During the Spring Festival holiday, when relatives and friends gather, it is easy to eat excessively when drinking and talking, and after many days, many people feel that their appetite decreases, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, and belching and vomiting acid. At the end of the holiday, we should welcome the start of work in the best state, and the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine of "food into food" should be learned quickly!
Professor Huang Suiping, a famous traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Guangdong Province and academic leader of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reminded that coarse grains are rich in dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help the digestion and absorption of food. Among them, there are three kinds of coarse grains, which can be "eaten into food", which is suitable for food accumulation and bloating caused by excessive diet during the holiday.
Buckwheat: Cleansing the intestines and guiding stagnation.
Buckwheat is one of the main grain varieties, and the "Book of Shennong" during the Warring States period listed buckwheat as one of the eight grains. Because it is rich in nutrients, it is a food treasure that is "food and medicine".
Buckwheat is cool, sweet in taste, and returns to the spleen, stomach, and large intestine. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "(Buckwheat) solid stomach, good for qi, sustain spirit, good for ears and eyes, can practice the five internal organs, reduce qi and widen the intestines, abrasive stagnation, reduce heat, swelling and wind pain." In other words, buckwheat has the effects of enriching the stomach, increasing qi, boosting the spirit, removing the five internal organs and clearing the intestines and guiding stagnation, and mainly treats loss of appetite and gastrointestinal stagnation. Because of the obvious effect of buckwheat on clearing the intestines, the folk call it "clean intestine grass".
Huang Suiping reminded that because buckwheat is cold, it is not suitable to eat for a long time, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold and ** allergies should avoid eating.
Medicinal recipe: buckwheat and radish porridge.
Ingredients: 15 grams of buckwheat, 200 grams of white radish, 50 grams of japonica rice. (1 serving).
Method:1Wash the buckwheat, peel and cut the white radish, and set aside;
2.Put japonica rice, white radish and appropriate amount of water in a pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then change to low heat and cook for 20 minutes.
3.Add the buckwheat and cook for another 20 minutes;
4.Turn off the heat, add an appropriate amount of salt to taste, and remove from the pan.
Efficacy: Appetizing and stagnation.
Suitable for: people with stagnation and abdominal distention, common after overeating, abdominal distention, belching, decreased appetite, sticky mouth, heavy breath, poor stool, thick tongue coating after overeating.
Oats: Laxative.
Oats are also one of the "eight grains". When it comes to oats, most people will be familiar with it, it is a low-sugar, high-nutrient food. A lot of people who want to ** or do body management will consume oats. In addition, it can also reduce cholesterol, regulate blood pressure and blood lipids in the body, and promote endocrine coordination, so it also has the reputation of "plant".
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that oats are flat in nature, sweet in taste, return to the spleen and liver meridians, have the effect of stopping sweating and smoothing the intestines, and are suitable for people with stool obstruction to eat Huang Suiping to remind that oats can sweat and replenish deficiency, after a cold and fever, if the spleen and stomach are injured, there will be self-sweating and night sweats, so you can use japonica rice and oats to cook thick porridge together to make up for deficiency and sweat.
It should be noted that because oatmeal has a high dietary fiber content, patients with digestive tract diseases such as gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers, liver cirrhosis, and gastric varices should not eat more. In addition, oats have the effect of smoothing the intestines, and people with loose stools and diarrhea should not eat more.
Medicinal formula: oatmeal sweet potato porridge.
Ingredients: 30 grams of oats, 50 grams of rice, 250 grams of sweet potatoes, chopped green onions, salt to taste. (1 serving).
Method:1Wash and peel the sweet potatoes, cut them into small pieces of rice, wash them, and soak them in water for half an hour;
2.Put the rice in a pot, add 500 grams of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then change to low heat and cook for 20 minutes;
3.Add the sweet potato wedges and simmer for 10 minutes; Add the oats and continue to cook over low heat for 10 minutes.
4.After turning off the heat, add salt, chopped green onion and other seasonings, and serve.
Efficacy: Nourish the spleen and stomach, moisten the intestines and laxative.
Suitable for people: people with stagnation of diet and stool, common stool for a few days, dry stool, poor bowel movement, abdominal fullness, decreased appetite, thick tongue coating.
Millet: Strengthen the spleen and stomach.
Millet nourishes the spleen and stomach and has the reputation of "the fruit of the spleen". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that millet is slightly cold, sweet and salty, and returns to the kidney, spleen, and stomach meridians, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidneys and benefit essence, nourish yin and eliminate troubles.
How do you eat millet? Porridge is best boiled. And the layer of "porridge oil" on the porridge noodles is not to be missed! The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Cooking porridge and eating is beneficial to dantian, replenishing weakness, and opening the stomach and intestines." "When the millet is boiled into porridge and cooled and precipitated slightly, there is a delicate layer of viscous material floating up on the top layer of the porridge, which is porridge oil, which has a good protection of the gastric mucosa.
Many people know that millet can strengthen the spleen and stomach, so is it suitable for all people with stomach problems to drink millet porridge? Huang Suiping reminded that in fact, it is necessary to distinguish the situation clearly. The stomach nourishing effect of millet is actually to nourish stomach yin, which is suitable for people with insufficient stomach yin, such as people who are often tired, hungry, dry mouth, and upset and palpitating.
Medicinal formula: millet yam porridge.
Ingredients: 25 grams of millet, 30 grams of yam, 25 grams of japonica rice. (1 serving).
Method: Rinse the above ingredients and put them in a casserole. Add water and cook together to make a soft porridge.
Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and stomach.
Suitable for: People with insufficient spleen, stomach, qi and yin are often tired, hungry, dry mouth, and upset and palpitations.
Text|Reporter Lin Qingqing Correspondent Song Liping |Lin Qingqing.