Aging Doesn't Want Dementia, When Cooking Rice, Porridge, or Soup, Remember to Add It, It Can Also Lower Blood Pressure and Promote Sleep
Modern science has discovered that there is a familiar food that can help us prevent age-related dementia and improve brain activity – it's lychee!
Modern research shows that lychees are rich in calcium, phosphorus and potassium, as well as other vitamins, trace elements, and amygdalin. Besides contributing to the formation of bones and teeth, they can activate enzymes, maintain nerve conduction, calm nerves, and maintain muscle contraction and heartbeat rhythm.
In simple terms, they can strengthen bones, promote metabolism, maintain brain nerve activity to prevent their aging, and maintain the rhythm of heart pain. These are all physical functions that middle-aged and elderly people need to strengthen.
Our middle-aged and elderly friends, as well as knowledge workers, should eat lychees often because they can strengthen the brain, improve memory, increase work efficiency, and prevent the occurrence of age-related dementia.
Furthermore, lychee hearts have a significant strengthening effect, expanding peripheral blood vessels and lowering blood pressure. Lychee hearts also have a good effect of clearing fire, which can be used to treat mouth sores and help sleep.
Ancient people believed that eating lychees could restore youth and live forever.Saying that one can live forever is an exaggeration, but regarding its medicinal value in nourishing the heart and mind, strengthening the brain, eliminating fatigue, etc., has been recorded in numerous medical classics over the ages.
(Běn cǎo gāngmù - Compendium of Materia Medica)It records: Lychee tastes sweet, has a cool and astringent aroma, and possesses the spirit of the harvest. It is the fruit of the spleen. The earth is the mother of vital energy, and its energy is harmonious and transformative, resulting in the generation of essence and spirit. Therefore, it is durable and long-lasting. In the past, when the heart and kidneys were not connected and were injured due to overwork, people used clear heart lychee drink; to supplement the heart and kidneys, improve essence and blood, there was the 'Rui Lian' (Rui Lian - Rui Lian Pill), all based on this principle.
Boil rice, cook porridge, stew soup, grab a handful and throw it in.
Many of the healthy and nourishing small habits we constantly advocate are abandoned because they are too complicated and conflict with our usual living habits.
However, using lychees to prevent dementia, lower blood pressure, and calm the mind is a habit that is easy to persist in as long as it is done at home, because this nourishing method does not require us to change too many of our usual living habits. Lychees don't need to be cooked as a separate dish; just throwing a handful of lychees into rice, porridge, or soup is enough!
1. Soaked lychees should be soaked beforehand, for example, if you have lunch at noon, put a handful of soaked lychees in warm water in the morning to use for stewing or steaming rice at noon.
2. Lychee hearts must be removed, that is, remove the green core inside, this lychee core can be left to brew tea for people with hyperactivity of fire or high blood pressure.
