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Dietary Therapy: Autumn-Winter Nourishment

🔑 Keywords: Health Food Recipes · “Summer solstice every day is hot, autumn equinox every night is cool”—this folk saying indicates that after the autumn equinox, cool autumn winds arrive, weather gradually turns cooler, sweat decreases, appetite increases, thus making autumn an ideal time for nourishment.<br>Nourishment must be tailored to individual constitution. Tonification is a method to enhance physical strength and improve weak bodily states, suitable for various deficiency syndromes. It strengthens or improves human functional status, supplements nutrients, enhances metabolism, and boosts resistance to disease.<br>Deficiency syndromes generally include qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yang deficiency, yin deficiency, and others. Treat qi deficiency by tonifying qi, blood deficiency by tonifying blood, yin deficiency by nourishing yin, yang deficiency by supporting yang; if a specific organ is deficient, nourish that organ.<br>Qi tonification is a method to treat qi deficiency syndrome. It applies to those who have been chronically ill or severely ill, or those with naturally weak constitutions, showing symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, breathlessness with exertion, pale complexion, poor appetite, reluctance to speak, intestinal rumbling, loose stools, and weak pulse. Common qi-tonifying herbs include ginseng, white atractylodes, astragalus, codonopsis, and prince ginseng.<br>Blood tonification is a method to treat blood deficiency syndrome. It applies to symptoms such as dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, palpitations, insomnia, pale complexion, menstrual irregularities, and fine pulse. Common blood-tonifying herbs include donkey-hide gelatin, rehmannia, angelica, purple river crane, and longan flesh.<br>Yang tonification is a method to treat yang deficiency syndrome. Yang deficiency mainly refers to kidney yang deficiency clinically, manifesting as soreness and weakness in waist and knees, lower limb weakness, cold aversion, cold limbs, impotence, premature ejaculation, residual urine after urination, or frequent urination. Common yang-tonifying herbs include deer antler, epimedium, cistanche, curculigo, and psoralea.<br>Yin tonification is a method to treat yin deficiency syndrome. Yin deficiency mainly refers to kidney yin deficiency clinically, manifesting as emaciation, dry mouth and throat, restlessness, insomnia, dry stool, yellow and red urine, flushed cheeks in afternoon, tidal fever, and night sweats. Common yin-tonifying herbs include raw rehmannia, dendrobium, lily, polygonatum, tortoise shell, and ophiopogon.<br>Some tonic Chinese herbs are also edible; the principle of medicinal and dietary dual use lies in naturalness, and they are easier for people to accept. Starting today, we will continuously introduce timely and seasonal tonic formulas for your enjoyment. This time, we first introduce two yin-tonifying formulas.<br>Yam Bird’s Nest Cordyceps Tremella Soup<br>Composition: 5 grams bird’s nest, 3 grams cordyceps, 15 grams tremella, 25 grams rock sugar.<br>Preparation: Prepare the above ingredients according to proportion. First, stew bird’s nest with water, then add cordyceps, tremella, and rock sugar, and cook for another 15 minutes. Drink the soup and eat the bird’s nest, cordyceps, and tremella.<br>Effects: Tonify lungs and kidneys, nourish complexion, stop cough.<br>Indication: Yin deficiency with dry heat, dry cough without phlegm or difficult-to-expectorate phlegm, dry nose, dull complexion, shortness of breath, or night sweats and hemoptysis.<br>Discussion: In this formula, bird’s nest has sweet and neutral taste, enters lung, stomach, and kidney meridians, with effects of tonifying lungs, nourishing yin, stopping sweating, and beautifying complexion; cordyceps is an excellent herb for tonifying kidneys and lungs, stopping cough, and relieving asthma; tremella has sweet and neutral taste, enters lung and stomach meridians, with effects of nourishing lungs and promoting blood circulation. For lung yin deficiency, cough, shortness of breath, night sweats, hemoptysis, or elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, consuming bird’s nest cordyceps tremella soup yields significant results. Regular consumption promotes health and longevity.<br>Cordyceps Lily Duck Meat Soup<br>Composition: 3 grams cordyceps, 25 grams lily, 100 grams duck meat.<br>Preparation: Prepare the above ingredients according to proportion. First, stew duck meat for 30 minutes, then add cordyceps and lily, and cook for another 15 minutes. Drink the soup and eat the cordyceps and duck meat.<br>Effects: Nourish yin, clear heat, moisten lungs, stop cough.<br>Indication: Excessive fire due to yin deficiency, cough with shortness of breath, bitter mouth, dry throat, restlessness, insomnia, or elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, hand and foot heat, bone-steaming fever, night sweats, hemoptysis.<br>Discussion: In this formula, cordyceps has significant effects in tonifying lungs and kidneys, stopping cough, and relieving asthma; lily, as recorded in *Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica*, “has the effect of clearing phlegm-fire and supplementing deficiency”; duck meat is a superior nourishing food, sweet and cool in nature, entering kidney and lung meridians, with effects of nourishing yin, clearing heat, diuresis, and reducing edema. For yin deficiency with excessive fire, cough, shortness of breath, and insomnia, consuming cordyceps lily duck meat soup produces remarkable results.<br>Professor Qiu Jianxing, Chief TCM Physician, Guangdong Provincial Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital

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