The key to Qingming diet is "clean", here are four dietary tips for you

The Qingming Festival is approaching. In addition to worshipping our ancestors and remembering our loved ones, we should also seize this time and take good care of our health. So how should we maintain our health through diet therapy before and after the Qingming Festival? These methods will teach you how to "eat" to stay healthy.

1. Diet is mainly for nourishing

During the Qingming Festival, kidney qi gradually weakens, heart qi gradually rises, and liver qi is strong. Therefore, the diet should be light, with a focus on clearing and nourishing. You can eat more foods that soften the liver and nourish the lungs, such as shepherd's purse, spinach, and yam. Among them, shepherd's purse is beneficial to the liver and the middle, spinach can benefit the five internal organs and promote blood circulation, and yam has the function of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the lungs. In addition, you may also want to drink some chrysanthemum tea. Chinese medicine believes that chrysanthemum can dispel wind and clear heat, calm the liver, prevent colds, and lower blood pressure.

2. Eat less "hair-raising food"

Qingming Festival is the time when liver yang rises, and it is also the time when chronic diseases such as arthritis, asthma, and mental illness are prone to relapse. Therefore, you should eat less food that is easy to "relapse", such as seafood, bamboo shoots, lamb, chicken, etc.

3. Take nourishing foods appropriately

In addition, you can also take some nourishing foods, such as Tremella fuciformis, which can moisten the lungs and produce fluid, nourish yin and soften the liver. Leeks are warm and hair-raising, and are also a good choice. Proper consumption can increase gastrointestinal motility, clean up blood vessel waste, and nourish the liver and kidneys to enhance the body's resistance. However, it is not suitable for people with accumulated fire and phlegm.

4. There are some rules for eating Qingtuan

Qingtuan is a traditional food for Qingming Festival and is widely loved by people. However, it should be noted that Qingtuan must be heated before eating, because the glutinous rice in Qingtuan will easily regenerate after cooling, which is extremely unfavorable for digestion and the nutritional structure will also be destroyed. It should be noted that Qingtuan should not be eaten with fatty meat, because the mixture of glutinous rice and fat will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines and easily cause indigestion.

In addition, the following four groups of people should use Qingtuan with caution:

The elderly and children. The main raw material of Qingtuan is glutinous rice, which is difficult to digest. The digestive function of the elderly and children is weak, and eating Qingtuan will undoubtedly make their digestive system "worse";

Patients with pancreatitis and gastritis. The glutinous rice in the qingtuan may cause the recurrence or aggravation of these inflammations;

Diabetic patients. Qingtuan contains a lot of sugar. Now many businesses are selling Qingtuan with increasing sugar content. Eating Qingtuan may worsen the condition of diabetic patients.

This article was scientifically reviewed by Xie Peifeng, chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology at the Oriental Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.