Nowadays, people’s life and work are under great pressure. Therefore, many people ignore the condition of their stomach, resulting in stomach discomfort, such as stomach cold. So what should you eat to nourish your stomach if you have a cold stomach? Let’s take a look at what to eat to nourish your stomach if your stomach is cold

1. Galangal porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams of galangal powder, 100 grams of rice gram.

Preparation: First put the galangal powder into a porridge pot, add 2000 ml of water, fry over medium heat until it reaches 1500 ml, remove the galangal residue, then add the washed rice and cook over a slow fire to make porridge. Serve warm.

Efficacy: This porridge can warm the stomach, promote qi, dispel cold and relieve pain. It is suitable for stomach pain caused by spleen and stomach deficiency or feeling of wind and cold.

Note: This porridge should not be served cold.

2. Red dates stuffed with white pepper

Ingredients: 5 red dates, 10 white peppercorns.

Preparation: First wash and remove the cores of the red dates, and slightly crack the white pepper. Then put 2 white peppercorns into each pitted red date. When the rice is cooked, put it on the rice and steam it before eating.

Efficacy: Warming and nourishing the spleen, warming the stomach and relieving pain. Suitable for cold stomachache.

3. Ginger Beef Rice

Ingredients: 75 grams of fresh beef, appropriate amount of ginger juice, 120 grams of rice, appropriate amount of sugar and wine.

Preparation: First wash the tender beef and chop it into minced meat, add ginger juice, wine, salt, sugar and oil to marinate it. Then, wash the rice and cook it. When the water is almost dry, add the marinated beef and bake it over a slow fire until it is thoroughly cooked.

Function: Nourishing and warming, dispelling cold and awakening the stomach. It is suitable for patients with stomach pain due to spleen and stomach deficiency and insufficient Qi.

4. Stewed Beef Mooncake with Cinnamon Amomum Semen

Ingredients: 3 grams of cinnamon, 6 grams of amomum villosum, 3 grams of tangerine peel, 250 grams of fresh beef mooncake, and 3 slices of ginger.

Preparation: First, scrape off the coarse skin of cinnamon, crush amomum villosum, and wash tangerine peel and ginger. Wash and cut the ox yuezhan into pieces, rinse with running water to remove the odor. Then put all the ingredients into a stew pot, add an appropriate amount of cold boiling water, simmer for 2 hours, season and eat.

Efficacy: Warming, dispersing cold, promoting qi and relieving pain.

Note: This stew is not suitable for people with stomachache caused by dampness and heat.

5. Pepper mutton soup

Ingredients: 150 grams of mutton, 10 grams of pepper, 6 grams of tangerine peel, and 15 grams of ginger.

Preparation: First wash and cut the mutton into pieces, then stir-fry until fragrant. Then wash the pepper, tangerine peel and ginger, put them into the pot together with the mutton, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, simmer over low heat for 1 to 2 hours, season and eat.

Efficacy: Warming the middle and supporting yang, dispersing cold and relieving pain. It is suitable for patients with stomach pain due to spleen and stomach deficiency.

Note: People with yin deficiency and heat should not drink this soup.

6. Old ginger tea

Ingredients: 6 grams of black tea, 10 grams of old ginger, appropriate amount of honey.

Preparation: Add black tea leaves and old ginger to water and make tea. When warm, add honey and drink.

Efficacy: Warming the body, dispersing cold, strengthening the stomach and digesting food. It is suitable for stomachache caused by cold evil.

Note: It is not suitable for people with damp-heat stomachache.