"How Can Food Therapy Nourish and Combat Neurasthenia Resulting from White-Collar Sub-Health?"

Dietary Solutions for White-Collar Workers to Combat Sub-Health and Neurasthenia

White-collar workers often experience irritability, stress, insomnia, headaches, and other issues, which are manifestations of sub-health. Neurasthenia, a condition with a relatively high incidence among sub-healthy individuals, manifests as insomnia, dreams, and restlessness. The following dietary methods can help effectively regulate and address these issues. Let's explore these dietary solutions.

1. Lily Polygala Turtle Soup

Ingredients: 20g Polygala, 20g red dates, 200g turtle meat, 50g lilies.

Preparation: Remove the pits from the red dates and place them, along with the other ingredients, into a casserole. Add water and simmer until cooked. Season to taste. This nourishing soup can be consumed regularly to nourish yin, moisten dryness, nourish the heart, calm the nerves, effectively alleviate insomnia and palpitations, and improve sub-health conditions.

2. Longan Seed and Gorgon Euryale Seed Porridge

Ingredients: 30g gorgon euryale seeds, 100g glutinous rice, 15g longan meat, 15g spiny dates (seeds), 25g honey.

Preparation: Mix glutinous rice and gorgon euryale seeds. Add longan meat and water, bring to a boil, then simmer for 30 minutes over low heat. Add the spiny dates and continue to cook for 20 minutes before adding honey. Consuming this porridge in the morning and evening can help nourish the brain, calm the nerves, and improve neurasthenia and memory decline among white-collar workers.

3. Crucian Carp and Glutinous Rice Porridge

Ingredients: 1 crucian carp, 60g glutinous rice, a pinch of ginger, and fine salt.

Preparation: Place the crucian carp and glutinous rice in a pot, add water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer until the porridge thickens. Consume once every other day. This porridge strengthens the spleen and stomach, alleviates neurasthenia and dizziness, and has a certain health-preserving effect on reducing palpitations and fatigue, beneficial for nourishing qi and blood.

These dietary treatments for white-collar workers to combat sub-health and neurasthenia have been introduced above. They can effectively improve conditions such as insomnia, palpitations, irritability, disharmony between the spleen and stomach, and memory loss. We might as well give them a try.