Introduction: After going through various hardships, the South is finally set to successfully enter winter in the coming days. As is well known, the winter in the South is both damp and cold. While strengthening warmth, it's also important to prepare for dampness removal. What are the foods that can remove dampness?
The meteorological department predicts that the cold air will arrive in Guangzhou as early as the evening of the 2nd, and this cold air is very likely to bring rain. The winter in the South is damp and cold. Failure to keep warm or remove dampness in time can lead to rheumatic diseases or worsen existing ones, and can also trigger other physical symptoms. Generally, when there is excessive dampness in the body, symptoms such as fatigue, cold hands and feet, and rough skin with rashes may appear, which significantly affects normal life.
What are the foods that remove dampness?
The commonly known traditional Chinese medicines for removing dampness include Poria, Polyporus, Coix seed, Hyacinth bean, Red bean, Gordon Euryale seed, Chinese yam, Winter melon peel, Atractylodes macrocephala, Agastache rugosa, Eupatorium fortunei, Atractylodes lancea, Magnolia officinalis, Amomum villosum, Herba Abri, and Rabdosia serra. In fact, some daily foods also have the effect of strengthening the spleen and promoting urination to remove dampness. If you don't like the taste of medicinal herbs, you can eat more of these dampness-removing foods.
Kale
Kale contains organic alkalis, which gives it a certain bitterness. It can stimulate a person's taste nerves, increase appetite, and also speed up gastrointestinal motility, aiding digestion. It also contains a large amount of dietary fiber, which can prevent constipation, lower cholesterol, soften blood vessels, prevent heart disease, and other benefits. It also helps to promote urination, resolve phlegm, detoxify, expel wind, relieve summer heat, clear heat, alleviate fatigue, and calm the mind and brighten the eyes.
Sausage Stir-fried with Kale
C Crucian Carp
As the saying goes, "Crucian carp in winter, carp in summer." The crucian carp in winter is meaty and full of roe, with a particularly delicious flavor. The whole crucian carp is sweet and warm in nature, and has the effects of stimulating the spleen and strengthening the stomach, increasing appetite, reducing edema, stopping vomiting, and promoting lactation, making it very suitable for pregnant women.
Purslane
Purslane is distributed all over the country and is also known as longevity vegetable or five-element grass. It is a plant used for both medicine and food, with effects of clearing heat and draining dampness, detoxifying and reducing swelling, anti-inflammation, quenching thirst, and promoting urination. Its ω-3 fatty acid content ranks first among green leafy vegetables.
Watercress
Watercress is relatively high in various vitamins and minerals and is generally available in stages from November to the following April. It is sweet and pungent in taste, cool in nature, and affects the lung and stomach meridians. It has effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, nourishing essence and qi, purifying the blood, lowering blood pressure, and promoting lung function and draining dampness.
Cured Meat Stir-fried with Watercress
Winter Dampness-Removing and Health-Preserving Recipes:
1. Chicken Feet Soup with Chinese Yam and Hyacinth Bean
Effects: Strengthens the spleen to remove dampness, relaxes muscles and activates collaterals.
Ingredients: 15g Chinese yam, 15g hyacinth bean, 15g Gordon Euryale seed, 15g Coix seed, 200g fresh chicken feet (about 10), a little shredded ginger.
Method: First, peel and wash the chicken feet, and cut off the nails. Place the Chinese yam, hyacinth bean, Gordon Euryale seed, Coix seed, chicken feet, and ginger slices in a clay pot, add 2500ml of water (about 10 bowls). Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours. After cooking, add salt to taste.
2. Gourd and Crucian Carp Soup
Effects: Nourishes the spleen to remove dampness, promotes urination to reduce edema. Especially suitable for new mothers for postpartum weight loss.
Ingredients: 500g crucian carp, 600g gourd, salt to taste.
Method: Peel and wash the gourd, then cut it into thick pieces. Scale and clean the crucian carp, removing内脏.
Start boiling water. After the water boils, add the gourd pieces and bring to a boil over high heat. Heat oil in a pan, add the crucian carp and fry until slightly yellow, then add it to the gourd soup. Cover, cook over high heat for 20 minutes, then turn to low heat and simmer for about an hour. Turn off the heat and add salt to taste.
3. Peanut and Red Bean Porridge
Ingredients: 50g peanuts, 80g red beans, 100g rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Wash the peanuts and red beans, and soak for 3 hours. Wash the rice, add an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil. Add the peanuts and red beans to the pot and continue to cook. After the water boils again, turn to low heat and cook for about 1 hour. Add a little rock sugar and it's ready.
Coix Seed and Red Bean Porridge