Food can cure diseases, but if it is not used properly, it can also cause or aggravate diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to master diet in the process of dietotherapy. Diet should avoid the following points:

(1), avoid the cold.

It belongs to cold syndrome, deficiency syndrome, spleen and stomach deficiency cold or constitution deficiency cold, yang deficiency and cold-prone people at ordinary times. Such as melons and fruits, pears, bananas, fresh lotus roots, peaches, water chestnuts, cold vegetables and so on.

Such as dizziness, low voice, palpitation, shortness of breath, weakness of limbs, pale face, chills and cold limbs.

(2) Avoid frying

Do not use it for food stagnation due to heat, stagnation of damp heat, jaundice and phlegm-dampness. Such as infectious diseases, pneumonia, high fever, gastroduodenal ulcer and hypertension.

(3) avoid greasy

Can be used for treating dyspepsia, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, hypertension, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, pancreatitis and other diseases. Such as fat meat, animal viscera, etc.

(4) avoid spicy

Do not eat spicy food such as ginger, onion, garlic, pepper, cinnamon, wine and pepper for fever.

(5) Avoid hair

Some diseases should be avoided, such as various emergencies, furuncle and other infectious diseases, acute abdomen, hepatitis, postoperative and so on. Hair products include seafood, such as yellow croaker, shrimp, crab, pig head, rooster, taro stalk, bamboo shoots, mustard, dog meat, chicken head and so on.

Food should be avoided.

There are four kinds of food and five flavors.

Four properties

Each plant has medicinal properties and taste, and has certain functions according to the medicinal properties and taste.

Four natures can also be called four qi: there are four qi of "cold, hot and cool", and the treatment method of "hot medicine cures cold and cold medicine cures heat"; In addition, there are flat foods between cold and hot and warm and cold, that is, neither hot nor cold.

Cold food often has the functions of clearing away heat, purging fire and detoxifying. It is mostly used for the syndrome of hyperactivity of yang and excessive heat.

Warm food often has the effects of warming yang, saving inverse and dispelling cold. , mostly used for yin syndrome and cold syndrome.

Flat food is between cold and warm, and has the functions of invigorating spleen, appetizing, tonifying kidney and strengthening body.

Five flavors

There are five kinds of food: sweet, spicy, sour, bitter and salty. Five flavors have different medicinal functions, namely, "pungent, sour, sweet, bitter and firm, salty and soft".

The relationship between four seasons health preservation and four flavors of food.

In spring, it is advisable to eat acid to converge and nourish the liver.

It is appropriate to relieve summer heat and relieve pain, suffer hardships and eat hard, and nourish the heart and nature.

In autumn, it is advisable to nourish the lungs with astringent food and divergent food.

Winter is solid, salty and soft. Nourishing kidney

Pungent taste has the functions of dispersing stagnation, activating qi and promoting blood circulation, so it can relieve exterior syndrome, relieve pain and remove blood stasis. Overeating consumes gas.

Sweet taste has the function of relieving depression and nourishing, so it can nourish yin and tonify middle energizer, while gluttony will hinder qi activity and make it unreasonable.

The sour taste is astringent, which can cure chronic diarrhea, proctoptosis and nocturnal emission, while excessive consumption will lead to muscle contracture.

Bitter taste has the functions of eliminating dampness, purging fire, relaxing bowels and strengthening the spleen.

Salty taste has the function of softening and moistening the lower body, so it can disperse the knot, treat phlegm and relax the bowels.

Five flavors belong to five internal organs.

Gan belongs to the spleen, soil acid belongs to the liver, wood salted fish belongs to the kidney, water bitterness belongs to the heart, fire belongs to the lung, and pungent belongs to gold.

Function of food: it has the functions of clearing away heat, warming, calming, clearing away heat, detoxifying and diuresis.

Application principle of medicated diet

Medicated diet follows the principles of being different from person to person, from place to place, and adapting to the time.

People with yin deficiency often have symptoms such as dry cough, hemoptysis, asthenic heat, thirst, retching, less red tongue and body fluid, dry eyes, dizziness, hot flashes, night sweats, backache and knee weakness. And should be supplemented by American ginseng, rock sugar, glutinous rice, lily, pear and honey.

People with yang deficiency often have mental fatigue, cold stomach, cold limbs, weak waist and knees, impotence, frequent urination and enuresis. Beef, mutton, mushrooms and longan are all acceptable.

Patients with qi deficiency often show weakness, low voice, loss of appetite, spontaneous sweating and so on. Cordyceps sinensis, Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis, pig lung and duck can be supplemented.

Patients with blood deficiency often have symptoms such as sallow complexion, pale labial nail, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia and forgetfulness. Edible Fructus Lycii, Fructus Jujubae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Colla Corii Asini, Arillus longan and goose blood.