Teaching you how to avoid illness: yang deficiency constitution
Teaching you how to avoid illness: yang deficiency constitution
People with a yang deficiency constitution usually fear cold, have cold hands and feet, and sweat easily; they prefer hot food and drinks, lack energy, and tend to sleep a lot.
[Explanation] Danggui Shengjiang Mutton Soup is a famous traditional Chinese medicine formula that has been used for more than 2000 years, and it is especially suitable for people who fear cold to eat regularly. Moreover, this soup has a very simple composition, with only 3 ingredients: mutton, ginger, and angelica. Remember this well: 300 grams of mutton, 30 grams of angelica, and 50 grams of ginger. How exactly should this Danggui Shengjiang Mutton Soup be made? First, wash the mutton slices and cut them into small pieces. Boil a pot of water. After the water comes to a boil, put the mutton pieces into the boiling water to blanch briefly, blanch off the blood water, then remove the mutton, drain the water, and put it into a clay pot. Next, add the angelica and ginger, pour in clean water. The clean water must be a bit more, about 2 to 3 times the amount of meat. Next, cover with a lid and put it on the heat to cook. First bring it to a boil over high heat, then switch to low heat and cook for about two more hours. After cooking, add an appropriate amount of salt, and this Danggui Shengjiang Mutton Soup is ready to eat. This medicinal meal is suitable for people who fear cold, but other people should be careful
[Explanation] In addition to not being suitable for people who are prone to internal heat to eat much of, Danggui Shengjiang Mutton Soup is also not suitable for people with skin diseases, people with allergic asthma, and some tumor patients. However, if you are the type who fears cold but not heat, with cold hands and feet, it is recommended that you eat it often. In this soup, angelica is a blood-tonifying medicine commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, with a warm nature, and has the effects of invigorating blood, nourishing blood, and tonifying blood; ginger is not only an indispensable seasoning in the kitchen, but also a widely used traditional Chinese medicine, which can warm the middle and dispel cold, induce sweating and release the exterior; this mutton is even more a delicious food suitable for all ages, with a warm and hot nature, and can warm the middle and tonify deficiency. You see, when mutton, ginger, and angelica are combined, if you persist in eating it for a period of time, I believe it will improve your constitution.
[Effects] Warm the middle and restore yang
[Lin Lin, Director of the Respiratory Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine] Dry mouth and bitter taste, sore throat, and also frequent inflammation, for example, patients with throat inflammation, may be people with a hot and irritable constitution, so it is not suitable for them to eat it long term or eat much of it.
[Yang Zhimin, Vice President of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine] Moxibustion at Shenque and Guanyuan dispels cold. We use these acupoints mainly to achieve the effects of warming and tonifying original yang, regulating and moving the spleen and stomach, and also restoring yang and supporting.
Now let me recommend an acupoint massage method to those friends who fear cold. When you have nothing to do, massage this acupoint more often, and it can also produce a good effect. The name of this acupoint is Qihai. Qihai alone warms the whole body, meaning that the Qihai acupoint has the effect of adjusting the weak state of the whole body and enhancing immunity. Where is the Qihai acupoint, and how do you find it? Find it like this. (Insert demonstration image) First lie down, find the navel, and at 1.5 cun below the navel, about the width of two fingers, at the point opposite the navel, this is the Qihai acupoint. But the massage of this acupoint is rather special, and you should do it like this: use the tip of the thumb or middle finger to knead, and the kneading force should be moderate, once a day, 1 to 3 minutes each time. If you do not have a yang deficiency constitution, you can also often massage this Qihai acupoint, as it can strengthen the whole body.