Six categories of brain-tonifying foods

　　What is the best food to nourish and strengthen the brain in winter? Regarding the topic of brain supplementation, everyone has different opinions and opinions. Today, the editor recommends six brain-boosting foods that are recognized by everyone. Let’s take a look together now.

　　Walnut

　　Traditional Chinese medicine believes that walnuts are sweet and warm in nature and have the effects of nourishing qi and blood, nourishing the kidneys and essence, warming the lungs and laxatives, relieving coughs and reducing phlegm, moisturizing muscles and black hair, strengthening teeth and tonifying deficiency, strengthening muscles and bones, and nourishing the body.

　　Sesame

　　Sesame has unique nourishing, strengthening and longevity effects. my country's "Compendium of Materia Medica" has made a pertinent summary of the unique effects of sesame on strengthening the body. Sesame nourishes lung qi, benefits the liver and kidneys, moistens the five internal organs, fills the marrow, strengthens bones and muscles, improves ears and eyes, resists hunger and thirst, and blackens beard and hair.

　　apple

　　Apple is known as the "memory fruit". It is rich in zinc, which promotes brain development, enhances memory, and also has a heart-protecting effect.

　　Longan

　　Longan is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It has the functions of benefiting the heart and spleen, replenishing qi and blood, and calming the mind. It is a good nourishing medicine. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" says that "longan calms the mind, strengthens the soul, and stimulates the mind." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that longan "appetites and benefits the spleen, nourishes deficiency and increases wisdom".

　　soybeans

　　Soybeans mainly contain glycinin, which is a high-quality plant protein. Soybean oil is also rich in essential amino acids and phospholipids, which has high nutritional value and can enhance cerebrovascular function.

　　Both onions and garlic can increase the secretion of digestive juices, thereby improving appetite and digestive function. Eating onions and garlic regularly can not only lower blood lipids, blood sugar and blood pressure, but also nourish the brain.

　　Brain supplement recipes

　　1. Gastrodia fish head soup

　　Instructions: 1 silver carp head, 15 grams of Gastrodia elata. Appropriate amount of mushrooms, shrimps and diced chicken.

　　First fry the silver carp in oil, add mushrooms, shrimps and diced chicken and fry briefly. Add gastrodia slices, water and seasonings, boil over medium heat for about 20 minutes and serve.

　　Efficacy: It has certain health care effects on dizziness, headache, depression, insomnia, forgetfulness, intolerance of thinking, and memory loss.

　　2. Pork bone and ginger soup

　　Instructions: 30 grams Polygonatum odorifera, 30 grams Polygonatum odorifera, 9 grams Cassia seed, 3 grams Chuanxiong, 300 grams pork ribs, 100 grams lean pork.

　　Decoction the above traditional Chinese medicine to remove residue and take the juice for later use.； Wash and chop the pork ribs into pieces, wash and slice the pork. Put the pork ribs, pork, ginger, and minced garlic into a ceramic pot and bring to a boil. Remove the foam, ginger, and minced garlic, add the prepared concoction, and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes until the meat is cooked. Add cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, and MSG and mix well. Serve. Eat meat and drink soup twice a day.

　　Efficacy: Tonify the brain, calm the nerves, and reconcile qi and blood. Suitable for mental deficiency, weakness after illness, dizziness, insomnia, forgetfulness, fatigue, etc.

　　3. Winter melon and prawn soup

　　Instructions: 500 grams of winter melon, 8 prawns. Appropriate amounts of chopped green onion, cooking wine, salt, and MSG.

　　Peel the prawns, remove the heads and tails, sprinkle with a little salt and wine, and marinate them for flavor. Add the winter melon to the pot and bring to a boil, then add the prawns. Season as soon as the prawns turn red.

　　Efficacy: It has a certain effect on mental deficiency and dizziness.

　　4. Day lily brain soup

　　Instructions: 150 grams of day lily, 30 grams of mushrooms, 250 grams of lean pork.

　　Wash the day lily and blanch it in boiling water, then soak it in cold water for 1-2 hours and squeeze out the water.； spare. Soak the mushrooms, squeeze out the water and cut into shreds ； Cut the lean pork into shreds, mix with a little salt, cooking wine, and starch and set aside. Put 1000 ml of water in a casserole, bring to a boil, sprinkle with a little salt, add shredded pork, bring to a boil, skim off the oil, add shredded shiitake mushrooms, boil for 3 minutes, add day lily, and drizzle with sesame oil.

　　Efficacy: Nourishing and strengthening the brain. It is suitable for the elderly with memory loss and patients with Alzheimer's disease.

　　5. Shenqi Bunao Decoction

　　Instructions: One pig brain, gastrodia elata, astragalus, adenophora, wolfberry, eucommia, and angelica in appropriate amounts.

　　Soak the pig brain in water, carefully pick out the blood streaks on the surface, rinse it with running water and put it into the stew pot. Gastrodia elata, astragalus, adenophora, wolfberry, eucommia, angelica and other medicinal materials were washed with water to clean the dust on the surface, and also put into the stew pot. Pour into a bowl of mineral water, cover the bowl, put it into a steamer, and steam over low heat for an hour and a half.

　　Efficacy: brain-tonifying, intelligence-enhancing.