Generally speaking, young people have a vigorous metabolism and need more protein and calories than the elderly, and calories mainly come from sugar and fat. Sugar mainly comes from cereals, so young people should ensure adequate food intake, pay attention to the proportion of coarse grains in flour and rice, and take in appropriate amount of fat, all of which should be considered when choosing medicated diet for tonic.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold is yin evil, and the coldest solar term is also the most lasting period of yin evil. From the point of view of diet and health, special attention should be paid to eating warm food to supplement the body in daily diet, but due to the differences of personal physique, the tonic should also be targeted.
People with yang deficiency should tonify yang: if their hands and feet are cold, afraid of cold, backache and sexual function is low, they should eat foods with the effect of warming yang and dispelling cold, and foods with the highest calorie and rich nutrition, such as dog meat, dog whip, mutton, sheep bone, ox whip, venison, roe deer, sparrow meat, hippocampus, shrimp, cistanche deserticola, fresh ginger, dried ginger and scallion.
People with yang deficiency should avoid eating cold things and all kinds of cool fruits and cold drinks. Such as duck, duck blood, duck eggs, rabbits, clams, snails, snails, crabs, turtles, bananas, grapefruit, oranges, persimmons, figs, sweet potatoes, wax gourd, raw lotus roots, raw radishes, loofah, laver, sweet potatoes and grass.
People with yin deficiency tonify yin: If you have night sweats, low-grade fever in the afternoon, flushed cheeks, feverish hands and feet, and women have more self-control, you should eat more tonic foods rich in protein, as well as fresh vegetables and fruits rich in fiber and vitamins. Such as glutinous rice, sago, sesame, pork, duck, clam, frog, clam, oyster, tendon, turtle, mackerel, squid, pear, orange, grapefruit, sugarcane, grape, strawberry, banana, medlar, fig, sour plum soup and honey.
People with yin deficiency should not eat spicy food, hot and dry food, fried food, food with high fat and carbohydrate content. Such as dog meat, mutton, sparrow meat, hippocampus, crispy rice, fried melon seeds, fried peanuts, fried soybeans, fingered citron, mustard, pepper, pepper, ginger, garlic, Amomum villosum, cardamom, fennel, clove, cinnamon, mint, Cynomorium songaricum, red ginseng, tobacco, wine and so on.
People with qi deficiency should replenish qi: the symptoms of qi deficiency are sweating after exercise, mental fatigue and female uterine prolapse. Ginseng Radix Rubri, Fructus Jujubae, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Radix Astragali, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis should be selected.
Blood deficiency can replenish blood. Symptoms of blood deficiency, such as dizziness, palpitation, insomnia, sallow complexion, pale lips, scanty menstruation and pale color, should be treated with Angelica sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Colla Corii Asini and Polygonum Multiflori Radix.
In addition, Chinese medicine believes that blood in the human body is easy to flow when it is warm and easy to stagnate when it is cold. The so-called "blood clots when cold", so in this solar term, people with heart disease and high blood pressure often get worse and suffer from "stroke". Especially the elderly, we must do a good job of keeping warm.