Traditional Chinese medicine often mentions five zang-organs health preservation. The five internal organs refer to the liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "five internal organs enter five colors", and these five colors are blue, red, yellow, white and black. Speaking of which, are you dizzy and at a loss? Don't worry, look at today's article! Find out the relationship between these five internal organs and color.

We live in a colorful world, and the existence of color enriches our lives. When we are upset, we will feel better when we visit the green trees in the park. In fact, color and health are also closely related.

Five colors and diet

Say: Green nourishes liver, red nourishes heart, yellow nourishes spleen and stomach, white nourishes lung and black nourishes kidney. Eating more green food can protect the liver, red food can nourish the heart and so on. Take the beans that people often eat as an example: mung beans are green. Everyone knows that mung beans can clear away heat and detoxify, and drinking mung bean soup can remove annoyance and regulate qi, and enter the liver meridian. Red beans are red, which can nourish blood, promote blood circulation and clear heart, because they enter the heart meridian. Soybeans are good for the spleen and stomach, which is why the elderly can live longer by eating soy products. White beans are what we often call rice cowpeas. The nature is flat, benefiting the middle qi and entering the lung meridian. Black beans can tonify kidney-qi, harmonize five internal organs, produce sperm, and treat nocturnal emission and frequent urination.

Black food enters the kidney. Want to tonify the kidney, eat more black food such as black sesame, black rice, black beans, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata. White food enters the lungs, such as ginkgo, Pak Lei, white peach, white almond and lily. Red foods, such as hawthorn, tomato, red apple, red heart and carrot, nourish the heart and enter the blood, and have the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Green food enters the liver, such as green bamboo shoots, green vegetables, green beans and spinach. Food into the spleen, to eat more yam, potatoes, millet, corn and so on. To strengthen the spleen and stomach.

Wuseyu beauty

The five colors were put forward separately, not together with the five flavors. Naturally, five colors not only refer to food, but also have other uses.

When you are angry, your face will turn red, and when you lose too much blood, your face will turn white. Therefore, our faces have five colors. Chinese medicine believes that healthy people are usually yellow, ruddy and shiny. So we can look in the mirror, look at our faces, judge which organ is out of order, and make targeted supplements. For example, when we lack a red face, we should think of red to nourish our hearts, and then we can eat more red food. This is the truth that "everything inside must be outside". The pathological changes in the body will inevitably be reflected on the body surface, and the complexion is one of the reflections of this body surface.

Five colors and balance

Housewives will definitely consider the problem of balanced nutrition when preparing three meals a day. It's also very simple. As long as five colors of food are prepared for each meal, the nutrition is basically balanced. For example, a meal with white rice, tomatoes, vegetables, black fungus and eggs, how can the nutrition of this meal be insufficient?

Recommend a "five-color health soup" for everyone.

Wuse healthy Tang

Select 1/4 white radish, 1/4 white radish leaf, 1/2 carrot, 1/4 burdock, 1 mushroom. Cut these vegetables into large pieces with skins, put them in a pot, add 3 times of water, boil them on high fire, and then cook them on low heat for an hour. After cooking, you can eat and drink in three days.