内容简介

《中国人的饮食养生》以食品的类别为线索，介绍了中国传统养生对于不同种类的不同食物的功用的认识，并结合现代研究，针对不同的体质给出合理的膳食建议和烹饪方法、菜谱。本书是作者在广泛收集材料的基础上独立编写的第一手手稿，目前尚未在中国境内外出版，因此在内容上具有明显的原创性和独特性。

From this book readers are expected to learn about the traditional Chinese way of eating and find their opinions as regards the choices of food in various situations. They will also familiarized themselves with a great variety of traditionally consumed Chinese food items and understand why the Chinese people generally believe food and medicine are of the same origin. Detailed accounts of the properties of different food items will serve as useful references for making decisions on what one should choose to eat according to his or her own physical conditions.

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目录

Preface

Chapter One: Grains and Beans

Chapter Two: Vegetables and Fruit

Chapter Three: Edible Fungi and Nuts

Chapter Four: Poultry, Meat, Milk and Eggs

Chapter Five: Aquatic Products

Chapter Six: Constitution, Season and Food

Appendix

精彩书摘

7.Lychee (Lichi) (荔枝 lì zh )

Nature: Warm

Taste: Sweet

Acts on Organ: Heart, Spleen and Liver

Health Benefits:

In China, lychee is regarded as “gift for a joyful life.” The famous poet Su Shi of the Song Dynasty once exclaimed that he would like to stay in Lingnan and eat 300 lychees each day. Today lychees are commonly sold fresh in many Chinese markets, and can be found in supermarkets worldwide.

According to Diannan Ben Cao, “Lychees are helpful to nourish blood and tranquilize mind, increase appetite and invigorate spleen, and constrain sweat.” In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the lychee, much like the longan, is considered a “warm” fruit, so eating too many lychees will cause excessive internal heat.

Lychees are an old folk remedy for cough, cold, fever and sore throat. They can be decocted to invigorate strength, supplement blood, and prevent anemia. Dried lychees taste somewhat like raisins, and the Chinese use grated lychees as a sweetener in tea, a good choice for maintaining a beautiful complexion.

What’s more, lychee seeds can be used to lessen the pain of nerve inflammations.

Modern Researches:

Lychee contains sugar, dietary fiber, protein, vitamin C, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. Rich in vitamin C, lychee can help the body fight against heart disease and cancers. Lychee is also beneficial for our bones, blood vessels and tissue.

You Might (not) Want To Take Lychee:

Lychee can be helpful for people with the following conditions:

anemia;

neurasthenia;

bad memory.

The following people are not recommended to eat too many lychees:

diabetics;

people with phlegm-fire or deficiency of Yin.

Let’s Cook Lychee:

Recommended Recipe: Sweet Lychee Soup (荔枝甜羹)

Ingredients: fresh lychees, 2 cups lychee juice, milk, porridge (thick)

Seasoning: sugar

Preparation:

1. Bring the juice to a boil over medium-high heat.

2. Mix lychees, milk and porridge, put aside.

3. Cool the juice slightly and pour into a blender. Add the prepared mixture and blend until smooth.

4. Serve hot, or refrigerate for about

3 hours.

前言/序言

Introduction to Chinese Lifestyle

China, a country of appealing mysteries.

The Chinese nation, a nation intermittently strong and weak, honorable and infamous, awake and asleep, with a history of five millennia at the shortest and probably longer, has experienced the highest stage of ancient civilizations in the most prosperous dynasties of the world, and made indelible contributions to the advance of human societies. As the world’s biggest nation, the Chinese people account for approximately a quarter of the whole population on earth.

And as a standing member of the UN Security Council, it is exerting enormous influence on international affairs. Economically speaking, it is the world’s largest consumer market and human resource reservoir, as well as the largest base of processing industries.

For the recent three decades, China’s opening to the world has brought about unprecedented contact with the people of all other countries, resulting in great advancement of the Chinese society and drastic growth of its economy, which have drawn ever greater attention of the world. Now again as in the past when China was in its prime, the world find it impossible to overlook China and its people.

However, for its many sufferings in pre-modern and modern history of social unrest and setbacks, natural disasters and social misfortunes, China has for a long time remained relatively backward, listed as a “developing country” of the world. And for the same reason, The Chinese people and their civilization have been neglected in the developed countries, and what is now known of China to quite many people in the West remains to be what it was 30 or 50 years ago.

In view of the above conditions, we hereby present to our readers this brand-new Chinese Lifestyle with the aim to help those interested in things Chinese learn about the people and their social life, and ultimately discover “the last hidden world” and the nation that is once more on the rise in the Oriental, so as to more effectively communicate with them in all walks of life...