The climate changes before and after the Qingming Festival. Gao Gong, director of the Nutrition Department of the Affiliated Hospital of the Tianjin Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reminded citizens to prevent high blood pressure and allergic diseases during this season, and to focus on protecting the liver and liver.
Before and after the Tomb-sweeping Day, the liver-yang hyperactivity is prone to headache, dizziness, and elevated blood pressure. The diet should be light and less salt, and eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten the lungs, soften the liver and nourish yin, and light blood pressure, such as black fungus, white fungus, lily, chrysanthemum, celery, jujube, honey, chrysanthemum, etc. In addition, during the Qingming Festival, flowers bloom one after another, and the wind is strong, which will cause allergic reactions with pollen as the main allergen. People with allergies should pay attention to protection. In terms of health preservation, health care before and after the Qingming Festival should focus on nourishing the liver, and should eat more foods that “soften the liver”, such as shepherd’s purse, spinach, yam, japonica, sesame, peanut, red bean, glutinous rice, eggs, etc. He also suggested that before and after the Tomb-sweeping Day, citizens can often cook two kinds of dishes: jellyfish parsley and rape enoki mushroom, which have the effects of clearing heat and calming the liver, promoting water and reducing blood pressure, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and improving intelligence and brain.