How to regulate spleen and stomach cold and dampness, Chinese medicine teaches you diet regulation

The spleen and stomach play a very important role in the human body. The spleen and stomach are the most important organs for the human body to transport food and transform qi and blood. If there is a problem with the spleen and stomach, problems such as indigestion and lack of qi and blood may easily occur. How can we regulate the spleen and stomach if we have cold and dampness?

1: Suitable foods are warm in nature, sweet and spicy in taste, and have the effects of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, warming the stomach and intestines, and dispelling cold, such as indica rice, mutton, chicken, beef tripe, pork tripe, chain fish, grass carp, lychee, chili, leek, fennel, mustard greens, cinnamon, dried ginger, fresh ginger, Sichuan pepper, pepper, cumin, white cardamom, brown sugar, etc.

2: Avoid eating foods that are cold in nature and can easily damage the yang energy of the spleen and stomach, such as buckwheat, oats, mung beans, tofu, spinach, water spinach, eggplant, black fungus, day lily, lettuce, winter melon, celery, amaranth, wild rice stem, cucumber, bitter melon, watermelon, persimmon, banana, loquat, pear, peach, kiwi, water shield, clam meat, Ophiopogon japonicus, snail, crab, water chestnut, and melon.

3: In addition, people with cold stomach pain should avoid eating mung beans, dried persimmons, raw tomatoes, bamboo shoots, gourds, raw melons, kelp, raw lettuce, raw radishes, raw lotus roots, raw cucumbers, raw sweet potatoes, honeysuckle, chrysanthemums, mint, duck eggs, clams, water spinach, Houttuynia cordata, ground ear, tofu, amaranth, cold tea and various cold drinks and iced foods. Cold foods will aggravate the pain caused by spleen and stomach deficiency.

4: The treatment principle is to warm the middle and strengthen the spleen. The representative prescription is Lizhong Decoction. However, in many books on traditional Chinese medicine, people often refer to the Xiao Jianzhong Decoction syndrome, Lizhong Decoction syndrome, Xiangsha Liujunzi Decoction syndrome, and Xiangsha Yangwei Pills syndrome as spleen and stomach deficiency-cold (middle-jiao deficiency-cold) syndrome. Although the symptoms of these four prescriptions are similar, they all show that the stomach pain responds to warmth and pressure, or the pain is more severe when hungry and is temporarily relieved after eating. Common symptoms include loss of appetite, fatigue, thin white tongue coating, and weak pulse. However, within the "great unity", there are small differences that are easily overlooked.

1: Ingredients for red bean and crucian carp soup: 1 crucian carp, 150 grams of red beans, 1 piece of ginger, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 coriander, and appropriate amounts of salt, black pepper, cooking wine, and cooking oil. Method: Wash the adzuki beans and soak them the night before. After slaughtering and cleaning the crucian carp, apply a little salt and cooking wine on the fish and marinate it. Slice the ginger for later use. Turn on a low heat, put a little vegetable oil in a frying pan, sprinkle with salt and ginger slices and cook until fragrant (sprinkle a little salt so that it will not stick to the fish skin). Put in the crucian carp and fry until both sides are golden brown. During this period, add garlic cloves and fry together. While frying the fish, put the adzuki beans in a casserole, bring to a boil over high heat, put the fried crucian carp into the boiling adzuki bean water, and continue to boil over high heat. Turn to low heat and simmer for more than 40 minutes (do not turn the crucian carp over during stewing, as the tender fish meat is easy to fall apart), sprinkle with black pepper, and finally sprinkle with a little salt to taste and serve. Garnish the fish with coriander and serve. Efficacy: It helps to expel dampness accumulated in the body and prevent a series of symptoms caused by dampness, such as poor spleen and stomach function, loss of appetite, indigestion, etc.

2: Ingredients for barley and white pepper pork tripe soup: 1 pork tripe, a little bean curd, 50 grams of barley, 3 dried dates, a little salt, ginger, white pepper, cooking oil and cooking wine. Method: Cut the pork tripe into strips, slice the ginger, soak the coix seed and red dates in water for a while, use a knife to cut two cuts on the red dates and set aside, cut the bean curd into sections and set aside; take a pot and put in clean water, add ginger and pork tripe, and add a small amount of cooking wine, cook over high heat for 3-4 minutes, then remove and pour out the water; put the pork tripe, red dates, coix seed, bean curd, etc. into the pot together, add white peppercorns, you can add more, add enough water to cover the ingredients, boil over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for about an hour, then it is ready to eat. Efficacy: Job's tears strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness, warm the stomach, and benefit qi and blood. It is perfect with pork tripe.

As the most important organ for the generation of qi and blood, diet therapy is also indispensable for patients with spleen and stomach diseases. However, the diet must be selected according to the patient's usual constitution and condition, which is the so-called "differential diet therapy".