Traditional Chinese medicine refers to physical weakness as physical weakness, chronic weakness as deficiency syndrome, and divides weakness into four types: qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency and yang deficiency. Combined with the five internal organs of heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney, all organs have the types of weakness of qi, blood and yin, such as lung qi deficiency and spleen yang deficiency. Traditional Chinese medicine theory emphasizes balance. As long as the human body is in balance of qi, blood and yin and yang, it is healthy. The following are common blood-enriching foods.

black soya bean

In ancient China, it was always believed that eating beans was beneficial, especially black beans, which could produce blood and blacken hair. It is convenient for everyone to eat black beans. Black-bone chicken can be cooked with black beans after delivery.

Black moss

Nostoc flagelliforme is as black as hair, thick and smooth in texture, and contains iron, so it can replenish blood. Eating it often can make hair black. Women can also use Nostoc flagelliforme to cook soup as blood supplement after delivery.

carrot

Carrots are carrots and are called ginseng in Japan. They contain vitamins B and C, and a special nutrient, carotene, which is very beneficial for enriching blood. So boiled carrots are a good soup for enriching blood.

gluten

Folk food stores, vegetarian restaurants, and pot-stewed stalls all provide it. Gluten is rich in iron and is a delicious food worth promoting.

spinach

Also known as spinach, it is a well-known blood-enriching food, rich in iron-containing carotene, so spinach can be regarded as an important food in blood-enriching vegetables. Other foods containing iron are raisins, dried plums, dried apricots and dried peaches.

Daylily bud

Day lily has the largest iron content, which is 20 times higher than the familiar spinach. It is rich in iron, and other nutrients, such as vitamins A, B 1, C, protein, fat and colchicine, have diuretic and stomachic effects.

longan aril

Longan meat is longan meat, which is a blessing meat. Fresh longan comes on the market every summer. This is a well-known blood-enriching food among the people, because it is rich in iron, vitamins A, B, glucose and sucrose, and can treat insomnia such as forgetfulness, palpitation and neurasthenia. It is also a good blood-enriching food for postpartum women to eat longan soup, longan gum and longan wine.

Dried salted radish

Dried radish is a kind of beneficial vegetable containing vitamin B, which is extremely rich in vitamin B and high in iron. It is a first-class health food. Although it is salty and refreshing all year round, it has a unique flavor and rich nutrition, and its iron content exceeds that of all foods except day lily.