What is good for your eyes? Chinese medicine specialist gives you a "eye-care menu"

March 19, 2018 shenwei traditional Chinese medicine hall

What is good for your eyes? The following "eye care menu" combines the recommended diet with western medicine and nutritionists, as well as the recommended eye protection tea for old Chinese medicine practitioners.

Friends can try, which is more effective for the eye, it is said that eating the right food, can also prevent myopia, is good for the restoration of vision!

Nutrition expert: according to the need of the eye to supplement sufficient nutrition.

The repair of the eye requires adequate nutrition, and the balance of six nutrients is needed to provide the body. You should pay special attention to the intake of fruits and vegetables. If you can't get a balanced diet, you can consider adding appropriate vitamin supplements. Of course, natural good!

So what's good for your eyes? These can help the eyes of fruits and vegetables, food can eat more:

Blue and purple fruits and vegetables: blueberry, whole grape, cranberry, purple sweet potato, mountain mulberry... And so on. Violet fruits and vegetables are rich in anthocyanin, many studies have shown that anthocyanins can increase the light in his eyes "rhodopsin, improve visual acuity, increased night vision, maintain normal intraocular pressure. And grape seed and grape skin suggest to eat together.

Red fruits and vegetables: carrot, red tomato, cherry, pumpkin, etc. The carrot and pumpkin have beta-carotene, which has antioxidant properties, and is converted into vitamin A in the body, while the cherry itself has vitamin A, which helps vision.

Dark green fruits and vegetables: spinach, broccoli, leaf lettuce, guava, etc. This kind of most fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamin C, magnesium, potassium, and more importantly, lutein, by powerful antioxidant capacity, absorption of harmful to the eyes of the light, to protect eyesight and prevent aging eyes.

Eating fish once a week and nuts once or twice a week: fish and nuts have omega-3, which reduces inflammation and prevents damage to the retina, which helps prevent macular degeneration. But be aware that large fish are at the top of the food chain, and these fish accumulate more heavy metals than other fish, so don't eat them too often.

Reduce high-gi foods: high glycemic index foods, starchy foods, such as baking bread, cakes, donuts, drinks, etc., most of these have higher trans fatty acids, which is a big burden for the body itself, and in 2007, according to the American journal of clinical nutrition study diet reduce high GI foods, can reduce the risk of degenerative macular lesion.

Old Chinese medicine: can try Chinese medicine eye protection tea drink and medicinal food.

Chinese traditional medicine can also have many medicinal treatment of eye problems, taking proper collocation is can help alleviate eye discomfort, if after a TCM doctor diagnose prescriptions, more improve vision effect!

People usually drink or eat to think about the mouth taste, what to eat to the eye is good and appropriate to drink everyday? Here are a few of the recommended drinks and medicated meals.

Chinese wolfberry fruit: Chinese wolfberry, liver, kidney meridian. By itself, it can enrich the kidney and enrich the kidney. Nourishing the liver is an important drug in ophthalmologic therapy. You can usually boil Chinese wolfberry tea to drink.

How to make it: after adding 1000 ml water to boil, add 1000 ml of water to boil, turn the small fire to boil for 15 minutes, extract the filter residue, then add the two money wolfberry, and stew for five minutes.

Semen cassiae: the semen cassiae is bitter, salty and slightly cold. It is liver, kidney and large intestine. It has the function of clear liver, moistening bowel, and has vitamin A, which can treat diseases of retina and optic nerve.

Preparation method: we can first fry the semen cassia, and then take out about three tablespoons of the tea, and add a liter of boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes until the water becomes brown.

Mulberry: mulberry gan cold, the heart of the liver and kidney, there are nourishing kidney, nourishing Yin, nourishing the blood, nourishing the intestines and quenching the wind. It is A blue-purple fruit, with vitamin A, beta-carotene, anthocyanin, and helps with age-related and degenerative eye diseases.

How to make it: you can either eat it directly or squeeze it into mulberry juice, jam or yogurt.

GUI yuan: also known as longan meat, the taste of the sweet, the heart, the spleen meridian, in the traditional Chinese medicine has the tonic heart, nourishing the blood and the role of god. The disease of the eye can be treated by means of a painstaking care.

How to make it: the dried longan can be boiled together with the red jujube, which will enhance the eyesight. But because it is hot and sugar is very high, so it is easy to belly up, the friends of the fire should eat less.

Lotus seed: lotus seed taste sweet astringent, return to the spleen, kidney, heart meridian. It has the function of filling the spleen, preventing diarrhea, enriching the kidney and nourishing the heart. Ophthalmology can be used to treat the eye disease of the deficiency of the blood, especially the long illness and the elderly patients.

How to make: can use lotus seed, walnut meat, longan meat, red date and millet boil together to eat, or the lotus seed is cooked directly together with porridge.