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Chapter 138 Medicine and food have the same origin, so we need food supplements!

The so-called medicinal diet is to add some materials with medicinal value to the food during the cooking process, so that the two complement each other and produce food with higher nutritional value.

If we divide it into details, there are many types.

It can be said that any food that people eat in daily life has a medicinal cooking method.

It's nothing more than the difference between visible medicinal materials and invisible medicinal materials.

The more common ones include chicken soup with ginseng, which can strengthen the spleen and remove dampness; pork bones stewed with yam, which can nourish the spleen and lungs; and red bean and dace soup, which is a diuretic and reduces swelling.

Soups are the most common medicinal food for people in Lingnan, and most of the time they are used to remove dampness.

Dehumidification is really the lifelong enemy of Lingnan people!
Due to its geographical location, abundant rainfall and year-round hot weather, Lingnan has a unique hot and humid environment. The physical constitution of the people here has more or less some problems, and they need to strengthen their spleen and stomach, clear away heat and detoxify from time to time.

Over time, a soup and food supplement culture with local characteristics has been formed.

That’s why there is a saying “What I fear most is having to make delicious soup every day”.

This is determined by the climate of Lingnan and may not be suitable for friends from other places. It is normal that some people do not understand why people in Lingnan like to drink soup so much.

You will understand it if you spend a few years in Lingnan.

If you don’t want to take medicine, drinking soup is the best choice.

In fact, diet therapy is also a therapy, as medicine and food have the same origin.

Meng Shen, a famous Tang Dynasty medical scientist, pointed out in his "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" that in addition to paying great attention to seasonal changes in diet therapy, he also emphasized the regionality of diet therapy. He made detailed accounts of the different eating habits in the south and the north, and the different effects of eating the same food.

Therefore, for the people of Lingnan, these soups are not just food, but also detoxifying medicines with medicinal properties.

"Is it an exaggeration?" Some people may not believe it.

In their lives, there have never been problems such as dampness and heat.

This is determined by the climate and soil. Only by experiencing it firsthand can you understand it. Practice makes perfect.

Before seeing the Cantonese-style double ponytails, people didn't believe that there were such large cockroaches in the world that could fly and hit people in the face.

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How damp are people in Lingnan?

for example.

When Chen Jingle was working in the provincial capital, he accompanied a few friends from other provinces to the hospital for physical therapy.

Two of them are from Northeast China, one is from southern Hunan, and he is a local.

The treatments we do are scraping and cupping.

Among the four people, Chen Jingle had the heaviest dampness, followed by the one from Xiangnan, and finally the two big brothers from Northeast China.

The guy from Northeast China was fine after shaving, only some light red marks, and he felt comfortable all over. My friend from southern Hunan, because he travels back and forth between the two places frequently, his back is a little red after shaving.

Only his entire back was black.

This is the physical difference caused by regional climate, water and soil.

It is said that because his screams were so loud, almost like a pig being slaughtered, he scared away two patients who were originally planning to undergo cupping.

Chen Jingle didn't like drinking soup in the first place, he just believed in the high purine content.

Later I found out that I really couldn’t live without drinking.

Too much moisture can cause many problems such as thick tongue coating, bad breath, weakness in the limbs, loss of appetite, fishy urine, loose stools, etc., which will seriously affect work and life.

Unless you take Guipi Pills, Bazhen Soup and other medicines regularly.

The problem is that all medicines are toxic. What’s the difference between taking medicine all the time and having high purine levels?
Drinking soup can at least satisfy your appetite.

Taking medicine every day makes me feel like I have some kind of chronic cancer that seems not serious but is actually incurable.

unlucky!

On the contrary, if you drink a bowl of dehumidifying soup every few days, you will feel better the next day.

In this case, should I drink it or not?
It looks like a multiple-choice question, but in fact there is no choice.

No matter how others evaluate medicinal and dietary supplements, as long as it can cure spleen and kidney deficiency, it is a good thing in the eyes of Chen Jingle's friends.

Besides, Chen Jingle doesn’t need to become a pharmacology expert, and he doesn’t even need to take the postgraduate entrance examination.

He only needs to have a basic understanding of pharmacology and learn the basics so that he can use it in cooking and making soup.

If you want to make a good medicinal soup or a medicinal dish, it is very important to understand basic pharmacological knowledge. At least you cannot mistake the herb Gnaphalium for the ginseng, Cistanche deserticola, and Honeysuckle.

Otherwise people will die!

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Chen Jingle's interest in Chinese medicine pharmacology can be traced back to when he was a child at a friend's house and read a full-color copy of "Compendium of Materia Medica".

In that era when piracy was rampant, a beautifully printed authentic plant encyclopedia was a bright spot in his eyes.

Unfortunately, he had no talent for medicine, and he was not very literate at that time, so reading was very difficult for him.

Looking at the pictures is quite enjoyable. Because the Chinese herbal medicines described above can actually be found everywhere on the roadside, but they are called differently here in Jiangbei.

Admittedly, from today's perspective, "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains many errors, but it still has certain learning reference value.

