Zhang Jiebin, a physician in the Ming Dynasty, said: "Tianbao is just a red sun; Man's treasure is only the breath of truth. " It means that the sun in life is as precious as the sun between heaven and earth, and life lies in the cycle of the sun. Where there is the sun, there is life. Yang Qi also determines people's mental state and their fertility. "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic Su Wen Angry Days" said: "Yang qi, essence is nourishing the spirit, and softness is nourishing the muscles." It can be seen how important Yang's "encouragement" is to people, which can refresh people and make their joints and bones flexible. Therefore, protecting the sun is the foundation of human life. People with insufficient yang will show fatigue, fear of cold, cold limbs, fat tongue with teeth marks, weak pulse and other symptoms. According to different viscera, it can be divided into heart yang deficiency, liver yang deficiency, lung yang deficiency, kidney yang deficiency and spleen yang deficiency. Protect Yang less, but always protect Yang. As the old saying goes, "Food is the most important thing for the people". How should I eat to raise yang? Professor Cai Gan, a famous Chinese doctor, believes that nourishing yang should be based on eating warm food and food with special smell, and scientifically arranging three meals a day. What the hell should I do? Please look down.
Eat more warm food.
Belongs to warm fruits: litchi, cherry, longan, durian, chestnut, walnut, pine nuts, cashew nuts and so on. Warm vegetables: peppers, carrots, bean sprouts, leeks, pumpkins, etc. It belongs to warm meat: mutton, beef, dog meat and chicken. Such as angelica ginger mutton soup, can warm yang and replenish blood. It belongs to warm aquatic products: shrimp, eel, abalone, sea cucumber and so on. Belongs to warm seasonings: maltose, black tea, pepper, cinnamon, fennel and so on.
Eat more foods with special smells.
Leek: Also known as "Qiyangcao", it is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that leeks are fragrant in spring, spicy in summer, bitter in autumn and sweet in winter, so it is the right time to eat leeks in spring. The evaluation of Chinese chives in Materia Medica is: "Chinese chives warm the middle and lower the qi, tonify deficiency and harmonize viscera." Leek can not only dispel yin cold, enhance the qi of spleen and stomach, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, prevent habitual constipation, but also strengthen yang and tonify deficiency and prevent intestinal cancer. Therefore, leeks have been called "the first dish in spring" since ancient times, but it should be noted that cooked leeks can't be eaten overnight.
Garlic: Garlic is warm and can supplement human yang. According to legend, in ancient Egypt, slaves who built pyramids had to have garlic in their diet to increase their physical strength and prevent diseases. The famous doctor's "Bielu" records that garlic has a strong bactericidal ability. In addition, garlic can promote metabolism, increase appetite and prevent atherosclerosis and hypertension.
Jiang: Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has said that "people can't live without Jiang for a hundred days". Ginger tastes pungent and warm, and has the effects of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming stomach and stopping vomiting, warming lung and relieving cough.
Scientifically arrange three meals a day
The energy provided by breakfast accounts for 25%~30% of the total energy of the whole day. As the first meal of the day, eating at the stomach meridian at 7: 00 in the morning is the peak of the sun. In the morning, we should try our best to meet the nutrition and energy needed by the body, but we should pay attention to choosing foods rich in nutrition and easy to digest and absorb. For example, a cup of soybean milk or milk, two or three pieces of meat or an egg, 50~ 100g of grain, proper amount of vegetables and fruits, etc.
Lunch plays a connecting role in three meals a day. At noon, when qi changes, the body needs to supplement the energy and nutrition consumed in the morning, and also provide nutrition for the growth of yin. Therefore, the amount of cereal for lunch is 100~ 150g, animal food 50~75g, soybean 20g or equivalent amount of bean products, vegetables 100~200g and fruits 100~200g to ensure the intake of vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber for lunch.
At half past six in the evening, when the kidney meridian is in season, it is best to eat at this time. Dinner should be light, such as steamed fish Many office workers' family dinners are the biggest meal of the day. Due to the lack of physical activity after dinner, if you eat too much greasy food, it will not only increase the burden on the digestive tract, but also the excess energy generated by eating too much food will be synthesized into fat and stored in the body under the action of insulin. Yang is the driving force of our life. We arrange our diet scientifically and reasonably, so that the yang in our body is sufficient, promote the normal input and output of body fluids, promote the generation of qi and blood, and promote human metabolism, so that we can have a healthy body!