Pumpkin: detoxification and stomach protection
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Pumpkin is warm, sweet, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians", which can tonify the middle warmer, replenish qi, diminish inflammation, sterilize and relieve pain. Its rich pectin can "adsorb" bacteria and toxic substances, including heavy metals and lead, and play a detoxification role. At the same time, pectin can protect the stomach from irritation and reduce ulcers. Cooking porridge or soup with pumpkin is especially nourishing the stomach.
Carrots: Enhance resistance.
Carrots are sweet, and Chinese medicine believes that they can "lower qi, tonify the middle energizer, benefit the spleen and diaphragm, moisten the stomach, secure the five internal organs, and have the effect of food supplement". Rich carotene can be converted into vitamin A, which can improve eyesight, enhance resistance and prevent respiratory diseases. Carotene is fat-soluble, which is most suitable for stewing with meat and has a better taste.
Cabbage: a natural stomach-nourishing dish
Chinese cabbage is one of the best vegetables recommended by the World Health Organization, and it is also known as a natural "stomach-nourishing dish". Vitamin K 1 and its vitamin U can not only resist gastric ulcer, protect and repair gastric mucosa, but also keep gastric cells active and vigorous, and reduce the chance of pathological changes. People with gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer can drink chinese cabbage juice every day or mix it with honey to promote ulcer healing.
Spinach: nourishing blood and relaxing bowels
Spinach is sweet and cool, which can moisten dryness, nourish liver, benefit stomach and relieve constipation. "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" records: "Spinach benefits the five internal organs, clears the stomach and relieves alcoholism." Spinach can promote the secretion of stomach and pancreas, increase appetite, help digestion, is rich in cellulose, and can also help intestinal peristalsis and facilitate defecation.
Sweet potato: nourishing stomach and removing accumulation
Sweet potato is flat in nature and sweet in taste, which can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, nourish the stomach, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, remove food accumulation, clear the intestines and lose weight. However, sweet potato has a high starch content, which will be converted into glucose after eating, so it is not suitable for diabetic patients.