Introduction: Choose the food according to our constitution type warm, heat, cool or cold, can better achieve our internal balance, is emphasized in Traditional Chinese Medicine "take food according to body constitution" way of health.
Choose food according to your body constitution.
Ancient and modern gleanings: As the old saying goes, "medicine and food are of the same origin", and the nature and taste of food are the same as that of medicine, with "four natures" and "five tastes". Traditional Chinese Medicine regards the appropriateness and contraindication of food as an important link in medical treatment. The way of keeping healthy in Traditional Chinese Medicine is not only "syndrome differentiation and treatment", but also "body differentiation and food taking". The constitution of "cold and heat" is the basic to distinguish the nature of diseases. The cold syndrome refers to the deficiency of Yang Qi or the affection of cold pathogen, while heat syndrome refers to the excess of Yang Qi or the affection of heat pathogen.
In the face of chicken, duck and fish dishes, some people enjoy it, some people taste as chewing a candle, even caught a serious disease after eating. This is because they did not understand their "cold and heat" constitution, "under the wrong chopsticks." Food has different properties such as cold, cool, warm and hot. According to the principle of "cold need hot, hot need cold", people who are cold constitution should eat hot food, and people who are hot constitution should eat cold food. Chinese Medicine theory explains, warm and heat is Yang, cold and cool is Yin, use the principle of food nature according to time and person, so can make the human body to achieve Yin and Yang balance at any time, won't get sick.
✵How do you know if your body is cold or hot? It can be identified by the half-moon mark, a white curved mark on the bottom fifth of the nail. Half-moon mark is good with the 1/5 that takes fingernail, thumb area is the biggest, disappear gradually when arriving little finger. Two hands have 8-10 half - month mark, indicating the body Yang Qi is more sufficient. From Traditional Chinese Medicine, half-moon mark is the boundary of Yin and Yang meridians, which can be said to be the sign of human body essence, so it is also called health circle. If the half-moon mark on fingernail changes suddenly weak or disappear, it is the sign that the body is not quite healthy. In addition, people with a solid hot constitution have strong body, red tongue, like to drink cold drinks, usually constipation; People with deficiency and heat constitution are thinner, prone to internal heat and fire-uprising, resulting in sores at the corners of the mouth, constipation, flushing, often dry pharynx, thirst, easily upset and insomnia; The weak cold constitution persons are afraid of cold, cold limbs, usually already put on cotton-padded clothes before winter comes; Persons of cold excess is extremely rare, visible edema, phlegm, and other diseases.
✵ The food that the person eats now is generally cool, use air conditioning to lower temperature in great quantities again, so now great majority belongs to the cold and cool constitution. Cold inside the body is heavier, the weak person of deficient Qi and blood can eat the food of warm nature without seasonal ground, like beef and mutton, onion, leek, ginger, such body could have the ability to produce heat, make function excited, increase vigor, blood unblocked. Eat less cold food, such as ice water, watermelon, bitter melon and so on. But not all cold and cool food into the belly can produce a negative effect to the body, as long as it is proper to the constitution with the person, and the season, can get to neutralized, balanced effect. For example, when eating crabs in great cold, we must add ginger to neutralize the coldness of crabs, which will not cause any harm to the body, and help the digestion and absorption of crab meat.
✵ If your body is hot and energetic, you don't need to eat too much warm food. Eat much will lead to hot and dry, suffer from internal heat, the function is too exciting, so you should choose a few cold and cool food appropriately so to undertake to balance. For instance, in summer, the human body perspires a lot, eat the watermelon with cold nature at the right amount, can clear away desiccated heat, can complement human body again because perspires much and the moisture that loses and glucose, watermelon also has the effect that supplements blood.
Health benefits of Choose food according to your body constitution.
1. Harmonious body constitution: the word "harmony" in Chinese Culture emphasizes peace between Yin and Yang. Choose the food suitable for your body according to your constitution, and adjust your constitution to be neutral, so that your body will be healthier and less sick.
✵2. Prevention and treatment of diseases: for the body is already sick or "not sick yet"(hidden diseases), through the selection of appropriate food, the appropriate diet therapy, can play a therapeutic role.
✵3. Enough blood: "blood is the mother of QI, QI is the general of blood." Spleen and stomach is "the foundation of acquired constitution", need turns food into enough blood, add fuel to let kidney fire does not extinguish ceaselessly compensatory nutrition, choose the food that suits body constitution, just won't make blood overheat or too cold so the blood circulation is blocked and bring obstacle in circulatory metabolism.
✵ Tips: food of neutral nature can be eaten all year round; Food of warm nature should be taken less in summer; Food of cool nature can be taken often in summer, in other seasons you better eat with warm food. Food of cold nature as far as possible avoid eating or eat little, if you want to eat must add red pepper, pepper, ginger and other spice or food of warm nature.
Introduction: Choose the food according to our constitution type warm, heat, cool or cold, can better achieve our internal balance, is emphasized in Traditional Chinese Medicine "take food according to body constitution" way of health.
Ancient and modern gleanings: As the old saying goes, "medicine and food are of the same origin", and the nature and taste of food are the same as that of medicine, with "four natures" and "five tastes". Traditional Chinese Medicine regards the appropriateness and contraindication of food as an important link in medical treatment. The way of keeping healthy in Traditional Chinese Medicine is not only "syndrome differentiation and treatment", but also "body differentiation and food taking". The constitution of "cold and heat" is the basic to distinguish the nature of diseases. The cold syndrome refers to the deficiency of Yang Qi or the affection of cold pathogen, while heat syndrome refers to the excess of Yang Qi or the affection of heat pathogen.
In the face of chicken, duck and fish dishes, some people enjoy it, some people taste as chewing a candle, even caught a serious disease after eating. This is because they did not understand their "cold and heat" constitution, "under the wrong chopsticks." Food has different properties such as cold, cool, warm and hot. According to the principle of "cold need hot, hot need cold", people who are cold constitution should eat hot food, and people who are hot constitution should eat cold food. Chinese Medicine theory explains, warm and heat is Yang, cold and cool is Yin, use the principle of food nature according to time and person, so can make the human body to achieve Yin and Yang balance at any time, won't get sick.
✵How do you know if your body is cold or hot? It can be identified by the half-moon mark, a white curved mark on the bottom fifth of the nail. Half-moon mark is good with the 1/5 that takes fingernail, thumb area is the biggest, disappear gradually when arriving little finger. Two hands have 8-10 half - month mark, indicating the body Yang Qi is more sufficient. From Traditional Chinese Medicine, half-moon mark is the boundary of Yin and Yang meridians, which can be said to be the sign of human body essence, so it is also called health circle. If the half-moon mark on fingernail changes suddenly weak or disappear, it is the sign that the body is not quite healthy. In addition, people with a solid hot constitution have strong body, red tongue, like to drink cold drinks, usually constipation; People with deficiency and heat constitution are thinner, prone to internal heat and fire-uprising, resulting in sores at the corners of the mouth, constipation, flushing, often dry pharynx, thirst, easily upset and insomnia; The weak cold constitution persons are afraid of cold, cold limbs, usually already put on cotton-padded clothes before winter comes; Persons of cold excess is extremely rare, visible edema, phlegm, and other diseases.
1. Harmonious body constitution: the word "harmony" in Chinese Culture emphasizes peace between Yin and Yang. Choose the food suitable for your body according to your constitution, and adjust your constitution to be neutral, so that your body will be healthier and less sick.
