If you have a cold stomach, an old Chinese doctor will give you some tips to relieve it quickly!

It is easy to have bloating, diarrhea, or even nausea after eating, which are often signs of cold stomach. Stomach cold refers to the stomach being invaded by cold evil or eating cold food, which leads to deficiency of stomach yang qi. So how should people with cold stomach regulate their body?

Stomach cold refers to the deficiency of spleen and stomach yang qi. Bad eating habits can easily lead to stomach cold, such as irregular diet and preference for eating raw and cold food.

4 reasons for stomach cold

1. Spirit

The continuous improvement of productivity has led to a faster pace of life, which has made modern people more and more nervous, which can easily aggravate the condition of cold stomach.

2. Weather

Generally speaking, patients with stomach cold are mostly afraid of cold, and often experience abdominal pain or stomach pain when the weather gets cold.

3. Diet

Most of these patients like to eat raw and cold food or drink raw water directly, which can easily lead to irritation of the gastric mucosa.

4. Habits

If you do not have good eating habits, or like to eat alternating hot and cold meals, or go hungry one meal and full the next, this will lead to a cold stomach in the long run.

What are the symptoms of stomach cold?

The clinical symptoms of this disease are mainly: stomach pain after the weather turns cold and eating raw or cold food, accompanied by a cold stomach, which can be effectively relieved if covered with warm objects. This is also the reason why many patients with stomach problems dare not eat raw or cold food. In addition, when the weather gets cold, patients may also experience stomach pain, diarrhea, etc.

Stomach cold is a term in traditional Chinese medicine. Let’s take a look at traditional Chinese medicine’s interpretation of stomach cold.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are two main types of cold stomach: one is stomach deficiency and cold, and the other is stomach excess and cold. The symptoms caused by these two conditions are different, so they must be treated differently.

1. Cold stomach

This symptom is mainly manifested as severe stomach pain, which is aggravated by cold food, and is also accompanied by nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, etc. If you want to treat this disease, warming the stomach, dispelling cold and relieving pain is the best choice, and Houpu Wenzhong Decoction is a good choice.

2. Stomach coldness

This symptom is mainly manifested as cold pain in the stomach, which is intermittent but not noticeable to the immune system. It can be well relieved after eating warm food. The patient also feels tired and weak all over, and has cold limbs, etc. If you want to treat this condition, the best way is to nourish the middle and strengthen the stomach. Lizhong Decoction is a good choice.

Chinese medicine practitioners teach you how to regulate your diet: prescriptions for treating stomach cold

1. Cornus officinalis sand tea

Prepare the radix atractylodes, amomum villosum, ginger, codonopsis pilosula, pinellia ternata and jujube, wash them, put them in a pot and boil them in water. Taking one dose a day will be very effective.

2. Cinnamon and brown sugar drink

Wash the cinnamon bark and put it in a pot and boil it with water. After removing the residue, add brown sugar and stir evenly before serving. This traditional Chinese medicine prescription has a good effect of warming and nourishing the stomach, and can effectively treat diseases of cold stomach.

3. Pork belly and ginger

Prepare the pig's stomach and old ginger, then wash them; put the old ginger into the pig's stomach, then put it into the pot and stew it. Eat it in three or four times.

4. Fennel and orange seed powder

Prepare fennel and orange seeds, then fry them in a pan; grind them into powder and stir evenly after meals; take them with boiled water every time you have stomachache or before meals in the morning and evening, which can effectively relieve stomachache.

5. White wine fried eggs

Put high-concentration white wine in a bowl, then break an egg and put it in the bowl; then light the white wine, and when it dries up, the egg will be cooked. Eat it once every morning on an empty stomach.

6. Ginger Drink

Prepare fennel, dried ginger, costus root and licorice, wash them, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water and boil them, take one dose every day.

7. Pepper and Red Dates Tea

Add white pepper to pitted jujubes, then steam them in a pot, mash them and make them into pills; take about 10 pills a day, which has a good effect of warming the stomach and is very effective in treating stomach cold.