Most people with phlegm-dampness constitution are obese, heavy, easily tired, like to eat greasy and sweet food, and eat a lot. In dietotherapy, the first thing is to abstain from fat, sweetness, thickening, drinking, overeating and eating too fast. Always eat light and mild food, eat more fruits and vegetables, especially some foods that have the functions of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, removing blood stasis and resolving phlegm.

Foods suitable for people with phlegm-dampness constitution include mustard, leek, kohlrabi, Toona sinensis, pepper, garlic, onion, ginger, papaya, white radish, water chestnut, laver, onion, ginkgo, jujube, lentil, adzuki bean, broad bean, Chinese cabbage, yam, coix seed, wax gourd seed, beef and mutton. The intake of salt should be limited, and it is not advisable to eat more fatty and sour foods, such as caramel, pomegranate, grapefruit, loquat and sugar. In addition, almond paste, lotus root starch and tuckahoe cake are all good supplements for this physique.

[Fried Shrimp with Leek]

Ingredients: 250g leek, fresh shrimp100g.

Production method: fry leek in oil pan first, then add 100g fresh shrimp, fry for a while, and add a little pepper (about 0.2g).

Health-care effects: tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, warming middle warmer and dispelling cold, invigorating stomach and refreshing, relieving swelling and pain, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting lactation and detoxifying.

[Shrimp and Horse Broiler]

Raw materials: 20g shrimp, 0/0g seahorse/kloc-0, and 0/broiler/kloc-0.

Production method: Wash shrimps and seahorses with warm water, soak them for 10 minute, then put them on the washed rooster, add a little onion ginger and steam them until they are rotten. Shrimp, seahorse, chicken and soup can all be eaten.

Health effects: warming kidney, strengthening yang, invigorating qi, replenishing essence, promoting blood circulation, resolving phlegm and eliminating dampness.