To lose weight, you must nourish your spleen first, decoction therapy is the new trend! Traditional Chinese Medicine: Drink Rosemary Soup to Benefit the Spleen

"What should I eat to lose weight?" This question is often encountered in weight loss clinics. However, if you worry about this every day, it will probably be difficult to lose weight. Why not first understand which foods to eat? Which foods should not be eaten? Chinese medicine practitioners believe that whether weight loss is successful or not has a lot to do with the "spleen". Many people have trouble with bowel movements and bloating after eating, all of which are caused by "damaged spleen". Drinking "Spleen Nourishing Soup" can help you lose weight.

Losing weight doesn't just depend on body weight, body fat weight should also be considered

In addition, during the weight loss process, you often encounter a situation where you exercise a lot every day, but your weight does not change and you just can’t lose weight? Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Zhijia said that in fact, just looking at the weight is not very accurate, and it should be referred to together with the "body fat weight" to be more accurate. If you gain weight but not body fat, you are not getting fat, it may be caused by edema or other factors. In addition, according to the "set point weight theory" proposed by an American nutritionist, it is believed that you can lose weight by simply changing the "set point weight".

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Weight loss is related to the spleen and the digestive function needs to be strengthened

Why is weight loss related to the spleen? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the spleen is the foundation of acquired constitution and is responsible for the body's digestion and metabolism functions." Therefore, changing wrong eating habits is the first step in losing weight. It is important to "eat at regular times and in fixed quantities, and the portions of three meals should be fixed," so that the spleen and stomach can function normally and the digestive system will naturally be strengthened. In daily life, you can make good use of soups that can adjust digestive function, and choose good ingredients. For example, red beans can drain water, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. Rosemary, which is generally used as a spice, has a good effect in reducing fat and enhancing digestive function.

In his new book "Daily Decoction Therapy", Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Zhijia stated that red beans are mild in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and their main functions are to promote diuresis and remove dampness, reduce swelling and detoxify. They are one of the medicinal materials used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat edema. Red beans are commonly used to relieve edema. Red beans are similar to adzuki beans, but adzuki beans are longer and thinner in appearance, while red beans are shorter, fatter and larger. As for rosemary, it is warm in nature and spicy in taste, which helps to protect the stomach and improve digestion.

Recommended recipes to nourish the spleen and reduce swelling

The following are two recipes that are good for nourishing the spleen and reducing swelling for your reference:

【Rosemary spleen-benefiting soup】

Ingredients and medicinal materials: 1 tomato, 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 egg, 100 grams of pork. 10 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 15 grams of dried tangerine peel, and 5 grams of rosemary.

practice:

1. Put codonopsis, atractylodes, tangerine peel and rosemary into the Chinese medicine bag, slice tomatoes, dice onions and garlic, cut pork into pieces, and beat the eggs for later use.

2. Pour the olive oil into the pot, heat it on low heat, then add onion and chopped garlic and stir-fry evenly.

3. Add tomatoes and pork and continue stir-frying.

4. Place the Chinese medicine bag into the pot and add water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.

5. Finally, add the egg liquid to the soup and season with salt, then it is ready to serve.

【Red bean detumescence soup】

Ingredients and medicinal materials: onion, ginger, carp, black beans, mung beans, and red beans.

practice:

1. Put black beans, red beans and mung beans into the Chinese medicine bag, cut the ginger into shreds, chop the green onions, and wash and slice the carp.

2. Put the Chinese medicine bag in 1 into the pot and add water.

3. Bring to boil over high heat, then simmer for 15 minutes.

4. Put the fish fillets and shredded ginger into the pot and cook for about 5 minutes.

5. Turn off the heat, add salt to taste, add chopped green onions and serve.

Why can you lose weight just by changing your “set point weight”?

The so-called set point is a person's weight in a stable state. The stable state is related to living habits. When diet, daily routine, exercise, workload and mood are all stable, the body will try its best to regulate metabolism to maintain weight at a stable number. As for the set point, it is different for each person and is mainly related to genetic age and environment. It usually reaches stability at the age of 18.

According to this theory, we can change our body's set point. If we want to lose weight, we lower our set point weight. If we want to gain weight, we raise our set point weight. Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Zhijia, who has implemented this theory through personal experience, said that he had always had three meals at regular times and regular amounts, and his work and rest schedule and exercise were also regular. Later, after he started eating midnight snacks, he ate four meals a day, and his weight increased by about 3 kilograms. However, his weight did not continue to rise linearly, but stabilized after gaining 3 kilograms. The body apparently adapts to this steady state, and the set-point weight stabilizes.

The ultimate way to lose weight is to maintain a regular diet and daily routine, and by changing the amount of exercise, disrupt the stable state, allowing the body to increase metabolism and lower the set point weight. Although Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Zhijia has the habit of having a fourth midnight snack, he would eat it 2 hours before going to bed and would carefully choose the types of food, basically consisting of boiled chicken and vegetables, with a small amount of fruit such as apples and guava, so that he would feel full after just a simple meal.

Aerobic exercise is the best exercise to improve metabolism

As for how to improve metabolism? Dr. Chen Zhijia, a Chinese medicine practitioner, said that the best exercise to improve metabolism is "aerobic exercise". It is recommended to briskly walk at a speed of more than 6 kilometers per hour for more than 40 minutes to achieve the aerobic effect. If you want to lose weight faster, you must change your set point weight. It is recommended to take two weeks as a unit and four units as a cycle. At the beginning, exercise one day a week, and then rest for two weeks before starting another cycle. In this way, the body is always in an unstable state, which will increase the metabolism and make it easier to lose weight.