To treat weakness, according to Chinese medicine, "deficiency is tonic, but it is diarrhea, heat is cold, and cold is heat." "Principle, need to adjust the excess and deficiency through tonic, tonic has four aspects: invigorating qi, nourishing blood, nourishing yin and strengthening yang, and it should be given according to each person's constitution and disease syndrome. Tonifying can be divided into medicine tonic and food tonic, whether it is medicine tonic or food tonic, it is for tonifying deficiency, strengthening body resistance and food tonic.
Sometimes it is more important than medicine, because food tonic can not only tonify deficiency and eliminate evil, but also strengthen the body, so that the qi, blood, yin and yang in the body can reach a new balance and restore health. Therefore, there is a saying that "medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic", and tonic is to replenish deficiency and strengthen the body. If it is not deficiency, it can cause adverse reactions, such as strong people taking ginseng and donkey-hide gelatin to replenish qi and blood at the same temperature. There will be loss of appetite, nausea, fullness, constipation, dizziness, sore throat and bleeding gums. For example, people who are afraid of cold due to yang deficiency and loose stools will be more afraid of cold, diarrhea and abdominal pain. After taking nourishing yin drugs such as Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis and Carapax Trionycis. These are all due to improper tonic, which damages stomach qi and violates the principle of tonic based on syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine.
The following is a brief introduction to some tonic foods and medicated diets for physical weakness:
1 qi deficiency: the main manifestations of qi deficiency are; Shortness of breath, laziness in speaking, fatigue, low voice, shortness of breath when moving, easy sweating, dizziness, palpitation, sallow complexion, loss of appetite, asthenic heat, spontaneous sweating, proctoptosis, uterine prolapse, light and fat tongue, teeth marks on the edge of the tongue, weak pulse, etc. , are hypofunction, not necessarily sick, people with qi deficiency need qi. Ginseng, Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis and other drugs for invigorating qi can be selected.
1. 1 Foods for invigorating qi: beef, chicken, pork, glutinous rice, soybeans, lentils, jujube, crucian carp, carp, quail, eel, shrimp, mushrooms, etc. You can often choose clothes alternately.
1.2 Taking medicated diet as an example to supplement qi deficiency prescription:
Yu Zhen Chicken: Wash a hen, put 30g longan, dried litchi, black dates, lotus seeds and medlar into the belly of the chicken, and add seasoning to steam food, which can replenish qi and nourish essence.
Steamed quail with Astragalus membranaceus: 6 ~ 9g of Astragalus membranaceus and 2 quails, steamed to supplement qi deficiency.
2 blood deficiency: the main manifestations of blood deficiency are; Pale complexion, pale lips and claws, dizziness, dizziness, palpitation and insomnia, dreaminess, dry stool, pale tongue, slippery fur, thin and weak pulse, etc. Tonifying should adopt the methods of enriching blood, nourishing blood and generating blood, and the drugs for enriching blood can be selected from Angelica sinensis, Colla Corii Asini, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Mulberry.
2. 1 Blood-enriching foods: black-bone chicken, black sesame, walnut meat, longan meat, chicken, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, red beans, etc. , you can choose frequently and alternately.
2.2 Examples of medicated diet with deficiency of blood:
Angelica sinensis black-bone chicken: put Angelica sinensis and Astragalus membranaceus 15g into gauze bags and cook with black-bone chicken. Eating chicken and soup can replenish blood and deficiency.
Ejiao glutinous rice porridge: Colla Corii Asini 9g (broken) and black glutinous rice 60g*** boiled porridge for oral administration, which can replenish blood and deficiency.
3 yin deficiency: also known as yin deficiency and excessive fire, commonly known as virtual fire, the main manifestations of yin deficiency are; Fear of heat, irritability, burning cheeks, dry mouth and sore throat, dry stool, short red or yellow urine, pale tongue and scanty body fluid, vexation of five hearts (palms, bottoms and heads), night sweats, backache, wet dream's nocturnal emission, thin or peeled tongue coating, and rapid pulse. Nourishing yin, nourishing yin, nourishing yin, etc. Should be used, the drugs for yin deficiency can be Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, Pearl powder, Tremella, Cordyceps, Dendrobium, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, etc.
