What can you eat to nourish and protect your stomach?
1, yam
As the weather gets colder, some people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold often have symptoms such as eating less, abdominal distension, loose stool and limb burnout. 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 Compendium that it "tonifies the middle energizer, warms the stomach and fattens the five internal organs." Eating in cold weather, nourishing the stomach with healthy qi, dissolving food and removing food accumulation, can also clear the intestines and lose weight.
3. Cabbage
It has the effects of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, relieving pain, detoxicating and detumescence, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and can be used for treating chest distress, thirst, sore throat, dysuria, poor hearing, poor sleep, arthralgia and abdominal pain caused by internal heat. Vitamin C and other ingredients contained in it have the functions of relieving pain and promoting ulcer healing. Cabbage stewed with Coicis Semen, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and honey can be used to treat epigastric pain, epigastric fullness and gastric and duodenal ulcer, and stewed with adzuki bean, wax gourd and crystal sugar can reduce swelling and promote diuresis. People with loose stools and weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.
4. Spinach
Sweet and cool, it can moisten and nourish the liver, benefit the stomach and relieve constipation. "Dietotherapy Materia Medica" says that it "benefits the five internal organs, unblocks the stomach and detoxifies alcohol." 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, spinach has a high oxalic acid content, which hinders calcium absorption. It should be avoided to eat with foods with high calcium such as tofu and laver, or lightly marinate before cooking to remove oxalic acid.
5. Longan
Li Shizhen once said: "Litchi is beautiful in food, while longan is good for nourishing". Unlike litchi, which belongs to damp heat, longan can be used as medicine, and has many effects such as strengthening yang and benefiting qi, warming stomach and tonifying spleen.
6. Carrots
It is sweet and flat in nature, and Chinese medicine believes that it "purges qi, tonifies the middle energizer, benefits the spleen and diaphragm, moistens the stomach and intestines, calms the five internal organs and has the effect of nourishing food". Rich carotene can be converted into vitamin A, which can improve eyesight, strengthen resistance and prevent respiratory diseases. Carotene is fat-soluble, so it is most suitable to stew with meat and tastes better.
7. Pumpkin
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Pumpkin is warm, sweet, and enters the spleen and stomach meridian", which can tonify the middle warmer, invigorate 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. Pumpkin can be used to cook porridge or soup to nourish the stomach.
Four principles of nourishing and protecting stomach
1, fresh and light
Food must be fresh, and 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 and icy food. Although the weather is cold, you should not eat hot food. The ingredients must be cleaned, and attention should be paid to cleanliness when cooking food.
3. Soft and slow
Choose foods that are easy to digest, cook them thoroughly, make them soft and easy to digest, and eat less baked, grilled and hard foods, 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 minutes 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 medicated diets
First, the perfect combination of tremella, lily and banana not only keeps beauty but also protects liver.
When tremella enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians, it can improve the detoxification ability of the liver and protect the liver. It is also known as the "crown of bacteria" and is rich in natural plant gum, which can nourish yin and moisturize skin after long-term consumption, and has the effect of removing chloasma and freckles on the face. Acidic 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 losing weight and relaxing bowels.
Practice: First, soak about 20 grams of tremella, then wash it and steam it in a pot for about 30 minutes;
Fresh lily100g, pedicled and washed, peeled and sliced 2 bananas; Put the above ingredients in a stew, 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, which is matched with tonifying kidney and toning, has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening lung, beautifying face 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 up.
Second, yam glutinous rice porridge to eliminate dampness and replenish spleen and stomach
Spring is the most vigorous season of liver fire, which is easy to cause spleen and stomach weakness. Once spleen deficiency occurs, 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. It is a dual-purpose product of medicine and food that blindly tonifies the spleen and stomach. 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 the porridge is cooked.
Comments: There is abundant rain in spring, and the moisture in the human body is aggravated. Coix seed is beneficial to the discharge of moisture in the human body, promotes the metabolism of blood and water in the body, and can help defecation. Both yam and coix seed have whitening effects, and ladies who love beauty may wish to eat them often.
Special reminder: it is advisable to cook yam for 15-20 minutes, so as not to destroy the amylase in it. When making it, put coix seed first and then yam. In addition, people with diabetes and dry stools in this porridge are forbidden.
Third, mulberry porridge
Mulberry 30g * * * Fresh mulberry 60g * *, glutinous rice 60g, and proper amount of rock sugar. Wash the mulberry, cook it with glutinous rice, and add rock sugar when it is cooked. The porridge can nourish liver yin, nourish blood and improve eyesight. It is suitable for dizziness, insomnia, dreaminess, tinnitus, backache, premature gray hair and so on caused by deficiency of liver and kidney.
Four, yam lentil carp soup
30 grams of white lentils, 40 grams of yam, 3 grams of dried ginger or ginger 15 grams of * * *, carp 1 * * about 500 grams of * * *. First, cut open the carp, remove scales, gills and viscera, wash it, add appropriate amount of water, cook it with the first three herbs for 1 hour, and add appropriate amount of refined salt and Shaoxing wine to taste. It has the effect of invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach and eliminating dampness.
Five, Poria porridge
Poria cocos15g, japonica rice 200g, and proper amount of rock sugar. Wash Poria cocos and japonica rice, put them together in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high fire, then cook over low fire until the porridge is cooked and rice is rotten, and add rock sugar to cook it slightly. It has the effect of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis.
Six, Pseudostellaria heterophylla jujube Chenpi tea
Pseudostellaria heterophylla15g, 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, decoct the soup, remove the residue and take the juice for tea. The efficacy of regulating qi and stomach.
Seven, pork tripe Baizhu decoction
Pork tripe 1 utensil, 60g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 45g of stewed ginger, 0g of pepper15g, and proper amount of refined salt. Wash the pork belly, degrease it, blanch it in boiling water, remove the water, and dry it for later use. Put Atractylodes macrocephala, stewed ginger and pepper into the pig's belly, sew the pig's belly, puncture the hole outside the pig's belly, add clean water, boil over high fire, cook over low fire for 2 hours, and add refined salt to taste. Take out the pork belly, cut into pieces, and eat the pork belly with soup. It has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, and is especially suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
Eight, chrysanthemum porridge
Chrysanthemum15g, japonica rice100g. Wash the chrysanthemums and wash the japonica rice. Put chrysanthemum and japonica rice in the pot, add appropriate amount of water, cover, boil over high heat, and simmer until porridge is formed. The porridge has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, clearing away liver fire and lowering blood pressure. It is suitable for dizziness, headache, conjunctival congestion, furuncle and toxic swelling, essential hypertension, etc.
Nine, plum porridge
Take 5 grams of Bai Meihua and 80 grams of japonica rice, first boil the japonica rice into porridge, then add Bai Meihua and boil 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 loss of appetite have a good eating effect, while healthy people have more energy when eating. Recommended therapeutic prescription for nourishing stomach and protecting stomach