An Old Remedy That the Whole Family Can Use: A Record of an Old Chinese Medicine Doctor

Chapter 22 Don't let the pain affect your life, the universal medical and surgical remedies (4)
Radish is cool in nature, can lower Qi, eliminate valley and neutralize, clear heat and promote body fluid, cool blood and stop bleeding.There is a reason why traditional Chinese medicine advocates eating more radishes in winter, because in the cold winter, people feel cold outside, exercise less, and at the same time, the exudative secretions such as sweat on the body are also relatively reduced. Over time, a lot of them accumulate in the body There will be nowhere to vent the dry and hot air, and it will be difficult to vent.If the dryness and heat cannot be expelled, it will accumulate in our body, causing the intestines and stomach, spleen and kidneys and other internal organs to be heated, causing internal heat evil, which is harmful to health.Because of this, eating more radish in winter can use the coolness of radish to dispel the dryness and heat in our body and achieve the effect of balancing yin and yang.

Here are a few effective therapeutic prescriptions about radish.

【Remedy [-]】Squeeze juice from fresh radish.

[Ingredients] 1 fresh radish, 1 small section of sugar cane.

[Method] Squeeze fresh radish and sugar cane juice, take two parts of radish juice and one part of sugar cane juice and mix evenly, or add appropriate amount of sugar water and drink directly.

[Efficacy] Treat tonsillitis.

[Remedy [-]] Radish and sour plum soup.

[Ingredients] 250 grams of fresh radish, 2 pieces of sour plum.

[Method] Slice the radish into thin slices and put them in the pot together with the sour plums, add 3 bowls of water and fry into 1 bowl, remove the dregs and get the juice for drinking.

[Efficacy] Treat abdominal distension, food accumulation, irritability and other diseases.

[Remedy [-]] Carrot olive water.

[Ingredients] 250 grams of radish, 50 grams of green olives.

[Method] Cut the radish into pieces and put the green olives in the pot together, boil water instead of tea.

【Efficacy】Treatment of influenza.

[Remedy [-]] Stew with radish and mutton.

[Ingredients] 250 grams of fresh radish, 200 grams of mutton, and 1 crucian carp.

[Method] Cut the mutton into pieces, gut the fish, cut the radish into pieces, add water and cook until cooked.

【Efficacy】Treating the symptoms of fatigue and emaciation.

[Remedy [-]] Radish porridge.

[Ingredients] 250 grams of fresh radish, 200 grams of japonica rice.

[Method] Cut the radish into small pieces, or mash it into radish juice, and cook porridge with japonica rice.

[Efficacy] Treat cough, asthma, excessive phlegm, food accumulation and other diseases.

[Remedy [-]] Radish and tofu stew.

[Ingredients] 60 grams of white radish, 250 grams of tofu, 30 grams of ephedra, and 20 grams of almonds.

[Method] Wrap the ephedra and almonds with new gauze, add water and cook with the radish, then take out the medicine bag, put in the cut tofu and cook for 10 minutes.

[Efficacy] Treat asthmatic bronchitis.

[Remedy [-]] Radish and lotus root juice.

[Ingredients] 1 radish, 1 lotus root.

[Method] Mash radish and fresh lotus root to get the juice, stir evenly in a ratio of 1:1, mix well and take it.

[Efficacy] Specializes in the treatment of gastric bleeding.

[Remedy [-]] Carrot honey cup.

[Ingredients] 1 radish, 50ml honey.

[Method] Peel the radish and dig out the heart, pour honey into the heart of the radish, steam it in water, and take it.

[Efficacy] Treat acute and chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis.

[Recipe [-]] Braised abalone with radish.

[Ingredients] Half a radish, 1 abalone.

[Method] First use the soup to simmer the abalone thoroughly. After it tastes good, add the diced radish and simmer together.

【Efficacy】Cure diabetes.

