A healthy body is an invaluable wealth left to children. As the saying goes, "a year's plan lies in spring." Fitness in spring keeps you from getting sick for a year! Dietotherapy is the most common way to keep fit. In spring, the following foods must be essential for dietotherapy. All have good disease prevention effects. For the sake of your health, you should take a good look.

1, shepherd's purse: improving eyesight and benefiting liver

Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Shepherd's purse porridge can improve eyesight and benefit the liver." Therefore, it is quite beneficial to the elderly who are weak, dizzy, gloomy, chronic nephritis, edema due to qi deficiency and bleeding after defecation.

There are many ways to eat shepherd's purse, such as making dumpling stuffing, soup, porridge, cold salad, dipping sauce, steaming, etc ... Every way to eat shepherd's purse can perfectly show the vitality of spring.

2, dandelion: Qinggan Jiedu

Dandelion blooms in April, followed by shepherd's purse, with yellow flowers, and then flies away quickly with a small umbrella. Dandelion is also slightly bitter, and it is delicious when it is cold. Because of its good function of clearing away liver and detoxifying, it has been successfully used to treat tonsillitis, mastitis and acute icteric hepatitis.

3, Andrographis paniculata: clearing away heat and detoxifying

Andrographis paniculata is the best food in spring, and its bright oil has the effect of clearing fire. Andrographis paniculata is bitter in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, reducing swelling and eliminating dampness.

In addition, it also contains andrographolide and other natural anti-inflammatory and antiviral components. Eating in spring can prevent and treat influenza, pneumonia, sore throat, angular stomatitis, hypertension and cholecystitis.

But we must remember that andrographis paniculata on the dining table is very different from medicinal andrographis paniculata, and medicinal andrographis paniculata is inedible. 4. Spinach: Stabilize blood pressure

Spinach is available all year round, but spring is the best. Spinach listed in spring is quite beneficial to detoxify and prevent spring dryness. Spinach is rich in vitamins, trace elements and antioxidants, among which potassium plays a vital role in regulating blood pressure.

High sodium and low potassium are important pathogenic factors of hypertension, and dietary potassium supplementation is beneficial to lowering blood pressure. Because spinach contains more oxalic acid, which hinders the absorption of calcium and iron, it should be blanched with boiling water before frying.

5, yam: spleen and qi

Yam is especially suitable for spring. It is nutritious, has the function of invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, and can prevent spleen from being damaged by excessive liver qi in spring. It can tonify kidney and essence, and enhance human resistance. Cooking porridge with rice, adding white sugar and steamed yam mud and stirring evenly can strengthen the spleen, benefit the lungs, tonify the kidney and replenish essence, and strengthen the body, which is very suitable for the weak and middle-aged and elderly people. If you add red dates to cook together, the nourishing effect will be better.

6. Jujube: Strengthening the spleen and strengthening the body

Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said: "On the seventy-second day of spring, acid is preserved and sweetened to nourish the temper." It means eating less sour food and more sweet food in spring to supplement the qi of human spleen and stomach.

Jujube is sweet and flat, especially suitable for spring consumption. For people who are weak and have a bad appetite, they can usually eat more jujube rice: that is, rice is the main food with red dates, which is bright in color and refreshing and sweet.