Next to the hospital, the most numerous is the fruit store. When a patient is discharged from the hospital, the doctor always cautions, eat more fruit. Almost all the health experts, all the health programs, are one voice: eat more fruit. Someone even made up the slogan: “A few fruits a day, the doctor can’t find me.” Not long ago I also saw a medical authority on the Internet claiming that eating fruit on an empty stomach is a great cure for cancer. This is obviously ridiculous. Eating fruit on an empty stomach is going to hurt your spleen and stomach, and it’s going to hurt them badly. In Chinese medicine, the first principle of treating diseases is to build up the center, that is, to establish the function of the middle earth of the spleen and stomach. Spleen and stomach for the nature of this, the engine of the human body, its function is not good, the diet is not absorbed and transported, where the blood and function to fight disease? But many people actually believe that fruit is beneficial to eat more. When ordinary people’s lives, by the inexplicable experts control the right to speak, usually means disaster. Whenever I advise my patients with yin evidence and heavy dampness to eat less or even not to eat fruit, they look at me quizzically. These patients were incredulous. It takes a lot of explaining to them each time. 1. Why should I eat less fruit? Fruits are mostly cold, and eating them for a long time and in large quantities injures spleen yang. And modern people, because of more ice drinking cold, eat more junk food, stress and fatigue, antibiotic abuse and many other factors, the body is generally cold. So the cold fruits for today’s people’s physique, eat more is to be cautious. Today, most people are impatient, always eat cold fruits, although the mouth comfortable, but the cost is consumed their spleen and kidney Yang, after a long time will eventually lead to spleen and kidney Yang deficiency, women will be spotting rash, menstrual disorders, uterine cold and infertility, and even suffer from uterine fibroids. Men will suffer from rhinitis, stomach pain, back pain, body fatigue, easy to catch a cold, loose stools, cold, varicose veins of the lower extremities and so on. In fact, almost all diseases are directly or indirectly related to our spleen and stomach functions. Eating cold fruits every day injures the spleen, stomach and yang qi, and it is futile to take more medicines. Some time ago I had a patient with severe rhinitis, female. The language has echoed. Nearly aroma and odor do not smell. Pulse is heavy, slightly stringy, heavy press weak, cold and damp pulse of the spleen and stomach. Ask her about her bowel movements, they are really loose all day long. When I asked her if she liked fruits, she really loved watermelon, pears, sugar cane, etc., regardless of the season. Normally, I summarize that nine out of ten patients with rhinitis like to eat cold fruits. A few days ago, there was another patient, Ms. H, who had a typical spleen and stomach deficiency. What she admired most about me was that she could tell that there was bruising in her body. She told me that she was a seamstress in her early years, and when a piece of cloth was hit heavily on her back, she knew that she must have internal bruises and blood. It was because of the coldness in her spleen and stomach that her bruised blood had not melted away for so many years. Sister H after taking the medicine to speak in a loud voice, radiant, fair, no longer like the original dark yellow. I laughed and asked if you remember what you looked like when you first came here, and Sister H said she remembered that her body was much stronger. In the morning before coming over to help the manager to go to the supermarket to buy things, a big piece of goods, she moved away, actually did not gasp, no sweat, no back pain. In the past, a little heavier things can not touch, a walk on the sweat, back pain, in recent days also obviously feel appetite and sleep a lot better. When I was giving acupuncture to Ms. H, I found that the original bulging veins on her calves had faded away. Before I left, Ms. H handed me a big bag of mangoes. I said thank you, I don’t eat much fruit, take it back, but you have to eat less. I said, “Your spleen and stomach are weak like that, and you still eat like that, I won’t treat you anymore. Although explained several times, H sister still a little bit not understand, she helplessly muttered, said to eat more fruit and drink more water, can beauty how you say to eat less fruit and not drink more water. I smiled, you just do what I said. I know, those so-called mainstream concepts have long been preconceived. Young people are still difficult to wake up, let alone older people. 