Yin deficiency is characterized by deficiency of yin and body fluid, resulting in dry eyes, dry nose, dry mouth, rough skin and dry hair. Its typical symptoms are irritability, insomnia, dreaminess, dizziness, soreness of waist and knees, frequent urination, rapid heartbeat, night sweats, fever of hands and feet, tinnitus and so on.
In addition, people with yin deficiency constitution are prone to get angry, showing impatience, irritability and mood swings, and get angry easily. Therefore, people with yin deficiency should always remind themselves to calm their nerves, maintain a stable mentality, and learn to transfer bad emotions in time. Clinical manifestations: dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, dreaminess, forgetfulness, soreness of waist and knees, hypersexuality, nocturnal emission, menorrhagia or amenorrhea in women, metrorrhagia, emaciation, dry throat, hot flashes, fever in five senses, night sweats, red cheekbones, red tongue with little or no coating, and rapid pulse.
Women with severe yin deficiency can lead to yin death, which is characterized by thick sweating, shortness of breath, body fear of heat, warm hands and feet, impatience, preference for cold drinks, or red face, dry tongue and weak pulse. This is a pathological change of dryness of yin and body fluid caused by a large amount of body fluid consumption, which belongs to a critical state and should be supplemented in time.
Nourishing yin can relieve female yin deficiency. Malnutrition caused by yin deficiency will seriously affect human health and life activities, especially white-collar women working in cities, which are prone to symptoms such as fever, night sweats, dry throat and dry mouth. If the yin can be replenished in time, it can not only prevent the symptoms of yin deficiency, but also adjust the existing bad symptoms, which has a therapeutic effect.
How to regulate yin deficiency constitution through diet
The constitution of yin deficiency is mostly caused by prolonged illness, sexual immorality, overeating warm and fragrant things, or emotional internal injury, which leads to the loss of substances such as essence, blood and body fluid, and the loss of the functions of moistening viscera and nourishing meridian skin, leading to emaciation, dry mouth and throat, sore throat, cold drinks, dry stool, five annoyances, short and red urine, and even bone steaming.
【 Taboo principle 】
Anyone with yin deficiency should eat more nourishing food, such as food that is cool and moist, produces fluid and nourishes yin, fresh vegetables or foods with high cellulose and vitamins, and foods rich in high quality protein. Avoid spicy and irritating foods, warm and fragrant foods, fried and fried items, foods with too high calories and too much fat and carbohydrates. Yin deficiency constitution should eat food that nourishes yin and nourishes fluid and moistens dryness every day. You can eat more lilies, eggs, honey, bird's nest, tremella, tofu, sesame seeds, black beans, sugar cane, pears, coconut milk, pig's trotters, duck meat, goose meat, Ophiopogon japonicus, asparagus, Polygonatum odoratum, pine nuts, turtle shell and so on.
For people with yin deficiency constitution, the following aspects can be done daily:
First, diet nursed back to health: the diet should be light. Eat less greasy, spicy and dry food, such as ginger, onion, garlic and pepper. It is advisable to eat more foods that nourish yin and clear heat, such as lotus root, tremella, lily, Sydney, honey, sugar cane and fish.
Second, mental conditioning: people with yin deficiency are impatient and often get angry easily. We should cultivate our self-cultivation and don't get angry.
Third, medicated diet health: Chinese medicines such as Radix Adenophorae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Asparagi, Fructus Lycii, and Lily all have the function of nourishing yin. Cooking porridge with these traditional Chinese medicines has a good nourishing effect on people with yin deficiency constitution.
4. Exercise for health: People with yin deficiency are suitable for practicing Tai Ji Chuan, Baduanjin and Gu Jing Qigong. Through the combination of dynamic and static, combining rigidity with softness, physical exercise and psychological adjustment, it is beneficial to the growth of yin and body fluid and the regression of deficiency heat.