Can I eat wolfberry if I have a weak spleen and stomach?

Spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness are closely related to the patient's diet. Therefore, for patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness, they should not only use Chinese medicine to slowly regulate their bodies, but also control their diet to a certain extent and try to eat less raw, cold and irritating foods, because these foods are the root cause of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness. Wolfberry is a traditional Chinese medicine that can obviously nourish the human body, but can people with spleen and stomach deficiency eat wolfberry?

Can I eat wolfberry if I have a weak spleen and stomach?

People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat wolfberry.

Spleen and stomach deficiency and cold actually refer separately to spleen yang deficiency and stomach yang deficiency, the two often occur at the same time. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold have damaged spleen and stomach yang due to diet, excessive fatigue and other reasons, so they prefer warm food to cold food. Because they often have diarrhea symptoms, they are not suitable for foods that can moisten the stomach and intestines. Lycium barbarum is not only slightly cold in nature and clears away heat, which will aggravate the symptoms of spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, but also can moisten the stomach and intestines, causing diarrhea or aggravating diarrhea in people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat wolfberry.

Who is best suited to eating wolfberry?

Lycium barbarum is slightly cold in nature and can replenish the yin of the liver and kidneys. It is a good tonic for people with yin deficiency, such as liver yin deficiency, kidney yin deficiency, etc. Therefore, wolfberry is suitable for people with yin deficiency, especially liver and kidney yin deficiency.

What kind of food is suitable for spleen and stomach deficiency

People with weak spleen and stomach prefer warmth rather than coldness, so they are suitable for eating foods that are warm in nature, sweet and spicy in taste, and have the effects of strengthening the spleen and qi, and warming the stomach and intestines, such as glutinous rice, mutton, chicken, beef tripe, pork tripe, leek, fennel, cinnamon, dried ginger, and pepper.

Dietary regulation for spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness

Clove, Cinnamon and Brown Sugar Drink

Ingredients: appropriate amounts of cloves, cinnamon and brown sugar.

Method: Soak cloves and cinnamon in warm water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 20 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice, season with brown sugar, take 5 to 10 ml each time, 3 times a day.

Efficacy: Cloves and cinnamon are both warm foods. Cloves warm the spleen and stomach; cinnamon replenishes the original yang, warms the spleen and stomach and eliminates accumulated cold. Both can be used for many symptoms of spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, such as diarrhea, abdominal distension and pain, etc.

Galangal Porridge

Ingredients: appropriate amount of galangal, 200 grams of japonica rice, appropriate amount of sesame oil and salt.

Preparation method: Wash and slice the galangal, put it into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and boil the juice; then boil the juice and rice in the same pot, add sesame oil and salt, and cook the porridge over low heat. When it is cooked, eat it on an empty stomach while it is hot; take it once a day for 3 to 7 days.

Efficacy: Alpinia officinalis warms the stomach and stops vomiting, dispels cold and relieves pain. It is suitable for abdominal pain symptoms caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.