Common five-color food:
Green food nourishing liver
Common green food-mung bean, spinach (the most liver-nourishing dish), broccoli, cucumber, loofah, celery, leek, green pepper, chrysanthemum, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, shepherd's purse (called "Japanese cabbage" in Changsha dialect, which has the function of clearing fire and lowering blood pressure), rape, green beans, beans and water spinach (Changsha).
Nourishing the liver-eat more mung beans
Chinese medicine believes that mung beans benefit the liver, clear away heat, reduce blood fat and detoxify! Regulating the function of spleen and stomach is a delicious food in the world! Daily drinking is equivalent to gastrointestinal detoxification SPA!
Red food nourishes the heart
Common red food-red beans, sweet potatoes, carrots (the most eye-protecting vegetables, spleen and liver protection), red peppers, red dates, tomatoes, hawthorn, Toona sinensis, strawberries and so on.
Red hearts-eat more red beans
Li Shizhen praised it as the Valley of the Heart. Chinese medicine believes that red beans have the functions of enriching blood, nourishing heart, diuresis, removing blood stasis, strengthening heart and resisting fatigue; Modern medical research shows that triterpenoid saponins and iron in red beans can protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and resist vascular aging!
Yellow food nourishes spleen
Common yellow foods-soybean, burdock (it is best to clear spleen and stomach fire, and you can stew bone soup with red and white radish), horny potato (it is best to treat oral ulcer), and coix seed (sweet and slightly cold in nature, diuretic and detumescence, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, clearing heat and expelling pus, etc.). , is a commonly used diuretic), leek, pumpkin (produce insulin, etc. ).。
Huang Yi pi- eat more soybeans
It has the reputation of vegetables and meat and green cows. Chinese medicine believes that soybean can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, promote food digestion and promote nutrient absorption; In addition, soybean is rich in lecithin, and long-term consumption can improve memory.
White food nourishes the lungs
Common white foods-white beans, white gourd, pear, white radish, tremella, lotus root, lily, water bamboo, lotus root, rice flour, tofu, cauliflower, bamboo shoots, yam, cold potato, etc.
White lung-eat more white beans
Chinese medicine believes that white kidney beans moisten the lungs and replenish qi, nourish yin and control lung fur. Long-term eating white kidney beans moistens the lungs and moisturizes the skin, warming the middle and dispelling the cold! In addition, white kidney beans are rich in vitamin C, which can enhance resistance!
Black food nourishes kidney
⑤ Black tonifying kidney
Common black foods-black beans, black rice, black sesame seeds, black fungus, walnuts (not black, but kidney-tonifying food), laver and kelp.
Bushen-eat more black beans
As for "Kidney Valley", Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Black beans are good for essence, marrow and energy. Men can prevent prostate aging by eating for a long time, and women can maintain their ovaries by eating more. " Black beans are rich in protein, containing 18 amino acids and 19 oleic acid, which can reduce blood cholesterol.