The difference between Qi deficiency and blood deficiency

Qi and blood are very important for human health. If the human body has problems with qi and blood deficiency, various diseases may occur, so the body needs to be treated in time. Of course, although there is a certain connection between Qi deficiency and blood deficiency, there are still certain differences in specific symptoms and conditioning methods. Below we will introduce the differences between Qi deficiency and blood deficiency as well as the treatment methods.

1. What is Qi Deficiency?

The main manifestations of Qi deficiency are shortness of breath, laziness to speak, general fatigue, low voice, shortness of breath when moving, easy sweating, dizziness and palpitations, sallow complexion, loss of appetite, false heat, spontaneous sweating, rectal prolapse, prolapse of the uterus, pale and fat tongue with teeth marks on the edges of the tongue, weak pulse, etc. These are functional declines, not necessarily an illness. People with Qi deficiency need to replenish Qi. Medicines for replenishing Qi include ginseng, astragalus, codonopsis, etc.

2. How to regulate the body when the qi is weak

Foods that replenish qi deficiency: beef, chicken, pork, glutinous rice, soybeans, white lentils, dates, crucian carp, carp, quail, eel, shrimp, mushrooms, etc. You can change your clothes frequently.

Foods that should not be eaten when suffering from qi deficiency: hawthorn, bergamot, betel nut, garlic, kohlrabi, radish leaves, coriander, turnip, pepper, longan, middle finger, perilla leaves, mint, and lotus leaves.

Avoid or eat less: buckwheat, grapefruit, tangerine, kumquat, kumquat cake, orange, water chestnut, raw radish, ground skullcap, mustard greens, leek, Jundacai, Amomum villosum, chrysanthemum, tea, and tobacco and alcohol.

Corresponding meals: Huaishan lily and lotus seed soup; stewed pigeon with ginseng and medicine; spiced beef; roasted pig's trotters with peanuts and dates.

3. What is blood deficiency?

The main manifestations of blood deficiency are sallow and pale complexion, pale lips and nails, dizziness and fatigue, blurred vision and palpitations, insomnia and dreaminess, dry stool, delayed menstruation in women, scanty and light-colored menstruation, pale tongue, slippery and dry tongue coating, and weak pulse. Tonic should be used to replenish blood, nourish blood, and produce blood. Blood-replenishing medicines can be selected from angelica, donkey-hide gelatin, rehmannia, mulberry fruit, etc.

4. How to regulate the body when suffering from blood deficiency

Foods that replenish blood deficiency: black-bone chicken, black sesame, walnut meat, longan meat, chicken, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, red beans, etc. can be selected alternately frequently.

Foods that should be avoided when suffering from blood deficiency: water chestnuts and garlic.

Corresponding meals: black-bone chicken with Angelica sinensis and Rehmannia glutinosa; Huaishan beef brisket stew; Huaichrysanthemum hairtail; Rose and Huaichrysanthemum dew.

Avoid or eat less: seaweed, cardamom, lotus leaves, white wine, mint, chrysanthemum, betel nut, raw radish, etc.