【合時湯水】瓜湯易煲又好味，功效不只是消暑

⭐連湯渣吃就最好
⭐煲湯後食材還保留部份營養
#星期四食材

煲湯好瓜
飲湯是香港人的養生秘技之一，根據季節與體質，挑選合適的食材或藥材，煲出一鍋保健湯水，美味之餘又能強身防病。如果你是入廚新手，覺得煲湯材料配搭很複雜，又不懂藥材屬性，不妨從簡單的瓜湯開始，按個人體質選擇合適的瓜類，簡單配以粟米、紅蘿蔔即可煲出清甜湯水；想湯味更濃郁可加入肉類，或豆類如黃豆、紅腰豆，甚至果仁如腰果、合桃、栗子亦可。

偏熱人士
症狀：喉嚨痛、口瘡、暗瘡、尿少色黃、大便偏乾硬/便秘
宜選瓜類：苦瓜、節瓜、絲瓜、木瓜

濕重人士
症狀：渴睡、容易出汗，胸悶、無食慾、水腫、大便稀爛甚至黏廁所
宜選瓜類：冬瓜、老黃瓜、絲瓜、節瓜

壓力大人士
症狀：心情鬱悶、多嘆氣、肋骨脹滿、乳房脹痛、噯氣、便秘
宜選瓜類：佛手瓜、絲瓜、木瓜、哈密瓜

怕冷人士
症狀：四肢及身體冰冷、渴睡、自汗、小便量多、大便稀爛或內有未消化物
宜選瓜類：南瓜

佛手瓜粟米蓮子百合湯
功效：清心安神，紓緩因為壓力大而睡不安寧、疲倦等症狀。
材料：佛手瓜2個、粟米連鬚2根、紅蘿蔔1根、蓮子40克、百合20克、蜜棗2枚
做法：
1. 所有材料洗淨，佛手瓜去皮切塊；粟米連鬚去衣切段；紅蘿蔔去皮切塊備用。
2. 鍋中加入2500毫升水，放入全部材料，武火煮至水滾，調文火煮1小時，最後下鹽調味即可。

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Gourd-based soups
Hong Kong people like to drink soup to maintain our general wellbeing. To make ourselves a pot of delicious and healthy soup, we can choose the most suitable ingredients and Chinese medicines based on the season and our body constitution.

If you have neither the experience in cooking nor the confidence in making a pot of soup, try starting with a simple gourd-based soup. Choose the gourd (or melon) based on your body constitution and add in corn and carrot to sweeten the soup.

To make the soup more flavorful, you can add meat or beans such as soybean and kidney beans or nuts such as cashew, walnut, and chestnut.

🔥 Individuals with heat in the body
Symptoms: sore throat, mouth sores, acne, yellowish urine, dry and hard stools/constipation
Melon choice: bitter gourd, hairy gourd, loofah, papaya

💦 Individuals with accumulated dampness in the body
Symptoms: a person has had enough hours of sleep but still experiences fatigue, sweat easily, chest tightness, poor appetite, water retention problem, and produces loose stools that stick to the toilet bowl.
Melon choice: winter gourd, old cucumber, loofah, hairy gourd

🤯 Individuals with lots of pressure
Symptoms: feeling emotional, frequently sighing, hypochondrium distension, breast swelling, belching and constipation
Melon choice: chayote, loofah, papaya, cantaloupe

❄️ Individuals of aversion to cold
Symptoms: cold limbs and body, excessive sleepiness, excessive sweating, high volume of urine, loose stool or stool with undigested food
Melon choice: pumpkin

Chayote and corn soup with lotus seed and lily bulb
Effects: clears the heart and calms the mind, relieves symptoms such as poor sleep quality and fatigue.
Ingredients: 2 chayote, 2 ears of corn with silk, 1 carrot, 40g lotus seed, 20g lily bulb, 2 candied dates
Preparation:
1. Rinse all ingredients thoroughly. Peel the chayote and slice into pieces. Remove husks from corn keeping the silk and cut into pieces. Peel the carrot and cut into pieces.
2. Combine all ingredients with 2500ml of water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour. Add salt to taste.

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【運動飲食】即食雞胸肉選擇越來越多

⭐再好的食物也不要每餐吃
⭐雞肉多吃易上火
#星期四食材

增肌必吃雞胸肉？
近年坊間推出不少即食雞胸肉，以滿足「增肌減脂」人士需要，因為雞胸肉是低脂肪、高蛋白質的代表食物，不過從中醫角度來看，雞屬性溫熱，有補益氣血、暖胃的作用，如本身體質偏熱，再每天吃溫熱的雞肉，容易出現喉嚨痛、出口瘡、暗瘡等偏熱症狀，所以吃雞肉要適可宜止，不妨配搭其他高蛋白質食材，每星期輪流食用，例如蛋白、各類魚肉、芝士等，亦毛豆、黑豆、黃豆均含豐富蛋白質。
中醫理論認為「脾氣虛則肌肉失養」，如果脾胃虛弱肌肉會較鬆軟，所以著重吸收蛋白質之餘，亦要注意調理脾胃，平日適量食用有健脾胃作用的食材，例如淮山、薯仔、蓮子、芡實、扁豆衣等，每日飲用一杯米水都有助補氣養脾胃。

雞 — 性溫，能補益氣血、暖胃，感冒期間或濕熱、痰濕體質不宜食用。體質虛弱、久病後宜適量食用。

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功效：保健強身，尤其適合脾胃虛弱及痰濕內盛體質人士。

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Should we eat chicken breast to increase muscle?
In recent years, many different types of instant chicken breast are introduced to cater to the needs of those who wish to build muscles and lose weight. This is because the chicken breast is low in fats and high in protein.