3. 1 Foods nourishing yin deficiency: soft-shelled turtle, bird's nest, lily, duck, snakehead, jellyfish, lotus root, Flammulina velutipes, gouqi head, water chestnut, raw pear, etc. , can be taken alternately.
3.2 Examples of Prescriptions for Nourishing Yin in Medicinal Diet:
Tremella jujube soup (or lily lotus seed soup): A proper amount of tremella jujube (or lily lotus seed) can be used as a snack to supplement yin deficiency.
Turtle Erzi Decoction: 1 turtle, add 20g of Ligustrum lucidum and 20 g of Lycium barbarum, cook together, season and eat in several doses, which can tonify yin deficiency and treat low back pain, nocturnal emission, dizziness and blurred vision caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney.
Dendrobium river fish; Dendrobium 6g, 1 river fish steamed to nourish yin.
Cordyceps sinensis old duck: Cordyceps sinensis 9g is cooked with 1 three-year-old male duck, and eating duck meat and duck soup can supplement yin deficiency.
4 yang deficiency: also known as yang deficiency and fire failure, it is the further development of qi deficiency, and the main manifestations of yang deficiency are; In addition to the manifestations of qi deficiency, I am usually afraid of cold, my limbs are not warm, I like hot drinks, my body temperature is often low, my waist is sore and my legs are weak, I have impotence, premature ejaculation, cold pain in my lower abdomen, fatigue, unfavorable urination, pale tongue, white fur and heavy and thin pulse. Buyang, Yiyang, Wenyang: Ginseng Rubra, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Eucommia ulmoides, Cordyceps sinensis, Cinnamomum cassia, hippocampus, etc. It can be used as a medicine for tonifying yang deficiency.
4. 1 Buyang food: beef, dog meat, mutton, bullwhip, sea cucumber, mussel, walnut meat, longan, quail, eel, shrimp, leek, cinnamon, fennel, etc. , can be taken alternately.
4.2 Examples of prescriptions for tonifying yang deficiency:
Hippocampus broiler: Hippocampus 9g, broiler 1, * * * steamed food, can supplement yang deficiency.
Leek and white rice shrimp: 200g leek, white rice shrimp 100g (or shrimp), stir-fried, seasoned and taken regularly, can tonify yang deficiency.
5 Two Deficiencies: People with physical deficiency often have two virtual bodies, and the two virtual bodies have the following types:
5. 1 deficiency of both qi and yin: deficiency of both qi and yin, mainly manifested as follows; There are symptoms of qi deficiency such as dizziness, fatigue and leg weakness, and symptoms of yin deficiency such as excessive internal heat, dry throat and red tongue, but there is no chronic disease. This constitution is called deficiency of both qi and yin, and the tonic method of supplementing qi and nourishing yin should be adopted, that is, both qi and yin should be taken into account.
5.2 Deficiency of Yin and Yang: Yin deficiency and Yang deficiency are both called deficiency of Yin and Yang, mainly manifested as: fear of cold and heat, especially cold in winter and hot in summer, which is the constitution of yin and yang imbalance or deficiency of Yin and Yang, and tonic methods such as nourishing yin and warming yang should be adopted.
5.3 Deficiency of both qi and blood: Deficiency of both qi and blood generally appears in anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, after massive bleeding, menorrhagia of women, etc. The main manifestations are: both qi deficiency and blood deficiency, so it is advisable to replenish qi and blood.
Foods and medicated diets with the functions of replenishing qi and blood, nourishing yin and nourishing Yang Can should be supplemented based on syndrome differentiation and taken alternately according to the severity of weakness. After the weakness disappears, you should stop taking tonic food and medicated diet until you have a normal and balanced diet. Only in this way can you truly "tonify deficiency, which is actually diarrhea", and you don't need to tonify everything, so as to avoid white tonification.
"Food tonic is not as good as medicine tonic", which is a summary of the practice of doctors and patients for thousands of years. Food supplement is suitable for the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and also for those who are weak after illness. However, food supplement, like drug treatment, should be differentiated according to the deficiency and excess of yin and yang of human organs, and should be selected according to people, time and illness.
