First of all, it is the main feature of Chinese dietotherapy to pay attention to nourishing the spleen and stomach. Diet is the basis of human survival, and the dining room is one of the important manifestations of human life activities and the guarantee of health and longevity. The place where food is digested and absorbed is the spleen and stomach. Digestion and absorption depend on the sound function of the spleen and stomach. Only when the spleen and stomach are healthy, can food be accepted and transformed into subtle substances, which can be transported to the whole body to nourish the whole body and play a role in nutrition and health care for the human body. If you don't eat properly, the first thing that hurts is the spleen and stomach. The spleen and stomach are high, and all diseases are born.

1. The initiative of spleen and stomach health care: the spleen and stomach are the acquired foundation. After a person gives birth from his mother, the energy for growth, development and daily physiological activities is provided by the external diet, and the spleen and stomach directly receive the food and decompose it, so that Shui Gu, which is useful to the human body, spreads to various organs of the human body and becomes the energy for the movement of various organs and organs. Shui Gu essence absorbed by the spleen and stomach nourishes the spleen and stomach first, which is the direct priority of the spleen and stomach in the application of nutrients, and also the special physiological needs of the human body. Only when the spleen and stomach are fully nourished can the dietary changes be further refined to nourish qi, blood and body fluids. In addition, human ingestion, digestion and absorption will cause extra energy, which comes from substances preferentially absorbed by the spleen and stomach. For example, the digestion and absorption of protein and fat depends on the help of sugar, and sugar, especially glucose and sucrose, is preferentially absorbed by the spleen and stomach. Therefore, in order to effectively digest and absorb, we should pay attention to the priority application of spleen and stomach to nutrients. Therefore, the priority of diet health care in the spleen and stomach system is generally determined by the priority of the spleen and stomach in the subtle application of Shui Gu. Therefore, in general, when carrying out dietotherapy, we should first regulate the spleen and stomach with foods that strengthen the spleen, replenish qi and promote qi, so as to make it healthy and smooth, and then throw in food and diet products.

2. improper diet hurts the spleen and stomach: improper diet is one of the causes of human diseases, and food mainly depends on the digestion of the spleen and stomach, so improper diet first loses the spleen and stomach, leading to abnormal elevation of the spleen and stomach, which leads to accumulation of dampness, phlegm and heat or other diseases. Poor diet includes hunger, disorder, unclean diet, partial eclipse and so on. Hunger and satiety disorder is the imbalance of food intake, which leads to the lack of source of qi and blood biochemistry, resulting in weak vital qi, reduced resistance and easy disease; Overeating not only exceeds the digestive capacity of the spleen and stomach, but also leads to the damage of the spleen and stomach. Unclean diet refers to eating unclean food, which directly loses the spleen and stomach and can cause many serious consequences such as gastrointestinal diseases, parasitic diseases and food poisoning. Dietary preference refers to people's one-sided interest in certain foods, which will lead to imbalance of yin and yang, or illness due to lack of certain nutrients. Diet partiality can be summarized as cold and heat partiality and five flavors partiality. If you are addicted to refined white rice flour, you are prone to beriberi, and if you eat too much and get cold, you will easily hurt the spleen and yang, leading to endogenous cold and dampness, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Eating too much fat and sweet, or drinking too much, so that damp-heat and phlegm are endogenous, qi and blood are stagnant, hemorrhoids and bleeding can often occur, as well as gastrointestinal ulcers.

3. Dietary health care focuses on the spleen and stomach: Based on the pioneering nature of spleen and stomach health care and the characteristics that improper diet hurts the spleen and stomach first, dietary health care must focus on the health care of the spleen and stomach first, so as to give priority to healthy transportation of the spleen and stomach everywhere, always pay attention to proper diet, and food cooking must focus on facilitating digestion and absorption. Whether it is diet or diet therapy, the spleen and stomach can effectively absorb the essence of Shui Gu and achieve the purpose of health preservation or treatment. Before carrying out diet therapy, especially food supplement, we must first regulate the function of the spleen and stomach.

Only by developing good eating habits and keeping a moderate diet can we avoid the harm of improper diet to human body. A well-controlled diet is an important condition for harmony between form and spirit, which means that the diet should have a certain degree and regularity, hunger and satiety should be appropriate, cold and heat should be appropriate, and five flavors should be taken into account. The purpose of cooking is to improve the digestibility of food and eliminate harmful factors in food, so as to help and protect the spleen and stomach. In practical application, we should flexibly apply various cooking methods to facilitate digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach. For example, when cooking, we should paste and stir-fry quickly to avoid the loss of vitamins, and some foods should be cooked and stewed to kill harmful substances (such as bacteria, eggs, anti-nutritional factors, etc.), change the food structure and shorten the digestion process.