Have you ever noticed the attributes of food?
In daily diet, we should not only pay attention to the complete variety and proper proportion of food, but also pay attention to the balance between the "four flavors" of cold and hot food and the "five flavors" of sour, bitter, sweet and salty food. Traditional Chinese medicine divides the taste of food into three categories (namely, cold, warm and harmonious). Among the more than 300 kinds of food eaten daily, the most is sexual equality, followed by warm and cold. Traditional Chinese medicine calls warm yang and cold yin. Only by making good use of the cold, cool, flat and warm properties of food in diet can we balance yin and yang and have fewer diseases.
Besides, food has a taste. Chinese medicine divides the taste of food into five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty. Sweet is often light, salty is often astringent, so it is also called sour, bitter, sweet, light, pungent, salty and astringent. Among more than 300 common foods in daily life, sweetness is the most, followed by salty and sour taste, spicy taste is the second, and bitterness is the least.
The sexual taste of food is different from that of drugs, so strong and single, so the sexual taste of food will be moderate, and a food may have many flavors. Bitter medicine often has no nourishing effect. For example, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and Coptis chinensis only have the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, while bitter food, such as bitter gourd, has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach besides clearing away heat and purging fire. Salty drugs, such as mirabilite and pumice, only have the function of purging, softening and resolving phlegm, but salty foods, such as various marine fish, shrimps and crabs, also have the function of tonifying kidney and nourishing blood.
Although there are deviations between food and medicine, which have an impact on physical fitness and disease, everyone should eat food every day. Therefore, although the taste of food is soft, it may be more closely related to people. If we don't pay attention to the combination of sex and taste of food, that is, "qi" and "taste", and the diet is partial to food, it will destroy the balance of yin and yang in the human body over time, lead to the dysfunction of the five internal organs, affect the health and cause many diseases.
According to your own physical characteristics.
In the view of Chinese medicine, except trauma and malignant infectious diseases, all diseases are some external manifestations of internal imbalance of the body. Therefore, if you want to have targeted conditioning, you must first understand your physical characteristics and the deficiency and excess of viscera, which requires you to make corresponding conditioning according to different diseases and constitutions on the basis of dialectical food intake, so as to make up deficiency, but actually discharge deficiency, and give priority to nourishing.
Deficiency and cold constitution should eat more warm food and less cold food, such as sallow and emaciated, pale and weak face, premature senility and bags under the eyes. , can warm qi and blood, spleen and kidney, such as longan meat, jujube, donkey-hide gelatin, brown sugar, black sesame, walnut kernel and so on. And eat less raw and cold food.
Excessive heat constitution should pay attention to clearing heat and purging fire, promoting defecation, eating less spicy and warm food, and eating more bitter, cold and heat-clearing food. For acne, cheilitis and other diseases, patients should avoid eating spicy food, such as pepper, ginger, garlic, mutton, fried food and so on. And eat some bitter gourd, wax gourd, lotus root, mung bean soup, barley porridge and other foods.
Yin deficiency constitution, such as chloasma, alopecia, white hair, wrinkles, loose teeth, blurred eyes, dryness of skin and lips caused by deficiency of lung yin, etc., needs to eat more sweet and nourishing foods, such as milk, mulberry, water chestnut, litchi, tremella, fungus and cherry, and eat less spicy and dry foods, such as ginger and pepper.
People with severe cold and weak qi and blood should eat more warm foods all year round, such as beef and mutton, chicken, ginger, onion, leek, coriander, jujube and walnut kernel. In this way, the body can generate enough heat, increase vitality and smooth blood vessels. If your body is full of calories and energy, eating more warm food will easily lead to excessive internal heat, so you should choose some cold food to balance it.
With the change of weather and temperature
Choose different foods
Pay attention to the correspondence between man and nature in the eating season of diet, and "use heat far, use cold far, use warm far and use cold far" in the season, that is to say, eat less cold food in the cold season, don't eat iced drinks and fruits in winter, and don't eat mung bean soup and bitter gourd. Constantly cooling the internal organs of the body will make the blood circulation slower and slower, the visceral function will decline, the aging will be advanced, the slower the blood flow, the more deposits will be, and the blood vessels will be easily blocked and infarcted, which will lead to various diseases related to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In hot summer, you should eat less warm food to avoid heat injury.
In addition, the collocation of ingredients and the choice of cooking methods also enrich the content of Chinese medicine dietotherapy. For example, when frying bitter gourd in summer, adding a small amount of spicy pepper can inhibit the bitter cold of bitter gourd, so that even if some people with internal fire and acne take it for a long time, it will not hurt their stomach. Treating eye bags caused by spleen deficiency with barley and rice porridge. You can also add some red dates to the porridge to balance the coldness of coix seed, even if you take it for a long time, you don't have to worry about damaging the spleen and stomach.
Diet should also have a great influence on the skin, and it should be chosen according to the nature and taste of food. For example, people with acne, rash, sores, oily wind on their heads, alopecia and tinea capitis should eat less spicy and fragrant onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, peppers and peppers, as well as mutton and dog meat. People with spleen deficiency, excessive phlegm and obesity should eat less foods rich in fat and fried, and eat less desserts and dairy products that are easy to get wet. Obese people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should eat less cold food, and those with dyspepsia and spleen deficiency should eat less sticky and indigestible food. In a word, food can not only provide us with energy, but also make people exude different temperament from the inside out.