Old people can eat light food. Foods with this function are: buckwheat, barley and other cereals, oranges, apples, sesame seeds, walnuts, red beans, soybean milk and so on. If the elderly have internal heat due to yin deficiency, they can choose the method of clearing and replenishing. This kind of food includes: pear, lotus root, shepherd's purse, lily, turtle and so on. Generally speaking, the tonic for the elderly who are sick or recovered from illness should be mainly cool, light, delicious and digestible foods, and rice porridge, barley porridge, red bean porridge, lotus seed porridge, green vegetable paste and pork floss can be selected.
In addition, climate change in spring is likely to increase the blood pressure of the elderly, causing headaches, dizziness, insomnia and other symptoms. The method of diet prevention and control is: eat 250-500 grams of bananas or oranges every day, or use 100 grams of banana peel instead of tea. You can also use 300 grams of celery to decoct in water, add appropriate amount of sugar, and drink tea instead. Stomach and duodenal ulcer disease is also prone to occur in spring, and pork soup, chicken soup, beef soup and spinach rich in creatine and purine base should be avoided in diet. Honey therapy can be used. After steaming honey water, take it on an empty stomach before meals, daily 100 ml, and take it three times. Chronic tracheitis in the elderly is also easy to occur in spring. Diet prevention is to eat more foods with functions of resolving phlegm, invigorating spleen, tonifying kidney and nourishing lung, such as loquat, orange, pear, lotus seed, lily, jujube, walnut and honey, which is helpful to relieve symptoms.