🌿 Folk Prescriptions

People with excessive liver yang often suffer from headaches and dizziness in spring, which Traditional Chinese Medicine refers to as "spring energy causes diseases in the head." Modern medicine finds that spring weather changes easily lead to increased blood pressure, causing headache, dizziness, and insomnia.
Remedy for lowering blood pressure: Eat about 400 grams of banana or orange daily; or use 100 grams banana peel, decocted in water and drunk frequently as tea. Bananas contain potassium ions that lower blood pressure. Additionally, consuming foods rich in potassium such as lemon, pear, mung beans can help prevent hypertension. Celery and red dates decocted as tea also have blood pressure-lowering effects.
Patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers are prone to flare-ups in spring. Avoid foods high in creatine and purine bases such as pork soup, chicken soup, fish soup, beef soup, spinach, legumes, animal offal, and spicy condiments, as these stimulate gastric juice secretion and cause bloating, increasing gastrointestinal burden.
Dietary remedy: Use honey therapy—steam honey over water, take 100 ml on an empty stomach before meals, divided into three doses daily; or use fresh green cabbage, wash, mash, squeeze juice through sterilized gauze, warm slightly before drinking, twice daily for 15 days as a course; alternatively, boil 250 ml milk, mix in 50 grams honey and 6 grams white agaric, stir well and drink. These remedies nourish yin and benefit the stomach.
Chronic bronchitis in the elderly often flares up in spring. Dietary prevention includes eating more foods that clear phlegm, strengthen spleen, tonify kidney, and nourish lung—such as loquat, tangerine, pear, lotus seed, lily, jujube, walnut, honey. The folk saying “fish generates phlegm, meat generates fire, cabbage and tofu keep peace” has scientific basis. Spicy foods like chili, pepper, scallion, garlic, and overly sweet or salty foods should be avoided to prevent respiratory irritation and worsening symptoms.