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Gradually Overcoming Neurasthenia Through Diet

🔑 Keywords: Pharmacological Diet · Neurasthenia refers to long-term mental overexertion leading to imbalance between cerebral excitation and inhibition, classified as a type of neurosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine. TCM considers this condition within categories such as palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, dizziness, and deficiency syndromes. Using pharmacological diets for neurasthenia involves combining the properties and functions of herbs with suitable foods, processed through cooking to match the body’s zang-fu organ balance, qi-blood status, and cold-heat-deficiency patterns, thereby achieving therapeutic effects.<br>Watercress and Sour Jujube Seed Soup: Ninety grams of fresh watercress, eight grams of sour jujube seeds. Add appropriate water and boil into a soup, discard the residue, and drink the broth. This is one day’s dose, divided into two servings—after lunch and before bedtime. This formula has effects of calming liver fire and nourishing the heart and spirit, suitable for insomnia, forgetfulness, and dizziness due to neurasthenia and high blood pressure.<br>Wheat, Black Bean, and Night-Blooming Cereus Soup: Forty-five grams of wheat, thirty grams of black beans, ten grams of night-blooming cereus. Boil together in a pot with adequate water, discard the residue, and drink the soup. This is one day’s dose, taken twice daily. This formula nourishes the heart and kidneys and calms the spirit, suitable for insomnia and irritability due to heart-kidney disharmony.<br>Baihe Zao Gui Soup: Fifty grams of turtle meat, fifteen grams of lily bulbs, ten jujubes, and appropriate seasonings. Cut turtle meat into chunks, remove pits from jujubes, combine with lily bulbs, add seasonings, and cook until meat is tender. Drink the soup and eat the meat. This is one day’s dose, divided into two meals. This formula nourishes yin and blood, strengthens the heart and kidneys, suitable for insomnia, irritability, and palpitations due to heart-kidney yin deficiency.<br>Fresh Peanut Leaf Soup: Fifteen grams of fresh peanut leaves, thirty grams of red adzuki beans, two tablespoons of honey. Wash peanut leaves and red beans, place in a pot, add water, boil into a soup, discard the leaves, mix in honey, and drink the soup while eating the beans. This is one day’s dose, divided into two servings. This formula nourishes blood and calms the spirit, suitable for neurasthenia and insomnia with frequent dreams.<br>Scallion and Jujube Soup: Twenty jujubes, two stalks of scallions with roots intact. Wash jujubes and soak in water to rehydrate. Wash scallions, cut into one-inch segments. Place jujubes in a pot, add sufficient water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes. Add scallions and continue simmering for 10 more minutes. Eat the jujubes and drink the soup. This is one day’s dose, taken twice daily. This formula nourishes blood and calms the spirit, suitable for neurasthenia, insomnia with frequent dreams, and memory decline.<br>Dragon Eye, Ginger, and Jujube Soup: Ten grams of longan flesh, five slices of fresh ginger, fifteen jujubes. Select thick, large, fine-textured, oily, golden-brown, semi-transparent, sweet-tasting longan flesh. Wash fresh ginger, peel off outer skin, slice, and prepare jujubes. Combine longan flesh, ginger slices, and jujubes in a pot, add two bowls of water, and simmer until reduced to one small bowl. Discard residue and drink the soup. This is one day’s dose, taken twice daily. This formula tonifies blood and qi, nourishes blood, and calms the spirit, suitable for elderly people with deficient heart blood, insomnia, forgetfulness, neurasthenia, and anemia.<br>Lotus Seed and Longan Soup: Eight grams each of lotus seeds (without cores), poria, and芡实 (Euryale ferox), ten grams of longan flesh. Simmer over low heat for 50 minutes, discard residue, cook until thick and sticky, then stir in brown sugar. Cool before drinking. This is one day’s dose, divided into two servings. This formula tonifies the heart and spleen, nourishes blood, and calms the spirit, suitable for palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, fatigue, limb weakness, anemia, and neurasthenia.

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