Spring TCM Health: Qiao with "Five Taste" Conditioning the Body
Vigorous spring is the most active period of human physiological function and metabolism. However, the spring rains are rainy, warm and cold, and the climate is very unstable. In addition to having to do a full body adjustment, dietary care is particularly important. Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty, advocated the principle of “hybrid and food†in spring foods. Spleen sweet. The liver is a wood, the spleen belongs to the soil, and the civil phase g, the spring liver will hurt the spleen and stomach, affecting the digestive function of the spleen and stomach. The solution is to eat more sweet foods and supplement the spleen and stomach. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach is the foundation of the acquired nature and is the source of popular blood. Only if the spleen and stomach are prosperous, can we prolong life. Therefore, we must eat more sweet foods such as jujube, yam, longan, sweet potato, pumpkin, dried persimmons, and strawberries. Eat sour liver. According to the view of the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the liver is of wood, corresponding to the spring, and the liver qi is the most prosperous in the spring. If the health is not properly maintained in the spring, it will easily injure the liver, so it is important to keep the liver in the spring. In the relationship between the five internal organs and the five flavors, the sourness of the liver is astringent, so it is appropriate to eat some acidic foods. Common sour fruits are jujube, plum, lemon, pineapple, etc., can be eaten properly. Warm yang. Yang refers to human yang, and Chinese medicine believes that yang plays a role in defending the human body and can protect the human body from external attacks. In terms of diet, we must follow the principle of “Emperating the Spring and Summer†proposed by the “Emperor's Canon†and we should eat more foods that are replenishing yang in order to enrich the body's yang and strengthen our ability to resist diseases. Yang Yang's food is mostly warm, with beef, lamb, ginger, onions, potatoes, leeks, black tea, etc. These foods do not have to eat a lot at a time. Light and nourishing. People in winter are accustomed to tonic, with thick and creamy foods. In the spring, this habit should be changed in the light direction. Eating more vegetables is the key to spring health. After people pass through the winter, many people will experience insufficient intake of vitamins, inorganic salts, or trace elements, such as chewing gum, stomatitis, and so on. Eating more vegetables can supplement nutrients. Spring leeks are the most tender, and spinach is also very popular for its nourishing yin. Wild detoxification. In March and April of each year, it is the season when wild vegetables are abundant. Eating more in the season of spring wild herbs can play a very good role in health care. Amaranth is the most common kind of wild vegetable, its vitamin C content is 2.5 times higher than Chinese cabbage, vitamin B2 content is higher than the snow red, ranking first in vegetables, can be used to make filling, but also after the cold water, spread eggs Soup, porridge, etc. Purslane contains riboflavin, ascorbic acid and other nutrients, but also detoxification, cooling blood to stop bleeding, have a certain role in the prevention of diabetes. The purslane can be fried, cold, and stuffed, such as garlic, ketchup, edamame, scrambled eggs, purslane stuffed buns, edamame porridge. Natural pigments are food pigments obtained from natural resources. Pigments extracted mainly from animal and plant tissues and microorganisms (cultures), in which vegetative colorants predominate. Natural pigments not only have the function of coloring food, but also have physiological activity. At present, there are 48 kinds of edible natural pigments approved to be used in China, commonly used chili red, beet red, monascus red, cochineal red, gaolianghong, sodium copper chlorophyllin, turmeric, gardenia yellow, carotene, algal blue pigment, cocoa pigment, caramel pigment and so on. Roselle Calyx Extract,Phycocyanin,Lutein,Butterfly Pea Flower Powder,Beta Carotene Powder,Sodium Copper Chlorophyllin Xi'an Gawen Biotechnology Co., Ltd , https://www.amulyn-bio.com