It used to be said that when a person's face was ugly, he "had all the dishes." This kind of person's skin looks very dark yellow, even green and dull. Because food was scarce at that time, many people used "fruits and vegetables" instead of food. Although there is no shortage of food now, many people think that food is only a supplement to calories. Can't delicious foods such as meat, eggs and milk provide calories? Then use meat and vegetables instead of food, but not eating food is actually a taboo for Chinese medicine.
When it comes to diet and health, Huangdi Neijing puts "five grains as a supplement" in the first place, because five grains enter the spleen meridian and the spleen is the "foundation of the day after tomorrow". Spleen is mentioned in such a high position, because for China people, temper is the weak link of China people or yellow people. Therefore, porridge has gradually formed the most characteristic thing of China in China's traditional diet, because it is soft and delicate, and it is more convenient for China people who are not strong to absorb nutrition. All these explain a truth: disease is the easiest way to open the gap from the weak link of spleen and stomach.
Spleen is the main muscle in TCM, and people with full temper will have elastic muscles and plump muscles. On the contrary, people with bad temper are often weak scholars who are "unable to bind chickens with their hands." The sudden decrease of muscles in a short period of time directly hurt the temper of the supervisor's muscles. That is to say, if spleen deficiency reaches the extreme, this "acquired foundation" damage is equivalent to the fact that the "audit office" in the body has stopped working and neglected its duties, resulting in his lack of recognition and resistance to bacteria, which will lead to sepsis becoming a potential infection.
People who lose weight by not eating food are actually artificially creating spleen deficiency. Although it may not lead to "septicemia", spleen deficiency will become a reality sooner or later. First of all, it is a bad complexion and no luster on the skin. Skin can be delicate through cosmetic whitewashing, but healthy luster can't be changed, so people will appear stiff, rigid and lifeless. It can be seen that color is very important to get real and vivid skin. The so-called color is the healthy luster that can be expressed through cosmetics. Color is determined by temper, and food is the best tonic for temper.