Why do I have diarrhea after eating greasy food?

Why do I get diarrhea after eating greasy food? There are many such people in our lives. If they are not careful about their diet and eat greasy food, they will have diarrhea, and the diarrhea will be particularly severe. In fact, if we analyze it from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the main reason for this situation is that your spleen and stomach are too weak. If the spleen and stomach are too weak, greasy food will not be digested, which will cause diarrhea. If you want to solve this problem, you must first pay attention to your diet.

How should people with spleen deficiency choose food?

Suitable foods include foods that nourish the spleen and replenish qi, wake up the spleen and stimulate the appetite and help digestion, such as polished japonica rice, indica rice, crispy rice (scorched pot), coix seed, cooked lotus root, chestnut, yam, lentil, cowpea, grape, red dates, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, etc.

Avoid eating foods that are cold in nature and can easily damage the spleen, such as bitter melon, cucumber, winter melon, eggplant, water spinach, celery, amaranth, wild rice stem, lettuce, day lily, persimmon, banana, loquat, pear, watermelon, mung bean, tofu, and oatmeal. Among them, foods that are thick and greasy in taste can easily hinder the spleen's function of transporting and transforming, such as duck meat, pork, turtle meat, oyster meat, milk, sesame, etc. Foods that can promote the flow of Qi and eliminate accumulation and easily damage the spleen, such as buckwheat; hawthorn, radish, coriander, etc.

Jujubes are warm in nature, sweet in taste, and have the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, and replenishing qi and blood. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, there was a record in "Shennong Bencao Jing" that "jujubes can calm the stomach and nourish the spleen." Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty said, "Dates are the fruit of the spleen and are suitable for people with spleen diseases." People with spleen deficiency, loose stools, weak stomach, poor appetite, and insufficient qi and blood should eat dates regularly.

Strengthen the spleen: You can use yam, white atractylodes, coix seed, white hyacinth bean, etc. As long as they grow deep in the ground, they can strengthen the spleen. They can be used to make porridge, stew meat, or cook alone. If you add a little lotus leaf, the effect of invigorating the spleen will be better.

Special attention

Spleen deficiency usually does not appear alone, it may be accompanied by cold, heat, or qi stagnation, etc., so there is usually no fixed prescription. To regulate spleen deficiency, you need to ask a Chinese medicine doctor to diagnose the condition clearly for you before taking the medicine to achieve full effect. Otherwise, although the spleen deficiency improves, other symptoms will arise, which will not be worth the loss.

As for dietary adjustments: generally light and easily digestible food is recommended; medicinal porridge generally uses yam, coix seed, etc. as the base, and can be taken for a long time.

Knowing that diarrhea after eating greasy food is caused by weak spleen and stomach, it is recommended that you eat more of the above-mentioned spleen and stomach strengthening foods in normal times. Be careful not to overeat, especially be careful not to eat too greasy food, and avoid giving it a second blow when the spleen and stomach have not been adjusted yet. This will only lead to a vicious circle. Only when the spleen and stomach are well, you will not have diarrhea after eating greasy food.