First of all, yam
Yam is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to spleen, lung and kidney meridians. Raw yam has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, promoting fluid production and benefiting lung, tonifying kidney and fixing essence, and is often used for spleen deficiency, anorexia, chronic diarrhea, cough and asthma due to lung deficiency, nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, increased leucorrhea and frequent urination. Cooked yam has the effects of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, and is often used for loose stool due to spleen deficiency, anorexia and diarrhea. Generally speaking, raw yam should tonify yin, and cooked yam should strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. Raw yam is mainly scraped into mud with a spoon, eaten with hot rice, or cooked, which is very good for nourishing stomach and tonifying deficiency. Yam bean on the yam vine is peeled after being cooked, and a small amount of sugar is added, so that wet dream can be stopped, and kidney and stomach can be strengthened. You can also wash and cut the yam into pieces, add ribs and vegetables and cook it into soup, which can strengthen the stomach and spleen and promote physical growth. It is especially suitable for children to eat regularly, and female friends can also beautify, whiten and supplement calcium.
Second, jujube
Chinese medicine believes that jujube is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, calming the middle energizer, strengthening the spleen, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that jujube can "tonify the middle energizer, nourish the spleen and soil, moisten the heart and lungs, regulate the camp and health, slow down the yin and blood, promote the production of body fluid, delight the color, dredge the nine orifices, assist the twelve meridians and harmonize various medicines". It is also recorded in the Compendium of Edible Materia Medica that jujube can "prolong life, tonify the middle energizer and brain, relieve boredom, moisten the heart and lungs, tonify the five internal organs and treat deficiency".
Not only that, as early as in China, there is a saying that "three dates a day will live forever", which shows the wonderful use of China dates. Jujube is not only good for spleen, but also can invigorate qi and nourish blood, which is very suitable for female friends to eat. Moreover, jujube can also be eaten in porridge, or chopped and dried and soaked in water instead of tea. Soaking in water after wok frying can effectively relieve symptoms such as stomach cold and stomachache.
Third, grapes.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that grapes are flat and sweet, and have the effects of nourishing qi and blood, strengthening bones and muscles, benefiting liver yin, diuresis, relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, warming the stomach and strengthening the spleen, relieving vexation and quenching thirst. Modern medicine believes that the main component of grapes is glucose, which is easily absorbed by the human body. Therefore, it is also very suitable for patients with spleen and stomach weakness, cough and asthma, stomachache, anemia, hepatitis and pregnant women.
Chinese medicine believes that drinking fifteen milliliters of red wine two or three times a day can warm the stomach, relieve spasm, dispel cold and relieve pain, promote digestion and benefit the heart. Need to remind everyone that people who are prone to diarrhea must eat less grapes, otherwise it will make diarrhea more serious.
Fourth, sugar cane
Sugarcane is sweet, and has the effects of quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving hangover and vexation, clearing away deficiency and heat, and stopping vomiting. It is very suitable for people with weak body and weak stomach after illness. Drinking a cup of fresh sugarcane juice and a little ginger juice can effectively improve vomiting and spleen and stomach weakness caused by stomach diseases. In particular, it has a very obvious curative effect on nausea caused by neuropathic gastritis and chronic gastropathy.
Five, bananas
Bananas are sweet and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, moistening lung, smoothing intestine, moistening bowel and lowering blood pressure. Chinese medicine believes that "sweet is easy to swell", so foods that are too sweet, such as bananas, are not suitable for people with sprains and should be eaten after rehabilitation, otherwise it will aggravate the condition. In addition, bananas should not be eaten too much. Eating too much is easy to flatulence, especially for diabetics and obese people.
In life, there are many sweet foods, such as honey and glutinous rice, which are very good foods for nourishing the spleen and stomach. Of course, both sweet food and sweet medicine have different usages, because people with different constitutions have different choices and cannot generalize.
Chinese medicine believes that "sweetness" can also be divided into "sweetness" and "sweetness". People with insufficient yang should choose "sweet" drugs or foods, such as flour, glutinous rice, pumpkin, lotus seeds and taro. For people with yin deficiency, it is best to choose "sweet and cool" drugs or foods, such as mung beans, loofah, wax gourd, eggplant, Chinese cabbage and cucumber.
"Spleen is yin soil" and "likes dryness and hates dampness", so if you want to treat spleen disease, you should choose "sweet temperature" to help it rise; However, "the stomach is yang soil" and "likes moistening and hates dryness", so when treating stomach diseases, we should choose "sweet and cool" to help them be healthy.
Besides, from a health point of view, it is best to eat more sweets in spring. Because in Su Wen? The theory of six Tibetan images points out: "the liver is connected with spring qi." "In other words, the physiological activities of the liver and the changes of Yin and Yang in spring correspond to each other. Spring is the season of hyperactivity of liver-qi.
According to the theory of five elements in TCM, liver belongs to wood, spleen belongs to soil, and liver wood is too strong to restrain spleen soil, which affects the digestion and absorption function of spleen and stomach, thus leading to food accumulation or aversion. And sweet into the spleen, so eating more sweets in spring can replenish the spleen and stomach of the human body.
Eating sweets properly can also nourish the spleen, but overeating will hurt the spleen. If you eat too many sweets, the most likely problem is "spleen cooking". What is a "spleen abscess"? "Boil" here means "heat". Spleen furuncle is spleen heat. In other words, if you eat too many sweets, it is easy to make your temper stagnate and make it depressed for a long time and turn it into calories. This kind of spleen fever is the first symptom of "three more and one less, eating more, drinking more and urinating more, losing weight". If you don't pay attention, you will develop diabetes.