Early spring diet: light armor

Source: southeast of letters

Author: chao-yuan wang

According to the climate characteristics of spring, spring diet targeted food choices.

1. Light diet were mentioned. Spring people easily irritated, urine red yellow, constipation, yellow coating on the tongue. Because of something, the rising cause lung Yin deficiency, more easy to swoop in bacteria such as tuberculosis. Therefore, spring diet to light as well.

2. The product of XinGan help ChunYang. The early spring sun be the spirit of hair, XinGan product can help ChunYang, appropriate food XinGan of green onion, ginger, jujube, peanuts, wheat flour, buckwheat, corn and other cereals, soybean milk, bean curd, red bean beans, such as orange, kumquat, banana, apple, pear, etc.; Also want to eat some seafood, eggs. Yin deficiency of internal heat, can choose duck, kelp, mung beans, sugar cane juice, water chestnut, lily, etc., in order to eliminate fire. Should eat less acidity, greasy, cold food, choose more staple food that contains vitamin B and E and fushi, to raise spleen and stomach.

3. More sweet less acid proof "liver". The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, the spring for human liver in season, one of the five zang-organs, appropriate appropriate eating food XinGan, and cold things should eat less, in order to avoid damage spleen and stomach, prevent the "liver and spleen injury". So that in the spring should eat more sweet food, appropriate eat sour food. Because, acidic foods into the liver, sweet foods into the spleen. Spring for feed more acid can cause gastric acid secretion disorder, affect the digestion and absorption, should eat less acidity, greasy, to increase the function of spleen and stomach. In order to prevent liver injury of spleen, still can eat more sexual flavour GanPing jujube.

4. Varies from place to place fill appropriately. Early spring the influence of climate on the human body is very big, in the spring in north and south climate temperature difference is bigger, the influence of human body is also different, spring nourishment should also varies from place to place. Early spring, cold in the north is not retreated, still should be removing, as the weather becomes warmer, sun be the spirit rising, removing gradually reduced. General optional longan, red dates, chestnuts, lychee, yam, pork bellies, beef tripe, morels, chicken and quail, etc. South, spring rain, cold and warm appear alternately, the rainy season, the humidity is bigger, the moisture trapped spleen, appropriate into the spleen wet goods, such as carp, black carp, eel, white hyacinth bean, lotus seed, soybean milk, etc. Warm day, into the cold patch of goods, such as tremella, lotus seeds, beans and so on.

5. To cope with spring fever more vitamin C. Modern medicine thinks, the spring should advocate the feed more contain the food with vitamin C more and fresh vegetables. Diet is a lack of vitamin C is one of the reasons for "chunkun", therefore, eating carrots, broccoli, cabbage, sweet pepper, fresh vegetables such as celery, malan, bamboo shoots, nourishment for spring has also been beneficial.