Sun Simiao, the drug king, said, "The husband is a doctor. When you must first understand the source of the disease, know what the disease is, treat it with food, and then order medicine. " The meaning of this passage is that for diseases, our first choice for treatment should be food. If food treatment is not good, we should choose medicine at last.

So, how to choose food? The first step is to find out the state of your body. Find out whether you are hot due to yin deficiency or cold due to yang deficiency, and then find out whether the food is cold and hot due to yin and yang. Finally, heat is cold and cold is hot. Use the yin and yang of food to regulate the yin and yang of the body.

In the last section, we introduced the top ten foods belonging to Yin, and this section will introduce the top ten foods belonging to Yang. Among the top ten foods belonging to Yang, ginger ranks first.

Ginger is spicy, light, fragrant and light, and it is a typical yang food.

Everyone should remember that the biggest feature of yin food is its cold nature, bitter taste and downward medicinal nature. When the yang in the human body is too strong and the internal heat is too great, we can use it to reduce the yang in the body, so as to achieve the balance of yin and yang; The food belonging to yang is characterized by warmth, light taste and pungent smell, and upward medicinal properties. Their main function is to enhance the yang in the body.

Therefore, when the Yin Qi in the human body is too strong and the internal cold is too large, we can use it to strengthen the Yang Qi, warm the meridians and dispel the cold.

The biggest function of ginger is to strengthen yang and disperse qi. People often say: "Go to bed to eat radish, get out of bed to eat ginger, and don't bother the doctor to prescribe medicine." It means that when the human body's yang rises in the morning, ginger is pure yang. At this time, people who eat ginger can help the growth of yang, promote the operation of qi and blood, and make people refreshed all day.

Not only that, because ginger has divergent function, when people catch a cold, they can use ginger to boil water to dispel the cold on the body surface.

At the same time, if people catch a cold, heat expands and cold contracts, the gas in the body will freeze, and then people will vomit and burp. In this case, I often let them drink some Jiang Shui, because ginger is pungent in taste, weak in gas, and has a strong divergent effect, which can disperse the yang. When the solidified gas in the body is dispersed, the disease will naturally heal. Therefore, Chinese medicine often says: "Ginger is the holy medicine for vomiting".

It should be noted that people with yin deficiency and excessive fire, red tongue with yellow fur or red eyes with internal heat had better not eat ginger.

Leek tonifying kidney and strengthening yang

Leek, also known as "Qiyang grass", can be seen from the name alone, leek is undoubtedly a food belonging to Yang. It is warm and pungent, and has the function of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "men don't leave leeks and women don't leave lotus roots". Leek belongs to yang, which is suitable for men to eat and can strengthen yang; Lotus root is yin, suitable for ladies to eat and nourish yin.

Leek is suitable for people with cold constitution to eat more. However, people with stomach deficiency and heat and yin deficiency and fire are not suitable for eating leeks.

Leek is suitable for spring. "Sweet food in spring, smelly food in summer", the liver is motionless in spring, and the yang is healthy. Eating leeks is beneficial to the qi of the spleen and stomach, that is, to the qi of the whole body, which is conducive to maintaining the balance of yin and yang in the chilly weather in spring.

Fennel-warming the lower abdomen

Fennel can remove the fishy smell of meat and increase the aroma of meat, hence the name "fennel". It should be noted that there are two kinds of fennel-anise and fennel. Illicium verum is what we call Illicium verum, and the shape of seedlings is like particles.

Fennel is pungent and warm, and enters the liver, kidney, spleen and stomach meridians. It can warm and tonify liver and kidney, warm the spleen and stomach, and regulate qi and middle warmer. Miraculously, it can also treat hernia, that is, "intestinal gas", which left a much-told story.

According to legend, at the end of Qing Dynasty, Russian businessman mikhailov was visiting the West Lake. Just as he was intoxicated with the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, a hernia broke out untimely, causing mikhailov to cry with his stomach in his arms. In this emergency, the doctor who accompanied the wealthy businessman could do nothing. The boatman quickly recommended an old Chinese doctor to him.

After the old Chinese doctor came, he ground one or two fennel into powder and let the patients take it with Shaoxing yellow wine. After about twenty minutes, mikhailov suddenly felt less pain. After a while, it didn't hurt at all. He thought that Chinese medicine had given him some valuable medicines, but he didn't know it was fennel until he asked. He even called it magic.

It turns out that fennel can dispel cold and relieve pain, and regulate stomach gas, and hernia is also called intestinal gas, mainly due to the accumulation of cold between small intestines, which leads to abdominal pain and testicular pain. Fennel is pungent and warm, which can dispel the cold of spleen and stomach and small intestine, so it cured the hernia of Russian rich businessmen. Because fennel has the function of warming the lower abdomen, if female friends encounter dysmenorrhea caused by cold, they can also drink fennel soup.

Fennel is generally aimed at cold syndrome. People with stomach and kidney fever and small intestine fever will aggravate their symptoms if they use fennel. Therefore, people with toxic heat in their bodies are forbidden to use fennel.

