1.Why is there a difference between the five sexes and the five tastes of food?
For a comprehensive diet, five words are important. In the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, it is written that “five grains are nourishing, five fruits are helpful, five animals are beneficial, five dishes are filling, and the odors are combined and served to replenish the essence.” That is, the grain, meat, fruit and vegetables are warm, hot, cold, cold, flat five sexes, pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, salty five flavors, so the diet should be different from time to time and from person to person.
The four seasons of the diet to identify the five sexes: flat food can be eaten all year round; raw warm food in addition to the summer appropriate less food, other seasons can be eaten; cool food can be eaten often in summer, other seasons such as food to be eaten with warm food; cold food as little as possible, such as to eat, you can add chili, pepper, ginger and other warm food as an accompaniment to reduce the coldness of food.
Five flavors of food into the five organs: pungent into the lungs, sweet into the spleen, sour into the liver, bitter into the heart, salty into the kidneys. Food and medicine are the same source, reasonable intake of five flavors of food, can achieve the role of regulating the five internal organs of Qi and blood, strengthening the body.
2, how to use five flavors of food?
(1) spicy food into the lungs: spicy food is a warm food, such as ginger, chili, onion, garlic, etc., can make the body sweat, to disperse external cold, the treatment of wind and cold caused by headache, cold, cough, stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea.
(2) Sweet food for the spleen: Sweet-tasting food removes muscle tension, relieves fatigue and replenishes energy. It has a tonic and strengthening effect on the body. Sweet foods are very much in the TCM food classification, accounting for almost 80 to 90% of the commonly used foods, and the common ones are
Flat: rice, corn, pumpkin, soybeans, pork, chicken, carp, salmon, peanuts, yams, carrots, cabbage, bok choy, cowpeas, potatoes, taro, shiitake mushrooms, etc;
Warm and hot: glutinous rice, oats, beef, mutton, chicken, silkworm pupae, eel, tamari, silver carp, scallops, peaches, walnuts, cherries, cinnamon brown sugar;
Cold nature: wheat, barley, buckwheat, coix seeds, mung beans, duck, apple, eggplant, golden needle, tofu, lotus root, loofah, cucumber, winter melon, enoki mushroom, honey, etc;
Cold nature: snail, woolly fish, scorch, mulberry, watermelon, water chestnut, hollow cabbage, etc.
The sweet food with flat and warm nature is suitable for people with deficiency of qi and blood, such as fatigue and weakness, dizziness and dizziness, pale and shriveled face, lips, tongue, nails, etc. Cool sweet food except in summer, usually eat as little as possible. Frequent use of cool and cold sweet foods can damage the spleen and stomach.
(3) sour food into the liver: sour food in addition to vinegar, yogurt, most of them are fruits, and at the same time more accompanied by sweetness, such as sex flat grapes, hawthorn, plums, flowers red; sex warm apricot, litchi, lemon, kumquat, plum, pomegranate, papaya; sex cool pear, reed orange, orange, strawberry, mango, batch put, tomato; sex cold grapefruit, poppy peach, kiwi, etc.. Sour food has the role of promoting appetite, strengthening the spleen and appetite, relaxing the liver and enhancing liver function, but people with strong liver fire are suitable for flat, cool and cold sour food, and should not eat warm and sour food. If the liver fire is strong and the spleen and stomach are weak at the same time, you can only eat sweet and sour foods that are flat in nature.
(4) bitter food into the heart: bitter food with cold nature of bitter melon, cool nature of lotus seeds heart, bitter tea, white fruit, lily, celery, cigu, green tea, beer, warm nature of coffee, etc.. Bitter taste has the function of clearing heat, in addition to dry dampness, such as the most commonly eaten bitter melon, it has the role of dispelling heat, bright eyes and clear heart; lotus seed heart is cool and bitter, has the role of clearing heart fire, lowering blood pressure, stop sweating, nourishing the heart and soul; coffee is warm in nature, the effect is strong heart, excitement, refreshing.
