What can you eat to improve qi and blood deficiency?

Deficiency of both qi and blood is what Chinese medicine calls qi deficiency and blood deficiency.

Guiding opinions:

1. Qi deficiency

① Tonifying foods: beef, mutton, wolfberry fruit, chicken, pork, glutinous rice, soybeans, white lentils, jujube, crucian carp, carp, quail, eel, shrimp, mushrooms, etc.

② Corresponding diet: Hu Aishan lily lotus seed soup; Stewed pigeon with ginseng; Spiced beef; Roasted trotters with peanuts and dates.

③ Avoid eating less: buckwheat, grapefruit, orange, kumquat, kumquat cake, orange, water chestnut, raw radish, ground skeleton, mustard, Allium macrostemon, Junda, Amomum villosum, chrysanthemum, tea, alcohol and tobacco.

④ No food: hawthorn, bergamot, areca nut, garlic, kohlrabi, radish tassel, coriander (coriander), turnip (kohlrabi), pepper, long pepper, middle finger, perilla leaf, mint and lotus leaf.

2. Blood deficiency

① Tonifying foods: black-bone chicken, black sesame, walnut meat, longan meat, chicken, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, red beans, etc.

② Corresponding diet: Danggui Dihuang silky fowl; Hu Aishan beef brisket pot; Chrysanthemum hairtail; Chrysanthemum dew rose. Avoid eating less: seaweed, Alpinia katsumadai, lotus leaf, white wine, mint, chrysanthemum, betel nut, raw radish, etc. Taboo items: water chestnut and garlic.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw lotus root is cold and has the function of clearing away heat and relieving annoyance, which is especially suitable for patients with acne caused by blood heat. After cooking, it changes from cold to warm, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin, invigorating spleen and qi, and nourishing blood. It is a good food supplement, especially suitable for people with dry skin and gloomy complexion caused by weakness of spleen and stomach and deficiency of qi and blood. In particular, the lotus root between lotus root segments is a good medicine, which has the functions of invigorating spleen, appetizing, nourishing blood, stopping bleeding and improving complexion.