(1) food supplement for qi deficiency syndrome;
People with qi deficiency should often eat food that tonifies qi and strengthens spleen. Because the spleen can replenish qi, strengthening the spleen is the main method of invigorating qi. According to the principle of qi and blood in traditional Chinese medicine, qi can replenish blood. Qi deficiency is often manifested as fatigue, shortness of breath when moving, hyperhidrosis and spontaneous sweating, low voice, loss of appetite, indigestion, drooping organs, loose stool, edema of head, face and limbs, weak pulse, pale tongue and white coating. Commonly used qi-invigorating foods include glutinous rice, millet, yellow rice, barley, soybeans, lentils, chestnuts, yams, jujubes, carrots, sword beans, apples, pineapples, beef, rabbit meat, mutton tripe, pork tripe, chicken, Monopterus albus and silver carp. Commonly used health care drugs in food include pollen, royal jelly, ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, astragalus root, pseudostellaria root, poria cocos, licorice root, acanthopanax senticosus and so on. Commonly used medicinal diets include stewed chicken with astragalus root, ginseng and mushroom soup, yam and jujube paste, poria cocos pancakes and so on.
(2) Food supplement for blood deficiency syndrome:
People with blood deficiency should eat something that strengthens the spleen and stomach and nourishes liver and blood. Blood deficiency is often manifested as pale complexion, insufficient blood color in nails, lips and eyelids, sparse hair loss, premature graying of hair, dizziness and fatigue, short and late menstrual flow and thready pulse in women. Blood tests include red blood cells, white blood cells and thrombocytopenia. Commonly used blood-enriching foods include jujube, jujube, carrot, pine nuts, litchi, longan, brown sugar, mulberry, black sesame, lean pork, ham, pig liver, beef liver, sheep liver, turtle, sea cucumber, scallop, duck gizzard liver, black-bone chicken and so on. Health care drugs commonly used in combination include Angelica sinensis, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Colla Corii Asini, etc. Commonly used medicinal diets include candied red dates, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb honey cream, candied mulberry, angelica mutton soup, sea cucumber and fungus soup, etc.
(3) Yin deficiency food supplement:
People with yin deficiency constitution should often eat foods that mainly nourish yin and fluid. Yin deficiency is often manifested as low fever in the afternoon or night heat and early cooling, aversion to heat, fever in hands and feet, dysphoria, lip cherry red or zygomatic red, dry mouth and sore throat, liking cold drinks, night sweats, nocturnal emission, premenstrual period, dark color, subcutaneous hemorrhage, thin tongue, tender red tongue, slippery tongue coating and rapid pulse. Commonly used nourishing yin foods include pear, water chestnut, watermelon, Chinese cabbage, sugarcane, lily, fresh lotus root, medlar, auricularia auricula, tremella, nail fish, mussel meat, turtle, bird's nest, pigskin, milk, goat's milk, egg yolk and so on. Health care drugs commonly used in combination include Radix Rehmanniae, Colla Corii Asini, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Adenophorae, Radix Scrophulariae, Dendrobium, Polygonatum odoratum, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Fructus Lycii, etc. Commonly used medicinal diets include black fungus soup, bird's nest porridge, lotus lily porridge, candied lily, autumn pear, turtle and so on.
(4) Yang deficiency food supplement:
People with yang deficiency should warm and tonify kidney yang. In addition to the symptoms similar to qi deficiency, yang deficiency also includes fear of cold, tepid limbs, like hot drinks and low body temperature. Commonly used aphrodisiac foods include walnut kernel, black date, leek, dried ginger, cinnamon, fennel, venison, mutton, dog meat, bullwhip, shrimp, mussel, eel, sparrow meat, sparrow brain, quail and so on. The commonly used combination of health care drugs are ginseng, velvet antler, curculigo, aconite, cordyceps sinensis, scorpion, male silkworm and so on. Commonly used medicinal diets include stewed walnut paste with yellow wine, fried shrimp with leek, stewed old chicken with cordyceps sinensis and so on.