Revealing the 10 favorite foods of traditional Chinese medicine

　　1. Ginger: Men cannot live without ginger for a hundred days.

　　In China, people have been eating ginger for 3,000 years. According to the "Analects of Confucius", the Confucian sage Confucius lived to be 73 years old. One of his health-preserving methods was to "do not withdraw from ginger food". His diet included ginger all year round. In "Miscellaneous Notes of Dongpo" by Song Dynasty poet Su Shi, he also described an 80-year-old monk from Jingci Temple in Qiantang, Hangzhou, who had a childish face. Su Shi explained that he said he had been taking ginger for 40 years, so he never grew old.

　　The reason why traditional Chinese medicine loves ginger: Ginger is an indispensable ingredient for Chinese people's cooking. It can also prevent and cure diseases. There are many folk sayings in health preservation, such as "Three slices of ginger in the morning are better than drinking ginseng soup", "Keep ginger at home, and you will not panic for minor illnesses", "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and it won't bother the doctor to prescribe medicine." According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is a product that helps yang, so since ancient times, traditional Chinese medicine has said that "men cannot live without ginger for a hundred days." "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that ginger is pungent and warm, and it returns to the five internal organs, removes wind evil, cold and heat, and eliminates phlegm and lowers qi. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and is released when it is cold. ； Dried ginger warms the body and dispels cold, restores yang and unblocks the meridians, warms the lungs and dissolves fluids.

　　Reasons why Western medicine loves ginger: modern times clinical Pharmacological studies have found that ginger contains a variety of nutrients that can accelerate human metabolism, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, and stimulate the functions of multiple human systems at the same time. For example, the volatile oils in ginger are closely related to blood circulation and can help enhance blood circulation, raise body temperature, excite the intestines, and promote digestion. Gingerol has the effect of inhibiting platelet aggregation and is beneficial to cardiovascular disease disease prevention. At present, American and Japanese scholars have discovered in their research that elderly Eating a little ginger regularly can also delay aging. Compared with the currently used antioxidant, vitamin E, the spicy component of ginger has more effective antioxidant and anti-aging effects. In addition, ginger can regulate male The function of the prostate can be used to treat prostate diseases and other causes in middle-aged and elderly men. sexual dysfunction。

　　Both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine have proven that ginger can play a certain role in delaying aging and maintaining youthfulness in the human body. Therefore, ginger is often used in men's health care.

　　Often contains ginger slices to enhance appetite and delay aging.

　　"Dongpo Miscellaneous Notes" records that the secret of immortality of the old monk Qiantang in Hangzhou is to slice young ginger with skin every day, hold it in your mouth for a while and then chew it, and take it with warm water. He has persisted for more than forty years. This method is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat cancer , the effect is obvious for patients with habitual vomiting after tumor chemotherapy. The treatment method is to let the patient take a piece of thin ginger in his mouth half an hour before meals every day. The effect of fresh ginger on relieving vomiting and warming the body and dispersing cold is used to stimulate the secretion of the digestive tract and increase appetite, thereby ensuring adequate nutritional intake and enhancing the patient's physical condition. In addition, clinical Chinese medicine has confirmed that patients with rheumatoid arthritis take about 5 grams of fresh ginger daily for three months, which can significantly activate qi and blood, reduce pain, and increase joint flexibility.

　　If middle-aged and elderly men vomit due to long-term stomach cold, stomach ache , loss of appetite leads to physical weakness, you can often take fresh ginger slices in your mouth to stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and promote digestion. The method is to cut 4 to 5 thin slices of fresh ginger every day, drink 1 cup of warm water when you get up in the morning, then put the ginger slices in your mouth and chew slowly to let the smell of ginger spread in the mouth and spread to the stomach and intestines and outside the nostrils.