When 1 tells patients to eat less fruit, most of them will look at me with incredible eyes.
Next to the hospital, the most are fruit shops.
When the patient leaves the hospital, the doctor always tells him to eat more fruits. Almost all health experts and all health programs have the same voice: eat more fruits.
Someone even made up a slogan: "An apple a day keeps the disease away."
Not long ago, I saw a medical authority claiming on the Internet that eating fruit on an empty stomach is the best way to treat cancer. This is obviously absurd.
Chinese medicine believes that eating fruit on an empty stomach will hurt the spleen and stomach, and it will hurt badly.
The first principle of Chinese medicine treatment is Jianzhong, that is, establishing the function of spleen and stomach.
Spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, the engine of the human body, its function is not good, diet is not absorbed, not transported, where does it come from?
But many people actually think that eating more fruits is beneficial and harmless.
When the lives of ordinary people are controlled by inexplicable experts, it usually means disaster.
Every time I tell patients with yin syndrome and heavy humidity to eat less or even less fruit, they will look at me doubtfully. These patients all feel incredible. I need to explain a lot to them every time.
Why eat less fruit?
Huangdi Neijing Su Wen said: "The five grains make up, and the five fruits help."
"Fruit" is divided into two categories, one is self-preservation, that is, the shell is hard, or prickly, or the appearance is not good. These fruits are called nuts.
The other is soft in appearance and sweet and sour in taste, and hides its seeds in delicious meat. This kind is called fruit.
According to Chinese medicine, fruits are basically water, and water is yin. There are basically only two flavors of fruit: sour and sweet, which add up to sour and sweet. Yin and Yang are opposite, and yin food is naturally cold.
The common cold of modern people is caused by many factors, such as eating ice and drinking cold food, junk food, stress fatigue, antibiotic abuse and so on. Therefore, it is prudent for people to eat more cold fruits today.
But most people nowadays are impetuous and like to eat cool fruits. Although they were comfortable in the mouth at that time and satisfied their appetite for a while, the price was that they consumed spleen and kidney yang deficiency, which would eventually lead to spleen and kidney yang deficiency after a long time.
Women will have macula, irregular menstruation, infertility due to palace cold and even uterine fibroids. Men will have rhinitis, stomachache, low back pain, fatigue, cold, loose stool, chills, varicose veins of lower limbs and other symptoms.
Some people eat mangoes and pitaya in the morning and vomit in the afternoon, which is caused by the moisture of the fruit.
Anyone who has studied gynecology of traditional Chinese medicine knows that women are prone to yang deficiency, and now they still drink eight glasses of water, drink a lot of milk and eat a lot of fruit every day. It's really worse Yin qi plus Yin qi, the whole body is wrapped in these moisture. If she doesn't exercise afterwards, she won't suffer from gynecological diseases!
Some time ago, I had a patient with severe rhinitis, female, whose voice echoed and almost smelled bad. The pulse is heavy, slightly stringy, and the spleen and stomach pulse is cold and damp. Asking shit is really common on weekdays. Ask her if she likes fruit. She really likes eating watermelons, pears, sugar cane and so on, regardless of season.
Usually, I summarize the patients with rhinitis diagnosed, and nine times out of ten like to eat cool fruit.
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Is the fruit nutritious?
When we say that a certain food is nutritious, the premise should be that it can be digested and absorbed by the spleen and stomach smoothly.
Cold fruits are in the stomach, and we haven't had time to absorb the nutrition of fruits. Fruits first consume our yang and blood.
For young people with abundant yang, the feeling of being consumed by yang when eating fruit may not be obvious.
It is very sensitive for patients and frail middle-aged and elderly people. When they eat fruit, they often feel cold and even pain.
Some patients ask, isn't fruit rich in vitamins?
I said vegetables have a lot of vitamins. If you eat fruit, your stool will be deformed and even normal nutrition will not be absorbed. What's the use of more vitamins?
What's the significance of high nutritional value if a person can't digest and absorb regular food even when eating fruit?
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Can fruit beautify and lose weight?
Can fruit beautify and lose weight?
Our view is that obesity is often caused by weakness of the spleen and stomach. The spleen and stomach are weak and can't transport excess water and fat, so it becomes a garbage dump.
Therefore, if you want to lose weight, strengthening the spleen and stomach is fundamental. Some people, with weak spleen and stomach and sour mouth, don't know how to quit fruit.