Sichuan pepper-dispelling cold and dampness

Speaking of Sichuan pepper, northerners may be stunned. What is Sichuan pepper? Never heard of it. In fact, its common name is pepper. Qin pepper is produced in Qin, and Sichuan pepper is produced in Shu.

Sichuan pepper is pungent, hot and poisonous. Of course, this refers to when peppers are eaten raw, "Sichuan peppers kill people who keep their mouths shut."

Zanthoxylum bungeanum, which is hot and pure yang in nature, can enter the spleen, stomach, lung and kidney meridians, warm the spleen and stomach, nourish the vital door, dispel yin and cold, expel ascaris, relieve pain and dry rheumatism, and has many functions.

Soaking feet with pepper boiling water can dry out dampness and drive away cold. Shi Jinmo, a famous doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, has a hygienic habit of soaking his feet with Chili water every night. The reason is that pepper can dispel dampness and cold, warm the spleen and stomach and replenish life. Spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and life gate is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, which warms and supplements the foundation of the day after tomorrow. This is an important method to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan, and if dampness enters the body, it is the most difficult to get rid of it, and it will become a lifelong disease for a long time. So, Mr. Shi Jinmo identified these key points and came up with such a health care method for himself-boiling Chili water to soak his feet.

I suggest you stick to this method, especially friends in the south, and you must use it. Because there is much rain and humidity in the south.

When it comes to eliminating dampness, we can't help but mention pepper here. Southerners love to eat Chili peppers not only because of their taste, but also because of their daily needs, which can help keep out the cold and maintain the harmony between yin and yang in the body. However, when some southerners go to the north, they still like to eat Chili. Later, I found something was wrong. People who don't have acne used to eat Chili, but now their noses are red and their faces are covered with acne. This is all because the environment has changed. Eating Chili peppers can get rid of moisture. Now there is drought in the north. After eating it, it can only increase the dryness and heat of the body, but the fire of the spleen and stomach has come up, so acne has emerged. Similarly, northerners must put less pepper in cooking, otherwise it will only promote the imbalance between cold and heat. People with yin deficiency and excessive fire, as well as pregnant women, should not eat Chili.

Pepper warms the middle and dispels the cold.

Pepper is a spicy, hot and pure thing. If it's cold, eating it can drive away the cold. But if it is eaten by people who are hot or prone to fever, it will hurt your anger and aggravate your illness.

Li Shizhen wrote in Compendium of Materia Medica that he liked peppers very much since he was a child, and he had a passionate love for them. As a result, he suffers from eye diseases every year. At that time, he didn't doubt that it was pepper, but later he gradually understood it, so he gritted his teeth and got rid of this habit, and his eye disease was fine.

Why do peppers have these characteristics? Because it can stimulate the growth of yang in the body. Spicy taste promotes qi and heat helps fire, so people with sore throat, toothache and eye diseases must avoid eating Chili.

Take medicine to be symptomatic, and eat to be symptomatic. Pepper is not suitable for people with heat in their bodies, but it is the best medicine for people with cold bodies. Pepper can warm the middle warmer, dispel cold and strengthen kidney qi. If you are a person with stomach cold, diarrhea or deficiency cold, you can eat some peppers appropriately.

At the same time, pepper has an appetizing effect. I once wrote an article about Zhang Jingyue, who was a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty. When he was treating his son, he clearly knew that he needed warm tonic, but the child just couldn't eat the medicine, and the result was urgent. what should he do ？ Finally, the idea he came up with was to soak peppers in porridge for the children to eat. As a result, the child's appetite really opened, and he was able to take medicine, and he was finally saved.

Today, we can also use it in this way. If we have a bad appetite at a certain time, especially when we have a cold, we can add a little pepper when cooking, which can help us to open our appetite and increase our appetite.

Pumpkin warms up and regulates temper.

Pumpkin, bitter gourd, carrot, tomato, garlic and fungus are called "six friends in vegetables". Among them, the bitter gourd mentioned above belongs to yin, tomatoes and fungus also belong to yin, pumpkins and garlic belong to yang, and carrots belong to flat.

Pumpkins are warm and delicious. Entering the spleen and stomach can replenish the middle jiao, which is very beneficial to people with spleen deficiency and weak qi. Pumpkin is a good vegetable for diabetic patients, because it can prevent the rapid increase and decrease of blood sugar, and has the function of stabilizing the disease, which has something in common with spleen strengthening discussed in traditional Chinese medicine.

My mother used to have high blood sugar. At that time, we didn't take medicine to recuperate, but used diet therapy, that is, eating yam, pumpkin and bitter gourd, which we often used for cooking. Results Blood sugar was well controlled and kept within the normal range for many years. Our method of making pumpkins is very simple, that is, cutting pumpkins into pieces and steaming them in a pot. It tastes sweet and delicious.

However, people who have been hot or have a stomachache should eat less. Pumpkins tonify qi, so people with qi stagnation and dampness resistance should not eat or eat less pumpkins.

