Huang Di Nei Jing teaches you to play a good “stomach” war Spring Festival is approaching, the company’s annual dinner, colleague dinner, thanking customers entertainment banquet constantly, back home to visit friends and relatives to eat and drink a lot. Enjoy the blessings of the mouth, but let the stomach and intestines suffer. This reporter learned from the hospitals in Shenzhen, every year before and after the Spring Festival is a period of gastrointestinal disease, the reasons for this, are related to the uncontrolled eating. How should we eat to hold our intestines and stomach? Chinese medicine classics – “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” in the preservation of stomach guidelines to remind everyone, the Spring Festival diet to pay more attention to the quantity, quality, temperature, five flavors of these aspects. Guideline 1 “Do not be greedy for food and wine” “The gastrointestinal system in Chinese medicine is not the organ referred to in Western medicine, but includes the entire digestive system of the human body.” During the Spring Festival, people are prone to overeating which can lead to damage to the intestines and stomach. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says, “If you eat and drink, your intestines and stomach will be injured. Therefore, during the holiday season, eating must be in moderation. “Moderate” is the scale of Chinese medicine attaches great importance to, more than a certain limit of things, whether external or their own will have adverse effects. Guideline 2: “Less meat, more vegetables, less sugar, more fruit” In the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, in addition to the amount of diet to control, the “quality” of the diet is also to be noted. During the festive season, we should avoid eating “fatty, sweet and thick flavors”. Fat, sweet and thick taste, also known as the Chinese medicine thick taste of sorghum. It refers to very greasy, sweet, fine food or food with a strong flavor. This kind of food fat and sugar content are very high, easy to cause obesity. Moreover, over-eating greasy food and weakened digestive function can also cause diabetes. Therefore, it is recommended that the public should eat in moderation during the Spring Festival, mastering a good amount and degree, not to eat to support. To “less meat and more vegetables, less sugar and more fruit”. Guideline 3 “hot without burning, cold without vicissitudes” “‘hot without burning’ means that the food should not be as hot as boiling water, ‘cold without vicissitudes ‘ refers to the food should not be as cold as the cold ice Cang Cang cold.” , when eating, food cold and warm is moderate yin and yang harmonization, beneficial to health; the opposite will cause damage to the body. The body’s yin and yang is relatively dynamic balance, if you eat food temperature is too cool or too hot, it will disrupt the harmony of yin and yang, affecting the health of people, and can even cause lesions. Long-term eating too hot and too hot food, can cause physical damage to the oral mucosa, the formation of chronic oral mucosal inflammation, oral mucosal white spots, chronic esophagitis, chronic atrophic gastritis and other diseases, the disease process for a long time, and even cancer can occur. If drinking alcohol or smoking while drinking too hot tea, the upper gastrointestinal tract, oral cavity and other places more damage. If you eat too cold food, the temperature in the digestive tract can drop sharply, the blood vessels of the stomach and intestines quickly spasm and contract, and blood flow decreases, thus causing physiological dysfunctions. Guideline 4 “five flavors and expensive, not to win” pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty these five flavors are the five flavors that constitute food, because of these flavors, food has different properties and bias. If you eat too much or too little of a certain flavor of food, it will lead to a certain organ’s Qi over-excitement or over-decay and produce a certain disease. The five tastes in Chinese medicine have five roles: pungent is dispersing, sweet is nourishing, sour is astringent, salty is softening and dispersing, bitter is clearing heat and detoxifying. If you like spicy food, you will have canker sores or hemorrhoids; if you like sweet food, you will have diabetes; if you eat only vegetables and not meat, you will have a milder personality, but your body will be weaker and lack of energy. “Therefore, our diet must pay attention to the five tastes and avoid partial food, in order to maintain the balance between the internal organs of the body, otherwise it will be harmful. Also according to your body, choose the food of the nature and flavor that your body needs.”