Everyone’s physical condition is different. Yang deficiency is a kind of human body constitution. People with Yang deficiency will have some physical weakness, pale complexion, chills, etc. For those with Yang deficiency constitution For people who need to make some adjustments through diet to make their body healthier, what kind of food is good for people with yang deficiency constitution? Let me introduce it to you below.

1. Foods suitable for replenishing yang

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people with yang deficiency should not only warm and strengthen yang, but also replenish qi and blood. Foods suitable for replenishing include leeks, garlic and garlic. Dates, lychees, cashews, pine nuts, mutton, dog meat, quail, rooster, ginger, walnuts, longan, pepper, etc.

2. Principles of dietary therapy for yang-deficient constitutions

(1) Eat less raw and cold foods

Excessively cold foods will damage the yang energy. Eat as little as possible, or eat them with warm foods. Eat hot food. For example, when eating cold hairy crabs, you should pair them with warm Huadiao wine. Cold vegetables include mung bean sprouts, bitter gourd, cucumber, luffa, celery, bamboo shoots, amaranth, shepherd's purse, wild rice, eggplant, kelp, seaweed, and white fungus. The meaty and cold foods include rabbit meat, crab, snail, snakehead fish, eel, clam meat, jellyfish, duck meat, etc.

(2) Reduce salt intake

It is difficult for people with yang deficiency constitution to evaporate water in the body. If too much salt is taken in, it will lead to more water retention, which can easily lead to obesity and swelling. , high blood pressure and difficulty urinating.

(3) Eat more warm foods

Warm foods can replenish kidney yang and relieve yang deficiency. Vegetables include leeks, garlic, peppers, coriander, lentils, ginger, pumpkin, onions, carrots, yams, etc. Warm meat dishes include mutton, beef, beef penis, deer penis, shrimp, eel, sea cucumber, silver carp, bream, hairtail, pork belly, pork liver, etc.

(4) Reasonable cooking

When eating cold food, people with yang deficiency constitution should choose stewing, steaming, boiling or stewing to reduce the coldness of the food. .

3. Food supplements to replenish yang energy

(1) Rice wine steamed chicken

Ingredients: 1 rooster, 500 grams of glutinous rice wine, onions, ginger and other seasonings Appropriate amount of each.

Method: Cut the rooster into walnut-sized pieces after processing, put it in a shallow plate, add onion, ginger, pepper and glutinous rice wine and other seasonings, steam it in a cage and it is ready.

Efficacy: Warming the kidneys and supporting yang.

(2) Angelica, ginger and mutton soup

Method: 20 grams of angelica and 30 grams of ginger, rinse, soak in water until soft, slice into pieces and set aside. Remove the fascia from 500 grams of mutton, blanch it slightly in a pot of boiling water, remove the blood, take it out, and slice it into pieces for later use. Put angelica root, ginger and mutton into a casserole, add water, cooking wine and salt, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, then simmer over low heat until the mutton is cooked and tender.

Efficacy: Warming and nourishing blood, dispelling cold and relieving pain, especially suitable for consumption in winter.

(3) Stir-fried walnut kernels with leeks

Method: Soak 50g walnut kernels in boiling water, peel, drain and set aside. Pick and wash 200g of leeks, cut into inches and set aside. Pour the sesame oil into the wok and when it is 70% hot, add walnut kernels and fry until brown, then add leeks and salt and stir-fry until cooked.

Efficacy: It has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and yang, warming the waist and knees. It is suitable for those with insufficient kidney yang and cold pain in the waist and knees.

(4) Red dates and ginger soup

Boil a few red dates and slices of ginger in water and take it together, which can well regulate the constitution of yang deficiency. Because ginger has the functions of dispersing wind and cold, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, warming and stopping vomiting, and detoxifying, while red dates have the function of replenishing qi and blood, the two complement each other perfectly.

(5) Sea cucumbers, pigeon eggs and wolfberry simmered

Clean 2 sea cucumbers, cut diamond-shaped knife patterns on the inner wall, put them in a pot and add chicken soup, rice wine, soy sauce, pepper, etc. Add seasonings and simmer over low heat until cooked; 12 pigeon eggs, boil and peel, roll in starch, fry in hot oil until yellow. Mix the pigeon eggs and sea cucumber, add 15 grams of wolfberry, continue to simmer for 10 minutes, remove the pot and put it in a bowl; add MSG and wet starch to the soup left in the pot to thicken it into a thick sauce, and pour it over the cooked dishes Serve.

4. Symptoms of Yin deficiency

1. Meaning: loss of body fluids. When there is insufficient body fluids in the human body, the body loses its corresponding moisturizing and nourishing properties. Therefore, people with yin deficiency constitution show symptoms of dryness, such as weight loss, reddish complexion, dry mouth and tongue, drinking too much water without stopping thirst, etc. Symptoms at work are all symptoms of dryness caused by insufficient Yin fluid in the body.

2. Symptoms: There is an imbalance of yin and yang in the human body. The yin qi in the body cannot control the yang heat, causing the yang heat qi to be relatively strong and produce internal heat, so there are symptoms of deficiency fire causing disturbance and restlessness. Therefore, people with yin deficiency constitution tend to be extroverted, quick in action, and quick to react. However, he has poor self-control and has physical characteristics such as excitement, joy, hyperactivity, and irritability.

Most people with this type of physical tendency usually fear heat and love cold, have strong cold tolerance, and are easily damaged by heat and yang evil. The skin is prone to sores and ulcers, and is prone to fever regardless of external factors. Wind, cold, heat, dampness and other evil factors cause illness, which will eventually turn into heat syndrome, with symptoms of dry mouth, thirst, irritability, irritability and other symptoms of yin deficiency and fire exuberance.

If this series of initial symptoms of yin deficiency and fire exuberance occur and are not treated properly, or if you continue to eat food that produces phlegm, increase internal heat or dilute water, such as onions, ginger, garlic, and pepper, or misuse tea to reduce fire, or mistakenly eat red beans, Foods that benefit water such as coix seed will increase the consumption of yin fluid in the body.