[The nurse said] There was a male colleague who couldn't eat in winter, saying that there was "sand" in his mouth.Chang "sand" is actually a popular term for aphthous inflammation. Colleagues are hard to clear due to heat and toxins in the stomach, resulting in large and small pimples on the inner wall of the mouth, and aphthous ulcers on the inner wall of the lips. Open your mouth, brush your teeth and drink Water will cause pain, let alone eating, or eating hot pot and the like.I asked my colleague why, and he said it was really nothing. I haven’t eaten anything particularly hot and hot recently, and I don’t have spicy hot pot. It’s just that when winter comes, I will eat some tonic mutton soup and pork bone soup, but it’s especially easy to eat in winter. Canker sores.Tried many modern medical methods, after all, there is no way.

So I took him to my grandpa. Grandpa saw that he was not seriously ill, but his body was hot and hot. Grandpa asked him to eat more stewed mutton soup with white radish. He could drink it three or two times a week and he would be fine.The colleague was dumbfounded when he heard it. He just suspected that he got angry because he drank too much mutton soup, so he was very suspicious of the soup and medicine prescribed by grandpa.But since grandpa is an old doctor of Chinese medicine, he couldn't ask any questions, so he did as he got home.

As a result, after a week, his mouth sores, which he must suffer in winter, have all healed.I thought it was amazing, so I hurried home to ask my grandfather for advice.

[Grandpa said] In our general understanding, winter is a cold season, so we tend to eat more meals such as mutton soup, which is correct.However, during the external cold, there will still be dryness and heat in our body that has not been eliminated due to the usual diet and work and rest.In summer, we can expel heat and toxins through the exocrine system such as sweating, and in summer we will subconsciously eat more soups that clear heat.However, in winter, we ignore that the heat toxins in the body cannot be discharged out, and there is no heat-clearing soup to detoxify, which will cause heat toxins to accumulate inside, and it will surface outside after a long time, forming aphthous or facial acne.

Radishes are cold in nature, so eat more in winter, and make soup with warming mutton, not only can skillfully use the coldness of radishes to clear away the dryness and heat in our body, but also nourish yin and kidney with mutton, and will not make the whole soup too cold , It is really a good medicine for nourishing and clearing away heat in winter.

The snoring we talk about every day is called "snoring" in medicine, and it is a common sleep phenomenon.Some people misunderstand the cause of snoring and regard snoring as a sign of sound sleep.In fact, this view is wrong, because snoring is the enemy of our health.Snoring can easily stop sleep breathing briefly or repeatedly, which can cause severe hypoxia in our brains.Sudden death due to nighttime snoring and apnea of ​​more than 120 seconds is not uncommon in the world. Therefore, it is necessary to be vigilant and pay enough attention to snoring.

In modern medicine, there are many ways to treat snoring, most of which are to improve people's nasal cavity through surgery and instruments to improve the situation of snoring.However, the curative effect of the operation is not all successful, because each person's constitution is different, so the effect will be different.Moreover, the cost of surgery and physical therapy is not low.Therefore, here are two simple, traditional and effective folk remedies.

[Remedy [-]] Chew jujube kernels.

[Method] Before going to bed every night, take about 100 roasted jujube kernels and chew them slowly.

[Remedy [-]] Chew scallions.

[Method] Take 1 piece of fresh scallion every night before going to bed, and chew it slowly.

[Nurse said] There is a female colleague who always has a pair of panda eyes at work every day, as if she can't wake up, and has been criticized by the leader many times.I couldn't help chatting with her, so I asked her if she was suffering from insomnia. She shook her head and said that it was not her who was sick, but her husband.

A colleague said that her husband is a civil servant, so he has social activities and is under a lot of pressure, so he sleeps very soundly at night.I was surprised to hear her say that. Since my husband sleeps soundly, what illness can he have?As a result, my colleague explained that my husband's snoring was particularly severe.

