What are the dietary taboos for people with yang deficiency constitution?

In fact, the most important taboo in summary is one - don't eat a lot of cold food for a long time. Whether it is iced drinks or foods with low temperature, or ingredients with cold properties, eating too much will further deplete Yang Qi and aggravate the problem of Yang deficiency.

I met a little girl who just went to college two years ago. Her hands and feet have been cold since she was a child. She has to hold two hot water bottles to fall asleep in the winter. She has a typical constitution of Yang deficiency. In the summer, the dormitory has no air conditioning. She never leaves her hand with popsicles and at least one cup of iced milk tea a day. She also likes to mix raw materials. I ate bitter chrysanthemum salad for dinner to lose weight. As a result, I had diarrhea for almost half a month after the fall. My aunt postponed it for two months and went to see a Chinese medicine doctor to check her pulse. She said that she was born with insufficient yang energy and made it up, and the yang energy in the spleen and stomach was depleted. It took half a year of conditioning to recover.

Many people may ask, does that mean you can’t take a bite even if it’s cold? In fact, this matter is not so absolute. There are different opinions in the industry. Some doctors think that as long as you control the amount, it is really hot in summer. It is perfectly fine to take a bite of a popsicle to satisfy your cravings. As long as you don’t eat it every day or every day, it won’t have much impact. You don’t have to make yourself afraid to eat this or touch that for the sake of nourishing yang. On the contrary, emotional exhaustion will hurt your body more. ； Some doctors also think that for people with weak Yang energy, it is best not to touch anything cold at all. After all, everyone’s tolerance is different, and you don’t know whether your Yang energy is enough.

It’s easy to understand. The yang energy in a person with yang deficiency is like a small fire in a small stove. It doesn’t burn well, and it takes a long time to heat up a meal. If you pour ice water into it every day, the fire may be extinguished one day. In addition to iced drinks and popsicles that are obviously cold, there are also ingredients that are easily overlooked by many people, such as hot-clearing scented teas such as chrysanthemum and honeysuckle, as well as crabs, purslane, and water chestnuts. Even if you heat them up and eat them, they are The cold nature of chrysanthemum tea is still there, and eating it every day will also deplete the yang energy. I have a relative who has yang deficiency. He also thinks that chrysanthemum tea can reduce fire and keep healthy. He drinks two large cups of it every day. As a result, he drinks it so much that he can’t even leave the house in winter. He wears thicker clothes than anyone else and still feels cold.

As for whether heating can reduce the coldness of the food itself, there are now different opinions. Some people think that as long as it is cooked at high temperature, the coldness will be greatly reduced. Others think that the hot and cold properties of the food are its own characteristics and have nothing to do with the temperature. In fact, there is no need to get too entangled in these theories. It is the most reliable judgment. The standard is your own body's reaction. If you feel your stomach is warm and not uncomfortable after eating, then it's okay to eat cold food once in a while. If you have diarrhea, your hands and feet get colder, and your aunt's pain worsens after eating, then don't touch it next time, whether it's hot or cold.

Another pitfall that many people don’t pay attention to is that you should not overdiet in order to lose weight. If you don’t eat enough, your body will not even have the raw materials to generate heat, and your yang energy will only become more and more deficient, and you will easily become puffy and fat, which is not worth the loss.