Introduction to nourishing yin and conditioning

Yin deficiency refers to a physical state characterized by internal heat due to yin deficiency due to the reduction of yin fluids such as body fluids, essence and blood in the body. Congenital deficiencies, long-term illness, blood loss, and overwork that damage yin can all lead to yin deficiency symptoms. If many family members are on the thin side, if the parents were weak during pregnancy, or if they were malnourished later in life, it may lead to yin deficiency.

The yin energy of the human body has the function of restricting yang energy. If yin is deficient, it cannot control yang, so yang energy will be relatively overactive and cause heat symptoms. Yin deficiency in the body or long-term illness that consumes yin may cause symptoms such as heat in the palms, soles, palms, flushed complexion, fever in the five palpitations, night sweats, dry stools, thirst and preference for cold drinks, dry eyes, red tongue, and thready pulse.

Principles of nutrition: Kidney yin is the foundation of yin energy throughout the body. It is appropriate to eat more foods that nourish kidney yin, nourish yin and subdue yang. This type of food is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effect of nourishing the body's yin essence.

Suitable foods 1. Selection of staple foods and beans

Foods rich in minerals such as wheat, glutinous rice, black sesame, mung beans, and soy products such as tofu.

2. Selection of meat, eggs and milk

Pork, pig skin, duck meat, soft-shell turtle, snakehead fish, squid, soft-shell turtle, crab, jellyfish, sea cucumber, oyster, rabbit meat, clams Such foods are cold in nature and have the effect of nourishing yin and replenishing deficiency.

3. Selection of vegetables

Foods rich in trace elements such as black fungus, white fungus, tomatoes, spinach, and cabbage.

4. Fruit selection

Pear, grape, mulberry, lychee, peach, pine nut, sugar cane and other fruits.

Dietary taboos: It is not advisable to eat spicy, warm and hot foods.

Reference dietary breakfast: japonica rice, black sesame, Chinese cabbage, etc., such as black sesame porridge, sweet and sour Chinese cabbage;

Dessert: rock sugar white fungus soup;

Lunch: rice, millet, bamboo shoots, black fungus, etc., such as rice, steamed turtle, winter bamboo shoots and fried black fungus;

Snack: one pear and other fruits;

Dinner: japonica rice, mung beans , winter melon, duck, mushrooms, etc., such as mung bean porridge, winter melon and duck soup, etc.