Yet, from the Chinese Medicine perspective, chicken is warm in nature and can nourish the qi and the blood and warm the stomach. If an individual with a heat related body consumes chicken daily, he or she might experience heat-related symptoms such as sore throat, canker sore, and acne. Therefore, we should not consume chicken excessively.

We can also consider other high-protein food sources such as egg white, fish, and cheese, not forgetting about edamame, black bean, and soybean, as they are also rich in protein.

According to the Chinese Medicine theories, the muscles will lose its strength when qi in the spleen is weak. Besides taking protein, we have to maintain the health of the spleen and stomach. Consume ingredients such as Chinese yam, potato, lotus seed, gorgon, and lentils, as they can strengthen the spleen and stomach. Drinking a cup of rice water a day can also replenish the qi in these two internal organs.

Chicken - warm in nature, can replenish qi and blood, and warm the stomach. Not suitable for those with a flu or those with damp heat and phlegm and dampness body constitution. Suitable for those with asthenic body types and those who recovered from chronic illness.


✔ Recommendation: Dawn Rice Water
Ingredients: Red Rice, Coix Seed, White Rice
Effects: Suitable for the whole family to enhance physical wellbeing, especially those with a weak digestive system or with a phlegm and dampness body type.
Note: Not suitable for pregnant women.

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#男 #女 #喉嚨痛 #暗瘡

前一陣子我不是中暑、失眠、睡不好嗎？中醫師推薦我可以喝綠豆百合湯，我發現真的有幫助耶！最近睡眠狀況真的有改善很多，原來這小小不起眼的綠豆湯，還有涼補的功效呢！

因為最近太常煮綠豆湯了，也煮出了心得～所以我想跟大家分享用電鍋、免顧火、簡單也能煮出消暑助眠、完美的「白玉百合綠豆湯」哦！

也許你會疑惑：綠豆湯不是很簡單嗎？其實要煮出完美的綠豆湯，還是有一點小訣竅的啦！

像是洗好的綠豆可以先冷凍結冰、然後在煮的時候可以加入幾滴檸檬汁，這樣可以幫助綠豆保持漂亮的綠色，才不會把綠豆湯煮成紅色的～～

接下來和大家分享我的作法和比例吧～

🔸食材：綠豆一杯、乾燥百合20克、冰糖100克、桂冠小湯圓1/2杯

1️⃣綠豆洗乾淨後先浸泡十分鐘，放進容器或是袋子中，裝入1杯的冷開水，冰冷凍至完全結冰。

因為綠豆的皮很硬，要煮到完全軟化很花時間。但是將綠豆先浸泡後冷凍，利用熱漲冷縮原理讓綠豆開花，這樣要煮的時候，可以更節省時間喲~~

2️⃣乾百合洗淨後，放滾沸的水中煮10分鐘。10分鐘後，將百合撈起來後，再放入乾淨的溫水中泡發半小時備用。

3️⃣將冷凍的生綠豆放入鍋中，鍋中再加入7杯水(綠豆與水的比例我習慣1:8，但是因為冷凍有放一杯水了，所以要煮的時候再加7杯水就好了~)

外鍋放2杯水，按下去，這時候就可以去休息啦~~~等到電鍋跳起，我們再來加冰糖和百合

4️⃣電鍋跳起後，加入瀝乾泡發的百合以及冰糖，外鍋再半杯水，再蒸一下

5️⃣這時候就可以來煮小湯圓啦~~湯圓不用解凍，先煮一鍋水，等到水滾後，倒入小湯圓，可以利用湯匙攪動產生的水流漩渦，讓湯圓較不易黏鍋底，等到小湯圓浮起來之後，就可以撈起來囉~

#什麼是涼補呢？
有句話說：「食物就是最好的藥物」，華人喜歡以食物來調理身體，實在是太有智慧了！👍

夏天因為氣溫高、濕度也高，大家常常躲在冷氣房中，常常覺得頭腦沉重、身體疲倦，這時候除了要多補充水份，也可以吃一些屬性偏寒涼性的食材，來幫助身體消暑、去體內濕熱、補氣，這就是涼補的意思喲~

記得「涼補」的「涼」並不是指食物的溫度哦！大部份的人都以為吃點冰冰涼涼的冰品或是飲品能夠消暑，其實是錯誤的觀念，這樣反而會讓血管收縮，熱氣無法排出～

#涼補的食材有哪些？
寒涼性蔬菜水果包括了：西瓜、香瓜、苦瓜、冬瓜、小黃瓜，或是筍類：竹筍、蘆筍、茭白筍，以及蕃茄、蓮藕等等…。另外，薏苡仁、百合、綠豆、蓮子等等…，也是非常適合拿來做涼補的食材喲!

不過提醒大家：涼補不要在晚上或睡前吃，盡量在白天吃，一般人涼補也不能補過頭、吃過量，否則吃太多寒涼的食物容易拉肚子或是消化不良，只要正確吃涼補、不過量，就可以讓自己在炎炎夏日仍保有滿滿的活力，養生又健康~~

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