The diet in early spring should be based on the climate characteristics of spring, and the food should be selected in a targeted manner.
1. Eat lightly to prevent getting angry. In spring, people are prone to get angry, red urine, constipation and yellow tongue coating. Because of the rising of liver fire, the lung yin is more virtual, and bacteria such as tuberculosis are easy to take advantage of it. Therefore, a light diet in spring is better.
2. The product of Xin Gan helps Chunyang. In the early spring, the sun is shining, and the products of Xin Gan can help Chun Yang. It is advisable to eat grains such as onion, ginger, jujube, peanut, wheat flour, buckwheat and corn, beans such as soybean milk, tofu and red beans, oranges, kumquat, bananas, apples and pears. You should also eat some seafood and eggs. People with yin deficiency and internal heat can choose duck meat, kelp, mung bean, sugarcane juice, water chestnut, lily, etc. to eliminate fire. Eat less sour, greasy and cold food, and choose staple food and non-staple food containing vitamins B and E to nourish the spleen and stomach.
3. More sweetness and less acid can prevent "liver flourishing". Chinese medicine believes that when the liver, one of the five internal organs of the human body, is in season in spring, it is advisable to eat sweet food properly, while eating cold things should be less, so as not to hurt the spleen and stomach, and to prevent "liver flourishing hurting the spleen". In this way, we should eat more sweet food and less sour food in spring. Because acidic food enters the liver and sweet food enters the spleen. Eating too much acid in spring can cause gastric acid secretion disorder and affect digestion and absorption. You should eat less sour and greasy things to increase the function of the spleen and stomach. In order to prevent the liver from damaging the spleen, you can also eat more sweet dates.
4. It varies from place to place. The climate in early spring has a great influence on the human body. In spring, the temperature difference between the north and the south of China is large, and the influence on the human body is also different. Spring food and nutrition should also vary from place to place. In the early spring, the cold in the north has not retreated, so it is still appropriate to warm up. With the gradual warming of the climate, the yang is rising and the warming up is gradually decreasing. Generally, longan, red dates, chestnuts, lychees, yam, pork tripe, beef, tripe, lamb tripe, chicken and quail can be selected. In the south, it is often rainy and rainy in spring, and low temperature and warm temperature alternate. In rainy season, the humidity is high, and the humidity traps the spleen. It is appropriate to enter products that strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, such as crucian carp, herring, Monopterus albus, white lentils, lotus seeds and soybean milk. On warm days, you can eat cold tonic products, such as tremella, lotus seeds and mung beans.
5. take more vitamin c to deal with spring sleepiness. Modern medicine believes that eating more foods and fresh vegetables with more vitamin C should be advocated in spring. Lack of vitamin C in diet is one of the causes of "spring sleepiness", so eating more fresh vegetables such as carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, sweet pepper, celery, Malan and bamboo shoots is also very beneficial to food and nutrition in spring.