What to eat for people with yang deficiency? Remember these warming and nourishing secret recipes!

People with yang deficiency constitution belong to yin, and their bodies are prone to coldness and weakness. People with yang deficiency usually have symptoms such as being very afraid of cold, having cold limbs, and having a pale complexion. Therefore, we must be good at adjusting our diet. So what should people with yang deficiency eat?

Causes of negative constitution

1. A basin of fire before delivery and a basin of ice after delivery (pregnant women generally have hot bodies, and eating a lot of cold food during this period will affect the fetus's physique).

2. In childhood, you often use antibiotics or for some reason use large amounts of hormones, take too many heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines, drink a lot of frozen drinks, watermelon herbal tea, etc.

3. Excessive sexual life

4. It is inevitable that with aging, Yang Qi will be deficient.

5. It is related to the working environment. Such as (frozen warehouse workers, bottle fillers and washers, underground miners, etc.)

6. It is related to diet. When you are young, you are picky about food, and your nutrition does not meet your requirements. In addition, lack of exercise leads to poor physical fitness and failure to adjust and rest in time.

Diet

Good for: chestnuts, shrimp, olives, apples, pork spine, radish

During the Frost's Descent, people with yang deficiency can start taking some supplements. The principle of light and warm supplementation should be followed. Because Frost's Descent belongs to the 18th day of late autumn, the spleen is strong at this time, and the strong earth should be prevented from restraining the kidney water. In addition to the sour taste that needs to be added in autumn, you should also add some salty taste to nourish the liver and kidneys. Salty foods include beans, chestnuts, pork, pork kidneys, shrimps, cuttlefish, etc., which can be stewed with a small amount of hot seasonings such as cinnamon and star anise. Sour foods include hawthorn, cheese, olives, apples, etc. Hawthorn can be used to make soup or stew meat to relieve greasiness and moisturize autumn dryness. People with spleen and stomach yang deficiency should eat some radishes and vegetables after a big meal to prevent internal accumulation of false fire.

Eat less: crab, beef, mutton, cold drinks, grapefruit

“Crabs can only be eaten after the Frost Descent.” It’s finally the season for delicious food. However, crabs are cold in nature, so people with yang deficiency who are afraid of cold should not eat them. Also, don’t forget to pair them with ginger vinegar juice and perilla leaves. Beef is sweet and nourishes the spleen. It is not suitable to eat too much during the Frost Descent solar term, so as not to help the spleen suppress the kidney qi. The best time to eat hot mutton is Xiaoxue. Eating too much mutton now can easily cause getting a sore throat. If you want to eat it, it is recommended to eat less and cook it with sugarcane juice, radish, etc. to reduce the heat of the mutton. This solar term is the peak period for spleen and stomach diseases, and cold drinks are especially harmful to the stomach, so it is best not to use cold drinks as a fire extinguisher after a big meal. Cool fruits such as grapefruit and pear can be eaten with meat, but be careful not to eat too much.

Avoid eating: new ginger, garlic, Polygonum, pheasant, dog meat, frost-covered melon, sunflower

"Don't eat fresh ginger, it will cause chronic diseases. Don't eat garlic, it will hurt your mind and shorten your life, and make your soul restless. Don't eat Polygonum seeds. Don't eat pig liver with candy, it will cause cough in winter and last for years. Don't eat pheasant meat, it will hurt your spirit. Don't eat dog meat, it will hurt your spirit. Don't eat melons after frost, it will cause nausea in winter. Don't eat sunflower, it will make food indigestion."

Five foods to help you warm up your kidney yang

1. Grains and Beans

Warmness: flour, wheat, soybean oil, wine, vinegar, etc.

Neutral: glutinous rice, polished rice, corn, soybeans, black beans, peas, adzuki beans, etc.

2. Melons and vegetables

Warming: ginger, onion, garlic, leek, mustard, pepper, carrot, coriander, etc.

3. Fruits

Warm nature: longan, litchi, lotus seeds, walnuts, peanuts, chestnuts, black plums, bayberries, cherries, pomegranates, papayas, olives, plums, oranges, peaches, etc.

