Chinese medicine classifies body types into 9 types, and the healthiest body type is the peaceful body type, with rosy lips, thick and shiny hair, and strong adaptability. Other body types should focus on conditioning, first understand their own body type, and then targeted conditioning, so as to maintain good health.
How to regulate the physique?
1, Yin deficiency constitution
Yin deficiency is characterized by hot hands and feet, flushed face, dry throat and mouth, thin body, dry eyes, dry lips, short red urine, dry stools and blurred vision. Such people should eat more lilies, winter melon and duck meat and silver fungus, etc., can play a nourishing effect on the lungs, honey steamed lilies or silver fungus lotus seed lily soup is a good choice.
2, Allergic people
Allergic people will sneeze, runny nose and cough and shortness of breath whenever they come in contact with allergens. Such people can drink thorny mint tea, 3 grams of mint and 6 grams of thorny mint together in a cup can be brewed.
3, Blood stasis
Blood stasis is characterized by spots on the face, skin bruises that are difficult to disappear, gray face, purple lips, accompanied by stubborn dark circles under the eyes and memory loss. Such people should eat more foods that have the effect of invigorating blood stasis, such as salvia, safflower and brown sugar, as well as hawthorn. Tao Hong Si Wu Tang is a good choice to drink once a day in the morning and once a day in the evening on an empty stomach.
4, Qi-depressed body
People with qi-depressed constitution are characterized by a thin body, often feel nervous and anxious, sentimental, women are prone to breast pain or dysmenorrhea. Such people should focus on drinking rose tea and yellow flower tea.
5, Damp-heat physique
Damp-heat body is characterized by greasy nose, easy to grow acne, bitter mouth and accompanied by bad breath, itchy skin and limb sleepiness, poor bowel movements, yellow urine, etc. Such people should drink more bitter tea or barley porridge.
6, Phlegm damp body
Phlegm-damp people are characterized by a fat abdomen, high blood sugar and blood lipid levels, and a forehead prone to oil. Such people should choose the spleen and dampness soup, which contains raw astragalus, winter melon skin and poria and orange red, as well as atractylodes and lotus leaves.
7, Qi deficiency physique
People with Qi deficiency have weak speech, often feel fatigue, dizziness and shortness of breath, will sweat when they move a little, like to be quiet, etc. Such people can choose to supplement Zhong Yi Qi Tang, which includes Dang Shen, Chen Pi and raw Astragalus, as well as Sheng Ma, fried Atractylodes, roasted licorice, and Chai Hu and Angelica.
8, Yang deficiency
Yang deficiency is characterized by light-colored lips, cold hands and feet, fear of cold and mental weakness, clear and long urine and diarrhea. Such people can choose mutton soup or angelica ginger mutton soup.
Warm Tips
Regardless of the body type, the diet should not be excessively cold, so as not to harm the spleen, stomach and Yang Qi. Keep three regular meals a day, do not be too full or too hungry, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and grains and cereals, do a good mix of coarse and fine, meat and vegetables, and correct the bad habits of picky or partial eating.