In Su Wen Zhi Zhen Da Lun, it is said: "When five flavors of husband enter the stomach, they all enjoy themselves. Therefore, acid enters the liver first, bitterness enters the heart first, sweetness enters the spleen first, pungent enters the lung first, and salty enters the kidney first. " Because the sweetness is slow, it is close to the same slow rustic flavor, so it is sweet into the spleen.

People with poor gastrointestinal function can eat more sweet food. Sweet food, which includes sweets, does not mean all sweets, but foods with natural sweetness, such as red dates, sweet potatoes, corn, glutinous rice, honey, pumpkins, beets, sugar cane, glucose, licorice, sweet oranges, brown sugar and so on. In addition to these, sweet food also includes mild food, that is, food with no taste, such as rice and noodles, which are staple foods.

among all the sweet foods, three kinds are especially praised, and it is suggested that the majority of female friends with spleen deficiency can eat more:

The first kind is yam: raw yam is suitable for nourishing yin, and cooked yam is suitable for strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea.

the second kind is jujube: according to the words in compendium of materia medica, jujube can "tonify the middle energizer, nourish the spleen and soil, moisten the heart and lungs, adjust the camp and guard, slow down yin and blood, promote body fluid production, delight the color, unblock the nine orifices, help the twelve meridians, and help hundreds of medicines." You can usually cook porridge or insist on soaking in water in a thermos cup.

the third kind is lotus root: as the saying goes, "a man can't live without ginger for one day, and a woman can't break the lotus root for three days". Women belong to yin, and the body should be nourished. Lotus root has a particularly good nourishing effect on women. Raw lotus root can clear away heat and promote fluid production, cool blood and stop bleeding. Once cooked, moxibustion can benefit the spleen and stomach, blood and muscle. Therefore, eating lotus root can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also make the color better.

nourish the spleen in spring, "eat sweet in spring, and the spleen is safe".

However, the sweetness is further divided into "sweetness" and "sweetness". If the yang is insufficient, you should choose "sweetness" foods, such as flour, glutinous rice, pumpkin, lotus seeds and taro. If the yin is insufficient, it needs to be "sweet and cool", such as mung beans, loofah, wax gourd, cabbage, cucumber and so on.

if it is spleen deficiency, it is generally recommended to choose sweet food to help raise spleen yang. If there is a disease in the stomach, we need to choose sweet and cold food to help it. For these specific details, it is better to consult a doctor.