grams of mutton, 100 grams of white radish, ginger, spring onions, peppercorns, salt, cooking wine, pepper
.

Cooking practices

(1) Cut the lamb into small cubes, put it in boiling water and blanch for 2-3 minutes, and then wash off the foam
with clean water.

(2) Wash and cut the radish into pieces; Slice the ginger and cut the spring onions into pieces
.

(3) Put the blanched lamb into a pot, add enough water, add green onions and ginger, cooking wine, and simmer over medium heat for about
2 hours.

(4) Finally, add radish cubes, add ginger slices, a little fine salt and cook for another 10 minutes, sprinkle with green onion and add pepper
.
Eat meat and drink soup
.

Dish characteristics and suitable for people

This medicated diet helps to strengthen the spleen and stomach, drive away cold in warmth, and enhance physical fitness
.
Modern research shows that lamb is tender, rich in high-quality protein and fat, and rich in vitamin C and vitamin B1, B2 and other trace elements, as well as calcium, iron, potassium, iodine and other minerals, with high nutritional value and can enhance physical fitness
.
Lamb can also increase the secretion of digestive enzymes, help digestion and absorption, and protect the stomach
.
The "Famous Doctors" recorded: "(Mutton) is sweet, hot, and non-toxic
.
The Lord slows down.
.
.
Fatigue and cold, replenish qi, and stop panic
.
Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Mutton can warm up deficiency, replenish qi, appetize fitness, benefit kidney qi, nourish gallbladder and eyes, cure deficiency and cold, five labors and seven injuries
.
" Radish is cool, has the effect
of coughing and dissolving phlegm, rationalizing qi and stagnation, strengthening the stomach and eliminating food.
Radish contains a variety of trace elements that can induce the body's own production of interferon, which can enhance the
body's immunity.
This medicated diet has a good tonic effect
on people with cold cough, deficiency and asthma, kidney deficiency and impotence, cold pain in the abdomen, cold hands and feet, waist and knee soreness, etc.

Goji quail soup

Preparation of ingredients

1 quail, 15g goji berries, ginger, green onion, fine salt, monosodium glutamate, rice wine

Cooking practices

(1) After slaughtering the quail, take out the internal organs and wash them, put them in boiling water and blanch for 2 minutes
.

(2) Wash the ginger and green onion, slice the ginger, cut the green onion into sections, and soak the goji berries thoroughly and wash
.

(3) Add water to a boil in a pot, add rice wine, ginger slices, quail and boil, scoop up and set aside
.

(4) Put the above ingredients together in a clean saucepan, add water and simmer for 2 hours, add salt, MSG, sprinkle with green onions
.

Dish characteristics and suitable for people

This drug dietary therapy helps to replenish the liver and kidney, strengthen tendons and bones
.
Modern research shows that quail contains a variety of inorganic salts and lecithin, carotene, brain phospholipids and a variety of essential amino acids, and as a high-protein, low-fat, low-cholesterol food, it is especially suitable for the conditioning
of patients with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and hyperlipidemia.
Meng Xu, a famous medical scientist and dietary therapist of the Tang Dynasty, believed: "replenish the five internal organs, benefit and renew qi, strengthen muscles and bones, withstand cold and heat, and eliminate heat"
.
"Seeking the Origin of Materia Medica" records: "Replenish soil and renew qi, regulate lungs and water and moisture
.
" Treat abdominal as large as drums, diarrhea, and chancres
.
"Goji berries help nourish the yin and kidneys, nourish the liver and eyes
.
Modern research shows that goji polysaccharides in goji berries are a water-soluble polysaccharide, which is the most important active ingredient in goji berries, which has a good immunomodulatory effect and improves human immune function
.

Notes

According to the "Dietary Therapeutic Materia Medica": "Do not eat pork together, it will cause more sores
.
" "Materia Medica": "Pork food makes people angry with sunspots
.
" "Jiayou Materia Medica": "Do not eat it with fungi, it will make people hemorrhoidal
.
" Four friends were previously unedible
.
According to records, you should not eat pork and fungus food while eating quail meat, otherwise you are prone to hemorrhoids
.

About author:Song Tianli, health manager, member of Chronic Disease Management Branch of Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine, director of Preventive and Sub-health Branch of China Association for the Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, and director of Chronic Disease Management Special Committee of
World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies.

Preliminary review: Li Song Responsible editor: Zhang Jiazhen Review: Peng Zonglu