【當造食材】你最愛的絲瓜菜式是甚麼?
⭐便宜又好吃的消暑食材
⭐用絲瓜絡沖涼按摩有助血液循環
#星期四食材
絲瓜消暑又瘦身
絲瓜又名勝瓜,是炎夏不可錯過的消暑蔬菜,香港買到的多數是稜角絲瓜(另一種為圓筒絲瓜又稱水瓜),以稜角明顯、結實具重量感為之上品。從中醫角度來看,絲瓜性涼,有清熱解毒的功效,其瓜絡更能通經活絡、清熱化痰、利尿消腫,尤其適合濕熱型肥胖人士,適量食用有助減肥。夏天可按體質適量食用絲瓜,有助紓緩因天氣炎熱引致的口乾、咳嗽、咳嗽多黃痰、婦女帶下過多或味重的症狀。絲瓜亦能安胎通乳,所以懷孕中或生產後的婦女都可適量食用。
絲瓜 ── 性涼,有清熱解毒、化痰、安胎通乳的功效,適量服用能改善因夏季而導致的口乾、咳嗽多黃痰、婦女帶下過多或味重、孕婦產後母乳不通等症狀。
絲瓜絡 ── 性平,能通經活絡、利尿消腫
消暑茶療:絲瓜絡荷葉茶
功效:清熱祛濕,紓緩中暑、流汗過多、疲倦等症狀。
材料:絲瓜絡10克、荷葉10克、麥冬9克、冰糖適量
做法:材料洗淨放保溫瓶,以熱開水沖洗一遍,注入熱開水焗約15-20分鐘至香味透出,待水變暖後加入蜂蜜拌勻即可。此茶能反覆沖泡至味淡,建議一星期飲用兩至三天,連續兩星期為一個療程。
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Luffa to clear heat and slim down
Luffa is an important heat-relieving vegetable to consume during summer. The more common variety in Hong Kong is angular luffa (another type of luffa is cylindrical in shape). A premium-grade angular luffa normally has clear angular edges, meets a certain weight requirement, and is compact.
From the perspective of Chinese Medicine, luffa is cool in nature, and it can clear heat and toxins from the body. Its fibers can also promote the circulation of the meridians, clear heat, clear phlegm, induce urination, and relieve edema. Hence, it is suitable for individuals who are plump in size and have a damp heat body constitution. Consuming an appropriate amount of luffa can also help with weight loss.
Consider eating luffa during summer (based on our body constitution), as it can help relieve heat-related symptoms such as dry mouth, cough, phlegm, and smelly vaginal discharge. Luffa, on the other hand, is good for pregnant mothers or mothers who have just delivered their babies, as the vegetable is good for the fetus and can increase milk flow.
Luffa - cold in nature, it clears heat and removes toxins, reduces phlegm, stabilizes pregnancy and aids lactation. When taken appropriately, it can relieve summer-related symptoms such as dry mouth, cough with yellow phlegm, alleviate high volume of vaginal discharge or discharge that has strong odor, and improve postpartum lactation difficulty.
Luffa pith - mild in nature, it can improve the Meridian’s circulation, promote diuresis to relieve bloating.
Tea remedy to clear summer heat
Effects: Clears heat and dispels dampness. Relieves heat stroke, excessive sweating and fatigue.
Ingredients: 10g luffa pith, 10g lotus leaves, 9g radix ophiopogonis, rock sugar to taste
Preparation: Rinse all ingredients thoroughly and place into thermos, rinse with hot water once. Then add in hot water again and steep for 15-20 minutes. Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and mix until it melts. You can re-brew this tea until its flavor weakens. For best results, drink consecutively for 2-3 days. Two weeks for a treatment.
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坐月常識Q&A - 飲食篇
Q:坐月食療目的是補身嗎?
A:不是每天進食大量滋補湯水就叫坐好個月,中醫理論認為產婦於坐月期間需按個別體質情況調養,尤其補身前要先健脾胃,因為脾胃功能好才能吸收食材中的營養,有助母乳生成及身體復原,盲目進補只會加重脾胃負擔,補過頭不但容易增磅,亦容易令體質上火,出現便秘、口乾舌燥等症狀。
Q:坐月該吃甚麼?
