First, yam.
Yam is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to spleen, lung and kidney meridians. Raw yam has the effects of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, promoting fluid production and benefiting lung, tonifying kidney and fixing essence, and is often used for spleen deficiency, anorexia, chronic diarrhea, cough and asthma due to lung deficiency, nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, leukorrhagia and frequent urination. Cooked yam has the effects of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, and is often used for spleen deficiency, anorexia, diarrhea and loose stool. Generally speaking, raw yam should nourish yin, and cooked yam should strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. Raw yam is mainly scraped into mud with a spoon, eaten with hot rice, or cooked, which is very good for nourishing stomach and tonifying deficiency. Yam bean on the yam vine is peeled after being cooked, and a small amount of sugar is added, so that wet dream can be stopped, and kidney and stomach can be strengthened. You can also wash the yam and cut it into pieces, add ribs and vegetables and cook it into soup, which can strengthen the stomach and spleen and promote the growth of the body. It is especially suitable for children to eat regularly, and female friends can also beautify, whiten and supplement calcium.
Second, red dates
Chinese medicine believes that jujube is sweet and has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, calming the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and nourishing blood, and calming the nerves. It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that jujube can "tonify middle energizer, nourish spleen and soil, moisten heart and lung, regulate camp and health, slow down yin and blood, promote fluid production, delight the eyes, dredge nine orifices, assist the twelve meridians and harmonize various medicines". It is also recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica that jujube can "prolong life, tonify the middle energizer, strengthen the brain, relieve annoyance, moisten the heart and lungs, tonify the five internal organs and treat deficiency".
Not only that, as early as in China, there is a saying that "three dates a day can prolong life", which shows the wonderful use of jujube. Jujube not only benefits the spleen, but also nourishes qi and blood, which is very suitable for female friends to eat. And jujube can also be cooked in porridge, or chopped, dried and soaked in water to drink, without drinking tea. Soaking in water after frying in an iron pan can effectively relieve symptoms such as stomach cold and stomachache.
Third, grapes.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that grapes are flat in nature and sweet in taste, and have the effects of nourishing qi and blood, strengthening bones and muscles, benefiting liver and nourishing yin, diuresis, relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, warming stomach and strengthening spleen, relieving vexation and quenching thirst. Modern medicine believes that the main component of grapes is glucose, which is easily absorbed by the human body. Therefore, it is also very suitable for patients with spleen and stomach weakness, cough and asthma, stomachache, anemia, hepatitis, pregnant women and so on.
Chinese medicine believes that drinking fifteen milliliters of red wine two or three times a day can warm the stomach and relieve spasm, dispel cold and relieve pain, promote digestion and benefit the heart. Need to remind everyone that people who are prone to diarrhea must eat less grapes, otherwise it will make diarrhea worse.
Fourth, sugar cane
Sugarcane tastes sweet, and has the effects of quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving hangover and vexation, clearing away deficiency and heat, and stopping vomiting. It is very suitable for people with weak body and weak stomach after illness. Drinking a cup of fresh sugarcane juice with a little ginger juice can effectively improve vomiting and spleen and stomach weakness caused by stomach diseases. In particular, it has a very obvious curative effect on nausea caused by neuropathic gastritis and chronic gastropathy.
Five, bananas
Bananas are sweet in taste and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, moistening lungs and intestines, moistening stools, moistening intestines and lowering blood pressure. Chinese medicine believes that "sweet is easy to swell", so foods that are too sweet, such as bananas, are not suitable for people with sprains. They should be eaten after recovery, otherwise it will aggravate the condition. Besides, don't eat too many bananas. Eating too much is easy to flatulence, especially for diabetics and obese people.
There are many sweets in life, such as honey and glutinous rice, which are very good foods for nourishing the spleen and stomach. Of course, whether it is sweet food or sweet medicine, there are different usages, because people with different constitutions have different choices and cannot generalize.
Chinese medicine believes that "sweet in nature" can also be divided into "warm in nature" and "cool in nature". People with insufficient yang should choose "sweet" drugs or foods, such as flour, glutinous rice, pumpkin, lotus seeds and taro. Yin deficiency, it is best to choose "sweet and cool" drugs or foods, such as mung beans, loofah, wax gourd, eggplant, Chinese cabbage, cucumber and so on.
"Spleen is yin soil" and "likes dryness and hates dampness", so if you want to treat spleen disease, you should choose "sweet temperature" to help it rise; However, "the stomach is yang soil", "likes moistening dryness, but hates dryness", so when treating stomach diseases, we should choose "sweet and cool" to help their health.
In addition, from the health point of view, it is best to eat more sweets in spring. Because in Su Wen? The theory of six Tibetan images points out: "the liver is connected with spring." "In other words, the physiological activities of the liver and the changes of Yin and Yang in spring correspond to each other. Spring is a season of vigorous liver-qi, which is easily excited.
According to the theory of five elements in traditional Chinese medicine, liver belongs to wood, spleen belongs to soil, and liver wood is too strong, which inhibits spleen soil and affects the digestion and absorption function of spleen and stomach, thus leading to food accumulation or aversion to food. And sweet into the spleen, so eating more sweets in spring can replenish the spleen and stomach of the human body.
Eating sweets properly can also replenish the spleen, but overeating will hurt the spleen. If you eat too many sweets, the most likely problem is "spleen deficiency sores". What is a "spleen abscess"? "Furuncle" here means "heat". Spleen furuncle is spleen heat. In other words, if you eat too many sweets, it is easy to make your temper stagnate, making it depressed for a long time and turning it into calories. This kind of spleen fever is the first symptom of "three more and one less, eating more, drinking more and urinating more, losing weight". If you don't pay attention, you will develop diabetes.