Recently, it is the time for melons and fruits to smell, crisp and full of sunshine roses (grapes), thin skin and juicy peaches, sweet and thirsty fresh watermelon... It's mouth-watering. But there is a folk saying: "Eating fruit will produce cold and dampness or heat and fire." For some people, eating fruit causes abdominal pain, diarrhea, sore throat and cough.

So, how to eat fruit to get less wet, not on fire? How should people with different constitutions choose fruit? Professor Huang Suiping, academic leader of Spleen and stomach diseases Department of Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, gave the answer.

It is recorded in the "Huangdi Neijing" that "five grains are nourishing, five fruits are helping, five animals are benefiting, and five vegetables are filling." The "help" of "five fruits as help" said here means supplementing and dredging. Therefore, eating fruit is helpful to the human body.

Why do people say that eating fruit will be wet and on fire?

Experts said: "Chinese medicine to look at food ingredients pay attention to taste, many fruits such as watermelon, yellow skin, Sydney, banana, persimmon, strawberry, etc., are cold taste, generally have the effect of clearing heat, quenching thirst, and promoting fluid."

Modern people sit for a long time and exercise less, thinking more, irregular diet, spleen and stomach transport function is mostly weak, belonging to the Yin constitution.

If excessive consumption of cold fruits, it is very easy to damage the spleen and stomach, so that the original weak state of the spleen is more weak, the function of the spleen and stomach is worse, resulting in food stagnation and wet stop, easy to develop disease.

If the water grain can not be decomposed and absorbed by the normal transport, it will show diet stagnation; If the wet water can not be transported normally, stay in the gastrointestinal tract, mixed down, it will show loose stool diarrhea;

Such as water wet stop stagnation in the skin between the skin, the manifestation is eczema and other skin problems. Moreover, Chinese medicine believes that sweet taste is easy to help wet, most fruits taste sweet, eat more raw wet and greasy.

Some people have enough Yang, which belongs to the partial Yang constitution, also called the heat constitution, if the diet is hot, it will be prone to fever, Yin and jin are easy to hurt, causing sore throat, cough, dry stool, yellow urine, and even fever and other "fire" symptoms.

How do people with different constitutions eat fruit?

Experts said: "If the smell is suitable, take it", that is, we need to see what kind of constitution we belong to, and then determine what food and fruit are suitable for us. Generally, in addition to peace and quality, the human constitution can be divided into Yin and Yang from a large aspect.

(1) Partial Yin type of people are usually introverted, quiet, pale, like static hate to move, lazy, do not like drinking water, body fat and other symptoms. Such people are suitable for eating less sweets, cold drinks, dairy products, meat, and reduce the intake of fruit, and appropriately increase the intake of warm foods, such as ginger, onion, garlic, etc.

(2) People with partial Yang are usually extroverted, fond of movement, fond of drinking water, red face, energetic, thin body and other symptoms. Such people should reduce the intake of spicy, wine, beef and mutton and other warm foods, and appropriately increase sweet and cool foods, such as fruits and vegetables.

However, people always have food cravings, if the Yin people want to eat some cold fruit, the Yang people want to eat hot fruit, how to do? Left left left

How do people with biased Yin eat fruit with cold taste?

Such as watermelon, its cold, sweet taste, return to the heart, stomach, bladder meridian, clearing heat and relieving summer heat, in addition to boredom thirst, urine. Watermelon into the heart and lung, liver and stomach and bladder meridian, can remove the heat of three jiao, its most important effect is to reduce summer heat, clear heart fire.

Watermelon cold cold, partial Yin should not eat iced watermelon; To strictly control the amount of food, should not eat more than once, each time 1 to 2 pieces, no more than once a week; On the same day, we should arrange a mild diet, try to avoid the superposition of cold and cold diet, and use some cold and warm Yang diet therapy, such as brown sugar ginger tea.

How does the person with partial Yang eat the fruit with warm taste?

Such as durian, its hot, spicy, sweet, return to the liver, kidney, lung meridian, appetizing spleen, moistening bowel. Known as the "King of fruits", durian has rich nutritional value, containing a variety of vitamins, rich protein, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other trace elements. There is a saying in Guangdong: "One durian and three chickens", which shows its nutritional value.

Durian taste warm, to be eaten in the absence of constipation, sore throat, fever, red tongue, fur yellow greasy acute stage; Strictly control the portion size, eat 1 small piece at a time, no more than once a week.