1, flat compensation method
The method of flat compensation has two meanings: one is to apply lukewarm food, such as most grains, fruits and vegetables, and some poultry, eggs, meat and milk, including japonica rice, corn, lentils, Chinese cabbage, quail, pork and milk. One is to use foods that can both replenish qi and yin, or foods that can both replenish yang and yin, such as yam and honey, which can both replenish qi and yin of spleen and lung, such as medlar, which can both replenish yin and yang. These foods are suitable for the health care of ordinary people.
2. Cleaning and repairing methods
The method of clearing and nourishing is to apply nourishing but not greasy food, which is mild or cold. Sometimes, diarrhea food is used to eliminate excess syndrome, such as clearing stomach heat and dredging two stools, strengthening digestion and absorption, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, and seeking tonic in diarrhea. Commonly used tonic foods are mostly fruits and vegetables, including radish, wax gourd, watermelon, millet, apple, pear, day lily and so on.
3. Heating method
Warming and nourishing method is a method of nourishing with warm food, which is suitable for patients with yang deficiency or qi-yang deficiency, such as cold limbs, chills, fatigue, long and frequent urination or edema, and is often used as winter tonic food for ordinary people. Commonly used such as walnut kernel, jujube, longan, pork liver, eel, shrimp and so on.
4. Strict compensation method
Strict tonic method is to use food with strong tonic effect and quick effect to achieve the purpose of urgently needed tonic. The application of this method should pay attention to the physical condition, season, illness and so on, so as to achieve the purpose of supplementing without bias. Commonly used tonic foods are mutton, dog meat, venison, deer fetus, deer tail, deer kidney, turtle, bear's paw, trout, yellow croaker and so on.