Eating five tastes are spleen

Cao Jianchun Beijing university of Chinese medicine hospital east

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Food has a sweet, sour, bitter, bitter, salty, five tastes. Food, fruits, vegetables, that is on the basis of gansu and light, taste slightly biased, not as fierce as drugs. Food mixed attached to the "essence", which is based on the production of subtle play a role. And drug lack water essence, just rely on their own not considerate, biased to correct the body fever imbalances, based on five tastes through to correct the partial functions of the viscera, different from the food.

        Eating five corresponding to the human body's five zang-organs, namely, the spleen, liver, lung, heart and kidney. Food tastes of zang-fu organs, although each have lay particular stress on, but the food is first and foremost to spleen and stomach, through the spleen and stomach to secrete turbidity, absorb the subtle material, then belong to different viscera, moisten the effect, therefore, vegetables five spleen all belongs to, so to speak. "Element asked, meridians BieLun" said: "drink into the stomach, nutrients, lost in the spleen, spleen essence, due to pulmonary... water on four cloth, five parallel." Is also good to after food enters the human body metabolism.

        Food is mixed in the spleen, on the basis of not gay will have different effect on the five internal organs.

        Gansu and light into the spleen and stomach, earthy, with gentle and effect. All things in the soil, food, light taste food of the main types, most of the food as the taste. It can oneself yiqi, raising the base camp and spleen, muscle, tonify deficiency, repose, calming nerves and strong fine raw pulp. We eat the grain, most of the vegetables, extraction of the sugar is belong to this type. Can say, baby food is the foundation of our existence.

        Acid, acerbity into the spleen, liver, have oneself stomach, nourish Yin liver, detoxifying expelling turbid, convergent astringent effect. Many fruits are, such as orange, orange, grapefruit, apple, apricot, grape, kiwifruit, etc.

        Bitter into the spleen, heart, on the one hand, qing gastric bowel, oral cavity, liver and gallbladder heat evil, on the other hand except vexed, nerves on the role of volunteers. The bitter taste of food such as lotus seed, balsam pear, sowthistle, bitter chrysanthemum.

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