(5) salty food into the kidney: can also hurt the kidney. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not only in the market, but also in the marketplace. In addition to jellyfish and squid fish are flat, most of them are cold foods. The long eating cold food not only hurt the kidneys, long damage to the spleen and stomach. So, eating salty food must be in moderation.
3, what do adults eat every day?
”Grains for nourishment”, the general adult daily intake of 250 to 400 grams of cereal food is appropriate. Pay attention to the coarse and fine grain mix, at least three times a week to eat coarse grains. Promote cereals and legumes mixed consumption, complementary nutrients.
”Five fruits are helpful”, generally adults consume 200-400 grams of fruit per day is appropriate. Fruits help to balance nutrition, dispel diseases and strengthen the body.
”Five animals are beneficial”, “five animals” belong to “flesh and blood products”, high nutritional value, dairy foods have the effect of nourishing deficiency, benefit the lungs and stomach, and generate fluid, eggs have the effect of nourishing Yin and moistening dryness, nourishing blood The effect of lung. Adults should consume 50 to 75 grams of meat, 25 to 50 grams of eggs and 200 to 400 ml of milk per day.
”Five vegetables are enough”, daily consumption of sufficient vegetables can assist the valley gas, enhance nutrition, intestinal detoxification. Adults should consume 300 to 500 grams of fresh vegetables every day.
4, the more children eat, the better?
Should be fed in moderation according to the physical characteristics of children. “If you want children to be safe, three points of hunger and cold”, to control the amount of food and drink on the basis of fully ensuring the nutrition of the diet. If more than the child’s own digestive capacity, it will cause disease.
5.What should the elderly pay attention to in their diet?
The elderly especially when the diet is moderate, avoid overeating; food to diversify, not partial food; diet should be soft, hot and cold; eating speed should be slow not fast; diet should be light, eat more fruit and vegetables to help digestion, prevent constipation.
6, maternal diet how to adjust?
During pregnancy, you can eat some sweet and flat nature, sweet and cool food. If you have a heavy pregnancy reaction, you can eat foods that strengthen the spleen, stomach and qi. Such as ginger, yam, peel, etc. In the second trimester, pregnant women are prone to gas stagnation, but radish, celery and other qi-brightening products, less food such as sweet potatoes, taro and other easy to produce gas and astringent intestinal food. The postpartum diet should be flat to supplement yin and yang qi and blood, especially to nourish the blood, such as jujube, cinnamon, yam, etc., avoid eating spicy dry Yin, cold cold food.
7.Is there a contraindication to diet?
Diet and disease evidence there are contraindications: spleen and stomach deficiency cold diarrhea, thin stool fear of cold avoid cold, such as cold drinks, cold food, a lot of raw vegetables and fruits; spleen and stomach weak stomach bloating discomfort or the beginning of external sensation avoid sticky and slippery, such as a large number of glutinous rice, barley, wheat, etc. made of rice and noodles food; spleen damp or phlegm damp, stomach fullness, phlegm greasy avoid greasy, such as meat, fat, fried food, milk crisp, cheese, etc.; wind-heat evidence, phlegm Heat evidence, rashes, sores avoid fishy, such as sea fish, fish without scales (flatfish, Ba fish, scallops, flounder, etc.), shrimp, crab, seafood, mutton; internal heat evidence of red eyes, bitter mouth, constipation avoid spicy, onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, pepper, leek, etc.; asthma, skin disease avoid hair: such as fishy, spicy and other foods.
Diet and drugs have a phase of taboo: when taking Chinese medicine, some foods have adverse effects on the medicine taken should be avoided, that is, “taboo”. Such as ginseng avoid radish, Changshan avoid onion, Dihuang, He Shou Wu avoid eating onion, garlic and radish, mint avoid turtle meat, Poria avoid vinegar, turtle shell avoid amaranth, etc..