January 30, 2020
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【湯水養生】年初七已吃到肚滿腸肥？
#最怕是肥腫難分
#先解決水腫再努力減肥
#星期五湯水
冬瓜荷葉湯擊退水腫脂肪
農曆新年享用的大多屬肥甘厚味的食物，味道濃郁之餘鹽份含量亦高，容易令大家增磅，攝取過多鹽份亦容易令身體水腫，有明顯的水腫時皮膚按下去後會陷下不起，輕微情況則會出現眼腫、四肢腫脹，例如突然覺得戒指變小、鞋子變緊、容易留有襪印，伴隨症狀還有頭重、口淡、胸悶、小便量少等，從中醫角度來看脾氣虛弱的人特別容易出現水腫，因為未能正常將多餘水濕排出體外，情況嚴重當然要找註冊中醫師處理，如果症狀輕微，可以煲健脾祛濕湯水自救。
健脾祛濕湯水小貼士：
適當地添加健脾祛濕食材如薏米、淮山、赤小豆、黃豆、茯苓、白术等。
冬瓜荷葉海帶素湯
功效：健脾祛濕，紓緩脾胃虛弱而引致的反覆肚瀉、下肢水腫、眼簾浮腫等症狀。
材料：冬瓜連皮600克、鮮荷葉1/2塊(或乾荷葉約20克)、椰菜半個、海帶80克、扁豆衣10克、陳皮1角、花生30克、蜜棗2枚、薑2片、芋絲一包
做法：
1. 所有乾材料洗淨，冬瓜連皮切塊。海帶切段，泡水20分鐘備用，海帶水不用倒掉。
2. 鍋內加入約2500毫升水及海帶水，放入全部材料，以武火煮至水滾，調文火煮約1小時，最後下鹽調味即可，喝湯吃芋絲更飽肚！
Winter soup to lose fat and relieve edema
Most of the things you eat during Chinese new year are fatty and oily, saucy and salty, which can be quite fattening. Consuming too much salt can lead to edema. When there is obvious edema, the skin will sink when pressed. You may experience eyelids and limbs swelling. For example, you might suddenly feel that the ring is too small, shoes seem tight, and you have sock marks on your legs. The accompanying symptoms include heavy headedness, loss of sense of taste, chest tightness, and low urine volume. From Chinese medicine perspective, people with weak spleen qi are particularly prone to edema because the dampness cannot be dispelled normally. If the situation is serious, you should consult with a registered Chinese medicine practitioner. If the symptoms are mild, you can make a soup to strengthen spleen and dispel dampness.
Tips for soup to strengthen spleen and dispel dampness:
Appropriately add in ingredients such as coix seed, Chinese yam, rice bean, soya bean, poria, atractylodes rhizome.
Winter melon soup with lotus leaf and kelp
Effects: strengthens spleen and dispels dampness, relieves symptoms such as frequent diarrhea, lower limbs swelling, eyelids swelling due to asthenic weak stomach.
Ingredients: 600g winter melon (with peel), ½ fresh lotus leaf (or 20g dried lotus leaf), half of a cabbage, 80g kelp, 10g hyacinth bean coat, 1 dried citrus peel, 30g peanut, 2 candied dates, 2 slices of ginger, 1 pack Konnyaku noodle
Preparation:
1. Rinse all dried ingredients, cut winter melon into pieces. Cut kelp into pieces and soak for 20 minutes and remove from water. Keep the kelp water for use.
2. Combine all ingredients with 2500ml of water and kelp water in a pot and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour. Add salt to taste. Eating Konnyaku noodles can be more filling!
