What can you eat to nourish and protect your stomach?
1, yam
As the weather turns cold, some people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold often have symptoms such as eating less, abdominal distension, loose stool, and limb fatigue. Drinking yam porridge often can effectively relieve stomach discomfort.
2. Sweet potato
Flat in nature, sweet in taste, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi. It is recorded in the Outline that "tonify the middle energizer, warm the stomach and fatten the five internal organs." When the weather is cold, it can nourish the stomach with healthy qi, promote digestion and eliminate accumulation, and also clear the intestines and lose weight.
Step 3: cabbage
Has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, relieving pain, removing toxic materials, relieving swelling, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and can be used for treating chest distress, thirst, sore throat, dysuria, hearing loss, poor sleep, arthralgia and abdominal pain caused by internal heat. Vitamin C and other ingredients contained in it can relieve pain and promote ulcer healing. Stewed Coicis Semen, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and honey with Chinese cabbage can cure epigastric pain, fullness in epigastric cavity, gastric and duodenal ulcer, while stewed adzuki bean, wax gourd and crystal sugar can reduce swelling and induce diuresis. People with thin stools and weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.
4. Spinach
Sweet and cool, it can moisten dryness, nourish liver, benefit stomach and relax bowels. Materia Medica for Dietotherapy says, "Benefiting the five internal organs, clearing the stomach and relieving hangover." Spinach can promote the secretion of stomach and pancreas, increase appetite and help digestion; Rich cellulose can also help intestinal peristalsis and facilitate defecation. However, the high content of oxalic acid in spinach hinders the absorption of calcium. Avoid eating with high calcium foods such as tofu and laver, or lightly marinate before cooking to remove oxalic acid.
5. Longan
Li Shizhen once said, "Litchi is beautiful for food, and longan is good for nourishing". Unlike litchi, which belongs to damp heat, longan can be used as medicine, which has many functions such as strengthening yang and benefiting qi, warming stomach and strengthening spleen.
6.carrots
It is sweet in taste and flat in nature. Chinese medicine believes that it "purges qi, tonifies the middle energizer, benefits the spleen and diaphragm, moistens the stomach and intestines, smoothes the five internal organs, and has the effect of food tonic". 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.
7.pumpkin
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Pumpkin is warm, sweet and enters the spleen and stomach meridians", which can tonify the middle temperature, 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 * * * and reduce ulcers. Pumpkins can be used to cook porridge or soup to nourish the stomach.
Four principles of nourishing and protecting stomach
1, fresh and elegant
Food must be fresh, don't eat expired or stored for too long. Cooking food should be light, do not eat greasy and heavy-flavored food, and avoid spicy food.
2. Warm and clean
The temperature of food should be warm and appropriate. Don't eat or drink cold food. Although the weather is very cold, you shouldn't eat hot food. The ingredients must be cleaned, and the cooking food should also be clean.
Step 3 be gentle and slow
Choose food that is easy to digest, cook it thoroughly, make it soft and easy to digest, and eat less roasted, roasted and hard food, so as not to cause adverse effects on gastric mucosa and increase gastrointestinal burden. Eat slowly, chew slowly to help digestion, and don't wolf it down.
4. Less but better
Eat less every meal, just seven or eight points full, and avoid overeating. The variety and cooking of food should be fine and easy to digest, while rough food containing crude fiber is not easy to digest, and it may also cause stomach pain and fullness due to gastric mucosa.
Nourishing the liver and protecting the stomach: nine kinds of medicated diets
First, the perfect combination of tremella, lily and banana, which is both nourishing and protecting the liver.
Tremella enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians, which can improve the detoxification ability of the liver and protect the liver. Also known as the "crown of bacteria", it is rich in natural plant gum, which can nourish yin and moisten skin for a long time and has the effect of removing chloasma and freckles on the face. Acid polysaccharide, the effective component of tremella fuciformis, can enhance human immunity. Rich dietary fiber can promote intestinal peristalsis, reduce the absorption of fat, and play a role in reducing weight and relaxing bowels.
Practice: soak tremella for about 20 grams first, then wash it and steam it in a pot for about 30 minutes;
100g fresh lily, pedicled and washed, peeled and sliced 2 bananas; Put the above materials into a stew pot, add Lycium barbarum, crystal sugar and water, and steam for 30 minutes.
