How to replenish blood and qi, old Chinese medicine practitioners promote food therapy

Insufficient Qi and blood is a common problem for many modern women. Especially under the fast-paced life and high-intensity pressure, many women will suffer from problems of blood deficiency and Qi deficiency. Replenishing blood and qi is a topic of concern for many women. In fact, replenishing blood and qi does not require complicated methods. Some simple dietary therapy methods in life can achieve the desired effect.

1: Ingredients: one pig's foot, 30 grams each of walnuts and pine nuts. Preparation: Wash the pig's feet (choose the front feet as they have more meat and the hind feet as they are more tendonous and taste better), then put them into the pot and cook until half cooked, then remove the bones and skin, add pine nuts and walnut kernels to the skin and meat, roll it up, and tie it tightly with thread. Then put the tightly tied pig's trotter skin into a plate and cook until soft, then cut it cold and it is ready to eat. This recipe not only replenishes qi and blood, but also nourishes the skin. Pig's trotters are rich in collagen that can delay aging. At the same time, traditional Chinese medicine believes that pig's trotters also have the effect of nourishing yin. Walnuts and pine nuts are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and proteins. The vitamin E in them can delay cell aging and reduce skin discoloration.

1: Ingredients: 1000 grams of mulberries, 500 grams of glutinous rice. Preparation method: First wash the mulberry leaves and make juice, then remove the residue, cook glutinous rice with the mulberry juice to make glutinous rice dry rice. After cooling, add appropriate amount of wine yeast and stir evenly to make wine. Mulberry glutinous rice wine is suitable for women with insufficient qi and blood to eat as a daily side dish. It can replenish qi and has a good health care effect, especially for those with liver and kidney yin deficiency and thirst.

Ingredients: milk, polished round-grained rice, and appropriate amounts of white sugar. Method: Wash the polished round-grained rice, then put it into a pot and cook it over high heat until it is half cooked. Then add milk and cook it into porridge. Add appropriate amounts of white sugar and it is ready to eat. This recipe can greatly replenish yin blood, and is especially suitable for women with constitutional illnesses.

Ingredients: 250 grams of goat milk, 60 grams of goat fat. Method: Put the two ingredients into a pot and cook into a soup. This recipe comes from the "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy", which says it can replenish kidney deficiency and treat stroke. It is especially suitable for women who are weak and thin. "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy" also points out that it is not suitable for people with external infection or excessive phlegm and fire to eat it.

1: Ingredients: a clean hen, 15 grams each of longan meat, lychee meat, lotus seed meat, and wolfberry, and 30 grams of rock sugar. Method: Cut the hen into small pieces, put it into the pot together with longan meat, lychee meat, lotus seed meat and wolfberry, then add appropriate amount of water and simmer over low heat for two hours. This recipe is the most common folk recipe for replenishing qi and nourishing blood, and it has certain therapeutic effects, especially for women who are weak after illness, surgery, or childbirth.

Ingredients: 250 grams of fresh squid, 15 grams of peach kernels, and appropriate amounts of rice wine, soy sauce, sugar and other condiments. Method: Wash the squid meat, cut it into strips and set aside, then peel the peach kernels, wash them and set aside. Put the squid meat, peach kernels and water into a casserole, boil them over high heat, add seasonings according to personal taste, and then cook over low heat until they are soft. This medicine has the effect of nourishing blood and regulating menstruation. In "Luchuan Materia Medica", it is said that women with amenorrhea can eat squid. It can be seen that squid itself has the effect of nourishing blood and regulating menstruation, and adding peach kernels can invigorate blood circulation. This recipe can be consumed by all women except pregnant women.

In order to replenish qi and blood, in addition to eating more red foods, you should also eat more black foods and eat more foods rich in iron. These are all beneficial to replenish qi and blood.