March 7, 2019
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【飲食禁忌】戒口戒到人生無意義？
認清發物戒口清單
皮膚問題一旦爆發要紓緩症狀的話，中醫很強調要戒口，尤其是「發物」。「發物」泛指易引起上火、生痰、發瘡、過敏、或令舊疾復發、新病加重的食物。人生要戒吃那麼多食物人生還有意義嗎？且慢，其實發物再細分為六種：動火、動風、助濕、積冷、動血及滯氣，認清發物類型，再按自己症狀戒口，有助紓緩症狀 。
助火發物：薑、蔥、蒜、辣椒、韭菜、洋蔥、酒、羊肉、煎炸物等熱性食物
原因：會助熱動火，吃後容易對於熱性疾病加重，也有機會加重炎症，所以便秘、發熱口渴、皮膚瘡癢、濕疹患者等不宜進食。
動風發物：蝦、蟹、鰻魚、貝類、鵝肉、雞蛋、茄子、竹筍、菇類等
原因：這些食物有升發、散氣、發風作用，易動風生陽，容易透發或加重皮膚瘡瘍腫毒症狀，皮膚敏感、濕疹患者或容易出風癩者尤其不宜吃。
積冷發物：西瓜、冬瓜、苦瓜、柿子、蟹等生冷之物
原因：這些寒涼之物會影響脾胃運化，脾胃虛弱的人吃後容易腹瀉、胃脹，體質虛寒、容易受涼腹瀉或關節痛之人不宜食用。
動血發物：羊肉、菠菜、山楂、胡椒、辣椒等
原因：有活血動血的功效，如果有出血性疾病如月經過多、痔瘡、皮下出血、尿血等病症則不宜食用。
生痰 + 滯氣發物：糯米、米酒、肥肉、棗類、牛奶、芒果、荔枝、榴槤等、大豆、南瓜、紅薯、芋頭等
原因：屬肥甘黏膩之物，容易助濕生痰，影響脾胃功能，亦容易滯澀阻氣，進食後容易腹脹不適，肚腹脹氣人士、濕熱人士及濕疹患者不宜食用。
Know your list of stimulating foods to avoid
Chinese medicine emphasizes on avoiding certain food once your skin issues flare up, especially stimulating ingredients. Stimulating ingredients generally refer to those that can lead to fire in body, phlegm production, sores, or leading to relapse of old issues and worsening of new symptoms. You may feel doomed if there is so much you cannot eat. But if you slow down, you will find that there are six types of stimulating foods- activate fire, activate wind, aid dampness, collection of cold, activate blood and qi stagnation. Know your symptoms and adjust your diet accordingly.
Activate fire: hot natured food such as ginger, spring onion, garlic, chili, chives, onion, alcohol, lamb, fried food
Cause: These will aid heat and activate fire and your heat related symptoms will worsen after eating. Eating these can also worsen inflammation. Those with constipation, heat and thirst, itchy skin, sores on skin and eczema should avoid.
Activate wind: shrimp, crab, eel, shell fish, goose, egg, eggplant, bamboo shoot, fungus family
Cause: These food can activate wind and yang adding to symptoms of skin sores, skin allergies, eczema. It is especially not suitable for those with hives.
Collect cold: cold natured food such as watermelon, winter melon, bitter melon, persimmons, crab
Cause: These cold natured food will affect transport functions of the spleen. Those with asthenic spleen and stomach can have diarrhea after eating, abdominal bloating. They are not suitable for those with asthenic cold body types, prone to catching cold and diarrhea or those with joint pains.
Activate blood: Lamb, spinach, Chinese hawthorn, pepper, chili pepper
Cause: These ingredients can activate blood, those with bleeding type of symptoms such as high volume of menstruation, haemorrhoids, bleeding under skin, blood in urination should avoid.
Aid dampness & Qi stagnation: glutinous rice, rice wine, fatty meat, dates, milk, mango, lychee, durian, soy beans, pumpkin, sweet potato, taro
Cause: These foods are fatty and can aid dampness and production of phlegm affecting the functions of your digestive system. And these ingredients can stagnate qi leading to indigestion and abdominal bloating and discomfort. You may have abdominal discomfort after eating as well. Those with abdominal bloating and gassiness, damp heat body type and eczema should avoid.
