Yang Deficiency Body Type

Yang deficiency constitution, what does it mean?

- When the viscera functions of the human body are dysfunctional, it is easy to appear the manifestations of insufficient yang qi in the body and yang deficiency and inner cold.

- Often manifested as pale complexion, weak breath, tiredness and desire to lie down, chills and cold limbs, general weakness or swollen limbs, etc.

How does Yang deficiency come from?

- Insufficient innate endowments

- Invasion of cold and damp evil

- Over-eating cold foods

- worry too much

- Long-term illness, inappropriate sexual intercourse, etc.

What are the symptoms of the body?

- body fat

- pale complexion

- Limb swelling

- afraid of cold

--Extremity malaise

- clear and long urination

- loose stools

- pale lips and

- Frequent spontaneous sweating

- Cold pain in the lumbar spine

Want to improve, what should I do?

Four principles of diet:

- Eat less or avoid cold and frozen food: the coldness of food is obvious, and it is easy to damage the yang. Best served with warm food

- To reduce the intake of salt: People with yang deficiency who consume too much salt can easily lead to obesity, swelling, high blood pressure and poor urination.

- Eat more warm food: Eating warm food can invigorate the kidney yang and relieve the symptoms of yang deficiency.

- Choose the appropriate cooking method: When eating cold food, you should choose the method of stewing, steaming, boiling and stewing, which can reduce the coldness.

Vegetable taboos	should	Leek, Garlic, Chili, Coriander, Lentil, Ginger, Fennel, Pumpkin, Onion, Soybean Sprout, Yam
Vegetable taboos	avoid	Mung bean sprouts, bitter gourd, cucumber, loofah, celery, bamboo shoots, amaranth, shepherd's purse, eggplant, kelp, seaweed, white fungus
Meat and fishy taboos	should	Lamb, beef, venison, chicken, shrimp, eel, sea cucumber, abalone, crucian carp, octopus, pork belly, pork liver, ham
Meat and fishy taboos	avoid	Crab, snail, carp, eel, mussel, bream, jellyfish, clams, duck meat
Fruit taboos	should	Black dates, cherries, durians, lychees, longan, chestnuts, walnuts, cashews, pine nuts
Fruit taboos	avoid	Orange, grapefruit, banana, watermelon, dragon fruit, persimmon, pear, loquat, sugar cane, melon, water chestnut, green tea