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What foods nourish Yin?

There are many foods that are effective in nourishing women's yin and beauty, and provide certain nutritional elements for women in their daily work and life. The formula for women's beauty is eggs. Eggs are also called chickens. Eggs are rich in nutrients. They contain protein, phospholipids, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, calcium, iron, vitamin D, enzymes, etc. It is determined that every 100 grams of whole eggs contains 12.7 grams of protein. The protein in eggs is the best quality protein in terms of quality, type and composition among food varieties. The nutritional value of 1 gram of egg protein is much higher than that of 1 gram of meat protein. And protein (especially high-quality protein like egg protein) plays an important role in maintaining skin luster and elasticity. Egg yolk contains a certain amount of phospholipids. Lecithin has an emulsifying effect. The choline separated from the phospholipids that enter the human body has the effect of preventing skin aging and making the skin smooth and beautiful. Egg yolks are also rich in vitamin A and vitamin B2. According to measurements, every 100 grams of egg yolk contains 2000 international units of vitamin A, 0.3 milligrams of vitamin B2, 30 international units of vitamin D, and 0.25 milligrams of vitamin B1. These vitamins are essential for skin nutrition. Eggs are also rich in iron. 100 grams of egg yolk contains 150 milligrams of iron. Iron plays a role in hematopoiesis and transports oxygen and nutrients in the blood. The rosy beauty of a person's face is inseparable from iron. If iron is insufficient, it can lead to iron deficiency anemia, making a person's face pale and the skin lose its beautiful luster. It can be seen that eggs are indeed one of the important foods for maintaining skin beauty. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eggs are sweet and flat in nature, and have the effects of replenishing qi, nourishing yin and strengthening the body, and beautifying the skin. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Egg white has clear qi and slightly cold nature; egg yolk has muddy qi and warm nature; eggs are used with both yellow and white, and their nature is flat. Those who are deficient in essence can be supplemented with qi, and those who are deficient in form can be supplemented with blood. Eggs can regulate qi and blood, so they can clear qi. They can replenish blood, nourish yin, and moisturize the skin." "New Materia Medica" says: "Chicken yolk can replenish qi, nourish the kidney and benefit yin." Therefore, eating more eggs appropriately can have the effects of fitness, anti-aging, and skin beauty. Duck eggs are also foods that have skin care and skin beauty effects. Their beauty effects are slightly worse than chicken eggs. Duck eggs contain nutrients such as protein, phospholipids, vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, vitamin D, calcium, potassium, iron, and phosphorus. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that duck eggs are sweet and cool in nature, and have the effects of nourishing yin, clearing the lungs, plumping muscles, and moisturizing the skin. For example, eating Tremella fuciformis and duck eggs stewed with rock sugar regularly can nourish yin, reduce fire, moisturize the lungs, and beautify the skin. The preparation method is: take 1 duck egg, 10 grams of Tremella, and 20 grams of crystal sugar. First, soak the Tremella in water, wash it, add water, and cook it over low heat until it is well cooked; then add the duck egg, add crystal sugar, and cook it over high heat until the duck egg is cooked. Duck eggs are cool in nature, which is not as good as chicken eggs (neutral in nature), so those with insufficient spleen yang and cold-damp diarrhea should not take them. Quail eggs Quail eggs have the same nutritional value as chicken eggs and have good skin care and skin beautification effects. Quail eggs contain nutrients such as protein, cephalin, lecithin, lysine, cystine, vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, vitamin D, iron, phosphorus, and calcium. According to traditional Chinese medicine, quail eggs are sweet and neutral in nature, and have the effects of replenishing qi and blood, strengthening the body and brain, and enriching the muscles and skin. Quail eggs have a tonic effect on patients with anemia, malnutrition, neurasthenia, irregular menstruation, hypertension, bronchitis, vascular sclerosis, etc.; for women with anemia and irregular menstruation, its tonic, beauty and skin beautification functions are particularly significant. Clam meat is a toothless clam of the family Mussel. Clam meat contains nutrients such as protein, nucleic acid, zinc, and calcium. The zinc in clam meat participates in the synthesis of melanin and maintains the elasticity, luster, and smoothness of the skin. The nucleic acid in clam meat has the effects of eliminating age spots, making the skin plump, smooth, and eliminating skin wrinkles. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that clam meat is sweet and salty, cold in nature, and has the functions of nourishing yin and clearing heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying, and enriching muscles and skin. People with acne or facial infections during adolescence often eat clam meat, which has a more significant beauty effect. In addition, clam meat can cultivate pearls. Pearls are an excellent beauty product. Pearls contain more amino acids. These amino acids can promote the body's metabolism, protect epithelial cells, improve the smoothness of the skin, and have a calming and soothing effect. Soft-shelled turtles are Chinese soft-shelled turtles of the family Trionycis, also known as turtles, round fish, round fish, foot fish, and water fish. Soft-shelled turtles live in rivers, lakes, and ponds. Soft-shelled turtles contain animal glue, keratin, nucleic acids, phospholipids, vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, niacin, vitamin D, zinc, iron, calcium, phosphorus, iodine and other nutrients. Vitamin A, phospholipids, vitamin B2, niacin, nucleic acids, etc. are all nutrients for skin cells and have a skin care effect. Zinc has the effect of enhancing the smoothness of the skin. Animal glue has the effect of making the skin soft and the hair shiny. According to traditional Chinese medicine, soft-shelled turtle meat is sweet and salty, and has a flat nature. It has the effects of nourishing yin and cooling blood, replenishing qi and replenishing deficiency, and enriching muscles and brightening skin. The Daily Materia Medica says that soft-shelled turtles are "sweet and salty in taste, neutral in nature, can remove blood heat, replenish fatigue, strengthen yang, and greatly replenish the deficiency of yin." Modern medicine believes that soft-shelled turtles can improve human immune function, enhance body resistance, delay aging, resist skin aging, and inhibit cancer cells. Soft-shelled turtles can improve the overall health of the human body and enrich the skin. People with yin deficiency and dry skin often eat soft-shelled turtles, and the skin-replenishing effect is more obvious. Because soft-shelled turtles are greasy foods, people with poor appetite, spleen and stomach yang deficiency, cold and dampness, and exogenous heat should not eat them. Yin-nourishing medicinal diets are foods made by selecting yin-nourishing Chinese medicines and combining them with certain foods. They have the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying yang, filling essence and producing marrow. The effects of cordyceps rice porridge: replenishing deficiency, benefiting essence and qi, moistening the lungs and tonifying the kidneys. It is used for lung and kidney yin deficiency, hemoptysis, night sweats, impotence, spermatorrhea, waist and knee pain, and weak body. Ingredients: 100g millet, 50g lean pork, 10g cordyceps. Preparation: 1. Wrap the cordyceps with cloth; cut the pork into thin slices. 2. Cook the medicine bag with millet and pork into porridge. When the porridge is cooked, take out the medicine bag, drink the porridge and eat the meat. Usage: Eat on an empty stomach.

