4 traditional healthy dishes

Since ancient times, our ancestors have known how to choose Tet dishes that are delicious, nutritious, good for health, and have many flavors. Flavors are sour, spicy, bitter, salty, and sweet. And the flavor is essential oils and fragrance.

According to Oriental medicine, sweet taste goes into the spleen (pancreas) to nourish the spleen and stomach, sour taste goes into the liver (liver) to help the liver clear and detoxify. Spicy taste has heat in the lungs to warm the lungs, because Tet holidays are often in the cold season, so it is very cold, the lungs are easily infected with cold causing sore throat and pneumonia. Bitter taste goes into the heart (heart). Bitter taste has a cold nature and goes into the heart to cool the blood, during Tet holidays drinking a lot of alcohol can easily cause blood heat, which can cause headaches and high blood pressure. Salty taste has a heavy specific gravity so it goes down to the kidneys to help the kidneys clear and detoxify, eliminate waste products, and remove toxins from the body. Essential oils and fragrances help the body to circulate blood, eliminate unnecessary substances through the respiratory tract and sweat... to balance yin and yang in the body, helping people stay healthy. Therefore, Tet dishes cannot lack substances that have a nourishing effect, regulate yin and yang blood in the body to stay healthy, such as:

Pickled onions for Tet:In Oriental medicine, onion is called “Thong Bach”, spicy and hot, has the effect of clearing yang energy, eliminating bad air, detoxifying, circulating blood and meridians. It also has the effect of warming the spleen and stomach and digesting fat. It has the effect of reducing joint pain when infected with cold. Therefore, the ancients taught: “Fatty meat goes with pickled onions” to eat during Tet with that reason.

Bamboo shoots stewed with pig's feet:Bamboo shoots are called “Trúc duẩn” in Oriental medicine. They are sweet and slightly bitter, cold and non-toxic. They regulate the spleen and stomach, clear heat, reduce fire and eliminate phlegm, treat adverse qi symptoms, cause vomiting, cough with phlegm, and also contain fiber that makes food easier to digest. Pig’s trotters, called “Trư đề” in Oriental medicine, have the effect of nourishing the kidneys, strengthening the spleen and stomach, clearing heat, and treating loneliness. These two dishes, stewed and eaten during Tet, are nutritious, delicious, and easy to digest, eliminating phlegm.

Braised duck with Chinese medicine:often called “Gia ac luc vi” (gia ac is duck meat, luc vi is six Chinese medicinal herbs - the number six is ​​considered a lucky number). This dish in many localities in the South Central region has a custom that on Tet holidays, duck stew with Chinese medicinal herbs such as codonopsis, wolfberry, yam, lotus seed, red apple (daijube), coix seed (codonopsis tonic, wolfberry tonic for the kidneys, lotus seed, yam both tonic for the kidneys and tonic for the spleen and stomach, coix seed and daijube both tonic for the spleen and stomach and regulate the spleen and stomach, making the dish more nutritious). This dish is to worship ancestors but is also a nutritious dish, bringing good luck to the family and to each person at the beginning of the year. In the South Central region, in the first days of spring, if anyone gets to eat this dish, it is considered lucky.

Chung cake: is an indispensable dish in the early spring Tet feast. In the theory of yin and yang and the five elements, spring belongs to the liver, belongs to wood, belongs to mutual generation, likes green color, makes the eyes clear. In Oriental medicine, the eyes are the essence of the liver, spring also makes people's tendons and bones stronger. In banh chung there is often sticky rice which Oriental medicine calls Dao mi, Nhu mi or Du mi which has a sweet, warm taste, soft and fragrant smell, has the effect of benefiting kidney qi, nourishing the liver, making the liver and gallbladder circulate, strengthening the spleen and stomach to nourish the whole body and strengthen the tendons and bones; Oriental medicine calls green beans Luc dau which has a sweet taste, cool nature, has the effect of strengthening the spleen, stomach, heart, liver, and eliminating toxins in food.

Oriental medicine calls pork "Trử nhục", has a sweet, warm taste, has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang, the fatty part has the effect of absorbing and eliminating alcohol; Oriental medicine calls pepper "hồ tiêu", spicy, warm, has the effect of warming the spleen and stomach, stimulating digestion, lowering the air, eliminating phlegm, treating abdominal pain due to cold accumulation, indigestion. All are wrapped in green dong leaves. The word dong has many meanings but one meaning is green, longevity because it lives in deep forests, protected by ancient trees so it is green all year round, flourishing year after year, never withering. Those are the nutritious ingredients of banh chung that we have long praised for being delicious but do not fully understand the role and effect of banh chung on Tet holiday.

According to Zing