2. Is fruit nutritious? We say that a certain food has no nutrition. The premise should be that it can be smoothly digested and absorbed by the spleen and stomach. Cold fruit into the abdomen, we have not had time to absorb the nutrition of the fruit, fruit first but consumed our yang and blood. For young people who have enough yang energy, the feeling of being depleted of yang when eating fruits may not be too obvious. For patients and frail middle-aged and elderly people, it is very sensitive. They often fruit a belly, feel the abdomen cold or even pain. 3, a patient asked, fruit is not vitamin? I said that vegetables have a lot of vitamins, eating fruit, to the stool is not shaped, even the normal nutrients can not be absorbed, vitamins and then what is the use of it? If a person eats fruit to even regular food can not be well digested and absorbed, high nutritional value meaning what? 4, fruit can beauty and weight loss? Our view is that obesity is often caused by a weak spleen and stomach. Spleen and stomach weak, unable to transport excess water and fat, they become garbage accumulation. Therefore, if you want to lose weight, strengthening the spleen and stomach is fundamental. Some people, the spleen and stomach is very weak, the mouth is flooded with water and sour gas, do not know to quit the fruit. Many women for weight loss, the fruit as a meal, which will naturally be contrary to the wishes of the more fruit, the weaker the spleen and stomach, the more reduce the more fat. There are many women, in order to replenish water, in order to nourish the face, eat a lot of fruit, but the skin in turn is very dry, yellowish, lusterless, and did not become the color of a red apple. Instead, I instructed them to eat less fruit, while removing dampness and replenishing yang, dredging up the upper and lower surfaces. The color of the face is red and moist, and the skin is no longer dry. 5, fruit can laxative? Yesterday, a patient, constipation, three or four days only once, but also not easy to discharge stool. We all know that if you want to live forever, the intestines are always clear. If you want to stay alive, there should be no residue in your intestines. This woman usually tried bananas to pass stools, but it was getting worse and worse. Some people may ask, is not the fruit banana contains a lot of crude fiber? However, the banana is a cold thing, Yang Qi enough to eat occasionally can be laxative. But the body is weak less yang people eat, cold main collection of lead, defecation more no power. I asked her if you are usually very weak, afraid of cold, menstruation is also small, color black lumps ah. She looked at me a little surprised: yes ah. She was obviously suffering from cold constipation. I gave her some medicine that warms the body and disperses the cold and passes the intestines. And solemnly told her, don’t eat bananas again, it’s best not to eat fruit. 6.How to eat the most reasonable fruit? Usually good appetite, strong digestion, more food and fear of heat people eat some fruit is very good, can be a slight control of the spleen and stomach hyperactivity, reduce internal heat. People who drink too much meat, have a hot body, or patients with fever can eat some fruit properly. But it is not the more you eat the better, cold and raw eat more, on what the constitution of the people will hurt the spleen and stomach. Ancient people pay much attention to this point, not eat fruit on an empty stomach, the weak do not eat fruit, children and the elderly do not dare to give too much fruit to eat. Now there is no such concepts. For the cold and mouth especially greedy patients, I can only let a step: really want to eat some fruit, a small amount of boiling water soak or cook a little, you can slightly restrain its cold. In fact, the promotion of eating more fruit, initially the Western point of view. Westerners are hot. Their food is dominated by various meat and dairy products, with very few vegetables, so stomach heat and blood heat are their main symptoms. In the Qing Dynasty, we had rhubarb exported to England for clearing heat accumulated in the stomach and intestines. Their concept was that eating more fruits could reduce the problem of obesity and make the body healthier. We cannot copy it exactly without regard to our own constitution. A girl, or graduate students in nutrition. Her menstruation was a bit irregular and her body was cold. I told her some moxibustion, reminded her to eat less fruit, she was surprised: not all said that fruit beauty, fruit laxative, fruit taste good, fruit vitamin-rich well. I explained, but she still looked hard to accept, nodding politely and looking away. I know, our point of view and her usual learning, and professors and experts say contrary. It is also difficult for her. 7, eating fruit also pay attention to the geographical and seasonal: First of all, the fruit on the market, most of them are not local and seasonal. Logistics developed, fruit has no geographical boundaries. And “one side of the water and soil to raise a party”, the fruit of a certain place, is corresponding to the local climate and environment, only suitable for the local people. Eat foreign fruits, it is easy to hurt the body. For example, the production of dragon fruit in Hainan, because Hainan hot ah, eat cold dragon fruit is very cool, but if Hunan people to eat dragon fruit, will be cold stomach. Similarly, the fruit is to pay attention to the seasonal. Summer heat, nature has given us watermelon to eliminate summer heat; fall gas dry, nature has given us persimmons and Sydney to moisturize dry; but many fruits on the market are not in season, watermelon sold throughout the year, Sydney sold throughout the year …… Secondly, non-seasonal fruits artificially use ripening agents and hormones. It is because most of the fruits are not in season nowadays. In the process of preserving these fruits, ripening agents and hormones, etc. are artificially used, which poison a lot. And to make the fruits look pretty on the outside, fruit traders often use hormones. Eating less of such fruits can reduce the extra damage to your body.