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According to legend, there is a story in the "Book of Jin, Wenyuan, Biography of Zhang Han" that when Sima Jiong, the King of Qi, was in power, Zhang Han, a writer of the Western Jin Dynasty, was serving as a deputy in the Eastern Division of the Grand Marshal in Luoyang. Seeing the autumn wind rising, he missed the water chestnuts, water shield soup, and sea bass sashimi in Wuzhong. He said that life is about being content, why should one stay thousands of miles away for fame and honor? He resigned from his official position and returned to his hometown on the pretext of missing the water shield and sea bass in his hometown.

Since the story of "Thinking of Water Shield and Perch in Autumn", there has been an idiom "Thinking of Water Shield and Perch". Water Shield is a plant of the Nymphaeaceae family. It grows in ponds and rivers in the south of the Yellow River in my country, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Among them, the one produced in the Three Pools Mirroring the Moon in West Lake is the most famous. Water Shield in West Lake is better than that in Eastern Wu. In March, the lake is full of green waves (Song of Picking Water Shield in West Lake by Shen Mingchen in Ming Dynasty).

March is the best time to pick water shield leaves. Sea bass is fresh and tender, boneless, only four to five inches long, white with black spots, and has always been a precious fish. It is produced along the coast of my country, and the sea bass produced in Qiantang River is particularly famous. Sea bass is vividly portrayed in the poet's writing. Yang Chengqi's poem says: Sea bass comes out of the reed leaves in the sea bass village, white with three or four black spots, fine scales and a big mouth, a fresh one. The autumn wind wants to see the real flavor, but the spring wind has already changed it.

Even Emperor Yang of Sui loved to eat the delicious sea bass. Water shield and sea bass have an inseparable relationship. When water shield and sea bass are paired together to make sea bass and water shield soup, it must be a famous delicacy in the south of the Yangtze River with good color, fragrance and taste. From the perspective of health preservation, water shield is sweet and cold in nature, can thicken the stomach and intestines, expel water and detoxify ("Rihua Materia Medica"); it is good to eat for a long time, and it is mainly used for weak stomach and inability to eat ("Tang Materia Medica"). Sea bass is sweet in taste, flat in nature, and has high nutritional value. Li Shizhen said that it can nourish the five internal organs, benefit the tendons and bones, harmonize the stomach and intestines, and treat water vapor. It is good to eat more. It is very fragrant and delicious when dried, and it can benefit the liver and kidneys, stabilize the fetus and nourish the middle. It is especially good to make sashimi. The sea bass is delicious and the water shield is cooked. I am tired of swimming before the autumn wind.

The water shield is fragrant, the sea bass is tender, and the colors are bright and pleasing to the eye. When cooking, add some ginger juice, cooking wine, and pepper powder, which can not only season the food, but also remove the coldness of water shield and sea bass; pepper can warm the spleen and stomach, dispel cold evil, warm the kidney and strengthen yang, dispel cold and dampness in the lower part of the body, and help sea bass to nourish the kidney and dispel cold; ginger juice is good at warming the spleen and stomach; wine can enter the blood; chicken shreds and ham are both blood and flesh products, which are beneficial to the human body; tangerine peel can promote the spleen and stomach qi, making it nourishing but not greasy. All the ingredients are combined to make sea bass and water shield soup, which can nourish the liver and kidney, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and calm the fetus. Elderly people can strengthen their muscles and bones and maintain youth; pregnant women can calm the fetus and keep the mother and child safe; those with weak body and weak stomach can gain weight and nourish their skin, be refreshed, and have a ruddy complexion. It can be said that sea bass and water shield soup is a rare longevity product.