Eat more of it in dog days, insist on eating 3 tablets a day, promote digestion and increase appetite, and pass the bitter summer smoothly
In the dog days, people will obviously feel that the weather is getting hotter and humid, and even if they don’t go out, they will give people a feeling of taking a sauna, so at this time, most people will choose to blow air conditioners and eat cold drinks to relieve the heat. As everyone knows, this year's dog days are 40 days long. If this is the case every day, the cold and dampness will invade our body in large quantities and seriously affect our health.
There is an old saying: "No stove in winter, no fan in summer". The general meaning is to not get too close to the heater in winter, otherwise the yang will be disturbed. In summer, don't fan the fan all the time, you should let your body sweat naturally. People should adapt to the weather, accept the stimulation of cold in winter, and accept the test of heat in summer, so that the body sweats more. This is the performance of adapting to the solar terms.
Although the summer is hot, it is a good time to take care of the body. The so-called "treatment of winter diseases in summer" naturally has its rationale. Especially in dog days, as the human body sweats a lot, the yang qi and heat in the body diffuse outward, which makes people listless and loses appetite. Therefore, it is necessary to eat some warming and nourishing ingredients. , such as ginger.
As the saying goes: "Eat radish in winter, eat ginger in summer, don't bother the doctor to prescribe medicine". Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effect of expelling cold, helping yang, sterilizing and anti-inflammatory. In summer, people like to eat cold food and blow air conditioners, which will also lead to deficiency of the spleen and stomach, and cold in the internal organs. At this time, eating some ginger to absorb the gingerol in it can better stimulate the secretion of saliva, achieve a good effect on promoting gastrointestinal digestion, and can also prevent summer heat.
Ginger is essential as a condiment for daily cooking, but if you want to eat it directly, many people keep it away, because it is too spicy, so many other practices about ginger have been derived, such as the well-known "Ginger bumping into milk" , "Ginger Jujube Paste", "Vinegar Pickled Ginger" and so on. But among the many methods, I prefer the "sugar ginger slices" boiled with sugar, which can not only remove its spicy taste to the greatest extent, but also increase its sweetness, especially suitable for people who are afraid of cold stomach, eat it in summer optimal.
Prepared ingredients: 500 grams of ginger, 400 grams of white sugar, 10 red dates
specific methods
(1) 500 grams of ginger, peeled and washed, cut into slices of about 2 mm, and washed in water.
Tips: Tips for choosing ginger. Generally, normal ginger looks ugly, and some even have a lot of soil, and the color is dark and dry. Remember not to choose the kind of light yellow with a smooth surface and a very pleasant color, it may be the ginger that has been smoked with sulfur!
(2) Originally, I thought that washing the ginger slices a few times would remove the pungent taste of the ginger slices, but it still didn’t work, so I decided to boil it in boiling water for 10 minutes. Wait for the water in the pot to boil, then pour in the ginger slices, cook until the ginger slices become soft and the color of the water turns yellow, then remove.
(3) Prepare a frying pan, pour in ginger slices and 400 grams of white sugar, then add 10 red dates, pour in the water that has not covered the ginger slices, and bring to a boil over high heat. (The sweetness of the sugar ginger is slowly boiled into the ginger, masking its own spiciness without taking away its unique aroma).
(4) When the water dries up, the sugar liquid becomes more and more viscous and there are many bubbles, continue to cook until the sugar liquid turns into caramel color.
(5) Then take out the red dates, turn off the heat and quickly stir until the sand is reversed, then dry and eat. Red dates are also edible!
The ancients said: "Eating ginger in the morning is better than eating ginseng soup; eating ginger in the evening is equivalent to eating arsenic." So I suggest friends that although ginger is good, don't be greedy! It is enough to take two or three tablets at a time in the morning and at noon. The gingerol contained in ginger will stimulate intestinal peristalsis and enhance the function of the spleen and stomach during the day. At night, it may become a major problem that affects sleep and hurts the intestines.