In order to lose weight, many women eat fruit as a meal, which will naturally backfire. The more fruits they eat, the weaker their spleen and stomach will become and the less weight they will lose.
Many women eat a lot of fruits in order to replenish water and maintain beauty, but their skin is dry and their faces are dark yellow and dull, and they have not turned into the color of red apples.
Instead, I told them to eat less fruit, and at the same time, they should nourish and replenish yang and dredge the exterior and interior. The complexion is rosy and the skin is no longer dry.
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Can fruit relax bowels?
As we all know, if you want to live forever, your intestines will always be clear. If you want to live, there is no shit in your intestines.
Yesterday, there was a patient who was constipated once every three or four days, and it was not easy to excrete his stool. This lady usually tries to relieve constipation with bananas, but it's getting worse.
Some people may ask, don't fruit bananas contain a lot of crude fiber?
However, bananas are a cold thing, and eating them occasionally can relieve constipation. People with weak body and less yang eat it. Cold is the main source of attraction and there is no motivation to defecate. I asked her if you are usually tired, afraid of cold, with little menstrual flow, dark and caked. She looked at me a little surprised: yes.
This is obviously a cold secret. I gave her some medicine to warm the interior, dispel the cold and dredge the intestines. And solemnly told her to stop eating bananas and had better not eat fruits.
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How to eat fruit is the most reasonable?
Usually, people who have a good appetite and strong digestive ability, who eat too much and are afraid of heat, eat some fruit properly, which can slightly control the excess of the spleen and stomach and reduce the excessive internal heat.
People who eat too much wine and meat, people who are hot, or patients with fever can eat some fruits appropriately. But the more you eat, the better. Eating too much cold will hurt the spleen and stomach.
The ancients paid great attention to this. They don't eat fruit on an empty stomach, five-guarantee households don't eat fruit, and children and old people dare not give too much fruit to eat.
Now there is no such concept. For patients with deficiency cold and a particularly greedy mouth, I can only make one step: if you really want to eat some fruit, soak it in a small amount of boiling water or cook it, which can cool it a little.
In fact, it is a western view to advocate eating more fruits.
Westerners have a hot constitution. Their food is mainly all kinds of meat and dairy products, and there are few vegetables, so stomach heat and blood heat are their main symptoms.
In the Qing Dynasty, we exported rhubarb for clearing stomach heat to Britain.
Their idea is that eating more fruits can reduce obesity and make people healthier. We can't ignore our own physique and copy it completely.
A girl and a graduate student in nutrition. Menstruation is a little abnormal, and my body is cold.
After telling her some moxibustion methods, I reminded her to eat less fruit. She looked surprised: everyone said that fruit is beautiful, laxative, delicious and rich in vitamins.
I explained, but she still looked unacceptable. She nodded politely and ignored him.
I know that our views are contrary to what she usually learns and what professors and experts say, which is very difficult for her.
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Pay attention to region and seasonality when eating fruit.
Pay attention to region and seasonality when eating fruit.
First of all, most fruits on the market are not local and seasonal. With the development of logistics, fruits have no geographical boundaries.
And "one side of the soil and water support one side of the people", the fruit of a certain place corresponds to the local climate environment, but it is suitable for the local people. Eating fruit from other places is easy to hurt your health.
For example, pitaya is produced in Hainan. Because of the hot weather in Hainan, eating pitaya is refreshing, but Hunan people will get cold when they come to eat pitaya.
Similarly, fruits are seasonal. When summer is hot, nature gives us watermelons to cool off the heat; The weather is dry in autumn, and nature gives us persimmons and Sydney.
But at present, many fruits on the market are not in season. Watermelons are sold all year round, and Sydney is sold all year round. ...
Secondly, it is precisely because most fruits are out of season now. In the process of preserving these fruits, artificial use of ripening agents and hormones is quite toxic.
And in order to make the fruit look beautiful, fruit merchants often use hormones. Eating less such fruit can reduce the extra harm to the body.
In Treatise on Febrile Diseases by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, one of the most important dietary taboos for patients is to avoid cold. The reason why we want to avoid the cold is to protect the yang of the human body.
We should not only rely on drugs to cure diseases, but also pay attention to living habits.
There are too many misunderstandings in our living habits, which will directly lead to diseases. For example, eating more fruits is the most typical "cold".