I quickly corrected her and said that snoring is not synonymous with sound sleep, it is a disease.After the colleague heard it, he was very nervous, and hurriedly took her husband to find his grandfather.Grandpa said, indeed, snoring is not a matter of sleeping well or not, but a respiratory disease, which can lead to short-term suffocation in severe cases, which cannot be ignored.

Colleagues hurriedly asked grandpa for advice.Grandpa said that if you want to treat snoring, you only need to prepare two things.One is jujube kernel, and the other is scallion white.As long as you chew these two things raw before going to bed, you can solve the problem of snoring.Generally speaking, girls eat more jujube kernels, and if boys are not afraid of getting angry, they can chew raw scallions.

Sure enough, within a week or so, a colleague said that her husband's snoring had improved a lot, and she was no longer making deafening noises, and she also slept soundly.

[Grandpa said] There are many reasons for snoring, some are due to obesity, some are due to excessive smoking and alcohol, and some are due to poor breathing caused by lying on the side.In the process of preventing and treating snoring, patients must cooperate with scientific diet and appropriate exercise to reduce the burden on the body, so as to better achieve the therapeutic effect.In addition, snoring is not a disease that cannot be cured. Many people think that people snore only when they are tired, because they will relapse once they have work pressure. They think that snoring cannot be cured, so they ignore it.In fact, snoring can be treated. Everyone should prescribe the right medicine according to their own severity and take different treatment measures, so as to truly say goodbye to this annoying little disease of snoring.

At present, the research on the pathology of headache and migraine is not very clear.In the past, the medical community believed that headaches were related to factors such as increased brain excitability, abnormal platelet function, and abnormal mental mediators.However, with the deepening of research on headaches in the medical field, it has been found that the causes of headaches are very complicated.For example, studies in recent years have found that the absence or low content of magnesium ions has a great impact on headaches.Through experimental testing, the medical community has found that headache patients generally have low levels of magnesium ions.Therefore, the study of headache has turned a new page.

In addition, in terms of daily life and diet, excessive mental stress, poor sleep quality, or long-term drinking of coffee, eating pickled food, excessive smoking and alcohol, etc., can also cause headaches.

[Recipe Name] Seaweed Egg Drop Soup.

[Materials] 50 grams of seaweed, 2 eggs.

[Method] Wash and tear the seaweed, put it into the pot together with a small amount of dried shrimp, boil it for 20 minutes, pour in the egg liquid that has been stirred evenly, cover the pot and cook for 5 minutes, add seasonings and serve.

[The nurse said] Headache is a common problem that plagues many people.Mr. Liang is a long-term migraine sufferer. He is a teacher. He prepares lessons until around 11 o'clock every night. He often uses his brain and has been troubled by headaches, which reduces his work efficiency. I can only close my eyes and rest.

At first, Mr. Liang didn't pay much attention to the headache, thinking that it was probably caused by lack of sleep, as long as he got enough sleep, he would be fine.Unexpectedly, once on a business trip, he suddenly felt dizzy, accompanied by nausea and vomiting, upset and bitter mouth, chest tightness and nausea, which seriously affected Mr. Liang's upcoming seminar for educators.

In order to solve the headache problem, Mr. Liang came to see a doctor at his grandfather's house, hoping that his grandfather would give some advice.Grandpa said that headaches and migraines are problems that many workers in the workplace will face. The most important reason why Mr. Liang suffers from this disease is that he is under heavy work pressure, lack of sleep, and weak spleen and stomach, and lacks the yang energy he should have. .Therefore, my grandfather suggested that Mr. Liang eat more seaweed egg drop soup and eat it regularly. The magnesium in seaweed can supplement the needs of the brain and relieve Mr. Liang's headache.

