Spring diet should master a principle: according to the change of temperature, food will gradually change from warm and sweet to light and nourishing yin.
In early spring, the diet should be warm to avoid cold. In early spring, you should eat some vegetables and wild vegetables such as bamboo shoots, Toona sinensis, spinach, willow buds, shepherd's purse, onion, ginger, garlic, leeks, mustard greens and so on. And don't blindly eat warm supplements such as ginseng, so as to avoid the gradual increase of temperature in spring, aggravate the internal heat of the body and damage the healthy qi of the human body; Should eat less cold food such as cucumber, wax gourd, eggplant and mung bean.
Mid-spring diet should be sweet. Eat yam, red dates, honey, celery and other foods that benefit the spleen and stomach properly, and at the same time pay attention to taking enough vitamins to improve the body's immunity, and eat less acidic foods in the name of hurting the spleen and stomach.
At the end of spring, the diet should be supplemented. Sugarcane juice, shepherd's purse, lily, snail, duck, bitter gourd, seaweed, kelp, jellyfish, mung bean and other foods should be properly selected, and spicy, sticky and greasy things should be eaten less.
Healthy diet in summer
Summer is the most sunny season and the most vigorous time for human metabolism. People sweat a lot, and it is easy to lose body fluids. In summer, light food should be the main health care to avoid hurting body fluids and consuming gas.
The diet in summer is really light. In summer, people's digestive function of spleen and stomach is relatively weak, so they should eat more heat-clearing and detoxicating foods, such as chrysanthemum, celery, Chinese cabbage, coriander, bitter gourd, bamboo shoots, cucumber and wax gourd. Fish, such as herring, crucian carp and silver carp. These foods can clear away heat and relieve fatigue, and have a certain preventive effect on Chinese medicine and intestinal diseases.
Summer diet should replenish qi. You can choose some foods that nourish yin and invigorate qi, such as carrots, spinach, longan, litchi, peanuts, tomatoes and so on. Eat more miscellaneous grains, fruits and vegetables to cool your body, but raw and cold fruits and vegetables should be enough, and you should not overeat, so as not to damage your spleen and stomach due to excessive cold. Summer is full of energy, and it is easy to hurt people. This season, it is mainly to replenish qi, nourish yin and clear heat, such as winter melon, watermelon, lotus root and duck meat, so it is not advisable to eat more warming products.
Healthy eating in autumn
In autumn, the yang gradually closes and the yin gradually grows. At this time, the human body should also conform to the laws of the four seasons and enter the opportunity to protect yin. In terms of diet, we should prevent dryness, nourish yin and moisten the lungs.
The diet should be moist in autumn. More products with sweet and cold taste should be selected, such as lily, tremella, yam, pear, grape, water chestnut, glutinous rice, sugarcane, soybean milk, sesame, lotus root, spinach, pig lung, nail fish and olive. These foods have the functions of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and clearing dryness. You should eat less spicy food, such as onions, ginger and peppers.
Diet should be nourishing in autumn. Tonifying in autumn is one of the key points of TCM health care, which lays a good foundation for tonic in winter and avoids the occurrence of depletion in winter. Proper use of Radix Adenophorae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Lily, Almond, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae and other Chinese herbal medicines has a good effect on relieving autumn dryness.
Autumn should be less pungent and more sour. Eat less spicy products such as onions, ginger, garlic, leeks and peppers in autumn to avoid hurting the lungs; Eat more sour fruits and vegetables, and choose sour foods such as apples, pomegranates, grapes, mangoes, grapefruit, lemons and hawthorn to prevent autumn dryness.