What foods are good for patients with stomach heat and spleen deficiency?

People with stomach heat and spleen deficiency have poor digestion and should pay more attention to their diet. Stomach heat means stomach inflammation, you can eat some cool foods appropriately. Avoid eating fried, spicy or other foods that may cause inflammation, so as not to aggravate the condition. So, what food is good for patients with stomach heat and spleen deficiency?

1. Mung bean porridge

According to ancient books, mung beans are sweet and cold in nature, enter the heart and stomach meridians, reduce swelling, relieve gas, suppress heat and detoxify. In the scorching summer, people like to cook a pot of mung bean porridge in the evening and eat it after it cools down. It is refreshing and makes people feel much more comfortable even in the dog days of summer. If you feel that your stomach is getting hot, you might as well make yourself a bowl of sweet, cool and delicious mung bean porridge. The upgraded versions of mung bean porridge include mung bean lotus leaf porridge, mung bean and barley porridge, etc., which are all cold foods and are very helpful in reducing stomach fire.

2. Tomatoes

Tomatoes are sweet and sour in taste, slightly cold in nature, and enter the liver, stomach, and lung meridians. Tomatoes have two different therapeutic effects when eaten raw or cooked. Raw tomatoes contain a large amount of vitamin C, which has the effects of promoting salivation and quenching thirst, strengthening the stomach and digestion, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and increasing appetite. Eating tomatoes raw can serve as a dietary supplement for stomach heat, thirst, and loss of appetite.

3. Dendrobium

Dendrobium is cold in nature, sweet, light and slightly salty in taste, and enters the stomach, kidney, and lung meridians. It has the effects of benefiting the stomach, promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and clearing away heat. It is good at treating symptoms of stomach yin deficiency combined with internal heat, such as red tongue and dry mouth, mouth sores, swollen and painful gums, etc. However, Dendrobium is cold in nature and can easily cause greasy sensation and upset the stomach, so it is not suitable for long-term and large-scale consumption. It is usually appropriate to take it once a week, 10 to 15 grams each time.

4. Tofu

Tofu is rich in nutrients and is known as "plant meat". Tofu tastes sweet and slightly cold, and can nourish the spleen and stomach, clear away heat and moisten dryness, promote urination, and relieve heat and toxins. It can treat symptoms such as stomach heat, sore throat and hoarseness.

5. White radish

Chinese medicine, which has long been popular in my country, has long pointed out that drinking white radish juice can relieve stomach fire, but it should be noted that it is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. Therefore, if you want to relieve stomach heat by drinking white radish juice, please consult a doctor first to understand your spleen and stomach type. If you don’t like raw radish juice, you can also drink it after boiling white radish soup.

6. Watermelon

In addition to eating more watermelons in the summer and eating the watermelon rind with the red flesh and green skin removed as a vegetable, people with excessive stomach fire can also reduce stomach fire by eating watermelon in the midwinter season. Use a juicer to squeeze out 150 ml of watermelon juice, 80 ml of pear juice, and 50 ml of cabbage juice, mix them and drink them cold.

7. Sugarcane

Sugarcane juice is rich in water as well as sugar, organic acid, calcium, iron and other nutrients. At the same time, it tastes sweet and cool in nature, and is quite effective in relieving lung heat and gastrointestinal heat. If you feel that your stomach is burning, try a piece of juicy sugarcane. If you find it troublesome, you can also use a juicer to squeeze the juice. Drinking one cup a day can effectively relieve stomach heat symptoms.

8. Grapefruit

The citral component in grapefruit can effectively reduce the rate of gastric acid secretion and reduce the occurrence of stomach heat. Generally speaking, if you eat 3 or 4 grapefruit slices every morning, you will have fresh breath all day long!

9. Tremella

White fungus has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the brain. For diabetic patients with lung yin deficiency, whose main clinical manifestations are stomach heat, dry throat, dry stool and other symptoms, it is more suitable to eat more white fungus to moisten the lungs and replenish qi, nourish yin and nourish the kidneys.

10. Plum

For people with stomach heat and no appetite, eating some plums or drinking a glass of plum juice can help clear stomach heat, stimulate the appetite and increase appetite. The anthocyanin contained in plums is a strong antioxidant that helps enhance the body's immunity. Eat no more than 4 per day. Excessive consumption can easily cause stomach pain. People with weak spleen and stomach should eat less.

11. Stewed Pears with Rock Sugar

Usually when we have a cough and phlegm, we will make a bowl of pear stewed with rock sugar. But what everyone doesn’t know is that pears stewed with rock sugar also have the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs and nourishing the stomach and promoting salivation. It should be noted that you should not use pears stewed with rock sugar that have just been stewed or are still hot. Foods with too much heat will aggravate the symptoms of stomach fire. Take the bowl of snow-white pear stewed with rock sugar out of the pot, let it cool down, and then slowly enjoy it.