Food tonic is better than medicine tonic.
According to the natural properties, the five elements in spring belong to wood, and the liver in the five internal organs of human body also belongs to wood, so spring gas passes through the liver. Everything comes into being in spring, and the liver qi is vigorous, but the excessive liver qi affects the transportation and transformation of the spleen and stomach, so it is easy to weaken the spleen and stomach in spring. Zhang Yuqing, director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Zhongshan Hospital, Zhejiang Province, said: "During every scare, patients often come to the clinic for symptoms such as depression, lethargy, loss of appetite, and poor stool, but these patients usually have no obvious abnormalities during gastrointestinal endoscopy. In fact, excessive liver qi leads to liver depression and spleen deficiency. "
He said that from the perspective of diet, the diet and daily life during the period of fright should conform to the nature of the liver, which is helpful to temper and make the five internal organs peaceful. Warm weather and mild diet can reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach; It is advisable to eat more light foods rich in plant protein and vitamins and less animal fat foods.
Zhang Yuqing specifically reminded that you should try not to eat cold food. This is because it is warm and cold at first, the temperature is low, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, so this solar term is not suitable for eating cold things, and the food at the entrance is preferably warm or at room temperature. In addition, pathogenic microorganisms are active at this time, so we should pay attention to food hygiene to prevent food poisoning, acute gastroenteritis and other diseases.
So, how to eat health care products? "Medicine is not as good as food." Zhang Weixing, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Zhejiang Province, said that the following foods can be eaten in spring to maintain the spleen and stomach: yam is washed and steamed on rice, 30 grams a day; Stir-fried white lentils, daily15g; Euryale ferox is used to cook porridge and soup, one day15g; Decoct Atractylodes macrocephala with water, 6g each time; Oven-drying Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli, grinding into powder, directly swallowing or decocting, 6g each time; Eat 7-8 red dates every day. In addition, crucian carp also has the function of strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, and can be braised or boiled in soup, eating about 250 grams at a time.
Eliminating dampness and drinking red bean and barley porridge
"Although the temperature warms up in spring, the humidity is very high. This warm and humid environment is easy to breed bacteria. Respiratory diseases, skin diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, etc. Will happen together this season. " Xu Yujie, director of Chinese Medicine Department of Zhejiang Zhongshan Hospital, specially reminded us to be vigilant.
Generally speaking, a fat tongue, teeth on the tongue and cracks on the tongue body are all wet manifestations. If you are accompanied by dull and yellow complexion, your eyelids are swollen when you get up in the morning, or you have obvious bags under your eyes, indicating that the body is wet; Normal stool is a strip with moderate hardness. If the stool looks soft, rotten, sticky and shapeless like an overcooked banana, it is not easy to be washed away when it sticks to the toilet, indicating that the body is wet and the digestion and absorption function is abnormal; I don't feel hungry when it's time to eat. I feel bloated after eating, and I feel faint nausea when eating, which is also a manifestation of the invasion of dampness. People with heavy moisture will feel sore and heavy in their calves after getting up, and may get fat and edema in a short time; Often feel chest tightness, want to take a long breath to be comfortable, especially tired, too lazy to move, dizzy, prone to drowsiness, memory decline.
So, how to dispel wind and dehumidify? "Exercise can regulate the operation of body organs and promote metabolism, especially sweating can promote the effective excretion of water." Xu Yujie specially reminded that the reason for heavy humidity is not how much water you drink, but spleen deficiency and loss of luck. So don't limit drinking water because of heavy humidity, and drink water normally according to the usual amount.
In diet, you can drink red bean and barley porridge when the humidity is heavy. Xu Yujie explained that modern people are under great mental stress, lack of spirit, improper diet, little exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, barley and red beans are the only ones. Cooking porridge is beneficial to human absorption and does not increase the burden on the spleen and stomach. Because both red beans and coix seed are dampness-removing and contain no water, they are not strong and the soup is very clear. Of course, if the symptoms are serious, it is still recommended to go to a regular hospital for help.
It is good to drink scented tea in spring.
Chinese medicine has always had the saying "drinking scented tea in spring". This is because in spring, everything revives and yang is born, which brings vitality to everything. When the yang of the human body is out of the table and qi and blood flow to both ends, people generally feel sleepy and weak, which is called "spring sleep". This day is best for drinking scented tea.
"All kinds of scented tea have certain medicinal value. If you want to use scented tea for health care, you should drink it according to your personal physique. " Yang, a pharmacist in the Chinese pharmacy of Zhejiang Hospital, introduced that there are two kinds of scented tea: one is herbal tea, which mainly dries various flowers and plants through a certain process to make camellia suitable for brewing and drinking, such as rose tea, chrysanthemum tea and honeysuckle tea; The second is scented tea, which takes tea as the main raw material and flowers as the fragrance. Tea has a strong adsorption and will absorb the fragrance of flowers, such as jasmine tea and rose black tea.
Among them, jasmine tea is recommended by Yang Zui. He explained that among all kinds of scented teas, jasmine tea has the most mellow aroma. However, people with mild jasmine, easily excited or sensitive emotions, poor sleep and weak body should drink less or not drink tea at night. In addition, when drinking tea at night, you should put less tea leaves and don't make the tea too strong. It is best to drink tea after meals, because drinking tea on an empty stomach will harm your health, especially for people who don't drink tea often, it will inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, hinder digestion, and seriously cause palpitations, headaches and other "tea drunk" phenomena.
Besides jasmine tea, Yang also recommended chrysanthemum tea. However, it should be noted that people with particularly deficient spleen and stomach should not take this tea for a long time. Mint can reduce the amount of milk of lying-in women, which is irritating to some extent, so it is not suitable for breastfeeding and pregnant women and children to drink. In addition, honeysuckle is also suitable for drinking in spring.
It is worth mentioning that not all people are easy to get sleepy in spring, and some people can't sleep because of the change of seasons and the alternation of day and night. In addition, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, the five internal organs corresponding to spring are the liver. Spring is coming, and liver qi is growing, so people with liver problems are also prone to insomnia, depression, anxiety, mania and other emotional problems. For this part of people who have symptoms of irritability and insomnia, it is more suitable to soothe the nerves and help sleep, such as rose tea and lavender tea.
"It is worth noting that the sedative and hypnotic effect of scented tea can only be an adjuvant therapy, and it cannot achieve the sedative and hypnotic effect. If insomnia is not improved, it will seriously affect daily life, or the mood is abnormally high, you still need to go to the hospital. " Yang also specially reminded that although spring is a good season to drink scented tea, we also need to pay attention. No matter which kind of scented tea we choose, we use its partiality to correct the imbalance in our body. Many modern people have bad living habits such as smoking, drinking and staying up late, which leads to physical diversity. Before drinking, they must consult a doctor and choose the appropriate scented tea. No matter for what purpose, don't drink a lot of scented tea before going to bed, so as not to affect sleep; Don't drink overnight tea, because if the tea is left for too long, it will not only lose nutrients such as vitamins, but also be prone to rancidity and deterioration, and even produce highly irritating oxides, which will easily hurt the spleen and stomach.
(Pan Jie)