What to eat when you are weak and easily fatigued

When physical weakness and extreme fatigue occur due to physical weakness, you must strengthen your diet. Good diet and health care can help relieve the symptoms of physical fatigue, help improve physical strength and enhance the body's immunity. Different types of physical weakness and fatigue will require different methods of diet and health care. For example, if you have Qi deficiency, you can drink Sijunzi Decoction, and if you have Yin deficiency, you can take Shengmai Yin.

What to eat when you are weak and easily fatigued

1. Qi deficiency type

Drink Sijunzi Decoction: If you are mentally tired, short of breath, thin body, loose stools, breathless when walking, pale complexion, pale tongue with thin white coating, etc., the main focus of conditioning should be on replenishing Qi, and you can take Sijunzi Decoction. Take 15 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams of Poria cocos, 10 grams of licorice, and 10 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, soak them in 600 ml of cold water for half an hour, boil over high heat, then continue to simmer over low heat for 10 to 15 minutes, and drink one or two cups a day.

2. Yin deficiency type

Drink Shengmai Drink: People who often stay up late are prone to fatigue, accompanied by symptoms such as forgetfulness, dry mouth and tongue, red tongue and yellow coating. They should drink Shengmai Drink, which nourishes yin and moistens dryness. Take 15 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 15 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, and 5 grams of Schisandra chinensis, soak them in 600 ml of water for half an hour, and boil them over high heat for 10 to 15 minutes. Drink 1 cup per day.

3. Blood deficiency type

Drink Angelica Blood-Replenishing Soup: Symptoms include palpitations, dizziness, insomnia, sallow complexion, mental fatigue, and pale red tongue. These symptoms are more common in female friends, accompanied by scanty menstruation and irregular menstruation. Angelica Blood-Replenishing Soup should be used for treatment. Fatigue will disappear as it replenishes Qi and produces blood. Take 30 grams of Astragalus and 6 grams of Angelica, put them in an electric tea kettle, use 600 ml of water to boil until 300 ml is ready. You can add water and boil repeatedly until the taste is light.

Yang deficiency type

4. Drink Cistanche deserticola, Chinese yam and wolfberry: If you experience fatigue, chills, dizziness, pain in the waist and knees, pale tongue, etc., drinking some Cistanche deserticola, Chinese yam and wolfberry can improve the symptoms. Take 5 grams of yam, 10 grams of Cistanche deserticola, and 10 grams of wolfberry, put them in a thermos cup, simmer with hot water for about half an hour, drink slowly, and add water to rinse until the taste of the medicine becomes lighter.