From the perspective of dietary science, the relative proportion of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals should be maintained in spring to prevent overeating and avoid abnormal liver function and bile secretion.
2, the spring diet first raises the liver.
Chinese medicine believes that nourishing yang in spring is very important for nourishing the liver. In the theory of five elements, the liver belongs to wood, corresponding to spring, which mainly rises and occurs in spring. Therefore, patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease should pay more attention to aphrodisiac in spring. And spring is the peak season for bacteria and viruses to breed. The liver has the function of detoxification, and the burden is the heaviest. And because people's liver qi rises, it will also cause the recurrence of old diseases. For example, the rise of liver fire in spring will make the weak lung yin more virtual, then tuberculosis will take advantage of it. Chinese medicine believes that the human body governs the liver in spring, and the liver qi is naturally abundant in spring. If you don't keep in good health in spring, it's easy to hurt your liver qi. In order to adapt to the change of seasonal climate and maintain human health, we should pay attention to nourishing the liver first in diet conditioning.
3, the diet should be yang.
Yang refers to the yang of the human body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "yang acts on the outside", which means that yang plays a defensive role in the human body, which can make the human body strong and avoid the invasion of six evils in nature. In spring, in terms of diet, we should follow the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer" put forward in Huangdi Neijing, and eat more foods that warm and tonify yang, so as to enrich human yang, enhance human resistance and resist the invasion of common cold pathogens. Li Shizhen also advocated "fresh and tender dishes such as onion, garlic, leek, Polygonum hydropiper, Artemisia, mustard, etc." in Compendium of Materia Medica. It should be mixed. " On the other hand, because kidney yang is the foundation of human yang, supplementing yang in diet should also include warming and tonifying kidney yang. In spring, the yang of the human body is sufficient on the body surface, but insufficient in the body, so we should eat more things that nourish kidney yang in our diet. At present, in addition to Polygonum hydropiper, Artemisia annua and other wild vegetables have been rarely eaten, onions, garlic, leeks and so on are all good yang-nourishing products.
4. Eat more sweet and less sour.
Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said: "It is advisable to keep sour and sweeten in spring to nourish the temper." It means that when spring comes, people should eat less sour and more sweet, which has the benefits of strengthening the spleen and stomach. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood transformation. Spleen and stomach are vigorous and healthy, and people can prolong life. However, spring is a season of vigorous liver qi. According to the theory of five elements in traditional Chinese medicine, liver belongs to wood, spleen belongs to soil, and wood and soil coexist, that is, liver depression can hurt spleen and affect its digestion and absorption function. Chinese medicine also believes that five flavors enter the five internal organs, such as sour taste into the liver, sweet taste into the spleen and salty taste into the kidney. Therefore, eating more sour food will strengthen the function of the liver, make the hyperactive liver qi more vigorous and hurt the spleen and stomach. In view of this, people should eat less sour food in spring to prevent excessive liver qi. And sweets into the spleen, can make up the temper, so you can eat more, such as jujube, yam, crispy rice and so on.