What to eat during the Xiaoxue solar term? Foods to eat during the Xiaoxue solar term to maintain health

Generally, around the Xiaoxue solar term, the weather is often cold and dark with little sunlight. During this freezing time, what should Xiaoxue eat?

"Xiaoxue" needs to eat more black food to stay healthy!

Foods like black rice, black soybeans, black sesame seeds, black dates, black fungus, etc. can not only nourish the kidney qi but also resist the cold, and can moisten the lungs and produce body fluids, and have excellent health care functions.

At the same time, in addition to the vegetarian food mentioned above, we also have some black fish for you to choose from.

loach:

It tastes sweet and is mild in nature. It has the effects of warming the middle and replenishing qi, clearing urine, detoxifying and relieving hemorrhoids. The loach has tender meat and high nutritional value. Its slippery saliva has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. It can treat damp-heat jaundice, urinary problems, and night sweats after illness.

Eel:

Sweet in taste and warm in nature. It has the effects of replenishing deficiency, removing rheumatism, and strengthening tendons and bones. It is mainly used to treat tuberculosis, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, postpartum lochia, dysentery with pus and blood, hemorrhoids and fistulas. It can be boiled in clear soup, steamed or used as a medicinal diet. The meat can be made into balls and blanched in boiling water. It can be pounded and applied externally or sliced ​​and applied.

carp

：It tastes sweet and is neutral in nature. It has the effects of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, lowering qi, and promoting lactation. It is mainly used to treat edema, beriberi, jaundice, cough, reverse breathing, and milk blockage. It can be boiled in clear soup, steamed, sweet and sour, or stewed.

Crucian carp

：It tastes sweet and is neutral in nature. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and removing dampness. It is mainly used to treat spleen and stomach weakness, poor appetite, dysentery, blood in stool, edema, stranguria, carbuncle, and ulcer. It can be boiled in clear soup, steamed, decocted, or used as a medicinal diet, pills, powders, or pounded for external application.

banana

: When the content of 5-hydroxytryptamine in the human brain decreases, a series of depression symptoms such as insomnia, irritability, pessimism, and world-weariness will appear. Bananas contain this substance. Properly increasing the intake of bananas will make people feel peaceful and happy. However, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat it.

spinach

：People who do not take enough folic acid are prone to insomnia, forgetfulness, anxiety and other depression symptoms. Spinach is rich in folic acid, and asparagus, kiwi, oysters, oranges, peas, soybeans and dark green vegetables also contain folic acid. In addition, foods rich in B vitamins such as whole flour products, grains, yeast, animal liver and fruits are also very helpful in improving negative emotions and depression. During the Minor Snow, fishermen on the coast of central and southern Taiwan will start to dry fish and store dry food. Mullet schools will come to the Taiwan Strait before and after the Minor Snow, and there are also swordfish and sandfish. Taiwanese proverb: October beans are so fat that you can't see the head. It means that in the Budai area of ​​Chiayi County, "bean fish" can be caught in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. The "Shalun small watermelon" in Guiren Township, Tainan County is abundant in winter. The melon is fragrant and the meat is sweet. It is the best fruit in the south in winter.