A:坐月宜多吃多餐,一日五至六餐最適宜,進食清淡而富營養的食物,宜選屬性平和的食材,以蒸、煮、燉、燜為主,讓脾胃更容易吸收,避免生冷及屬性寒涼飲食,可按體質適量於餐單加添補氣血食材如陳皮、沙參、玉竹、黨參、太子參等,並且飲用有健脾胃功效的湯水。
Q:坐月為甚麼要喝炒米茶/炒米水?
A:喝米水是中醫的傳統智慧,以紅米、白米、薏米調配而成的米水能健脾胃,有助身體復原,而炒米水健脾胃之餘也能暖胃袪寒。產婦產後即可飲用炒米水,先不用添加紅棗、陳皮或其他藥材,以免太熱氣。如身體有偏熱症狀如有痔瘡、口瘡、盜汗、喉嚨痛等則宜飲屬性平和的米水 。哺乳媽媽尤其需要水分才會有足夠的母乳,所以每天宜多喝暖水及米水。
Q:坐月期間水腫了,是否因為喝太多湯水?
A:產後出現水腫症狀如腳跟忽然腫脹多因產時失血過多,正氣耗損,加上脾胃虛弱而致,水濕滯留不去而產生,主要表現為面色偏黃,面目手足或四肢浮腫,可飲用有茯苓、陳皮、扁豆衣的水腫腫茶、紅豆米水紓緩症狀。
Q:薑醋除了派給親友,產婦可以吃嗎?
A:中醫理論認為「產後體質多虛多瘀」,薑醋有袪風散寒、活血袪瘀的功效,自然分娩產婦可於十二朝後開始進食,而剖腹產婦宜於產後20至30日,待惡露排清後進食。要注意薑醋適合虛寒體質的產婦食用,體質偏熱的產婦則少吃為妙,可以喝一兩口醋而不吃薑。
✔️CheckCheckCin 米水推介:炒米水
材料:炒白米
功效:暖胃散寒、溫暖四肢
✔️CheckCheckCin 米水推介:朝米水
材料:紅米、薏米、白米
功效:去水腫、消胃脹、改善面黃
✔️CheckCheckCin美茶推介:水腫腫
材料:淮山、扁豆衣、茯苓、陳皮
功效:健脾祛濕,紓緩身體浮腫、下肢水腫、眼簾浮腫等症狀。
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Confinement Month Q&A – F&B edition
Q:Are confinement meals meant to nourish the body?
A: An effective postnatal care is not just about nourishing the body. Chinese Medicine theories believe that women need to customize confinement plans based on their body conditions.
Before nourishing the body, it is important to strengthen the spleen and stomach first. A good spleen and stomach can only absorb the nutrients from the confinement meals and help moms boost milk production and recuperate faster.
Consuming nourishing ingredients without understanding their needs would only add on to the burden of the spleen and stomach. An over-nourished person would not only gain weight more easily but also cause heat to accumulate in the body, accompanying symptoms include constipation and dry mouth and tongue.
Q:What should we eat during confinement?
A: It is best to eat more meals. Five to six meals a day would be ideal. Eat light foods that are rich in nutrients, but do opt for ingredients that are mild in nature.
The best ways to prepare each meal are steaming, cooking, stewing, and simmering, as the spleen and stomach can better absorb the nutrients from the ingredients.
Avoid raw and cold foods as well as those that are cool in nature. According to the individual’s body constitution, add ingredients that can nourish qi and blood, such as dried citrus peel, glehnia root, polygonatum odoratum, codonopsis root, and pseudostellaria heterophylla root. Having soups that can strengthen the spleen and stomach is also good for mothers during confinement.
Q:Why should mothers during confinement drink fried rice tea/fried rice water?
A: The practice of drinking rice water comes from the wisdom of Chinese Medicine. Rice water made from red rice, white rice, and coix seed can strengthen the spleen and stomach and help the body recuperate faster.
Likewise, fried rice water can also strengthen the spleen and stomach. It can even warm the stomach and dispel cold from the body. Women who have just given birth can drink fried rice water immediately.