Neutral: jujube, apple, etc.;

4. Meat, eggs and dairy products

Warmness: mutton, dog meat, venison, etc.;

Neutral: pork, goose, wild goose, pigeon, milk, eggs, etc.

5. Aquatic Products

Warmness: eel, shrimp, grass carp, etc.;

Flat: carp, whitebait, yellow croaker, loach, etc.;

People with yang deficiency should eat foods with warming properties, foods that warm the yang and dispel cold, warm tonics instead of light tonics, and foods with high calories and rich nutrition.

People with yang deficiency should eat the following foods:

Dog meat, mutton, bird meat, pepper, fennel, cordyceps, venison, mutton bones, bull whip, dog whip, shrimp, mussels, leeks, fresh ginger, green onions, cloves, cardamom, cubeb

Health preservation methods

1. Mental care

People with insufficient Yang Qi often show bad moods, such as those with liver Yang deficiency who are prone to fear, and those with heart Yang deficiency who are prone to sadness. Therefore, we should be good at regulating our emotions and eliminating or reducing the impact of negative emotions.

As the saying goes, medicine is not as good as food, and food is not as good as spiritual nourishment. Although it sounds a bit mysterious, it is not difficult to understand based on the basis of "the correspondence between form and spirit". "The spirit is to the body as the ruler is to the country" means that the spirit can command the body. In the bleak late autumn and early winter, people with cold-sensitive constitutions that already have insufficient yang energy are more likely to feel the heavy yin energy of late autumn and become sad. The following points can help people with yang deficiency spend the cold autumn comfortably: watching comedies, basking in the sun, gathering with friends and family, tasting delicious food, going on picnics, saying good things, and soaking in hot springs.

2. Environmental Adjustment

Such people have poor ability to adapt to changes in temperature and will feel unbearably cold if it gets slightly cooler. Therefore, in the cold winter, we should “avoid the cold and keep warm”, and in the spring and summer, we should pay attention to cultivating and replenishing the Yang energy. "Never get tired of the sun." Some people point out that if you can take twenty to thirty sunbaths in the summer, each time for fifteen to twenty minutes, you can greatly improve your ability to adapt to the harsh winter climate. Because the human body's yang energy tends to the surface of the body in summer, the pores and skin open, and people with yang deficiency should not sleep outdoors, and should not let electric fans blow directly on them when sleeping. In rooms with air-conditioning equipment, be careful not to let the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor be too large. At the same time, avoid staying for a long time under the shade of trees, in water pavilions, and in corridors with strong winds. If you do not pay attention to keeping warm in summer and only seek temporary relief, it is more likely to cause numbness of hands and feet or facial paralysis, which is what Chinese medicine calls "wind arthralgia".

3. Physical exercise

Because "movement generates yang", people with yang deficiency should strengthen physical exercise, persevere in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and do it 1 to 2 times a day. Specific activities depend on physical strength, such as yoga, walking, jogging, Tai Chi, Wu Qin Xi, Ba Duan Jin, internal nourishment exercises, work-break exercises, ball games and various dance activities. You can also take sun baths and air baths frequently to strengthen Wei Yang. In terms of Qigong, insist on doing strengthening exercises, standing exercises, health care exercises, and longevity exercises.

To nourish yin in autumn and winter, it means not to sweat profusely, and the most appropriate amount of exercise should be kept to the level where you sweat slightly. If your hands and feet are cold due to Yang Deficiency at this time of year, it means that there is too little Yang in your body, your Wei Yang is not solid, and it cannot warm your muscles to resist the invasion of external cold evil. This can be improved through these methods. Keep doing them, otherwise you will have a very sad winter. 1. Soak your hands and feet in mugwort leaves before going to bed every night. 2. Stand on one leg with your eyes closed. If you can’t stand, practice slowly. After 5 minutes you will feel your feet and calves warming up. 3. Make up your mind to start jogging, yoga, and Tai Chi.