[Grandpa said] Seaweed is slightly cold in nature, can clear away heat and diuresis, and nourish kidney yang. Traditional Chinese medicine has always used seaweed to treat goiter, edema, chronic bronchitis, high blood pressure and other diseases.Eating seaweed and egg drop soup to treat headaches is mainly because seaweed and eggs are ingredients with relatively high magnesium content. Seaweed contains a lot of magnesium, and it has always been known as the "magnesium treasure house".According to statistics, 100 grams of seaweed contains 460 mg of magnesium, and 1 kg of eggs also contains 230 mg of magnesium.Magnesium is an effective element in the prevention and treatment of headaches. Therefore, headache patients can use seaweed egg flower soup to regulate headaches, and healthy people can also eat more of this soup to achieve the purpose of preventing headaches.

Smoking and drinking, living and socializing, eating irregularly, sleeping irregularly, staying up late and working overtime, etc. are all common situations in our life, and they are also the bad habits that damage the liver the most.However, in the case of physical exhaustion and liver damage, many people have to continue to hurt based on the pressure of life and work, mainly because people are not aware of the important impact of liver damage.

The liver is a very important organ in our body. Its main function is to secrete bile, participate in the metabolism of substances, be related to the production and destruction of red blood cells, be related to the synthesis of plasma proteins and various coagulation factors, be related to blood circulation, and be related to hormones. Metabolism is related, and at the same time, it is an essential and important transfer device and detoxification station. The food we eat and the harmful substances we breathe will be decomposed and detoxified by the liver, converted into harmless substances, and transported to all parts of the body , to excrete harmful substances from the body through urine and bile.Once the liver function is not good, toxic substances cannot be effectively decomposed in our body, and they will accumulate in the body. In mild cases, the complexion is dark yellow, physical fatigue, and spirits are listless. In severe cases, it will cause various liver damage diseases.Therefore, it is very important for us to nourish the liver and protect the liver.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver governs catharsis, and if the catharsis function is normal, the face will be ruddy and refreshed.

[Recipe Name] Licorice Mung Bean Soup.

[Ingredients] 100 grams of mung beans, 50 grams of licorice, and appropriate amount of sugar.

[Method] First use licorice and add water to decoct it, remove the dregs to get the juice, put in mung beans, cook for 1 hour, until the mung beans are overcooked, add sugar to taste and eat.

[Nurse said] The liver stores blood and produces blood.If the liver is good, the complexion will be ruddy, but if the liver is not good, the complexion will tend to be yellowish and dull.When Ms. Xu was pregnant for the first time, due to her frail body, the child had a miscarriage at the age of 6 months.The doctor said that Ms. Xu's liver function was not good, she was bleeding too much, and needed an emergency blood transfusion.As Ms. Xu's husband, Mr. Liu realized that there was something wrong with Ms. Xu's body at this critical moment.

After Ms. Xu's body recuperated a bit, Ms. Xu was still depressed because of the child's miscarriage, but Mr. Liu felt that he could have another child if the child was gone. The key was what the doctor said: Ms. Xu's liver function is not good, and there is a problem with blood supply. It leads to symptoms of blood collapse during childbirth. Even if you continue to have children in the future, this will be an urgent problem to be solved.

For this reason, Mr. Liu brought Ms. Xu to find his grandfather, hoping to supplement Ms. Xu's liver under the premise of normal recuperation.Since Ms. Xu had just had a miscarriage, it was not advisable to overuse the medicine, so her grandfather prescribed licorice soup for her.Let her recuperate first.Because licorice is a good medicine for the liver blindly. In addition to nourishing the liver and removing dryness, it can also remove viruses on the liver and help improve liver function.When Ms. Xu's body is almost recovered, you can also add an appropriate amount of mung beans on the basis of the licorice soup.But my grandfather told Mr. Liu to drink it only after Ms. Xu's lochia has completely cleared up. Mung beans are cold in nature. If Ms. Xu's lochia is not cleared, taking it will cause side effects.

[Grandpa said] Mung bean is a good product for clearing away heat and detoxification, and licorice contains active ingredients such as glycyrrhizic acid, which can protect the liver and nourish the liver.Moreover, drinking licorice water for a long time, licorice can prevent viruses from entering liver cells by changing the permeability of cell membranes, and achieve antiviral effects.In addition, licorice can also be attached to the liver cells to inhibit hepatitis B virus. Therefore, licorice is a good medicine for protecting the liver and nourishing the liver.If time is limited, you can also use licorice soaked in water to drink instead of tea to protect the liver.