For those with heat-related symptoms such as hemorrhoid, canker sores, night sweats, and sore throat, it is best to drink rice water that is mild in nature. Mothers who breastfeed need to regularly hydrate the body to ensure constant milk production. Hence, it is best to drink more warm water and rice water daily.
Q:Does drinking soup cause edema during confinement?
A: Symptoms such as swelling on the ankles after delivering are due to excessive blood loss during childbirth. When the qi in the body is damaged and the spleen and stomach weaken, dampness can more easily stagnate in the body.
Other related symptoms include yellowish complexion and the swelling of the face, eyes, and limbs. You can drink herbal teas that contain poria, dried orange peel, and hyacinth bean coat to get rid of water retention. Red bean rice water could also relieve the symptoms.
Q:Besides giving ginger vinegar to friends and family members, can new mothers consume them?
A: Ginger vinegar can dispel wind and cold from the body and at the same time, invigorate the blood and clear blood stasis in the body. Likewise, Chinese Medicine believes that a woman’s body experience deficiency and blood stasis after childbirth.
Hence, new mothers who have gone through natural birth can start taking ginger vinegar after twelve days, whereas those opted for C-section can consume it after 20 to 30 days (or after the lochia discharge has ceased).
Ginger vinegar is suitable for new mothers with a cold body constitution, so individuals with a heaty body should avoid consuming it excessively. It is fine to take a sip of the vinegar but avoid eating the ginger.
✔ CheckCheckCin Recommendation: Fried Rice Water
Ingredients: Fried White Rice
Effects: Warm stomach and dispel cold. Warm limbs.
✔ CheckCheckCin Recommendation: Dawn Rice Water
Ingredients: Red Rice, Coix Seed, White Rice
Effects: Reduces water retention. Relieves abdominal bloating. Improves yellowish complexion.
Note: Not suitable for pregnant women.
✔ CheckCheckCin Recommendation: Edema
Ingredients: Chinese yam , hyacinth bean coat, poria, dried citrus peel
Effects: Strengthens the spleen and dispels dampness. Relieves bloatedness, lower-body bloating and eyelid swelling.
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#星期四食材
暢便水果一覽
常說「十個男人九個痔」,其實痔患無分男女,尤其工作忙碌、壓力大、長時間坐着、飲食多肉少菜、多吃刺激性食物人士,生痔瘡的機會較高。痔瘡形成初期排便會輕微出血、擦拭肛門時衛生紙有血跡、無疼痛感,在這個階段可先透過改善飲食習慣自救:多進食蔬菜、水果,尤其有潤腸通便功效的水果以紓緩症狀。如果痔瘡出血、脫垂、血栓疼痛等情況就必須就醫治理,病情嚴重除引致疼痛,亦會造成貧血等情況。
麒麟果 — 性涼,有清熱生津、潤腸通便的功效,由於麒麟果有比火龍果更豐富的粗纖維與果糖,因此對便秘特別有紓緩作用,腸胃虛弱及易有便溏的人多吃會出現腹瀉。要注意麒麟果糖分相對較高,糖尿病患者不宜多吃。
火龍果 — 性涼,有清熱生津、潤腸通便的功效,適合內熱較重、陰虛火旺、煩躁口乾、痔瘡便秘人士食用。紅肉和白肉火龍果功效相若。
無花果 — 性平,有潤腸通便、健胃利咽、滋陰潤燥、催乳功效,對老年人、孕婦、小兒便秘有明顯療效,孕婦食用亦可預防痔瘡。惟其糖份含量較高,糖尿病患者慎吃。
香蕉 — 生香蕉屬性寒涼,熟香蕉或經烹煮的香蕉寒性會減低,有清熱通便、解酒功效,適合大便乾燥、痔瘡、大便出血者食用。但要注意尚青或沒熟透的香蕉有收斂作用,能止瀉更有可能引起便秘。
木瓜 — 性平,能健脾胃,幫助消化,消暑解渴。適合脾胃虛弱,容易胃脹不適人士服用,能紓緩食慾下降、消化不良、胃部不適、產婦乳汁不足等症狀。注意孕婦不宜食用。
水蜜桃 — 性熱,有補益氣血、養陰生津、潤腸的作用,適合低血糖、心血不足、肺虛喘咳者食用。由於屬性溫熱,易生熱助火,體內有偏熱症狀不宜多吃,糖尿病患者及血糖偏高者不宜吃。
✔ CheckCheckCin茶療推介:火龍果玫瑰茶
材料:紅火龍果、冰糖、蜂蜜、玫瑰花、檸檬及白毫烏龍
功效:疏肝解鬱,潤腸通便,適合大便不暢、有壓力、經常嘆氣、暗啞肌膚人士。
注意:適合月經前飲用;月經期間、孕婦不宜。
✔CheckCheckCin米水推介:燕麥米水
材料:紅米、白米、燕麥
功效:去水腫、紓緩便秘、改善多汗
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Fruits that can promote bowel movement
There is a common saying ‘nine out of ten men have hemorrhoid’. There is a high chance for individuals who are busy at work and under a lot of pressure, as well as those who sit down for long hours, eat more meat than vegetables, and enjoy consuming food that irritates the body to develop hemorrhoid.