Don't eat more pumpkins. Eating too much pumpkin can easily cause beriberi and jaundice. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to complementary colors. Pumpkins are yellow. If you eat too much, you will get jaundice. I've seen such a thing. A girl loves pumpkin very much, and she must drink pumpkin porridge every day. As a result, after a while, she found that her skin turned yellow and her palms turned yellow, thinking that she had liver disease. As a result, she went to the hospital for examination, and there was no problem. The doctor asked questions and finally found that she just ate too many pumpkins.

Coriander-dispelling cold and activating qi

When going out to eat, waiters often ask, do you eat coriander? Someone quickly said, yes; Someone quickly shook his head, no. People who love to eat don't need to know its benefits, and he also loves to eat; People who don't like food may know its benefits and accept its taste.

Coriander, named "coriander" because it can increase fragrance, is commonly known as "coriander" in the north, and is a kind of spice vegetable that people often eat. The smell of coriander is irritating, which can relieve the symptoms and dispel the cold, especially for those with exogenous cold. At this point, the function of coriander and scallion is similar.

Compendium of Materia Medica holds that coriander is pungent, warm and fragrant, which can pass through the heart and spleen inside and reach the limbs outside, and can dispel unhealthy qi and promote the health of the heart and spleen.

But because coriander can move, it is hair. Eating it is easy to cause recurrence.

In addition, people with body odor should not eat coriander, and people with bad breath should not eat coriander. The problem will get worse after eating it. Even people with a peaceful constitution should not eat more. Eating too much will affect your eyesight and consume the qi of yin and yang.

Chestnut —— Warming spleen and kidney

Chestnut is an aphrodisiac food, which is very tonic. Its nourishing effect can even be comparable to that of angelica, ginseng and astragalus, but eating too much can easily lead to spleen and stomach heat accumulation.

Chestnuts are warm and sweet, and enter the spleen, stomach and kidney. They have the reputation of "hardcore crops" and "woody food" among the people. For people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, it can replenish qi and spleen and enrich the stomach. Moreover, chestnuts also have the function of tonifying kidney. In ancient times, chestnuts were called the fruit of kidney. If the elderly have backache due to kidney deficiency, they can eat it to nourish them. But don't eat too much. Chestnuts are "extremely difficult to grow, and ripening is easy to lag." It can be seen that everything should be appropriate and measured.

Onion-divergence means cold.

Many people don't like green onions, garlic and onions, mainly because they are afraid of their taste. After eating, others avoid talking about it, so many people refuse to eat onions. And when you cut the ocean of onions, you will cry. However, in foreign countries, onions are known as "the queen of vegetables". As you can see, onions are often used in western food.

We can sum up that spicy and irritating foods such as pepper, Sichuan pepper, pepper, onion, onion and garlic are mostly yang foods, which can mobilize the yang in the body after eating. Huangdi Neijing said: "pungent, sour, sweet, slow, bitter, firm, salty and soft."

Pungent taste has divergent effect, so it can stimulate yang spirit, sweat and relieve exterior syndrome. If it is exogenous cold, it is very effective to use them to drive away the cold.

Onion is sweet, slightly pungent, warm in nature, enters the liver, spleen, kidney and lung meridians, and has the effects of warming and activating yang, regulating qi, regulating middle energizer and invigorating spleen. However, its main function is to dispel cold. If you have a cold and feel cold, but don't sweat, you can eat more onions and boil water with them. You will find that the symptoms of not sweating and stuffy nose will be relieved soon.

But hot people are not suitable for eating onions. I know a friend. As long as he eats onions, no matter how much he eats, he will cough after eating. This is because he has heat in his body. If he eats onions and heats them, of course he will cough.

Welsh onion-release and promote yang qi

Green onions are pungent and slightly warm, and have the function of releasing yang. As the saying goes: onion is spicy, garlic is spicy, and pepper is spicy at both ends. The smell of onions is very exciting, and this pungent smell can help people clear the cold, thus alleviating the symptoms of colds.

When used to treat a cold, we usually use the bulb part of onion, which is usually called scallion. Onion belongs to lung meridian and stomach meridian, and herbal medicine thinks onion is "the main pathogen of typhoid fever, sweating and stroke".

When you have a cold, boil the water with scallion, drink it while it is hot, and then cover it with a little sweat, so that the symptoms of stuffy nose and chills will be alleviated. Folk folk prescription Sangen soup, that is, the formula of cooking soup with onion root, Chinese cabbage root and radish root, is also used to treat mild colds and also plays a role in dispelling cold.

In fact, our Chinese medicine practitioners began to use green onions very early, and Zhang Zhongjing is a master of using green onions. For example, in Treatise on Febrile Diseases, he wrote about scallion in several places, the most famous of which is Bai Tong soup, and scallion is the main medicine. This prescription is used to treat yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity syndrome. At this time, the rejection of yang deficiency is a critical syndrome. Zhang Zhongjing used scallion to get through, breaking the repulsion of Yin and Yang, and restoring Yang Can and reconciling Yin and Yang.

Understand this truth, you will understand why people in China always put chopped green onion in cooking. In fact, on the one hand, it tastes good, on the other hand, it can play a role in regulating qi and promoting yin and yang. This is the wisdom of our ancestors. Life contains the truth of keeping in good health everywhere, and we must know it.