Nowadays, due to irregular eating habits, many people suffer from a cold stomach. So, how to manage a cold stomach? Only a regular diet can lead to a healthy body. Next, the editor will explain how to manage a cold stomach.
Causes of a Cold Stomach
1. Cold Diet. "Cold" has two meanings. The first refers to temperature—just as cold water needs to consume gas energy to become hot water, the human body has a temperature. Cold food consumed must first be warmed, which consumes the stomach and spleen's original heat energy, leading to a cold stomach. Examples include frozen foods, cold drinks, and cooling fruits. The second meaning refers to nature—foods that are inherently cooling in nature, even if consumed hot. Examples include bitter melon, winter melon, and mung beans.
2. External Cold. The cold from food is considered internal cold. In summer, air conditioning or in winter, catching a chill, or farmers and fishermen, or housewives washing clothes in cold water are all examples of external cold. Some external cold directly invades the stomach and spleen, causing a cold stomach, but more often, it depletes the body's overall energy, causing the local energy, heat, and "yang" of the stomach and spleen to become insufficient, thus becoming cold.
3. Seasonal Factors. The hotter the weather, the cooler the well water; the cooler the weather, the warmer the well water. This is actually the result of the transfer of energy and heat: in spring and summer, energy disperses from the inside out; in autumn and winter, it converges from the outside in. Correspondingly, in summer, the skin on the outside is hot, but the stomach and spleen on the inside are very cold. Therefore, appetite is poorest and the stomach is coldest in summer, making it easiest to get "heatiness."
How to Manage a Cold Stomach
Pumpkin and Lotus Seed Porridge
1. Drink more hot porridge. The main ingredients of porridge are usually japonica rice, millet, or glutinous rice. They are not only rich in nutrients, but also have a sweet and neutral nature that can harmonize stomach qi and tonify spleen deficiency. Therefore, eating rice porridge in winter is very beneficial.
2. Use pepper in cooking. To address this constitution, there is a very simple method. Experts suggest adding a small amount of pepper, dried ginger, and dried tangerine peel to dishes, soups, or porridge. These foods have a neutral, pungent, and warm nature, which can expel cold pathogens and protect stomach qi. This method is not only suitable for winter but can be adhered to year-round for people with spleen and stomach yang deficiency. Moreover, "cold" is their biggest taboo. Eating cold food or letting the body get chilled can easily trigger diarrhea.
3. The main cause of a cold stomach is uncontrolled eating habits, often consuming cold drinks or iced foods. For a cold stomach, you must first stop unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits, and secondly, pay attention to eating foods that warm the stomach.
4. Avoid mung beans, dried persimmons, raw tomatoes, bamboo shoots, bottle gourd, loofah, seaweed, raw lettuce, raw radishes, raw lotus root, raw cucumbers, black ear, tofu, Malantou (a type of vegetable), cold tea, and all kinds of cold drinks and iced foods. Cooling and raw foods will aggravate the cold stomach.
What to Eat for a Cold Stomach
1. A decoction of Mosla dianthera for treating stomach cold pain.
2. Pound ginger to extract juice, add a small amount of warm water and drink to treat stomach cold-induced vomiting.
3. Three longan kernels, charred until carbonized, ground into powder, and taken with hot wine to treat stomach cold pain.
4. To treat stomach cold-induced vomiting and morning sickness: 1 tablespoon of ginger juice, 5 grams of Amomum villosum, half a bowl of water, steam for half an hour, discard the dregs and drink the liquid. Twice daily.
5. One rooster, slaughtered and plucked, remove内脏. Simmer with 20 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 6 grams of dried ginger, 2 grams of cardamom, 3 grams of dried tangerine peel, 3 grams of cinnamon bark, and 10 peppercorns. Eat the soup to treat spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, deficient cold stomach, and dull abdominal pain.
6. Fresh ginger and brown sugar for stomach cold: 500 grams of fresh ginger, 250 grams of brown sugar; 3 times daily, before meals, 1 spoonful each time; persist for a week; of course, brown sugar can be replaced with white sugar, but brown sugar is milder.
7. Egg cooked in baijiu for stomach cold: 50 grams of baijiu, pour into a small cup, break in 1 egg, light the baijiu on fire. When the alcohol burns out, the egg will be cooked. Eat on an empty stomach in the morning.
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