Spring returns to the earth, the first season of health care. Chinese medicine believes that spring health care should focus on protecting yang, spleen and liver. Then, under the guidance of the theory of "homology of medicine and food" in traditional Chinese medicine, what little-known fresh fruits and vegetables are good for our health care in spring? What diet therapy do they have?
Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist in China, said: "In spring, it is advisable to keep sour and sweeten to nourish the temper." It means that when spring comes, people should eat less sour food and more sweet food, which will help replenish the qi of the spleen and stomach. From the perspective of TCM health preservation, the spleen and stomach are the acquired foundation and the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Only when the spleen and stomach are strong can people prolong life. However, spring is a season of vigorous liver qi, and excessive liver qi invades the spleen and stomach, making it weak. Therefore, eat less sour food in spring to prevent liver qi from flourishing. On the contrary, sweet food into the spleen can tonify the temper, so eat more. Jujube is sweet and flat, especially suitable for spring health preservation.
Chinese medicine believes that jujube is sweet and warm, enters the spleen and stomach meridian, and has the medicinal properties of tonifying the middle energizer, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and relieving exterior syndrome. It can enter the spleen and stomach to replenish the middle energizer, which is a commonly used auxiliary medicine for invigorating the spleen and stomach. Jujube has been cultivated in China for more than 3000 years, and it is listed as "top grade" in Benjing, saying that it is "long-serving, light-fit and long-lived". "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says that it can "moisten the heart and lungs, relieve cough, tonify the five internal organs, treat deficiency and relieve stomach qi". Compendium of Materia Medica records that it "tonifies the middle energizer, nourishes the heart and lungs, slows down yin and blood, promotes fluid production, delights in color and opens nine orifices". The record in "A Talk about North Dreams" is even more amazing: "There are dates in Yongle County, Hedong, and it is said that seedless people can eat the world. Sue's daughter eats and eats, but she doesn't eat whole grains. They got married at the age of 50 and looked like virgins. "
Even abroad, there is a saying that jujube is a "natural vitamin pill". This is because the vitamin content of jujube is the highest among all fruits, and the content of phosphorus and calcium is 2 ~ 12 times that of ordinary fruits. Therefore, it is considered as a food for nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen and stomach. As recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica, "Jujube, if taken for a long time, can calm the middle energizer, nourish qi, harmonize the stomach, clear nine orifices, help the twelve meridians, tonify body fluids and prolong life." A British doctor made a comparative experiment among 163 weak patients, and found that anyone who insisted on eating jujube diet recovered more than three times faster than those who simply took vitamins. In our country, there is also a folk proverb "three dates a day, never getting old". So, in spring, you might as well eat more dates. Jujube can be used as jujube porridge, jujube cake and even eaten raw, which can play a nourishing and health-care role.