Yang deficiency and fear of cold belongs to yang deficiency quality, patients can eat more warm and replenish yang qi food, such as mutton, dog meat, scallop fish, chestnuts, lychee and so on, but also can choose some dietary treatments, such as mutton ji rice porridge, simmered sea cucumber and so on.
Patients with yang deficiency can mostly be characterized by coldness and cold limbs, and can also be accompanied by symptoms such as pale complexion, lack of spirit, pale lips and mouth, and loose stools. In the treatment of warming yang, you can eat more warm food, such as mutton, dog meat, fish, chestnuts, longan, lychee, pumpkin, ginger, carrots and so on.
In addition, patients with yang deficiency who are afraid of cold can also eat some mutton jik rice porridge, simmered sea cucumber and other therapeutic formulas. Among them, Mutton Jik Rice Porridge is composed of mutton, jik rice and green onion, which has the effect of tonifying the center of the body and benefiting the qi (treating qi deficiency by tonifying the spleen), warming the kidneys and dispelling cold.
Simmered sea cucumber can be composed of sea cucumber, chicken broth, meat broth, diced shiitake mushrooms and diced bamboo shoots, which has the effect of tonifying the kidney and assisting the yang, benefiting the essence and nourishing the blood, and is also effective in relieving the fear of coldness in yang deficiency.
In addition, the diet of patients with Yang deficiency should be warm, avoiding cold and bitter cold foods, such as crabs, watermelon, bitter melon, green beans, etc., so as not to damage the Yang energy, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.
For patients with severe symptoms of Yang deficiency and fear of cold, they should also be treated with medication under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner.