Foods of different colors have a relationship of balancing yin and yang with the body's five zang and fu organs. Black corresponds to the kidneys, yellow to the spleen, and green to the liver. Appropriately pairing foods in your diet can help boost the body's immunity.
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1. Yellow foods nourish the spleen
Yellow foods can strengthen the spleen, enhance gastrointestinal function, restore energy, and replenish vital energy (qi), thereby alleviating symptoms of weakened female hormone secretion. Yellow foods are very effective for the digestive system and also help with memory decline.
Representative foods: Tofu, pumpkin, satsuma mandarin, lemon, corn, banana, and quail eggs.
Soybeans: Help restore gastrointestinal vitality and are a natural plant-based estrogen, which can help regulate female hormones. They also help alleviate symptoms of menopause and menstruation and can prevent hormone-related cancers.
Pumpkin: Boosts energy, replenishes vital energy, and increases metabolism.
Satsuma Mandarin: Has the effects of expelling wind, aromatics, and nourishment, and can alleviate symptoms of mental tension.
Lemon: Eliminates fatigue, promotes blood circulation, increases immunity, and delays skin aging.
Persimmon: Strengthens the spleen and whets the appetite, moistens the lungs and promotes fluid production, and improves cardiovascular function.
Banana: Strengthens digestive system function, removes toxins from the blood, and has antidepressant and immunity-boosting effects.
2. Black foods nourish the kidneys
Black foods help improve the metabolic and reproductive systems closely related to the kidneys, bladder, and bones. They can regulate the body's physiological functions, stimulate the endocrine system, promote saliva secretion, aid in gastrointestinal digestion, and enhance blood-forming function, and also have a certain effect in delaying aging.
Black Sesame Bun
Representative foods: Black sesame, black fungus, black soybean, shiitake mushroom, black rice, shrimp, shellfish, etc.
Black rice: Has the effects of nourishing yin and kidneys, replenishing blood and vital energy, increasing intelligence and nourishing the brain, and enhancing metabolism.
Black jujube: Has the effect of enhancing the body's immunity.
Black soybean: Has the effects of nourishing the kidneys, strengthening muscles and bones, warming the stomach and intestines, improving eyesight and vitality, and promoting urination and detoxification.
Black sesame: Has the effects of nourishing the kidneys, strengthening the brain and moistening the lungs, nourishing blood and blackening hair, and preventing aging.
Black fungus: Cleans the stomach and intestines and enhances the body's immunity.
3. Green foods nourish the liver
Green foods contain chlorophyll and various vitamins that are good for liver health. They can cleanse the intestines to prevent constipation and reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer. In addition, they can maintain the body's acid-base balance and strengthen the constitution under stress.
Spinach in Broth
Representative foods: Spinach, green shiso, cabbage, celery, lettuce, chives, broccoli, etc.
Spinach: Has the effects of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, moistening yin and reducing dryness, anti-aging, and promoting cell growth.
Broccoli: Can enhance the liver's detoxification ability, increase the body's immunity, and reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Chives: Can warm and nourish the liver and kidneys, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, and have the effect of dispelling blood and detoxifying.
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