People live in the world, people and nature is a unified whole, the natural world of the four seasons of the human body's five organs have a close relationship with the functional activities of the system. This in our country through the generations of medical fairy, medicine saint's writings have been elaborated in great detail, "Nei Jing" in: dietary diet, dietary cold temperature, rhythm, timing, adjusting the five flavors of the exposition. People are always subject to the constraints of the changing seasons, man and nature as long as the internal environment (i.e., people themselves) and the external environment (i.e., nature) can be coordinated to achieve the five organs and peace.
Spring, is the season of life, the human body is also Yang Qi release, blood tends to the table, gathered a winter of internal heat to the outside world, the liver is sufficient, the diet at this time should be from the winter of the thick flavors into the warm and bland products, that is, traditional Chinese medicine said that this is the Spring Rising Complementary theory. Spring should eat less sour more sweet food to nourish the spleen, such as eating too much acid will make the liver overflow diarrhea spleen easy to end; spring should also eat less spicy products, spring is warming up, too much food warm and dry spicy products can make life internal heat, such as mutton, dog meat, chili pepper and so on can not be eaten. At this time you can eat more vitamins containing vegetables, spring bamboo shoots, celery, cabbage, carrots, spinach, etc.; meat such as pork, carp and so on; staple food in addition to rice, white flour can be more millet, corn, soybeans and other grains.
Summer, the weather is hot, the human heart is the most vigorous. The heart is fire, fire in the main summer, the heart is too hot easy to constrain the lungs, at this time the gastric acid secretion is reduced, the digestive capacity is weakened. In the meal should pay attention to the mixing of color, aroma, taste, shape, try to choose food that is easy to cause appetite, do not eat bitter food, because the bitter into the heart, is a tonic for the heart of the product, you can eat more coleslaw and eggs, duck eggs, soybean products, sesame seed paste, mung beans, watermelon, fruits and so on. In the condiment should be appropriate to put some garlic and mustard surface to sterilization detoxification and increase appetite. Summer can be appropriate to drink more cold drinks, but not too much, too much will dilute the gastric juice, affecting digestion, so the summer clear tonic.
Autumn, dry and cool, at this time the lungs are strong, corresponding to the autumn. In the diet must not make the lungs too strong. The pungent flavor of the lungs, acid belongs to the liver, autumn should eat less pungent and increase the acidity. Autumn more wind dry, but at this time the food is quite rich, especially the most varied vegetables and fruits, so as long as the food is not overly warm and dry food, the rest can be eaten, so the autumn flat complement.
Winter, the climate is cold, is a time when the kidney qi is strong, kidney qi and winter corresponding. In the diet to should reduce the salty bitter taste is the main. In the spring and fall, less food in the winter of warm products can be appropriate to eat some, at this time people's activities have been convergence, should be stored in the body of energy, in order to protect the wind and cold can be eaten more thick food, such as dog meat, hot pot, stewed meat, fish and so on. In the condiments can be more spicy foods, such as chili, green onions, ginger and garlic, less vegetables can eat some cabbage, potatoes, radish, mung bean sprouts, potherb mustard, tofu, etc., so winter nourishment.