have a healthy diet
Many therapeutic prescriptions are introduced in A Dream of Red Mansions. 1 1 cycle, Qin was seriously ill, and the old lady gave him a yam cake stuffed with jujube paste, which was a' health preservation technique'. This kind of cake is mild in taste, invigorating spleen and qi, nourishing but not greasy, easy to digest, and most suitable for people with chronic illness and physical weakness. Similar to dietotherapy, A Dream of Red Mansions also lists steamed duck with wine, crispy cream floss, lotus root starch Osmanthus Jelly, Jianlian jujube soup, duck porridge and jujube rice porridge.
Drink for health.
Drinking is good for keeping fit. Wine is a kind of drink invented by ancient people in labor production. Nowadays, people drink mostly to enhance their feelings or strengthen communication. But wine, as an important solvent, is not only useful in chemical industry, but also commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. In Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, yellow wine and soju are added to many prescriptions, so wine has become an important Chinese medicine. In Jia's big family, there is a small banquet on three days and a big banquet on five days. Of course, wine is indispensable. In addition to all kinds of wine at the banquet, the health of the rich is still inseparable from the participation of wine. Drinking a small amount of alcohol can not only stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis to help digestion, but also dredge blood to drive away wind and cold, which is beneficial to exciting nerves and eliminating fatigue.
The following are several wines closely related to health preservation in A Dream of Red Mansions:
Albizia Albizia wine is distilled liquor soaked in Albizia Albizia flowers. In the thirty-eighth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, an example of keeping in good health with wine was introduced. Because the crab was cold, Daiyu felt a slight pain after eating it. Baoyu asked Daiyu to soak' Sophora japonica shochu' and give it a pot to drink. This is an important health wine for Daiyu. Albizia Albizia is a small white flower on the Albizia Albizia tree, which has the effect of calming the nerves and relieving depression. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Albizia Albizia flower is flat and sweet, which can relieve depression and regulate qi, soothe the nerves and activate collaterals, calm the five internal organs and reconcile the mind. It can cure depression, chest tightness, insomnia and forgetfulness, and make people forget their troubles and feel happy. Soju is spicy and hot, but it can move qi and regulate qi, so Daiyu can not only drive away the cold, but also be sentimental to Daiyu and have a unique effect on insomnia at night.
Tu Su wine has the custom of offering Tu Su wine in Daguan Garden on New Year's Eve, and it is also a health wine for Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai. The wine is a medicated wine, which is made by soaking Cinnamomum cassia, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Platycodon grandiflorum, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei and Semen Phaseoli. Has the functions of expelling pathogenic wind and cold, clearing away damp heat, and preventing and treating diseases. Yellow rice wine, also called Shao wine, is an important decoction in traditional Chinese medicine. Shaojiu has been used many times in Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, and it is also Baoyu's favorite health wine. Because this wine is mild and harmless, rich in nutrition, and made of high-quality glutinous rice, it is very popular among people in the Grand View Garden. Not only that, yellow rice wine is also a favorite wine of Jiangsu and Zhejiang people, and a bottle can be seen everywhere on Wu Peng's boat.
Dieting for the sake of health
Hunger in time keeps you safe. This is a health preserving method and a treatment method. The' valley loss' that often appears in the classics of traditional Chinese medicine is hunger therapy. In the fifty-third episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Qingwen almost recovered from a cold, and her condition became more and more serious. She used Jiafu's customized secret recipe therapy-hunger therapy, carefully taking medicine and recuperating, and gradually got better. For patients who don't eat too much or only eat light food after illness, it is also a way to keep fit to prevent recurrence of dietary problems.
Hunger health care is not to eat nothing at all or really starve yourself to death, but to let the overwhelmed spleen and stomach have a rest after exogenous diseases (common colds and heatstroke) or food stagnation (common indigestion). From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, hunger health preservation is the repair of spleen and stomach, and it is playing hard to get. From the point of view of western medicine, hunger health preservation is to empty the objects in the gastrointestinal tract, which is conducive to the repair of mucous membranes. Of course, this kind of hunger as a health care method is different from fasting as a treatment principle. Not simply hungry, but don't eat too much. Confucius, a great educator in China, lived 73 years old, which was related to his insistence on dieting for health. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, lived 10 1 year, and also benefited from dieting.
Drinking tea is good for health.
Tea is the most important drink in China, and it is also an important Chinese medicine. In many prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, there are fine teas, the most famous of which are Chuanxiong tea for treating headache and Wuling tea for clearing stomach heat. There are many descriptions of drinking tea for health in A Dream of Red Mansions. Although there is not much pen and ink in each place, they are all interesting and intriguing. There are many tea tasting scenes mentioned in the book. Famous families not only have many rules for drinking tea, such as the first cup of gargle and the second cup of tea, but also have many kinds of tea. One of the most important things is to push the old man's favorite eyebrow. This tea is Junshan Yinzhen, one of the top ten famous teas in China. Because after brewing, the tea leaves stand in the cup like needles, so the tea ceremony generally requires the use of teapots, but this Junshan silver needle requires the use of glass cups, because you can see that the tea leaves slowly descend from top to bottom, which is very beautiful. Because it looks like an eyebrow, it is also called Laojunmei.
The method of making tea is also particular. Plum blossom snow water must be taken, buried under the tree, and taken out to make tea in the next summer, so that it is bright in color and fragrant in Gao Shuang, which is nourishing and healthy. There are many kinds of tea in a dream of red mansions, besides Laojunmei, there are daughter teas (our present Pu 'er tea) that can help digestion and dredge menstruation, and Jia Baoyu's favorite Lu 'an tea. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, tea can awake spleen and eliminate dampness, and it can also clear away heat and refresh; From the perspective of western medicine, cocaine in tea can not only refresh the mind, but also reduce blood fat, so drinking tea is also a way of fitness.
Exercise health
Lv Kun, a time health care scientist, pointed out in his book Groans that a health care practitioner "should exercise his mind regularly and his body should work hard regularly.". The more he exercises his mind, the smarter he becomes and the stronger he becomes. " . Jia Mu is the birthday girl in A Dream of Red Mansions. In addition to diet, she likes light, small and exquisite, and likes walking. She thinks that walking is "relaxing" and takes her children and grandchildren for a walk and play in the Grand View Garden every holiday. Modern people also pay great attention to walking for health. Walking after meals has become or hopes to become a habit of modern people. After all, modern people are much busier than the ancients. But this way of walking has not changed much. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, walking is a kind of exercise, which can exercise limbs, while the theory of traditional Chinese medicine is that spleen governs limbs, so walking has an important feedback effect on the transportation of spleen and stomach.