The "five natures" refer to the five eating habits of food: cold, hot, warm, cool and flat. Cold food has the effect of clearing heat, expelling fire and detoxifying, and is often used for hot diseases; Warm food has the functions of warming, helping yang, and dissipating cold, and is often used for cold diseases; Flat foods have the effects of strengthening the spleen, appetizing and nourishing the body.
Food has five attributes: cold, hot, warm, cool, and flat, and it is reasonable to match meals so that the diet is healthy.
The Book of Analogies says: "People's diseases, or on the surface, or in the inside, or cold, or hot, or feel the five luck and six qi, or hurt the viscera meridians, are not **yang and two qi", which shows the importance of maintaining the balance of yin and yang in the body. Traditional Chinese medicine also advocates the harmony of yin and yang as the basic guiding principle. In terms of diet and health, it advocates harmony with the five flavors and balances yin and yang.
Five sexes" food should be avoided in the diet.
The "five sexes" diet regimen has different precautions for different diseases:
Most people with cold syndrome are weak and weak, and they are usually susceptible to wind and cold, so in terms of diet and health, they should be based on the principle of benefiting the temperature and dissipating cold and strengthening the spleen. You can eat more warm and hot foods, such as ginger, jujube, brown sugar, pepper and other pungent and warm products. It is not advisable to eat cold, raw and cold foods, such as melons and fruits, lettuce, cold drinks and other cold foods. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people with cold constitution, especially women with cold hands and feet, should avoid eating cold food and should eat warm food to dispel cold.
People with fever syndrome are more feverish and cold, thirsty and cold, red face, dry stool, red tongue and yellow and dry, so they should take clearing heat, nourishing jin and nourishing yin as the dietary principles. Cold and flat foods are very beneficial to the symptoms, such as noodles, japonica rice or rice porridge, fresh vegetables, fruits and dairy products. However, it is not advisable to eat warm, dry and yin-damaging food.
Deficiency syndrome is common in people who have been ill for a long time or are seriously ill, because the body will be accompanied by malaise, paleness, fatigue, cold limbs, shortness of breath, or five heart irritability, self-sweating, night sweats, loose stool, frequent or non-inhibited urination, pale tongue, weak pulse and other symptoms. Therefore, it should be mainly warm, and cold food should not be eaten. Those with insufficient kidney yang should be warmed up, and foods such as deer antler, beef bone marrow, and pork loin can be chosen. Those with kidney yin deficiency should eat more water chestnuts, jellyfish, white ducks, black-bone chickens, etc. Those with yin deficiency should be cleared and replenished, and should not eat warm food.
Symptoms such as high fever, flushing, irritability, delirium, loud voice, abdominal distension and pain and refusal to press, excessive phlegm and salivation, constipation, poor urination, blood congestion, edema, thirst, food stagnation, insect accumulation, thick tongue coating, and strong pulse. Therefore, avoid salt in your diet and do not put sugar when you are thirsty.
Modern medicine believes that food between cold and warm is relatively peaceful in nature and can be eaten by people of any physique. Warm food can increase the body's energy metabolism rate and increase calories; Cold food will reduce the body's energy metabolism rate and reduce caloric production.
Traditional Chinese medicine tonic diet prescription DIY
Sautéed shredded carrots
Ingredients: 350 grams of fresh carrots, appropriate amount of pork oil, shredded green onion, shredded ginger, cooking wine, refined salt and monosodium glutamate.
Preparation: 1 Wash the carrot and remove the roots, cut into slices, and then cut into thick about 05 cm, about 3 cm long5 cm thin strips.
2 Put cooked pork oil in the pot, burn it over medium heat until it is hot to five or six percent, fry the pot with green onions and ginger shreds, then put in cooking wine, then pour in shredded carrots and stir-fry for a while, add refined salt, add a small amount of water, simmer for a while, wait until the shredded carrots are ripe, season with monosodium glutamate, stir-fry evenly and then serve on a plate.
Function: It can enhance women's elasticity, increase luster and improve roughness.
*Therapeutic Tips*
Carrots are flat, crisp and delicious, and rich in nutrients, and are known as "little ginseng". Regular consumption of carrots in women can promote the improvement of anemia, heart palpitations and other diseases. In addition, it can also enhance the body's resistance, make it smooth and delicate, and carrots also have the effect of preventing and treating dryness, dry eyes, night blindness, high blood pressure, constipation and other diseases.
Mushrooms and rape
Ingredients: 5 grams of mushrooms, 200 grams of rape, 20 grams of vegetable oil, 15 grams of salt, a little monosodium glutamate.
Preparation: 1 Wash the rape, cut it into about 3 cm long segments, and place the stems and leaves separately.
2 Soak the mushrooms in warm water and remove the stems.
3 Put oil in the pot and put it on the fire, after heating, first put the rape stalks, fry until six or seven medium cooked, add salt, and then add the rape leaves and fry a few times.
4 Put in the mushrooms and soaked mushroom soup, cook until the vegetable stalks are soft and rotten, add monosodium glutamate and refined salt, mix well and serve.
Function: It has the effect of replenishing qi and invigorating blood.
*Therapeutic Tips*
Mushrooms are sweet and cool, which can regulate human metabolism, help the human body to digest, lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, and prevent liver cirrhosis.
Rape has the effect of dispersing blood and reducing swelling, and can cause symptoms such as bloody dysentery, erysipelas, and breast pain. In addition, rape is good for the stomach, urine and bowel movements, digestion, and treatment of heat and cough. It is especially suitable for women with related medical conditions.
Roasted bamboo shoots
Ingredients: 400 grams of winter bamboo shoots, 50 grams of pork tenderloin, 25 grams of mustard, 50 grams of vegetable oil, 5 grams of green onions, 5 grams of ginger, 5 grams of red pepper, 10 grams of sesame oil, 3 grams of salt, 5 grams of soy sauce, 5 grams of cooking wine, 100 grams of broth.
Preparation: 1 Cook the bamboo shoots in boiling water, then remove the water and cut into about 45 cm long thick slices, each slice slice with a knife and cut into strips;
2 Wash the pork tenderloin and mustard with water to remove the salty taste, remove the red pepper, ginger and green onion from the stems, and cut the above ingredients into minced pieces.
3 Remove from the pan and add oil, when the oil is hot, put the bamboo shoots into the pan, fry them slightly (do not burn), and drain the oil.
4 Stir-fry the minced meat in a frying pan, then add the mustard, ginger and chili peppers, add the broth, salt and a small amount of soy sauce and bring to a simmer.
5 Wait until the bamboo shoots are ripe and flavorful, add chopped green onions, drizzle with sesame oil and turn them over a few times, and finally put them on a plate and eat.
Function: clear away heat and generate Jin, moisten the lungs and suppress cough, invigorate blood and disperse stasis.
*Therapeutic Tips*
Bamboo shoots have a sweet and cold taste, and have the functions of nourishing yin and cooling blood, clearing heat and dissolving phlegm, quenching thirst and removing annoyance, diuretic and laxative, nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes. Moderate consumption is very beneficial for women's health.
Pork tenderloin can improve iron deficiency anemia in women, and has the effects of nourishing the kidneys and nourishing blood, nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness.