"Su Wen. "On the Truth" said: "Five flavors of husband enter the stomach, and each has its own joy. Therefore, acid enters the liver first, bitter enters the heart first, sweet enters the spleen first, pungent enters the lung first, and salty enters the kidney first. " Because the sweetness is slow and close to the same slow soil smell, it is sweet into the spleen.

People with poor gastrointestinal function can eat more sweets appropriately. Sweets, including sweets, do not mean all sweets, but foods with natural sweetness, such as red dates, sweet potatoes, corn, glutinous rice, honey, pumpkins, beets, sugar cane, glucose, licorice, sweet oranges, brown sugar and so on. Besides these, sweets also include light food, that is, tasteless food, such as rice and noodles, which are staple foods.

Of all the sweets, three are particularly praised. It is suggested that the majority of female friends with spleen deficiency can eat more in moderation:

The first is yam: raw yam is suitable for nourishing yin, and cooked yam is suitable for strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea.

The second kind is jujube: according to the words in Compendium of Materia Medica, jujube can "tonify the middle energizer, nourish the spleen and soil, moisten the heart and lungs, adjust the camp and guard, slow down the yin and blood, produce fluid, appreciate the color, pass through the nine orifices and help the twelve meridians, which is a hundred medicines." You can usually cook porridge, or you can insist on soaking in water in a thermos cup.

The third kind is lotus root: as the saying goes, "a man can't live without ginger for a day, but a woman can't break the lotus root for three days." Women belong to yin, and their bodies should be raised. Lotus root has a particularly good nourishing effect on women. Raw lotus root can clear away heat and promote fluid production, cool blood and stop bleeding. Once cooked, moxibustion can benefit the spleen and stomach, replenish blood and muscle. Therefore, eating lotus root can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also make the color better.

Replenish the spleen in spring, "eating sweet in spring makes the spleen safe."

However, sweetness is further divided into "sweetness" and "sweetness". If the yang is insufficient, you should choose "sweet" foods, such as flour, glutinous rice, pumpkin, lotus seeds and taro. If the yin is insufficient, it needs to be "sweet and cool", such as mung beans, loofah, wax gourd, cabbage, cucumber and so on.

If it is spleen deficiency, it is generally recommended to choose sweets to help nourish spleen yang. If there is a disease in the stomach, we need to choose sweet and cold food to help it. It is better to consult a doctor about these specific details.