One-week Chinese medicine diet

We all know that when we are sick, we need to take Chinese medicine. At this time, the gastrointestinal digestion of the body is relatively weak, and we need to pay attention to our diet to promote recovery. Therefore, when taking Chinese medicine, we should prepare a week's diet. For example, we can drink porridge in the morning, eat rice with vegetables at noon, and drink more soup at night, and our diet needs to be diversified throughout the week.

One-week Chinese medicine diet Monday: wolfberry eliminates weekend edema

Nutrition experts point out that wolfberry is rich in various trace elements and vitamins, which can nourish yin, protect the eyes, and enhance immunity. Doctors in all dynasties have often used wolfberry to treat blurred vision and night blindness caused by liver blood deficiency and kidney yin deficiency. Recently, the British have discovered the effect of wolfberry in delaying aging. However, wolfberry only has medicinal value if it is consumed regularly. Eating it once or twice occasionally will have no effect.

Breakfast: 1 bowl of barley porridge, 1 portion of cucumber, and 30 grams of wolfberry soaked in water.

Lunch: 1 plate of day lily, 1/2 bowl of rice.

Dinner: 1 serving of vegetable soup, 1 small bowl of rice, and 30 grams of wolfberry soaked in water.

Today's weight loss recipe mainly uses wolfberry to eliminate edema and is more suitable for consumption on Mondays. Because it is inevitable to eat and drink a lot, go out for parties, stay up late, etc. on weekends, it is easy to cause excess water accumulation in the body and cause edema. This recipe can solve the problem of edema and make weight loss go smoothly. In addition, wolfberry can nourish yin and tonify the kidney, which is very suitable for women with qi and blood deficiency. It not only has significant weight loss effects, but also has the effect of beautifying the skin.

Note: Most of the vitamins contained in wolfberries are water-soluble and are easily destroyed when exposed to heat, so do not use too hot water when soaking them.

One-week Chinese medicine diet Tuesday: Rhubarb to stimulate appetite and help digestion

Resveratrol, the active ingredient in rhubarb, can inhibit cholesterol absorption. It contains catechins, which can reduce capillary permeability, increase endothelial density, and limit the entry of harmful lipids, thereby reducing blood viscosity and increasing plasma osmotic pressure. This function of diluting the blood can reduce lipid deposition. Rhubarb can also increase bile secretion, promote bile excretion, and increase the amount of cholesterol reduced to steroids in the intestine and excreted from the body; its combination with anthraquinones can promote intestinal peristalsis and relieve constipation.

Breakfast: 5 slices of rhubarb slices and 1 bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge before meals.

Lunch: 1 serving of stir-fried meat with cucumber slices, 1 bowl of rice, 30 grams of wolfberry soaked in water to drink.

Dinner: 1 serving of scrambled eggs with black fungus, half a bowl of rice, and 1 cup of freshly squeezed carrot juice.

Today's weight loss diet focuses on strengthening the stomach and promoting digestion. Since rhubarb has the effect of promoting gastrointestinal motility, it can eliminate excess oil in the body and burn fat while regulating the stomach. Combined with slimming foods such as cucumber and fungus, the slimming effect will be doubled, allowing you to lose weight without knowing it, and you will never feel hungry, nor will it affect your health like taking slimming pills.

Weekly Chinese Medicine Weight Loss Recipe Wednesday: Poria High Fiber

Poria cocos is sweet, mild and neutral in nature, and enters the heart, lung and spleen meridians. It has the effects of dissipating dampness and promoting diuresis, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and calming the mind. It can cure symptoms such as difficulty in urination, edema, cough due to phlegm and fluid, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, spermatorrhea, stranguria, palpitations, and forgetfulness. The diuretic effect of Poria cocos is achieved by strengthening the spleen and lung functions, so it not only helps in weight loss, but also has a very good health-care effect.

Breakfast: 1 cup of honey water, 2 sweet potato cakes, and 1 serving of boiled spinach.

Lunch: 1 serving of Poria cocos tofu and 1 whole wheat steamed bun.

Dinner: 1 serving of konjac, 1 small bowl of boiled noodles, 1 cup of apple juice.

Today's menu mainly uses high-fiber, low-calorie foods to help promote full intestinal peristalsis, absorb excess fat in the intestines, and remove stool and detoxify. Through the spleen and stomach strengthening effect of Poria cocos, the body is conditioned, toxins and waste are discharged from the body, blood circulation is promoted, metabolism is stimulated, the weight loss effect is doubled, and the skin is whitened at the same time.

One-week Chinese medicine diet Thursday: Safflower detoxification and fat burning

Safflower has the effects of promoting blood circulation, relieving dysmenorrhea, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain, and can promote blood circulation. Among them, safflower yellow pigment has the effect of increasing coronary blood flow and myocardial nutritional blood flow, and has a certain detoxification and fat-reducing effect. It is very suitable for women to take, and can maintain health, detoxify and lose weight.

Breakfast: drink green tea powder with a little honey and a bowl of pumpkin porridge.

Lunch: 1 serving of safflower egg noodles, 1 serving of tomato juice.

Dinner: 1 cup of rose candied date tea, half a bowl of rice, 1 cup of apple juice.

Today's recipe focuses on detoxification, bowel cleansing, and enhancing weight loss through safflower's ability to promote blood circulation. If you have a lot of fat around your waist and abdomen, you must follow this diet strictly. At the end of the day you will find that your belly is much flatter. After a few weeks of persistence you will definitely have a flat belly.

One-week Chinese medicine diet recipe Friday: Codonopsis warms the stomach and reshapes the body

Codonopsis can tonify the middle, replenish qi, and promote the production of body fluids. It has a very good effect on symptoms such as weak spleen and stomach, deficiency of qi and blood, fatigue, poor appetite, thirst, chronic diarrhea, and prolapse of the anus. Very suitable for various sub-health symptoms caused by long-term weight loss.

Breakfast: 30 grams of wolfberry soaked in water, 1 bowl of black rice and walnut porridge, 1 serving of celery and lily.

Lunch: 1 serving of kelp, half a bowl of rice, 1 cup of herbal tea.

Dinner: 1 serving of Codonopsis and wolfberry chicken soup, 1 cup of herbal tea.

Today's menu is mainly for regulating stomach health. After several days of intestinal cleansing and detoxification, the stomach needs nourishment. Codonopsis has the effect of replenishing the middle and replenishing qi, and has a significant effect on restoring complexion and health care. And combined with herbal tea, it can play the role of weight loss and fat reduction, so that the weight continues to drop.

Weekend Chinese medicine diet recipe: Hawthorn to relieve greasiness and reduce fat

Hawthorn contains a variety of vitamins, hawthorn acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc. It also contains flavonoids, lactones, sugars, proteins, fats, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. The lipase it contains can promote the digestion of fatty foods. It can promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the enzymes in the stomach. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating accumulation and stagnation, astringing and stopping diarrhea, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

Breakfast: 1 bowl of mung bean and wolfberry porridge, 1 cup of hawthorn tea.

Lunch: 1 bowl of crucian carp and tofu soup, 1 serving of broccoli with garlic.

Dinner: half a bowl of rice, 1 serving of mixed kelp and cabbage, 1 cup of hawthorn tea.

Today's recipe is mainly to relieve greasiness and reduce fat. Office workers may go out for dinner on weekends and eat too much greasy food, which may cause gastrointestinal discomfort and fat accumulation. Hawthorn, which has the effect of stimulating appetite and helping digestion, can help break down food. The hawthorn acid and various organic acids it contains can increase the activity of gastrointestinal proteolytic enzymes, and therefore can also help digest meat.