What are the dietary contraindications for people with depression?

       1, depression patients should be contraindicated fried rice: that is, you can not eat popcorn. Because these foods are fragrant dry Yin food, Yin deficiency fire menopause syndrome people avoid eating it.  2, patients should be contraindicated chili: because chili is a hot, spicy food, that is, a large spicy hot stimulating food, easy to hurt Yin fire after eating. And depression patients are mostly liver and kidney yin deficiency, internal fire, so, pepper especially when avoid eating.  3, avoid alcohol: general depression patients in the period of illness to drink as little as possible. Drinking too much alcohol will make people more depressed, the so-called wine to kill sorrow, drinking will suppress appetite, resulting in malnutrition, will aggravate the depression is detrimental to health.  4, avoid foods and drinks with high tyrosine content: common is aged cheese, canned meat, soy sauce, yeast extract, herring and salmon, etc., these are depressed patients in the diet to be avoided.  5, avoid clove: this is a common five spice powder seasoning. It is a warm, pungent food, if depressed patients eat more or eat for a long time, then it is easy to help heat on the fire consume yin. In addition, depression patients with internal heat, so do not eat more often eat clove and other five spice seasonings.  6, cinnamon: this is a seasoning spice. Is the nature of the heat, taste pungent sweet, mainly is beneficial to the fire and warming effect of Yang, but there is a hot nature to help fire, fragrant dry hurt Yin, pungent scattering the drawbacks of blood. So generally depressed patients should not eat more. Mistakenly eaten, is bound to intensify the condition of internal heat incandescence.  7, tea and coffee: once depressed patients ingest too much caffeine (more than four cups of coffee or more than six cups of tea per day), then it is possible to aggravate the condition. Tea, cola and coffee can aggravate the symptoms of insomnia in depressed patients, so patients should not drink tea or coffee before going to bed.  8, processed foods and sweets: common are hamburgers, French fries, fried chicken, etc., which eat more is not good for the condition of depression.