5 Types of Body Constitution Prone to Obesity

Symptoms:

• swelling
• fatigue
• lack of strength
• reduced urine volume
• poor appetite
• bloated stomach
• breathlessness after minor exertion
• pale tongue with greasy coating
• thin and weak pulse

Suggested foods:

• pearl barley
• gorgon fruit
• Chinese yam
• Hyacinth beans
• adzuki beans
• fungus

Symptoms:

• nausea
• limbs feel heavy
• bad breath
• constant thirst that can’t be quenched
• constipation or diarrhoea
• reddish tongue with thin, yellowish coating
• taut and rapid pulse

Suggested foods:

• cucumber
• green beans
• bean curd
• celery
• water chestnut
• daylily
• bitter gourd
• winter melon
• asparagus
• lettuce

Symptoms:

• rapid digestion
• constant thirst that can’t be quenched
• yellowish-red urine
• constipation
• reddish tongue
• weak and rapid pulse
• night sweats
• fatigue (in the elderly)

Suggested foods:

• bitter gourd
• kelp
• seaweed
• spinach
• pumpkin
• white fungus
• sealwort
• fragrant Solomon seal rhizome
• Chinese yam

Symptoms:

• feeling of fullness in the chest and below the ribcage
• bloated feeling in the upper abdomen
• irregular menstrual cycles (in women)
• insomnia
• depression or easily irritated
• constipation
• reddish or pale tongue with white, greasy coating
• weak pulse

Suggested foods:

• lime
• bamboo shoot
• lotus root
• lily bulb
• carrot
• hawthorn
• rose

Symptoms:

• obesity
• feeling of coldness in stomach and limbs
• fatigue and lack of strength
• soreness and weakness in the waist and knees
• swelling of the face
• bloated stomach and diarrhoea
• pale tongue with white, greasy coating
• thin and weak pulse

Suggested foods:

• Chinese yam
• pearl barley
• leeks
• pine seeds
• walnuts
• desert broomrape
• mutton