If you are keeping in good health, you should eat more moist food in winter, because the climate in winter is dry, and nourishing yin essence is an important part of keeping in good health in winter. It is best to eat more food such as cabbage, tremella, fungus, medlar, pear and kiwi fruit to supplement yin fluid. It is best to eat less spicy, barbecue and fried food, and pay attention to drink plenty of water to avoid getting angry.
Winter acts as water with five flavors, salty with five flavors, black with five colors, and kidney with five internal organs. Therefore, many foods that meet the above characteristics have the effect of tonifying kidney, such as black food, black rice, black beans, black sesame seeds, black wolfberry, black dates, black fungus, black buckwheat and so on. Light and salty food, such as jellyfish, kelp, seaweed, cuttlefish, sea cucumber, etc. It also has the effect of nourishing the kidney; Lotus root, lotus seed, water chestnut and other foods in water also have the function of tonifying kidney. In addition, yam, chestnut, walnut, medlar, Euryale ferox and so on. It does not meet the above characteristics, but it also has the effect of tonifying kidney.
According to everyone's different physique and food attributes. According to the nature and taste of food, traditional Chinese medicine can be divided into flat tonic, warm tonic and clear tonic. Tonics should be based on people's different constitutions and food properties. Even if you are weak, you should not blindly take supplements, otherwise it will not only be beneficial to your health, but will bring side effects. For example, people who are very weak are suitable for leveling in winter, such as mild ingredients such as yam and medlar; People who are afraid of cold in winter are suitable for warming, such as walnuts and red dates. Obesity, fever and other people are suitable for winter cleaning, such as radish, Chinese cabbage and other foods.
Porridge is light and moist, easy to digest and absorb, which not only supplements water, but also lubricates the digestive tract. Very suitable for eating in the morning and evening, maintaining the stomach and warming the body. Drinking some health porridge can also tonify kidney essence, such as black sesame black rice porridge, yam medlar porridge and so on. For the elderly with poor gastrointestinal function, drinking porridge is undoubtedly the best choice; People suffering from chronic diseases of Grade III and above can also eat whole grains porridge such as oats to recuperate their bodies.