According to the current climate change characteristics, the ingredient recommended to everyone is Silkie chicken. Silkie chicken is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing heat, tonifying the liver and kidneys, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea. It can improve physical function, delay aging, and strengthen muscles and bones. It has significant therapeutic effects on preventing and treating osteoporosis, rickets, and iron-deficiency anemia in women. Modern medical research has confirmed that Silkie chicken is rich in melanin, protein, eighteen kinds of amino acids, and multiple trace elements, making it a nourishing product with extremely high nutritional value. "Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that Silkie chicken can tonify deficiency and weakness, treat polydipsia, benefit postpartum women, and treat uterine bleeding, leucorrhea, and various deficiency-related diseases in women. Therefore, Silkie chicken is an excellent product for tonifying deficiency and nourishing the body. We say that the current solar term is a great time for supplementation, and Silkie chicken is the best nourishing ingredient. You might as well eat more of it.
Peanuts, as one of the traditional foods loved by everyone, have been honored as "longevity fruit" since ancient times. Peanuts are sweet in taste and neutral in nature, and they enter the spleen and lung meridians. Eating peanuts during the current solar term can tonify both the spleen and lungs, and has certain medicinal value and health functions. Peanut oil contains a large amount of linoleic acid, which can decompose cholesterol in the human body into bile acids and excrete them, preventing cholesterol from depositing in the body, which is beneficial for hypercholesterolemia. The zinc content in peanuts is generally higher than other oil crops. Zinc can promote children's brain development, enhance memory function, and activate brain cells in middle-aged and elderly people, effectively delaying premature aging in the human body and has an anti-aging effect.
Next, let's introduce the ingredient apple. Apple is sweet, sour, and neutral in nature. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that apples have the effects of promoting saliva to quench thirst, benefiting the spleen to stop diarrhea, harmonizing the stomach to lower adverse qi, and sobering up. Apples contain various vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, etc., which are necessary components for nourishing the brain. Eating apples can both help with weight loss and aid digestion. It is beneficial for promoting children's growth and development. The zinc in apples can also enhance children's memory.
The ingredients that should not be eaten are kelp and celery. Kelp is salty and cold in nature. Eating kelp during the Frost's Descent solar term can easily damage the spleen and stomach yang qi. Once the body's yang qi is damaged, the cold and yin qi in winter can easily invade the body, causing cold-related diseases. Therefore, it should be avoided during this time. Celery is also a cold ingredient. It has therapeutic effects on hypertension, headache, dizziness, extreme heat and thirst, and edema, but it can easily damage the yang qi of the middle and lower jiao, so it should also be eaten less or not at all.
The medicinal meal recommended to everyone this week is Silkie Chicken and Yam Soup. Use one Silkie chicken, 200 grams of yam, and an appropriate amount of goji berries and red dates. The seasonings are Sichuan peppercorns, scallion, and ginger. After removing the internal organs, clean the Silkie chicken and set it aside. Peel the yam, cut it into pieces, and soak it in water to prevent discoloration. Clean the goji berries and set them aside. Pour an adequate amount of water into a pot, add the Silkie chicken, bring to a boil, and skim off the foam. Add goji berries, red dates, Sichuan peppercorns, scallion, and ginger, then turn to low heat and simmer for two hours. Finally, add the yam and season with an appropriate amount of salt. This medicinal meal has certain therapeutic effects on improving physical function, delaying aging, strengthening muscles and bones, and preventing and treating osteoporosis, rickets, and iron-deficiency anemia in women.
Finally, a reminder for everyone: although peanuts are rich in nutrition, some people should eat less or not eat them. For example, gout is a disease caused by purine metabolism disorders, and patients all have hyperuricemia. Since a high-fat diet reduces uric acid excretion and aggravates the condition, peanuts should be avoided during an acute attack of gout, and only eaten in moderation during the remission period. Patients who have had their gallbladder removed or suffer from peptic ulcers should also eat fewer peanuts.