Grain Rain solar term is the last solar term in spring. According to the principle of "four seasons focusing" in traditional Chinese medicine, nourishing the liver should be the first thing in spring. As the saying goes, medicine is better than food, and so is nourishing the liver.

Chinese medicine believes that spinach is sweet, cool and enters the stomach. It has the effects of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, benefiting the five internal organs, dredging blood vessels, quenching thirst, moistening intestines, nourishing yin, calming liver, helping digestion and clearing stomach heat and toxin, and is often effective in the adjuvant treatment of stomach diseases due to stagnation of liver qi. It has a good therapeutic effect on hypertension, headache, dizziness and anemia caused by liver yin deficiency in spring.

It should be noted that spinach contains more oxalic acid, which hinders the body's absorption of calcium. Therefore, when eating spinach, you should first blanch it with boiling water and then fry it. Spinach should not be mixed with foods containing more calcium, such as tofu, such as spinach and tofu. Because oxalic acid reacts with calcium to produce calcium oxalate, calcium oxalate will affect people's renal function and form crystals to stay in the urinary tract, causing stones.

Spinach tofu soup is a traditional home-cooked dish, which is deeply loved by people for its light and refreshing taste. However, Zou Chunlei, an internationally registered dietitian, warned that tofu should not be eaten with spinach.

In addition, people are prone to lack of vitamin B2 and vitamin C in this season, and some people will have oral erosion and oral inflammation, commonly known as "rotten mouth". In view of this symptom, you should eat more soybean sprouts.

Soybean contains trypsin inhibitor and more phytic acid, which affects the absorption and utilization of nutrients. During the germination of soybean, most trypsin inhibitors were destroyed, and the protein contained in soybean was also decomposed into soluble peptides and amino acids, which not only increased the freshness of bean sprouts, but also increased the utilization rate of protein in bean sprouts by at least 10% compared with soybean. Soybean sprouts also contain an interferon inducer, which can induce interferon and interfere with virus metabolism. People are more prone to viral colds and other miscellaneous diseases in spring. Therefore, eating soybean sprouts in spring can also enhance the body's ability to resist viral infection.