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Beginning of spring wants to "bite the spring". What should we eat when we get to beginning of spring?
After winter, people generally have insufficient intake of vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements, such as stomatitis, angular stomatitis, glossitis and some skin diseases in spring, all of which are due to nutritional disorders caused by eating less fresh vegetables. Therefore, when spring comes, people must eat more vegetables. There are few fresh vegetables in early spring. At this time, vegetables that are refrigerated, dried, pickled and pickled in winter can come in handy. Such as pickled radish, ginger, onion, cabbage, mustard, pepper, mustard tuber and so on. Eat more wild vegetables in spring. Wild vegetables, such as shepherd's purse, purslane, dandelion, plantain, elm, bamboo shoots and so on. Growing in the suburbs, it has little pollution, simple eating method, rich nutrition and obvious health care effect. Nowadays, growing vegetables in greenhouses has gradually changed the situation that fresh vegetables are in short supply in spring. You can eat fresh vegetables at any time in a convenient place. Such as spinach, celery, rape, water bamboo, lettuce, Chinese toon, green beans and so on. In spring soup, carrots, radishes, kelp, wax gourd, tomatoes and bamboo shoots are the main ingredients, with chicken liver, pig liver and shredded lean meat. Soup should be light and delicious. ?

Spring (from the beginning of spring to the long summer) is the season when everything grows and everything is renewed. What nutrients should I take in spring and how to adjust my diet? Quite simply, we can sum it up in one sentence:? The weather gets warmer in spring, and the diet should be light. Eat more fresh vegetables and less spicy wine and meat to ensure health and longevity.

1. A balanced diet?

From the perspective of dietary science, the relative proportion of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals should be maintained in spring to prevent overeating and avoid abnormal liver function and bile secretion. ?

2. Spring diet nourishing liver first?

Chinese medicine believes that nourishing yang in spring is very important for nourishing the liver. In the theory of five elements, the liver belongs to wood, corresponding to spring, which mainly rises and occurs in spring. Therefore, patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease should pay more attention to aphrodisiac in spring. And spring is the peak season for bacteria and viruses to breed. The liver has the function of detoxification, and the burden is the heaviest. And because people's liver qi rises, it will also cause the recurrence of old diseases. For example, the rise of liver fire in spring will make the weak lung yin more virtual, then tuberculosis will take advantage of it. Chinese medicine believes that the human body governs the liver in spring, and the liver qi is naturally abundant in spring. If you don't keep in good health in spring, it's easy to hurt your liver qi. In order to adapt to the change of seasonal climate and maintain human health, we should pay attention to nourishing the liver first in diet conditioning. ?

3. Do you want to raise yang in your diet?

Yang refers to the yang of the human body, which one does Chinese medicine think? Yang is the spirit, who is outside? In other words, yang plays a defensive role in the human body, which can make the human body strong and avoid the invasion of six evils in nature. In spring, in terms of diet, we should follow the advice of Huangdi Neijing? Make up yang in spring and summer? In principle, it is advisable to eat more foods that warm and tonify yang, so as to enrich human yang, enhance human resistance and resist the invasion of common cold pathogens. Li Shizhen also advocated in Compendium of Materia Medica? Eat a mixture of fresh and tender dishes, such as onion, garlic, leek, Polygonum hydropiper, Artemisia, mustard and so on. . On the other hand, because kidney yang is the foundation of human yang, supplementing yang in diet should also include warming and tonifying kidney yang. In spring, the yang of the human body is sufficient on the body surface, but insufficient in the body, so we should eat more things that nourish kidney yang in our diet. At present, in addition to Polygonum hydropiper, Artemisia annua and other wild vegetables have been rarely eaten, onions, garlic, leeks and so on are all good yang-nourishing products. ?

4. Eat more sweet and less sour?

Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in Tang Dynasty, said? In spring, you should keep sour, sweeten and nourish your temper. ? It means that when spring comes, people should eat less sour and more sweet, which has the benefits of strengthening the spleen and stomach. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood transformation. Spleen and stomach are vigorous and healthy, and people can prolong life. However, spring is a season of vigorous liver qi. According to the theory of five elements in traditional Chinese medicine, liver belongs to wood, spleen belongs to soil, and wood and soil coexist, that is, liver depression can hurt spleen and affect its digestion and absorption function. Chinese medicine also believes that five flavors enter the five internal organs, such as sour taste into the liver, sweet taste into the spleen and salty taste into the kidney. Therefore, eating more sour food will strengthen the function of the liver, make the hyperactive liver qi more vigorous and hurt the spleen and stomach. In view of this, people should eat less sour food in spring to prevent excessive liver qi. And sweets into the spleen, can make up the temper, so you can eat more, such as jujube, yam, crispy rice and so on. ?

5. light diet?

From the thick taste of cream in winter to mild temperature, the diet should be warm and avoid cold. In animal foods, we should eat less high-fat foods such as fat meat, because greasy foods are prone to satiety and fatigue. People with cold stomach can often eat ginger to drive away cold and warm stomach; Asthma patients can take some ginger honey water to moisten dryness and relieve asthma; Patients with chronic bronchitis should fast or eat less spicy food. Others should not eat more irritating food, so as not to help the fire and hurt the body. ?

6. Drink more water at ordinary times?

Drinking water can increase the circulating blood volume, which is beneficial to nourishing the liver and excreting metabolic waste, and can reduce the damage of poisons to the liver. In addition, hydration is also beneficial to gland secretion, especially the secretion of digestive juice such as bile. Drinking scented tea in spring is helpful to dispel the cold evil accumulated in the body in winter, promote the hair growth of human yang, and stagnate and evacuate. Moderate drinking tea can also refresh you, but don't be greedy for cold drinks in spring. ?

7. Eat more vegetables?

After winter, most people will have insufficient intake of vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements, such as stomatitis, angular stomatitis, glossitis, night blindness and some skin diseases in spring. Therefore, with the arrival of spring and the listing of a large number of fresh vegetables, people must eat more fresh vegetables in order to have a balanced nutrition and good health.