Palpitations refer to the symptoms that patients feel that the heartbeat is uncomfortable or has a sense of palpitation, and the heartbeat unreasonably speeds up to panting or panic, especially in women.During palpitations, some patients experience rapid heartbeat, and some patients experience slow heartbeat, accompanied by chest tightness and discomfort in the precordial area of ​​the anterior chest.Regardless of the cause, as long as it causes abnormal heart beat frequency and rhythm, it can lead to palpitations.

Chinese medicine believes that palpitations belong to the category of "palpitations" and "palpitations" in TCM.Most of them are caused by weak qi and blood, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, internal stagnation of phlegm and retention, and often coexist with symptoms such as lack of sleep, insomnia, dizziness, and tinnitus.

[Remedy [-]] Astragalus porridge.

[Ingredients] 50 grams of astragalus, 100 grams of japonica rice.

[Method] Boil japonica rice with water, then add astragalus, cook for 1 hour, season and serve.

[Recipe [-]] Lotus seed lily pork heart soup.

[Ingredients] 200 grams of pig heart, 30 grams each of lotus seeds and lilies.

[Method] Slice the pig heart, add water with lotus seeds, lilies, etc. to simmer the soup, season the meat after it is cooked and then eat.

[Remedy [-]] Stir-fried pork heart with wolfberry leaves.

[Ingredients] 1 pig heart, 100 grams of wolfberry leaves, and 100 grams of ginseng leaves.

【Cooking】Cut pork heart into cubes, stir-fry until fragrant, then add wolfberry leaves and ginseng leaves, stir-fry together until the pig heart is fully cooked and ready to eat.

[Remedy [-]] Schisandra soup.

[Ingredients] 20 grams of schisandra, 30 grams of roasted licorice.

【Method】Put schisandra and roasted licorice in a pot, add water and cook for 30 minutes, then drink.

[Remedy [-]] Lianxin Decoction.

[Ingredients] 50 lotus seeds, 50 grams of jujube kernels, 20 grams of roasted licorice.

[Method] Put the three medicinal materials in a pot, add water and cook for 30 minutes, take it every night before going to bed.

[Remedy [-]] Mix pig's brain.

[Ingredients] 1 pig brain, appropriate amount of ginger, green onion, and wine.

[Method] Soak the pig's brain in water, remove the blood tendons and wash it, then add some wine, green onion, ginger, put it in the pot, steam it over high heat for 20 minutes, and take it out for later use.After the pig's brain is cooled, add sesame oil, soy sauce, and mashed garlic in appropriate amounts, mix well and serve immediately.

[Nurse said] When I went home and took the elevator, I met Ms. Fang downstairs. She was very strange. She lived on the 13th floor, but she didn't want to take the elevator. Instead, it took a full 20 minutes to walk the stairs slowly. the slow kind.The elevator was under maintenance that day, and I had to go up the stairs, and I ran into Ms. Fang again, so I struck up a conversation with her.She told me that she had heart palpitations, and she would feel breathless and her heart beat faster when she took the elevator, and she couldn’t do it even if she walked the stairs too fast, so she could only walk slowly step by step like this every day, and she was also very distressed.

So I brought Ms. Fang to my grandfather. After the diagnosis, my grandfather found that Ms. Fang was indeed suffering from heart palpitations, which were very serious.Grandpa told Ms. Fang to eat more main dishes such as mixed pig's brain and fried pig's heart with wolfberry leaves, as well as astragalus porridge and lotus heart soup, so as to improve her heart palpitations.At the same time, it is necessary to carry out appropriate slow walking, walking and other exercises at ordinary times to adjust the cardiopulmonary function, and take a two-pronged approach.

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