During the early stages of hemorrhoid, individuals would see blood when they are passing stool. Traces of blood can be found but generally painless. At this stage, individuals can try to salvage the situation by improving their dietary habits.
Consume more vegetables and fruits, especially those that can improve bowel movement to relieve the hemorrhoid symptoms. If it becomes a prolapsed hemorrhoid, a thrombosed hemorrhoid, and bleeding happens, we must get proper medical treatment. If the situation becomes more serious, an individual might not only experience pain but also anemia.
Yellow dragon fruit - cool in nature, can clear heat and promote fluid production, moisten the intestines to relieve constipation. Yellow dragon fruit is higher in fiber and is especially effective in relieving constipation. Those with asthenic weak spleen and stomach or prone to loose stool may experience diarrhea after eating. Yellow dragon fruit is also higher in sugar content so it is not suitable for those with diabetes.
Dragon fruit - cool in nature, can clear heat and promote fluid production, moisten bowel to relieve constipation and relieve thirst. It is suitable for those with inner heat, yin deficiency with excess fire, hemorrhoids and constipation. Similar effects to regular white or red meat dragon fruit.
Figs - mild in nature, can moisten intestine to relieve constipation, strengthen the stomach, relieve sore throat, nourish yin and relieve dryness, aid in lactation. It is especially effective in treating constipation for elderlies, pregnant women and young children. Pregnant women can prevent hemorrhoids by eating figs. However, its sugar content is high, so diabetic patients should be cautious in taking it.
Banana - unripe banana is cool in nature, cold nature is reduced when it is ripe or cooked. It can clear heat, relieve constipation and hangover. Suitable for those who have dry stool, hemmeroid and stool bleeding. Note that green and unripe bananas can induce astringency, relieve diarrhea or lead to constipation.
Papaya - mild in nature, can strengthen the spleen and stomach and aid digestion. Papaya can clear summer heat and relieve thirst even for those with asthenic spleen and stomach and prone to abdominal bloating. It can alleviate poor appetite, indigestion, stomach discomfort, and even improve milk supply for nursing mothers. Note that pregnant women should not have papaya.
Peach – hot in nature, can replenish qi and blood, nourish yin and promote saliva secretion, as well as stimulate bowel movements. It is suitable for individuals with low blood sugar level, heart-blood deficiency, the manifestation of cough and asthma caused by a weak lung. Individuals with heat related symptoms should not consume peach excessively, since it is hot in nature. The same goes for patients with diabetes and high blood sugar (hyperglycemia).
✔ CheckCheckCin Paper Pack Drink Recommendation: Dragon Fruit Rose Tea
Ingredients: Water, Dragon Fruit Juice, Rock Sugar, Honey, Rose, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Oolong Tea
Effects: Relieves stress, moistens the bowels to relieve constipation. Suitable for difficulty passing stool, stress, frequent sighs, and dull complexion.
Note: To relieve menstrual discomfort, have this tea 3-7 days before period. Not suitable for menstruating and pregnant women.
✔️CheckCheckCin Rice Water Recommendation: Oats Rice Water
Ingredients: Red Rice, White Rice, Oats
Effects: relieves symptoms of bloating or chubbiness, constipation, excessive sweating, night sweating and fatigue.
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