After winter, the weather is getting cold, according to the Chinese medicine health science, this time of the year should be tonic kidney.

In terms of diet and health, Chinese medicine believes that we should eat less salty and more bitter food, because winter is the time of the kidney meridian, and the kidney is salty, and the heart is bitter. From the medical theory of the five elements, salty over bitter, kidney water gram heart fire. If you eat too much salty, it will make the already hyperactive kidney water even more hyper, thus weakening the strength of the heart yang, so you should eat more bitter food to help the heart yang.

Suitable food choices include celery, lettuce, lettuce, bitter chrysanthemum, etc. These bitter foods contain amino acids, vitamins, alkaloids, trace elements, etc., which are antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, refreshing, and fatigue eliminating, and other medical and health care functions.

Nutrition experts also introduced, according to traditional Chinese medicine, the fall tonic suitable for "peace and harmony", winter tonic suitable for "sealing". Winter is suitable for the following foods: meat with warmth, such as beef and mutton, chicken, shrimp, etc.; vegetables with soybeans, carrots, greens, gaiwan, cilantro, etc.; fruits with oranges, pomelo and so on.

In addition, another principle of winter tonic is to drink more water, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, eat less acidic and spicy and other stimulating foods, and drink less spirits. At the same time, winter nutrition should increase the main thermal energy, can be appropriate more intake of carbohydrate-rich and fat-rich foods, such as nuts, rice and flour products.