How to learn Chinese medicine pharmacology is just like learning other subjects before, following the training program of Chinese medicine pharmacology major.

"There is a ready-made road to heaven, why not follow it?"

You need to read books like Chinese medicine identification, clinical Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine pharmacology, and Chinese medicine preparation.

You can't just follow the example of some crappy herbal tea shops and put Viagra in the tonic soup, right?

What he is interested in and wants to eat is medicated food, not pure medicine.

With the support of the government, the development of traditional Chinese medicine pharmacology has achieved major research breakthroughs in serum pharmacology methodology, single-herb pharmacology, effective parts and effective monomer pharmacology, compound pharmacology, etc.

The most common form is compound pharmacology.

For example, the principles and most appropriate proportions of traditional prescriptions such as Guizhi Decoction, Liuwei Dihuang Decoction, and Sijunzi Decoction have already been studied, so Chen Jingle can just copy them.

“Why study pharmacology?”

Chen Jingle didn’t understand at first, but later he suddenly understood.

We know that this drug can have this effect, and we also know what the main ingredient of this drug is, but we are not sure whether it is really this ingredient that works on this disease, or whether other ingredients are needed to act as a catalyst.

This is pharmacology.

Some capsule-type Western medicines cannot be bitten directly in the mouth and must be sent to the intestines to dissolve so that they can be better digested and absorbed and take effect.

Another example is the common roasted sugar cane, which can clear away heat, moisten the lungs, relieve cough and reduce phlegm in winter. The main component of sugar cane is undoubtedly sucrose, followed by vitamin C, vitamin B2, etc. So can we eat these things directly? Can they have the same effect if eaten alone?

All of this reflects the necessity of developing research on the pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine.

The famous arsenic trioxide (arsenic) cancer treatment was invented by Professor Zhang Tingdong, an expert in hematology combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine, after he conducted in-depth research based on folk remedies and confirmed the correctness of pharmacological treatment.

If you just want to make medicinal food, you don't need too in-depth pharmacological research, you just need to understand the seven emotions and their compatibility.

Knowing how to use drugs with similar effects together can enhance the efficacy of the original drugs. For example, ephedra combined with cinnamon twig can enhance the effects of sweating, dispelling wind and cold.

We also know that a certain drug is the main drug and another drug is the auxiliary drug. When the two drugs are used together, the auxiliary drug can improve the efficacy of the main drug. For example, astragalus and Poria cocos, astragalus as the main drug and Poria cocos as the auxiliary drug, can treat edema caused by spleen deficiency.

People often say that persimmons and milk cannot be eaten together, but this is also within the scope of compatibility.

The seven emotions compatibility is the characteristic and advantage of traditional Chinese medicine, which cannot be replaced by chemical synthetic drugs.

Once you learn these, Chen Jingle can solve common problems such as dampness, obesity, poor breast function, kidney deficiency, getting angry, acne, etc. by making medicated food.

While ensuring the food is delicious, it also has the same medicinal value as prescription medicines. This is the charm of medicated food!

For example, Guilinggao.

What Chen Jingle likes to cook most often is soup.

Most people in Lingnan can cook some simple dehumidifying soups, and many housewives or cooks are proficient in various types of nutritious soups, making them different every week or even month.

If you really don’t understand, you can also go to a restaurant or a special stew shop to drink it.

If you don't trust the herbal stew shops on the roadside, you can check whether the Chinese medicine hospital in your city has a herbal stew shop. You can take the patient's pulse before ordering and get the right medicine.

Chen Jingle prepared a pot of medicinal soup to try for dinner.

I feel like I've been exercising too much recently and my nutrition is not keeping up, so I need some supplements.

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“Dangshen, Beiqi, Danggui, and red dates.”

He bought some of the medicinal herbs at the pharmacy during his break and prepared to make chicken soup.

Nowadays, only old pharmacies can sell medicinal materials and herbal pieces of good quality, while the market outside is really a mixed bag.

It is true that there are four medicinal herbs, but there are specific requirements for each herb.

For example, angelica. The head of angelica is good at stopping bleeding, while the tail of angelica is good at promoting blood circulation. Both are relatively hot and dry, so they are not suitable for people in the Lingnan region. Otherwise, drinking the soup made from angelica will make you get more angry.

So you should buy angelica root, which can replenish blood.

Beiqi is the best type of Astragalus, which has the effect of invigorating Qi and raising Yang. Stewing pork bones with Cistanche deserticola is also a good choice.

Chen Jingle is the type of person who is born with insufficient Qi and blood. He has been weak since childhood. Although his condition has improved after exercise, it is still not good enough compared to others.

At this time, you can take appropriate dietary supplements.

Using Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, Angelica sinensis and red dates to make chicken soup can nourish qi and blood, which is very suitable for people suffering from both qi and blood deficiency.

"Take 20 grams of each and remove the pits from five red dates."

After washing the chicken, put it into the pot whole and cook it before cutting it.

The next key point is how to use a casserole to stew the soup to make it delicious.

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