01/16/2025
Lupus affects the spleen and a good way to help keep it healthy is by knowing what to eat.
Health preservation by food – Fruits
In Chinese medicine, fruits can replenish the deficiency of the major diet and provide the necessary nutrients to the body. Most fruits are sweet, sour in taste and slightly cold in nature. For example, pear, sugarcane, olive can nourish yin, promote the production of the body fluids and clear away heat. Some fruits are sweet in taste and warm in nature. For example, lychee, longan and chestnut can replenish qi, nourish blood, invigorate the spleen and supplement the kidney.
[Apple] is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It can nourish the spleen, stimulate the stomach, promote digestion, moisturise the lung, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough. Apple peel can also stop diarrhea.
[Pear] is sweet, slightly sour in taste and cold in nature. It can clear away heat, promote the production of the body fluids, moisturise the lung, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough. Pear stewed with crystal sugar is also suitable for people suffering from cough due to lung dryness.
[Papaya] consumed as fruit in the south, is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It can invigorate the spleen, benefit qi, moisturise the lung, relieve cough and promote the secretion of breastmilk, so it is most suitable for mother who breastfeed as well as people who cough due to lung deficiency.
[Persimmon] is sweet, astringent in taste and slightly cold in nature. It can moisturise the lung, relieve cough, promote the production of the body fluids to quench thirst. Being dried in the sun, it becomes dried persimmon which is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It can moisturise the heart and lung and benefit the intestine and stomach. The white frost on the dried persimmon is called persimmon frost. Being sweet in taste and cool in nature, persimmon frost can clear away heat, moisturise dryness, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough. It can also relieve lung heat, cough due to dryness, as well as dry and sore throat.