From the point of view of dietary science, the spring emphasizes protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals to maintain a relative proportion, to prevent overdose, overeating, to avoid causing liver dysfunction and bile secretion abnormalities.
2, spring diet liver first
Spring is the peak season of bacterial, viral reproduction and breeding, the liver has the function of detoxification, detoxification, the heaviest burden, and due to the people's liver qi rise, but also cause the recurrence of old diseases, such as the spring liver fire rise, will make the weak lung yin more weak, so tuberculosis will take advantage of the weakness. Chinese medicine believes that spring in the human body, the main liver, and liver qi naturally in the spring. If you do not take care of your health properly in the spring, it is easy to injure your liver qi. In order to adapt to the seasonal climate change, to maintain human health, in the dietary regimen should pay attention to the liver as the first.
3, diet to support Yang
Yang, refers to the human body yang qi, yang qi on the human body plays a role in defending the human body can make the human body solid, free from the natural world of the six evils of the invasion of the gas. Spring in the diet, to follow the "Huang Di Nei Jing" put forward in the "spring and summer to make up for the yang" principle, it is appropriate to eat more warm yang food, in order to make the human body full of yang, enhance the body's resistance to wind-based evil attack on the human body. Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also advocates "to onion, garlic, leek, polygonum, artemisia, mustard and other pungent and tender vegetables, miscellaneous and food.
4, more sweet, less sour
More sweet diet, the benefits of doing so is to replenish the body's spleen and stomach qi. China's medical opinion, the spleen and stomach is the foundation of the day, is the source of the body's qi and blood, the spleen and stomach qi healthy, people can prolong life. But the spring for the liver when the order, according to the theory of Chinese medicine, the liver is wood, the spleen is earth, wood and earth, i.e., the liver can hurt the spleen, affecting the spleen's digestive and absorptive functions.
The Chinese medicine also believes that the five flavors into the five organs, such as sour into the liver, sweet into the spleen, salty into the kidneys, etc., so if you eat more acidic food, will strengthen the function of the liver, so that the original partial hyperactivity of the liver is even more intense, which can hurt the spleen and stomach qi. In view of this, people should eat less sour food in the spring to prevent liver qi from being too exuberant. And sweet food into the spleen, can tonic spleen qi, so you can eat a little more, such as jujube, yam, potpourri and so on.
5, the diet should be light
By the winter of the paste sorghum thick flavor into the warm and bland, the diet should be warm, avoid cold. Stomach cold people can often eat some ginger to drive cold and warm the stomach; asthma people, can serve some ginger honey water to moisturize the dryness of the asthma; chronic bronchitis people, should abstain from eating or eat less spicy food. Other people should not eat more pungent and hot stimulating food, so as not to help the fire hurt.
6, usually drink more water
Drinking water can increase the circulating blood volume, is conducive to liver and metabolic waste excretion, can reduce the damage to the liver of toxic substances. In addition, hydration is also conducive to glandular secretion, especially the secretion of bile and other digestive juices. Drinking fragrant flower tea in the spring, can help disseminate the winter accumulation of cold in the body, and promote the body's Yang Qi birth, stagnation and evacuation. Drinking tea in moderation, but also refreshment, but spring should not be greedy cold drinks.
7, eat more vegetables
After the winter, most of the many vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements intake is insufficient, such as the spring people often stomatitis, stomatitis, ligamentitis, night blindness and some skin diseases. Therefore, with the arrival of spring and a variety of fresh vegetables on the market, people must eat more fresh vegetables, in order to nutritional balance, health.