I'm Dr. Guo, and I have a lot of bad words.

Everyone knows that eating radish in winter and ginger in summer, winter is the season to tonify the kidney, and summer is the season to tonify the spleen and stomach, so what to eat in spring? Which organ should I nourish? Let's talk together today.

As early as more than 1000 years ago, it was recorded in the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic "Four Qi Tunes the Spirit": March spring, which is called Chen Sheng, Heaven and Earth Sheng, everything is glorious, lying at night and getting up early, striding to court, mentally retarded, so as to make life, live without killing, give without taking, reward without punishment, is the answer of spring and the way of health preservation. Otherwise, it will hurt the liver, it will be cold in summer and there will be few elders.

It can be seen that spring is a solar term for nourishing and protecting the liver. Chinese medicine points out that the liver belongs to wood and is prone to depression. In addition to maintaining a happy mood, you can also eat some wild vegetables that are good for your liver. After all, who can refuse to steam and cool delicious and juicy wild vegetables?

First taste: wormwood.

February wormwood, March wormwood, April firewood. Early spring is the best time to collect and eat wormwood. According to Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, "it is indicated for common cold, wind cold, damp heat and yellow heat." "Records of Famous Doctors": "Treat the whole body yellow, urine is unfavorable, except for head fever, go to Dantian." Materia Medica Justice: "Herba Artemisiae Scopariae is light in taste and beneficial to water, which is a specific medicine for treating damp-heat in spleen and stomach."

Herba Artemisiae Scopariae has the functions of clearing away damp-heat, benefiting gallbladder and eliminating jaundice. Modern research shows that Herba Artemisiae Scopariae also has the functions of protecting liver and benefiting gallbladder, lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, regulating blood lipid, relieving fever, relieving pain, resisting inflammation, resisting tumor, resisting atherosclerosis, resisting oxidation, inhibiting pathogenic microorganisms and enhancing immunity. It is no exaggeration to say that wormwood is the top grade of nourishing liver in spring. Is it suitable for everyone? Of course not, because wormwood tastes bitter, pungent and slightly cold. Into the spleen, stomach, liver and gallbladder. Has the effects of clearing away damp-heat, promoting gallbladder function and eliminating jaundice. People with yellow blood and those with yellow blood deficiency should use it with caution.

The second taste: Lycium barbarum leaves, also known as Dixianmiao.

Nature and taste: bitter, sweet and cold. Heart, lung, spleen and kidney. Efficacy: nourishing liver and kidney, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The function is mainly used to replenish deficiency and essence, clear away heat and quench thirst, dispel wind and improve eyesight. Treat fatigue, fever, polydipsia, blurred vision, night blindness, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, and heat toxic sores. Attach importance to the theory of medicinal properties: "It is evil with cheese."

"Theory of Medicinal Properties": "It can replenish essence, easily change color, turn white, improve eyesight and soothe the nerves. And mutton is soup, which is beneficial to people and even dispels wind and improves eyesight; If you are thirsty, you can cook and drink instead of drinking tea. Fever, a troublesome thing, can be solved by boiling juice alone, which can clear away heat and relieve exterior toxicity; The main eye is dull because of the red film of the wind barrier, so take the leaves and pound the juice into your eyes. "

Dietotherapy materia medica: "strengthening tendons and resisting aging, expelling wind, nourishing bones and muscles, benefiting people and eliminating waste."

Herbal medicine of "Kouhuazi": "Get rid of annoyance, benefit the mind, make up five strains and seven injuries, strengthen the heart, remove skin and joint wind, clear away heat and toxic materials, dispel sores and reduce swelling."

"Outline": "Return to the heart, lungs, fever."

"Essentials of Raw Herbs": "Improving eyesight, benefiting kidney deficiency, preventing miscarriage, relieving fever, and treating women's metrorrhagia and bleeding."

"This experience meets the original": "It can reduce the fire and clear the leader."

This thing is the stem and leaf of the shrub Lycium barbarum. You can choose some. Simple cold dishes are delicious cold dishes. You can also cook porridge, soup or soak in water as tea.

The third taste: shepherd's purse.

It is sweet and has the effects of invigorating spleen, diuresis, hemostasis and improving eyesight. Can be used for treating dysentery, edema, gonorrhea, chyluria, hematemesis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, menorrhagia, conjunctival congestion and pain. The famous doctor Abel recorded that "the main benefit is liver qi, harmony." "Daily Materia Medica" contains "cooling liver and improving eyesight." Compendium of Materia Medica contains "improving eyesight and benefiting stomach". "Herbal Classic of Dietotherapy" points out: cooling the liver and improving eyesight, harmonizing the middle energizer and benefiting the stomach, and treating abdominal obesity.

Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse should be a well-known wild vegetable, and it is also a life-saving dish in famine years. Can be steamed, cold salad, soup, cooking.

Well, these are the three protagonists recommended to you by nourishing and protecting the liver in spring. I hope you can put aside your troubles, bring your family and a happy mood and go for a walk in the suburbs together. Don't live up to this beautiful season.