People with yin deficiency should pay attention to their emotions, don't get angry often, eat more sweet food in their diet, and eat less spicy food. Let's take a look at the diet conditioning method of yin deficiency constitution.
Principle of avoiding yin deficiency constitution
Suitable food
Anyone with yin deficiency should eat more tonic foods, such as sweet, cool, moist and nourishing yin, fresh vegetables and fruits or foods high in cellulose and vitamins, and foods rich in high-quality protein, such as glutinous rice, mung bean, lotus root, Malantou, Chinese cabbage, black fungus, tremella, tofu, sugarcane, pear, watermelon, cucumber, lily, yam and squid. These foods are sweet in taste and cold in nature, all of which have the function of nourishing yin. Can be properly combined with nourishing yin medicated diet for targeted aftercare.
Avoid eating food.
Avoid spicy food. It's best to eat less hot pot and more chicken. Avoid eating warm and fragrant food, fried and fried goods, and foods with high sexual heat, fat and carbohydrate content. People with yin deficiency and excessive fire should eat less spicy food, less fried, fried, fried and baked food, and try not to eat longan and litchi in fruits. Yin deficiency is the only thing that doesn't need to avoid cold drinks. Cold drinks can regulate yin deficiency. Of course, you are encouraged to eat more, but you should not overdo it.
People with yin deficiency should often eat the following foods:
1, Dendrobium candidum
Zhu Danxi, the first of the four masters in Jin and Yuan Dynasties and the founder of the theory of nourishing yin, pointed out: "People often have insufficient yin, while yang often has more;" Yin deficiency is difficult to treat, while Yang deficiency is easy to supplement. Dendrobium candidum bears the brunt of nourishing yin and is regarded as a "sacred product for nourishing yin". The medical classic Daozang in the Tang Dynasty listed Dendrobium candidum as "the head of the nine immortals in China". Dendrobium candidum can nourish yin deficiency of heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney, and has been listed as a royal tribute since Tang and Song Dynasties. In 1980s, Dendrobium candidum was listed as an endangered medicinal plant under national key protection. At present, the only Dendrobium officinale approved by AQSIQ to protect geographical indication products is Dendrobium officinale in Tianmu Mountain, Lin 'an, Zhejiang Province.
2. Tremella fuciformis
Has the effects of nourishing yin, nourishing stomach, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. Tremella fuciformis is rich in colloid, multivitamins, 17 amino acids, tremella fuciformis polysaccharide, protein and other nutrients, and it is the most commonly used nourishing food for people, especially suitable for people with lung yin deficiency and stomach yin deficiency.
3. Pierce
It has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness and clearing heat, and is most suitable for patients with lung yin deficiency or yin deficiency after fever. Materia Medica Xuan Tong: "Cooked people nourish the yin of the five internal organs". "Chongqing Tang Essay": "The disease of warm dryness, yin deficiency and fire flourishing, while the scorched body fluid, the effect of pounding juice and drinking."
4. Duck meat
Can nourish yin and stomach. Materia Medica: "Nourishing Yin and Eliminating Steaming". "Life Taste Diet Spectrum": "Nourish the yin of the five internal organs, clear the heat of deficiency and fatigue, nourish the stomach and produce fluid". Folk also believe that duck meat is the most ideal tonic, suitable for yin deficiency.
5. Mulberry
It has the function of nourishing yin and enriching blood, and can best replenish the yin of liver and kidney. Materia Medica: "Wu Shen benefits Yin Qi, Yin and blood". Materia Medica Jing Shu: "It is a medicine for cooling blood, enriching blood and benefiting yin", and it is also said that "quenching thirst for internal heat and body fluid deficiency, the five internal organs belong to yin, benefiting yin and benefiting the five internal organs." Especially for those who have symptoms such as thirst quenching, dim eyes and tinnitus, it is the best food.
6. Pork skin
Pork has the function of nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Wang Mengying, a physician in the Qing Dynasty, said: "Pork nourishes the kidney, supplements gastric juice, nourishes the liver and yin, moistens the skin and quenches thirst." Compendium of Materia Medica: "Pork tastes profound, moistens the stomach, produces essence and nourishes the skin." Therefore, pigskin is more effective for people with yin deficiency constitution.