Comments: Tremella lily banana soup is rich in protein, sugar, potassium, phosphorus, calcium and vitamins. Lycium barbarum, combined with tonifying kidney, has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening lung, caring skin and promoting fluid production.
Special reminder: this dish is very helpful for elderly patients with respiratory diseases such as bronchitis, pneumonia, emphysema and tuberculosis, but don't eat tremella when phlegm is sticky and difficult to cough.
Second, the yam glutinous rice porridge dampness tonic spleen and stomach.
Spring is the most vigorous season of liver fire, which is easy to cause spleen and stomach weakness. Once spleen deficiency, it may also cause digestive dysfunction, manifested as diarrhea and other symptoms.
Therefore, we should pay attention to strengthening the spleen when nourishing the liver. Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. Blindly nourishing the spleen and stomach is a dual-purpose product of medicine and food. Clinically, it is often used to treat spleen and stomach weakness, anorexia, fatigue, diarrhea and other diseases.
Practice: cook yam, coix seed, lotus seed, jujube and millet, and add a little sugar when porridge is cooked.
Comments: There is plenty of rain in spring, and the moisture in the human body is aggravated. Coix seed is beneficial to the discharge of moisture in human body, promotes the metabolism of blood and water in the body, and can help defecation. Both yam and coix seed have whitening effect, and ladies who love beauty may wish to eat them often.
Special reminder: yam should be boiled for 15-20 minutes to avoid destroying amylase. When cooking, you should enlarge the wheat before putting the yam. In addition, this porridge is contraindicated for diabetics and people with dry stools.
Third, mulberry porridge
Mulberry 30g * * Fresh mulberry 60g * *, glutinous rice 60g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash the mulberry, cook it with glutinous rice, and add rock sugar when it is cooked. The porridge has the effects of nourishing liver yin, nourishing blood and improving eyesight. It is suitable for dizziness, insomnia, dreaminess, tinnitus, backache, premature gray hair, etc. caused by liver and kidney deficiency.
Four, yam lentil carp soup
30g of white lentils, 40g of yam, 3g of dried ginger or ginger 1 5g, carp1strip, about 500g * * *. First, cut the carp open, remove scales, gills and viscera, wash it, add appropriate amount of water, cook it with the first three herbs 1 hour, and add appropriate amount of refined salt and Shaoxing wine for seasoning. It has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach and eliminating dampness.
Five, Poria porridge
Poria cocos 15g, japonica rice 200g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash Poria cocos and japonica rice, put them into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water, bring them to a boil with high fire, then cook them with low fire until the porridge is cooked and rotten, and add rock sugar to cook them slightly. It has the effect of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis.
Six, Pseudostellaria heterophylla jujube Chenpi tea
Pseudostellaria heterophylla 15g, 5 jujubes and 3g dried tangerine peel. Wash Radix Pseudostellariae and Fructus Jujubae, put them together with Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil soup, remove residues and take juice to make tea. The effect of regulating qi and stomach.
Seven, pork tripe Baizhu decoction
Pork tripe 1, atractylodes macrocephala 60g, stewed ginger 45g, pepper 15g, and proper amount of refined salt. Wash pork belly, remove oil, blanch in boiling water, remove water and dry for later use. Put Atractylodes macrocephala, stewed ginger and pepper into the pig's belly, sew the pig's belly, make a hole outside the pig's belly, add clean water, boil it over high fire, cook it over low fire for 2 hours, and add refined salt to taste. Take out pork belly, cut into pieces, and eat pork belly with soup. It has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, and is especially suitable for patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
Eight, chrysanthemum porridge
Chrysanthemum 15g, japonica rice 100g. Wash the chrysanthemums and clean the japonica rice. Put chrysanthemum and japonica rice into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, cover the pot, boil over high fire, and simmer over low fire until porridge is served. The porridge has the effects of dispelling pathogenic wind, clearing heat, clearing liver and lowering blood pressure. Suitable for dizziness, headache, red eyes, swelling and pain, furuncle and toxic swelling, essential hypertension, etc.
Nine, plum porridge
Take 5 grams of Bai Meihua and 80 grams of japonica rice, first cook the japonica rice into porridge, then add Bai Meihua and cook for two or three minutes. You can eat a bowl for three or five days at a time. Plum blossoms are flat, which can soothe the liver and regulate qi and stimulate appetite. People with poor appetite have a good eating effect, while healthy people have more energy when eating. Recommendation of therapeutic prescription for nourishing stomach and protecting stomach