Traditional medicine categorizes the flavors of food into five types: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and pungent. It is believed that different food flavors correspond to different organs in the human body. That is, "salty flavor enters the kidney, sweet flavor enters the spleen, sour flavor enters the liver, pungent flavor enters the lung, and bitter flavor enters the heart." When a flavor enters a particular organ, it has a corresponding nourishing effect on that organ.
Professor Gan Aiping, Vice President of the Hubei Association of Diet Therapy and a professor at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, explains that the ancients long ago summarized the principle of health preservation as "salty water in the morning, honey in the evening." This means drinking a glass of light salt water in the morning and a glass of honey water at night to clear the intestines, nourish the stomach, moisten the lungs, and enhance beauty. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, the salty flavor belongs to the kidney meridian and can help maintain one's energy throughout the day. Drinking honey at night has a dual regulatory effect on gastric juice secretion; it can increase gastric acid secretion to aid digestion, and it can also inhibit gastric juice secretion to neutralize stomach acid and protect the gastric mucosa, thus having a stomach-nourishing effect.
Professor Gan reminds that honey should be taken with warm water or mixed into warm milk or soy milk for consumption. It should be noted that diabetic patients should be cautious when consuming honey, and individuals with allergies, especially those allergic to pollen, should also try to avoid eating honey.
Traditional medicine categorizes the flavors of food into five types: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and pungent. It is believed that different food flavors correspond to different organs in the human body. That is, "salty flavor enters the kidney, sweet flavor enters the spleen, sour flavor enters the liver, pungent flavor enters the lung, and bitter flavor enters the heart." When a flavor enters a particular organ, it has a corresponding nourishing effect on that organ.
Professor Gan Aiping, Vice President of the Hubei Association of Diet Therapy and a professor at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, explains that the ancients long ago summarized the principle of health preservation as "salty water in the morning, honey in the evening." This means drinking a glass of light salt water in the morning and a glass of honey water at night to clear the intestines, nourish the stomach, moisten the lungs, and enhance beauty. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, the salty flavor belongs to the kidney meridian and can help maintain one's energy throughout the day. Drinking honey at night has a dual regulatory effect on gastric juice secretion; it can increase gastric acid secretion to aid digestion, and it can also inhibit gastric juice secretion to neutralize stomach acid and protect the gastric mucosa, thus having a stomach-nourishing effect.
Professor Gan reminds that honey should be taken with warm water or mixed into warm milk or soy milk for consumption. It should be noted that diabetic patients should be cautious when consuming honey, and individuals with allergies, especially those allergic to pollen, should also try to avoid eating honey.
The main salty foods suitable for breakfast include barley, millet, kelp, and seaweed. The main sweet foods suitable for dinner include eggplant, taro, tomatoes, spinach, white radish, carrots, winter melon, pumpkin, cucumber, lotus root, potatoes, honey, milk, loach, eel, black carp, milk, and white sugar. In daily life, one can scientifically choose salty and sweet foods that are suitable for them based on their own eating habits. The main salty foods suitable for breakfast include barley, millet, kelp, and seaweed. The main sweet foods suitable for dinner include eggplant, taro, tomatoes, spinach, white radish, carrots, winter melon, pumpkin, cucumber, lotus root, potatoes, honey, milk, loach, eel, black carp, milk, and white sugar. In daily life, one can scientifically choose salty and sweet foods that are suitable for them based on their own eating habits.