7.milk
Has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, and moistening dryness. Doctors in past dynasties highly praised the function of nourishing yin of milk, or called it "moistening muscles to quench thirst", "moistening skin" and "moistening large intestine", or called it "moistening five internal organs" and "nourishing body fluid". Anyone whose constitution belongs to yin deficiency should eat it regularly, which has many benefits.
8.tortoise
It has the function of nourishing yin and cooling blood, and is a good product for clearing and tonifying. It is the most suitable food for people with yin deficiency. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Cooling blood and nourishing yin". According to the "Resting Diet Spectrum", soft-shelled turtle "nourishes the yin of liver and kidney, and clears away the heat of fatigue". Therefore, soft-shelled turtle is more suitable for people with yin deficiency and blood heat, yin deficiency and excessive fire, and bone steaming. The turtle's back shell, also called tortoise shell, also has the function of nourishing yin and enriching blood, and is also suitable for people with yin deficiency.
9. sea cucumber
Has the effects of nourishing yin and blood, nourishing essence and moistening dryness. "Medicinal property test": "reducing fire and nourishing kidney". "Food should be avoided": "Sea cucumber nourishes kidney, produces essence and benefits marrow". Wang Mengying, a food doctor in Qing Dynasty, thought that sea cucumber could "nourish yin, enrich blood and moisten dryness". Sea cucumber is a kind of high-protein and low-fat seafood treasure, which can tonify and nourish yin. People with yin deficiency should eat it regularly.
10, mussel meat
Rich in protein and vitamins, it has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing away heat and improving eyesight. Wang Qing Meng Ying also thinks that mussel meat can "clear heat and nourish yin, nourish liver and cool blood". People with yin deficiency often eat clam stew, which is the most suitable.
1 1, medlar
It has the effects of nourishing yin and prolonging life, and is especially suitable for soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, night sweats due to pulmonary tuberculosis, cough due to lung yin deficiency, and thirst quenching due to liver and kidney yin deficiency.
12, American ginseng
It can benefit qi and nourish yin, and is most suitable for people with both qi and yin injuries. "materia medica from the beginning": "virtual fire is appropriate". "Medicinal property test": "American ginseng nourishes yin and clears heat." Adding fake medicine: "American ginseng nourishes yin and reduces fire." Therefore, people with yin deficiency or both qi deficiency and lung deficiency, or people with yin deficiency and fire flourishing, are best to eat. People with yin deficiency should avoid eating ginseng, because ginseng is warm and helps to reduce fire. If American ginseng is used instead, it is most suitable for clearing qi and yin. As the Medical Record of American Ginseng said, "American ginseng is cool and tonic, and anyone who wants to use ginseng without being warmed by it can take its place."
13, Ejiao
It can not only enrich blood, but also nourish yin. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Ejiao, the most important thing is to replenish blood and promote fluid production. Yin deficiency makes it taste, while Ejiao is sweet to replenish yin and blood. " Especially for people with lung and kidney yin deficiency, it is especially suitable for eating.
In addition, people with yin deficiency should eat more oyster meat, mackerel, mare's milk, goat's milk, yogurt, clam meat, mussels, frog meat, tendon, tofu sauce, spinach, vegetables, soybean sprouts, yam, tremella, mushrooms, Flammulina velutipes, Volvariella volvacea, Pleurotus ostreatus, sago, glutinous rice and black fungus.
Commonly used drugs for nourishing yin include Radix Glehniae, Radix Rehmanniae, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Asparagi, Dendrobium, Rhizoma Polygonati, Fructus Corni, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Eclipta prostrata and Radix Scrophulariae. You can choose according to the specific situation of your body.
Taboo items
Anyone with yin deficiency should avoid or eat less dog meat, mutton, sparrow meat, seahorse, sea dragon, roe deer, wok rake, fried peanuts, fried soybeans, fried melon seeds, popcorn, lychee, longan pulp, fingered citron, bayberry, garlic, leek, mustard seed, pepper, Allium macrostemon, pepper, Amomum villosum, etc.
Through a passage, we have a clear understanding of people with yin deficiency constitution. In normal times, we should strictly follow the above foods, which will bring good development to our bodies. It is also very good to make our bodies healthier and perfect.