1, dietary taboos for TCM health preservation
Traditional Chinese medicine theory emphasizes "homology of medicine and food", and dietary taboo is a very important aspect of traditional Chinese medicine nutrition. As the famous doctor Zhang Zhongjing said, "the taste of food is suitable for its illness and harmful to its body." Appropriate is suitable for the body, harmful is sick, and dangerous is cited. " That's the reason. Taboo, the main taboo is hair. So, what exactly is hair? To understand what "hair" is, we must first understand the taste of food and our current physical condition.
Anyone who is deficient in qi should avoid eating food that consumes gas, cold food, greasy and spicy food. Hawthorn, for example, has the function of stimulating appetite and promoting digestion, but it also has the harm of destroying gas and consuming gas. As Wang Shixiong said in the "Qing people's living diet spectrum", people who are weak or weak after illness should not eat it. There is also a clear warning in the famous Classic of Materia Medica in Qing Dynasty: loose stool due to qi deficiency and no food due to spleen deficiency, both of which are forbidden. There are garlic and mint, and people with qi deficiency should not eat more. In addition, people with qi deficiency should also eat less grapefruit, kumquat, oranges and radishes.
People with blood deficiency should avoid eating cold products. Such as cold drinks, watermelons, Sydney and so on.
People with yin deficiency should avoid spicy, warm, fried and hot food. For example, eating cinnamon is easy to help fire and hurt yin, and all yin deficiency constitutions and diseases are not suitable for eating. As the Ming Dynasty pharmaceutical book "Herbal Classics" said: Men and women are yin deficiency, and they should avoid it by law.
People with yang deficiency should avoid eating cold things, cold drinks and fruits. Such as ducks, rabbits, melons, etc. There is a warning in Yi Yan of Materia Medica, a book of traditional Chinese medicine in the Song Dynasty: If you eat more melons, you will lose Yang Qi.
The above comes from the theory of qi, blood and yin and yang. Next, according to spleen deficiency, kidney deficiency and lung deficiency, how to avoid eating.
People with spleen deficiency should avoid eating cold fruits and vegetables, cold things, greasy and sticky things, hard and difficult to melt, spicy food that consumes gas and hurts the stomach, fried and fried, fragrant and sticky food. Such as duck, turtle, pear, hawthorn and beet. In the Qing Dynasty, Wu Yiluo described soft-shelled turtle as "the taboo of spleen deficiency" in New Materia Medica.
People with kidney deficiency should not eat cold, spicy and dry things, while those with kidney deficiency and edema should not eat salty and spicy foods such as onions and garlic. Such as persimmon, raw radish, raw cucumber, watermelon, wax gourd, onion and so on.
People with lung deficiency should avoid spicy food, things that consume gas, things that are cold and cold, and things that are fragrant and dry and hurt yin, such as frying, frying and baking. For example, pomegranate is warm in nature and sweet and sour in taste. According to predecessors' experience, pomegranate has the disadvantage of wasting lung qi, so anyone with lung qi deficiency should not eat more. People with chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma and other asthenic asthma should be avoided.
Knowing and mastering some food compatibility and dietary taboos is helpful for your healthy diet. We will eat all kinds of food in our daily diet. If you can know how to eat healthily, then your body will be well protected and many diseases will stay away from you.
2. TCM health care foundation
Eat on time: Some people in life don't eat on time, but don't eat when they are not hungry. This practice is easy to damage the stomach and weaken the body's disease resistance. Because food only stays in the stomach for four to five hours, when people feel hungry, the stomach has already been emptied. At this time, the gastric mucosa will "self-digest" gastric juice, which is easy to cause gastritis and peptic ulcer.
Drink water on time: thirst means that the water shortage in the body is quite serious and there is no time to replenish it. According to the investigation, people who have the habit of drinking water regularly are less likely to suffer from constipation and urinary calculi than those who don't drink water regularly. But also can prevent serious diseases such as myocardial infarction and stroke. Therefore, the elderly, patients with arteriosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, blood viscosity, coronary heart disease and stroke, as well as pregnant women, teenagers and babies who need more water, should develop the habit of drinking water regularly. In addition, the saliva in their mouths is healthy, so drink more water.
Rest on time: In life, many people feel tired before taking a rest. Actually, it's too late to rest now. Because, when people feel tired, fatigue has reached a considerable level, and then rest needs more time to eliminate fatigue. Excessive fatigue left a hidden danger for the disease. Taking a rest after working for a period of time and paying attention to the combination of work and rest can not only quickly eliminate fatigue, but also improve the efficiency of work and study, and the yin and yang qi and blood of the human body can also be adjusted and balanced.