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What can I eat to enhance resistance and immunity?

May 08, 2025 Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Yang Ziqi
Introduction
Under normal circumstances, consuming foods such as shiitake mushrooms, spinach, broccoli, walnuts, and salmon, as well as taking medications like Zhenqi Fuzheng Granules, Bailing Capsules, Thymopeptin Enteric-coated Tablets, Splenopentin Oral Lyophilized Powder, and Yupingfeng Granules may help enhance resistance and immunity. In daily life, it is important to ensure adequate sleep, during which the body undergoes self-repair and regulation.

Generally speaking, consuming foods such as shiitake mushrooms, spinach, broccoli, walnuts, and salmon, as well as taking medications like Zhenqi Fuzheng Granules, Bailing Capsules, Thymopeptide Enteric-coated Tablets, Splenopentin Oral Lyophilized Powder, and Yupingfeng Granules, can help enhance resistance and immunity. Detailed explanations are as follows:

I. Foods

1. Shiitake Mushrooms

Shiitake mushrooms are rich in lentinan, various vitamins, and minerals. Lentinan activates immune cells, enhances their activity, and enables them to better identify and eliminate pathogens, thereby improving the body's immunity. Meanwhile, other nutrients in shiitake mushrooms also help maintain normal organ function and indirectly support the immune system.

2. Spinach

Spinach contains abundant vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, folate, iron, and other nutrients. Vitamin A is essential for maintaining the integrity of respiratory and digestive tract mucosa, effectively blocking pathogen invasion; vitamins C and E are potent antioxidants that remove free radicals and reduce cellular damage.

3. Broccoli

Broccoli contains large amounts of vitamin C, vitamin K, dietary fiber, and special compounds like sulforaphane. Vitamin C promotes antibody synthesis, enhances white blood cell activity, and improves the body's anti-infective capabilities; sulforaphane has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, which can reduce chronic inflammatory responses, maintain normal immune system function, and thus enhance overall immunity.

4. Walnuts

Walnuts are rich in high-quality protein, unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E, zinc, and other nutrients. High-quality protein is a crucial building block for immune cells; unsaturated fatty acids help maintain cell membrane fluidity and integrity, ensuring normal immune cell function; vitamin E and zinc are important components of antioxidants and enzymes, which enhance immune cell activity and improve the body's resistance to pathogens.

5. Salmon

Salmon is rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, high-quality protein, and vitamin D. Omega-3 fatty acids have anti-inflammatory effects, reducing inflammation and preventing damage to the immune system; high-quality protein provides the building materials for constructing and repairing immune cells; vitamin D promotes calcium absorption and also participates in immune system regulation, enhancing immune cell activity and helping to improve immunity.

II. Medications

1. Zhenqi Fuzheng Granules

Zhenqi Fuzheng Granules consist of Ligustrum lucidum and Astragalus membranaceus. Ligustrum lucidum nourishes the liver and kidneys, while Astragalus membranaceus invigorates qi and strengthens the body's defenses. This medication enhances human immune function, protects bone marrow and adrenal cortical functions, promotes the recovery of normal body functions, enhances the body's defense against harmful stimuli, and improves immunity.

2. Bailing Capsules

Bailing Capsules mainly contain fermented Cordyceps sinensis mycelium powder, which regulates immune function, enhances the activity of T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes, promotes antibody production, improves humoral and cellular immunity. Additionally, it has antioxidant and anti-fatigue effects, helping maintain overall health and enhancing immunity.

3. Thymopeptide Enteric-coated Tablets

Thymopeptide Enteric-coated Tablets mainly contain biologically active peptides extracted from healthy calf thymus, which promote T lymphocyte maturation, enhance T cell response to antigens or other stimuli, regulate and enhance human cellular immune function, thereby improving the body's ability to resist diseases.

4. Splenopentin Oral Lyophilized Powder

Splenopentin Oral Lyophilized Powder is a mixture of peptides, amino acids, and nucleotides extracted from fresh pig spleen. It can trigger enhanced cellular immune function, promote immune balance, regulate immune cell activity, enhance the immune response to pathogens, and thus improve immunity.

5. Yupingfeng Granules

Yupingfeng Granules consist of three traditional Chinese herbs: Astragalus membranaceus, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Saposhnikovia divaricata. Astragalus membranaceus invigorates qi and strengthens the body's defenses; Atractylodes macrocephala fortifies the spleen and enhances qi; Saposhnikovia divaricata dispels wind and resolves exterior syndromes, assisting Astragalus in strengthening the body's defenses. Together, they reinforce qi, strengthen the body's defenses, stop sweating, enhance immunity, and prevent diseases like the common cold.

In daily life, to maintain and enhance immunity, it is important to ensure adequate sleep, during which the body undergoes self-repair and regulation, aiding the normal functioning of the immune system; at the same time, regular moderate exercise is necessary, as it promotes blood circulation and enhances immune cell activity.

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