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Seasonal Dietary Therapy: Clear and Nourishing in Qingming Festival

🔑 Keywords: Health Food Recipes · Two days ago marked the "Qingming" solar term. Qingming means "clear and bright sky and earth." Ancient lunar calendar notes: "When the Big Dipper points to Ding, it is Qingming—when all things become pure and clear. During this time, the air is clean and scenery bright, everything grows uniformly, hence the name." Currently, cold and warm air masses alternate, gradually warming up. Weather shifts between sunny and rainy spells. People often experience dampness affecting limbs, causing heaviness and numbness. In soups, besides diuretic and dampness-removing effects, moderate tonification is needed. Therefore, nourishing blood and relaxing tendons are most important. We specially recommend:<br>Sangshen and Coix Seed Stewed White Pigeon<br>This dish has benefits of diuresis and dampness removal, nourishing blood and relaxing tendons, and relieving wind and pain. Not overly stimulating or cooling, it is an excellent tonic for spring. It also assists in treating blood deficiency with wind-stagnation, presenting symptoms such as stiff shoulder joint pain, upper limb numbness, sallow complexion, dizziness, and tinnitus.<br>[Ingredients] 20 g mulberry fruit, 30 g coix seed, 1 white pigeon (approx. 150–200 g), 2–3 slices of ginger.<br>Mulberry fruit is slightly cool in nature, sweet in taste, entering liver and kidney meridians. It nourishes blood and yin, calms liver wind, and lubricates the intestines for bowel movement. *Newly Revised Materia Medica* states: "Eating alone treats diabetes." Coix seed is slightly cold, sweet and bland, entering spleen, kidney, and lung meridians. It strengthens the spleen, promotes urination, removes dampness, and expels rheumatism. *New Compilation of Materia Medica* says: "It excels in promoting urination without depleting true yin." White pigeon is neutral in nature, sweet in taste, entering liver, kidney, and lung meridians. It benefits qi and blood, nourishes liver and kidneys. *Shi Yi Xin Jing* states it treats "diabetes with insufficient drinking." Ginger dispels wind, removes fishy odor, and invigorates the spleen and stomach. Together, these ingredients jointly achieve diuresis, dampness removal, wind-relieving, pain-relieving, blood-nourishing, and tendon-relaxing effects.<br>[Cooking Method] Wash and briefly soak mulberry fruit and coix seed. Clean the pigeon, remove internal organs, wash thoroughly, then place with ginger in a large stewing bowl. Add 1,000 ml (about 3.5 bowls) of water. Simmer gently for about 2.5 hours. Season with appropriate salt and a little oil. This serves 2 people, ideally consumed 3–4 times weekly.

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