Do you often feel tired, easily tired, loss of appetite, shortness of breath and laziness, flabby muscles, love sweating when moving, yellow or pale face, weak resistance and easy to catch a cold? Sometimes even dizziness, insomnia, forgetfulness, dreaminess, white lips and paws [1] ... If you have these characteristics, then you have some deficiency of both qi and blood. So how is the constitution of deficiency of both qi and blood formed? Can these symptoms be improved by adjusting diet?

The answer is yes. Qi and blood are the basic substances of human life activities, and food is an important source of qi and blood metaplasia. Excessive picky eaters, dieting or partial eclipse will lead to insufficient nutrient intake and insufficient biochemical sources of qi and blood. Or the spleen and stomach, a machine that produces qi and blood, can't work normally because of improper diet, so even if it is ingested enough, it can't be used by the human body. In addition, some basic diseases, such as menorrhagia caused by hysteromyoma and massive blood loss caused by various reasons, can lead to a large loss of qi and blood in a short time, leading to the end of deficiency of both qi and blood. Therefore, on the basis of controlling the primary disease, that is, "throttling", we can fundamentally improve the physique bias by adjusting the diet to strengthen the spleen and open up the stomach. Let's follow me to see what foods are suitable for people with deficiency of both qi and blood ~

Foods with the functions of invigorating qi and strengthening spleen are:

Cereals: millet, japonica rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, cowpeas, sword beans and black beans;

Five livestock: beef, silky fowl, eggs, quail eggs, pigeons, mutton, pork belly, pomfret and eel;

Five fruits: jujube, longan, grape, water chestnut, hazelnut, walnut, chestnut and honey;

Five dishes: yam, sweet potato, shepherd's purse, fungus, radish, pumpkin, potato, lentil and carrot. [2]

Among them, grapes are flat, sweet and sour, and are a kind of fruit that tonifies qi and blood. According to ancient medical literature, grapes have the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing qi and blood, benefiting liver and kidney, and strengthening bones and muscles. So people with qi deficiency should eat it. Jujube has the functions of tonifying deficiency and benefiting qi, nourishing blood and calming nerves, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach. It is a good health product for treating spleen and stomach weakness, qi and blood deficiency, listlessness, insomnia and dreaminess. People with qi deficiency should eat jujube, and it is better to stew it [3]. In addition, those with obvious blood deficiency should be supplemented with red meat and animal viscera, and should eat more: beef, pig liver, duck blood, jujube, red beans, peanuts, longan, cherries, black rice and black sesame seeds.

Recommended recipes for invigorating qi and nourishing blood:

① glutinous rice grape soup

Ingredients: grape150g or raisin 50g, lotus root starch10g, glutinous rice 50g and sugar100g.

Production method:

(1) Wash glutinous rice and steam it with clear water for later use.

(2) Wash fresh grapes, peel off seeds, squeeze out grape juice, add lotus root starch and white sugar, boil into thick juice, and then add washed raisins.

(3) Pour the thick grape juice on the steamed dumplings and serve.

Efficacy: It can tonify qi and blood, strengthen spleen and kidney, and has a good nourishing effect on anemia, thrombocytopenia, neurasthenia and fatigue.

② Longan jujube paste

Ingredients: 300 grams of longan meat, 250 grams of honey, 250 grams of Chinese date (without core), 50 grams of rice sprouts, ginger juice 10 ml, and 50 grams of malt.

Production method:

(1) First, wash the rice buds and malt, dry them and grind them into powder for later use.

(2) Wash longan meat and jujube, remove the core, put it in a pot and add water to boil until cooked.

(3) Then the ginger juice, honey, rice sprouts and malt powder are poured into the pot, stirred evenly, boiled for a while, and mashed. 1-2 times a day, each time 15g.

Efficacy: invigorating qi, promoting blood production, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, and harmonizing ying and Wei [4].

③ Danggui mutton soup

Ingredients: 500g mutton (cut into small pieces), 25g angelica, 25g astragalus and 25g codonopsis pilosula (wrapped in gauze).

The preparation method: the above ingredients are washed and simmered with water; When the mutton is soft and rotten, add 25g ginger slices and a little salt, and eat it when the meat is soft and rotten.

Efficacy: It is suitable for blood deficiency, deficiency of qi and blood after illness and various anemia [5].

In addition, people with deficiency of both qi and blood should also eat moderately, with appropriate cold and temperature, regularly and quantitatively, eat eight points full, don't eat midnight snack, and don't be picky about food or overeat cold and gas-consuming food. Daily life should be regular, avoid staying up late or overworking, choose yoga, Tai Ji Chuan and other soothing exercises, and adjust comprehensively to correct the body bias, so as to achieve the purpose of prevention before illness, prevention after illness and prevention after illness.

References:

Wang Qi. Classification of nine basic TCM constitution types and their diagnostic expression basis [J]. Journal of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, 2005(04): 1-8.

[2] Yang Jie, Liu Jingfeng. From Compendium of Materia Medica, we can see the dietary structure of 8 kinds of biased constitutions [J]. Journal of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 20 15,17 (07):15153.

[3]-clock. Dietary health care for people with qi deficiency (1) [N]. Journal of traditional chinese medicine, 20 16-05-20(0 13).

[4] Kuang Yuan Tiao. The essence of China's diet culture: dietotherapy methods and recipes [J]. Knowledge of ancient Chinese medicine, 1995(0 1):4-8.

[5] Liu Liang. Dietotherapy for blood deficiency [J]. Family Medicine,1998 (14): 31.