Spring diet focuses on dispelling yin and cold, supporting Yang Qi, suppressing liver and supporting spleen. Therefore, spicy and mild products are ideal foods in spring, such as onion, garlic, ginger, leek, garlic and coriander. (ginseng, velvet antler, aconite, dried ginger, cinnamon and other hot things are not included). Spring diet should also pay attention to inhibit excessive liver qi, protect and enhance the exercise and digestive function of the spleen and stomach. Sun Simiao's "A Thousand Daughters Should Be Prescribed" said: In spring, you should keep acid to sweeten and nourish your temper. Acid enters the liver, sweet enters the spleen, and eating less sour food can reduce the contribution to excessive liver qi, while increasing the intake of sweet food can replenish the spleen and stomach. Sweet and spleen-nourishing foods include jujube, yam, lentils, honey, maltose, japonica rice, glutinous rice and wheat. In addition, the food is light and delicious, which is an important measure to protect the spleen and stomach in the spring health diet.
Summer diet focuses on cooling and antipyretic, dispelling summer heat and protecting yang. An important aspect of diet health in summer is to increase foods with the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, diuresis and dehumidification, such as watermelon, wax gourd, bitter gourd, mung bean soup, sour plum soup, lily soup, winter melon soup, barley porridge and so on. Xia Zhishi can also eat some cold drinks in hot summer, but avoid gluttony, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach. Pay special attention to drink plenty of water in summer, because sweat increases in summer, and sweat is the heart fluid. Excessive sweating will lead to deficiency of heart yin and body yin fluid, so you can eat lotus seed soup, green tea and other products that nourish yin and clear heat. For people who are prone to summer, the aromatic substances that strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness and summer heat are beneficial to the recovery of their spleen and stomach functions and the elimination of physical discomfort. You can choose Pogostemon, Eupatorium odoratum, burnt malt, lentils and other decoctions instead of tea. Eating some spicy or sweet and sour foods properly can also achieve the purpose of appetizing and stimulating appetite.
Autumn diet focuses on nourishing yin and moistening dryness, and maintaining spleen and stomach. Dry air is autumn air. In early autumn, the summer heat is not exhausted, which is consistent with dryness and warm and dry; After the autumnal equinox, the weather is getting colder and colder, plus it is dry, cool and dry. Therefore, autumn diet focuses on nourishing yin and moistening dryness. "Diet is about to happen" says: "Autumn is dry, so you should eat hemp to moisten it." When it is warm and dry, it is advisable to choose products that are cool and clear away heat, nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as lily, radish, sugarcane, water chestnut, pear, lotus root, apple, kiwi, duck and wheat. When it is cold and dry, it is advisable to choose products that are warm, nourishing yin and nourishing blood, such as milk, black sesame, walnut, tremella, honey, medlar and Polygonum multiflorum. In addition, it is not advisable to eat too many cold and greasy things in autumn, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach or cause other diseases.
The winter diet focuses on nourishing yin and protecting yang and protecting Yuanyang. Winter is the coldest season in a year, and food that can keep warm and resist the cold has become the best choice in winter. Foods with the function of warming the interior and dispelling cold include dried ginger, pepper, pepper, fennel, mutton, dog meat, venison, hen and various wines. According to the changing characteristics of yin in winter, the diet should be based on nourishing yin and protecting Yuanyang. Foods with the functions of nourishing yin, nourishing essence and nourishing blood include turtle, sea cucumber, silky fowl, bird's nest, milk, pig liver, duck, goose, auricularia auricula, black sesame, walnut, wolfberry fruit, mulberry, Polygonum multiflorum powder, etc. In winter, the yang is deep and the vitality is lasting. Spicy and hot products should be avoided in diet, so as not to disturb the yang and make it diarrhea. Therefore, ginseng, velvet antler and whip can only be eaten in small amounts to warm the yang. Winter tonic should be carried out according to personal physique. Those with partial qi deficiency should choose Huangqi Stewed Hen, Yam Pork Belly Soup, Jujube glutinous rice porridge, etc. Yiqi Jianpi; Those who are partial to blood deficiency should choose longan jujube soup, Angelica pettitoes soup and Mulberry Shouwu soup to nourish blood and replenish deficiency; Those who prefer yin deficiency should choose rock candy bird's nest soup, lily tremella soup, duck head soup and so on. Nourishing yin and replenishing essence; Those with yang deficiency should choose cordyceps stewed hen, walnut lotus seed soup, deer antler wine and so on. Nourishing kidney and strengthening yang. Those who have no obvious deficiency, excess, cold and heat need not take supplements, as long as they pay attention to the fresh and diverse diet and the reasonable collocation of meat and vegetables.
In a word, if we don't pay attention to health care in this quarter, it will affect the supply of health care resources in the next quarter, because the health care resources needed in the four seasons are the birth of spring, the long summer, the harvest in autumn and the storage in winter. So we should eat according to the time.