Do you often experience symptoms like nasal congestion, sneezing, and a runny nose even when you don't have a cold? Are you prone to allergies from medications, food, odors, pollen, or seasonal changes? Your skin often develops purplish-red petechiae, ecchymoses, as well as scratches and scrapes. Some may even be prone to urticaria, wheals, rashes, and coughing, and are susceptible to diseases like hay fever and asthma. If so, you can determine that you belong to the allergic constitution within the special constitutional type.
The special constitutional type, also known as special physiological constitution or allergy, what does "special" refer to? It refers to special endowment, which is a special state of constitution caused by genetic and congenital factors, mainly including allergic constitution, hereditary disease constitution, and congenital transmission constitution. Some individuals with a special constitutional type are born with congenital defects or manifestations of hereditary-related diseases, such as congenital and hereditary physiological defects, congenital and hereditary diseases, allergic diseases, and primary immunodeficiency. All patients with hereditary diseases show that the parent generation has the same disease, or there is a fixed defect at birth. Hereditary diseases include hemophilia, congenital idiotism, as well as "five delays" (late standing, walking, hair growth, teething, and speech), "softness" (weakness of bones and muscles), and "cranial sutures remaining open." Congenitally transmitted diseases include fetal coldness, fetal heat, fetal fright, fetal obesity, and fetal weakness. Because most individuals with a special constitutional type have poor adaptability to the external environment, they will show varying degrees of psychological reactions such as inner sensitivity, suspicion, anxiety, and depression.
What foods are suitable for people with a special constitutional type?
1. Eat more warming and nourishing foods.
Especially in winter, people with a special constitutional type should opt for warm and neutral foods. Such as chicken, duck, millet, black rice, glutinous rice, radish, Chinese yam, sweet potato, chestnuts, lamb, longan pulp, red dates, peanuts, red beans, chicken soup, chestnuts, black sesame, cashews, etc. In soups and porridge, you can appropriately add He Shou Wu, Astragalus root, raw sun-dried ginseng, Ophiopogon japonicus, Glehnia littoralis, and goji berries.
2. Eat more foods that benefit Qi and secure the exterior.
It is best to often eat brown rice and vegetables, as they can provide high-quality red blood cells without worrying about foreign proteins entering the bloodstream, so they can effectively prevent the occurrence of allergic symptoms.
3. The diet should be light.
Pay attention to eating more foods that benefit the spleen Qi, as they can make the body's defensive Qi abundant, improve the body's immune system, and have a certain improvement and resistance effect on allergies.
4. Diet should be tailored to the time, individual, place, and condition.
Formulate a diet that suits your health by considering environmental, constitutional, and disease factors.
What should people with a special constitutional type pay attention to in their diet?
1. People with a special constitutional type are not suitable to eat too many cold-natured foods.
Studies have found that people who eat too many cold-natured foods have higher levels of allergic immunoglobulin in their bodies and relatively more severe rhinitis conditions. Some people get sick from eating too many cold-natured foods like crabs or kiwis. Therefore, people with a special constitutional type should especially eat less cold-natured food. Common cold-natured foods include: bitter melon, tomato, lily, lotus root, Houttuynia cordata, purslane, water chestnut, cuttlefish, river crab, kelp, seaweed, toon, etc.
2. Try to eat less buckwheat (containing buckwheat fluorescin), fava beans, beef, carp, shrimp, crab, lentils, goose meat, strong tea, alcohol, chili, coffee and other spicy foods, as well as fishy, greasy, triggering foods or foods containing allergens.
3. Avoid raw, cold, greasy, and rich foods, such as fried food, turtle and softshell turtle meat, raw lettuce, raw leeks, shrimp and clams, barbecue, kidneys, taro, etc.