In the South in the spring to eat the following kinds of food is best:

Red dates and other spleen nourishing sweets

China's ancient famous doctor Sun Simiao said: "Spring is appropriate to save acid and increase the sweet in order to nourish the spleen." It means that it is advisable to eat less sour and more sweet in the spring. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that spring is the time when liver qi is strong, eating more sour food will make liver qi too strong and damage the spleen and stomach, so you should eat less sour food. And people in the spring outdoor activities than in winter, physical exertion is greater, the need for heat increased. But at this time, the spleen and stomach is weak, gastrointestinal digestive ability is poor, not suitable for eating greasy meat, therefore, the heat can be appropriate by the supply of sweets. Red dates are just such a flavor of spring spleen good products.

Honey

The Chinese medicine believes that honey is sweet, into the spleen and stomach two meridians, can tonify the gas, lubricate the bowels. In the spring, the climate is changing, the weather is cold and warm, it is easy to catch a cold. As honey contains a variety of minerals, vitamins, and lung detoxification function, it can enhance the body's immunity, is the ideal spring tonic. Therefore, in the spring, if you can drink 1 to 2 spoons of honey every day, to a cup of warm water or add milk to take, the body has a nourishing effect.

Spring buds

Eating spring buds in spring. Confucius said, "Do not eat from time to time", which means, do not eat anything that is not in season. The classic work of Chinese medicine, Huang Di Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine), also says to "eat the grains of the year", which means to eat seasonal food. In spring, all plants produce bright green shoots, and there are many edible spring sprouts, such as parsnips, bean sprouts, garlic sprouts, bean sprouts, lettuce and so on.