1, yin deficiency constitution eating spicy food hurts the body.
Spicy taste can often stimulate the body's heat, and it is a hot food. So what kind of people are suitable for spicy food? In life, many people with yin deficiency like to eat spicy food, which they think is beneficial to replenish body heat. In fact, this is a wrong practice, experts remind: people with yin deficiency should eat less hot food in their diet, because heat hurts yin. Spicy foods such as pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, pepper and mustard are all hot. Not only that, spicy food has divergent effect, which is not conducive to nourishing yin. Therefore, people with yin deficiency should try to eat less spicy food.
2. How to eat spicy food with yin deficiency constitution?
But there are hundreds of millions of people in China who like spicy food. What can we do? We can think of some ways to reduce the harm of spicy food to Yin.
1. Eat cooked, but not raw.
After cooking, especially after heating, some spicy foods will disappear with cooking, so people with yin deficiency who love spicy foods should eat cooked spicy foods instead of raw ones.
2. Eat fresh instead of dry.
Spicy foods such as dried Chili, Chili powder, pepper and mustard are hot products in traditional Chinese medicine, and their characteristics cannot be changed by ordinary cooking methods. People with yin deficiency should eat less. Fresh spicy food such as fresh pepper, onion, ginger and garlic will be reduced or disappeared after being cooked, even if it is eaten raw, it has little effect, so eating spicy food is not dry.
Garlic is divided into white garlic and purple garlic. Purple garlic tastes spicy and is often used for seasoning. People with yin deficiency can also season with white garlic.
3. What is good for yin deficiency constitution?
1. egg
No matter egg white or egg yolk, it can not only replenish qi and nourish blood, but also nourish yin and moisten dryness. Eggs are considered as good food in protein by the medical profession, among which ovalbumin, ovoglobulin and ovophosphorus are all protein. People with yin deficiency should eat properly, especially eggs and soybeans. If people are used to eating eggs and soy milk together, it will be more beneficial.
2. 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.
3. 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.
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.soft-shelled turtle
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.
6. Carp
It is flat in nature, sweet and salty in taste, can nourish yin and replenish blood, and should be eaten by people with yin deficiency. Yi Lin compiled: "Treating the symptoms of bone steaming fatigue, yin deficiency and blood heat". Tortoise shell or tortoise shell glue, processed from tortoise shell, also has the effect of nourishing yin and enriching blood, and people with yin deficiency should also take it.
7.scallop
Also known as Hema, it is a kind of seafood. It is flat, sweet and salty, and can nourish yin and tonify kidney. "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Nourishing true yin". Materia Medica from the New: "Curing thirst". Scallop is a kind of high-protein food, with tender meat and delicious taste, so people with yin deficiency should often stew with scallop, which is the most beneficial.
8. 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.
4. How to recuperate yin deficiency constitution
(1) manifestations of yin deficiency constitution
Yin deficiency constitution is similar to solid constitution, which is deficiency of yin and blood. There are often thirst, dry throat, insomnia, dizziness, irritability, bad temper, dull skin, emaciation, night sweats, sweating and fever in hands and feet, yellow urine, hard stool and frequent constipation.
(2) Health preservation of yin deficiency constitution
Diet and Health: Eat more fruits and vegetables and less spicy food. Warm, dry, spicy and fragrant foods are more harmful to yin, acidic foods can promote the secretion of body fluids, and cold foods can clear away heat, so acidic and cold foods can be appropriately increased.
Daily hygiene: pay attention to protect body fluids and avoid sweating. First, avoid excessive sweating and loss of body fluids. Secondly, actively nourish yin, have a good nap, avoid staying up late, and keep the indoor environment moist.
Exercise health: suitable for soothing exercise. People with yin deficiency tend to be restless and are suitable for quiet sports, such as yoga and fishing. Avoid sweating during exercise and replenish more water.
Emotional health: try to keep calm. Listen to more soothing music, arrange your work and life reasonably, be orderly, and avoid anxiety. The more anxious, the more painful.
(3) Requirements of daily life
Daily life should be regular, the living environment should be quiet, and there should be a certain lunch break at noon.
(4) Daily precautions
Don't drink tea, exercise or play games before going to bed. Go to bed early and get up early, and avoid staying up late, strenuous exercise and hot summer homework. It is advisable to control sexual intercourse. Quit smoking and drinking.
Control the amount of sweating during exercise and replenish water in time. Not suitable for sauna.