The staple food is mainly mineral-rich foods, such as japonica rice, glutinous rice, millet, yellow rice, barley and naked oats, which have the function of invigorating qi. Purple rice, black rice and other foods are rich in iron, and the blood enriching effect is better. Foods rich in thiamine, riboflavin and nicotinic acid, such as chicken and donkey meat, are helpful for invigorating qi; Pork, eel, squid, sea cucumber, clam meat, hairtail and other foods rich in protein and alkaloids are beneficial to blood.
Vegetables for invigorating qi include yam, lentils and other foods; Auricularia auricula, lotus root, Nostoc flagelliforme and other foods are rich in folic acid and alkaloids, which have a good blood tonic effect.