If you have patients with stomach problems, you should pay attention to strengthening nursing in diet. Some commonly used foods with stomach nourishing effects, including millet porridge or rice porridge, yam, lotus seeds, sour milk and eight-treasure porridge, have a good stomach nourishing effect. In addition, pumpkin also has a good stomach nourishing effect, which can adjust the function of gastrointestinal tract and protect gastric mucosa from gastric acid. Yogurt can adjust the intestinal flora and promote the growth of probiotics, and has a certain conditioning effect on indigestion or diarrhea or symptoms accompanied by nausea and vomiting. In addition, patients with stomach diseases should pay attention to light and soft food and digestible food, try to eat less cold food and avoid irritating food.
Sweet potato "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that sweet potato has the effects of "tonifying deficiency, invigorating qi and strengthening spleen and stomach", which makes people "live longer and have fewer diseases". Modern medical research shows that sweet potato contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can help stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and secretion of digestive juice and protect the stomach. In addition, sweet potato also contains a lot of carotene, which is good for children and the elderly, and is also rich in nutrients such as potassium, iron and vitamin B6.
Xiaomi Xiaomi nourishes the stomach is a well-known thing, and many people with bad stomachs like to drink millet porridge. Millet tastes sweet and flat, and enters the kidney, spleen and stomach meridians. In Compendium of Materia Medica, there is also a record that Xiaomi "treats nausea and heat dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits Dantian, supplements deficiency and opens the stomach". Yam is flat and sweet, and enters the lung, spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. The leveling effect of yam has been recorded in ancient books of past dynasties. As mentioned in Compendium of Materia Medica, yam is beneficial to kidney qi and spleen and stomach. From the perspective of modern nutrition, yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which can promote digestion and improve gastrointestinal function.