What are the foods for invigorating qi?

Our Chinese medicine has always talked about qi and blood, which means that we must replenish qi first if we want to replenish blood. There are many common qi-invigorating foods, such as lung qi and heart qi, but different qi-invigorating foods have different effects. Let me tell you something about common qi-invigorating foods.

Chicken is sweet and warm, and enters the spleen and stomach. Function: replenishing middle energizer, replenishing essence and marrow. Suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, mental fatigue, loss of appetite, chronic diarrhea. Avoid eating after excess syndrome, heat syndrome, sore rash and acne.

Rabbit meat is sweet and cool. Function: tonify middle energizer, invigorate qi, cool blood and detoxify. It is suitable for spleen deficiency, anorexia, bloody stool, stomach heat, vomiting and nausea, intestinal dryness and constipation. People with deficiency-cold diarrhea should not eat it.

Beef is sweet and flat, belonging to the spleen and stomach. Function: tonify spleen and stomach, tonify qi and blood, and strengthen bones and muscles. It is suitable for patients with spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, discomfort of middle qi and chronic diarrhea.

Mandarin fish is sweet in taste and flat in nature, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian. Function: spleen and stomach, qi and blood. Suitable for spleen and stomach weakness and loss of appetite. Avoid eating with deficiency-cold syndrome and cold-dampness syndrome.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to spleen and lung meridians. Function: Tonifying the middle energizer, benefiting qi, promoting diuresis and removing dampness. Suitable for deficiency of middle qi, diarrhea and proctoptosis.

Japonica rice (rice, hard rice) is sweet in taste and flat in nature, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian. Function: Tonifying middle energizer, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach. It is suitable for deficiency of middle qi, mental fatigue, anorexia, loose stool, spleen-stomach disharmony, vomiting and diarrhea.

Glutinous rice (glutinous rice) is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Function: tonify the middle energizer, lung and sweat. It is suitable for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, and is used for chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer in modern times. Sticky and insoluble, food stagnation syndrome, qi stagnation syndrome, dampness syndrome, spleen deficiency, weak stomach and indigestion are not suitable for eating.

Lentils are sweet and slightly warm, and enter the spleen and stomach. Functions: invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, clearing summer-heat and harmonizing middle energizer. Suitable for spleen deficiency and dampness, eating less and diarrhea, and vomiting and diarrhea in summer heat. People with qi stagnation and abdominal distension should not eat it.

Cowpea is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to spleen and kidney meridians. Function: invigorating spleen and kidney. Suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, diarrhea and vomiting. People with qi stagnation and constipation should not eat it.

Honey is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to spleen, lung and large intestine meridians. Function: strengthen the spleen, moisten the lungs, relieve cough, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels. It is suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, stomachache, body fluid deficiency, intestinal dryness and constipation, and is used for peptic ulcer in modern times. Those with damp syndrome, damp-heat syndrome, abdominal distension, vomiting and loose stool should not eat; Not suitable for eating with onion and lettuce.

All of the above are suitable choices when we choose qi-invigorating food, and we can choose by ourselves.