What are the prescriptions for warming the middle and dispersing cold?

In daily life, some people do not pay attention to developing good eating habits, especially in summer, eating too much raw and cold food will cause stomach cold. Once the weather is cold, various discomfort symptoms will appear. So what are the methods to warm the stomach and dispel the cold?

In your daily diet, you can eat more foods that warm the spleen and stomach, such as ginger, brown sugar, pepper, yam, chestnut, astragalus, codonopsis, and mutton. Considering the current cold season, drinking a bowl of stomach-warming hot soup is the best choice.

Stomach-warming food therapy

Ginger Brown Sugar Soup

Ingredients: 15 grams of ginger slices, appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Method: Wash and slice the ginger. Add appropriate amount of water into the pot, add ginger slices after the water boils. After the flavor of ginger seeps out, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and finally stir slightly until the brown sugar is completely dissolved in the water.

Efficacy: This product has the effects of replenishing qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, warming the middle and dispersing cold, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is especially suitable for people with "cold stomach" who have symptoms such as stomach pain, fear of cold, fever, nausea, vomiting, etc. after being attacked by cold wind in winter. But people with diabetes are advised to avoid drinking it.

Lamb stew with ginger and astragalus

Ingredients: 50 grams each of ginger and astragalus, 250 grams of mutton, and appropriate amount of salt.

Method: First cut the ginger, astragalus and mutton into pieces and wash them. After blanching the mutton, remove it from the water and skim off the foam. Add appropriate amount of cold water to another casserole, put in mutton, ginger slices and astragalus after the water boils, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours, and finally add appropriate amount of salt.

Efficacy: Eating mutton regularly can resist the cold, repair the gastric mucosa, and protect the stomach; Astragalus has the effects of beneficial qi, warming yang, and regulating the spleen and stomach. This product can be used to treat symptoms such as chills, nausea, and emaciation caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness.