Eating spoiled food or having a cold stomach can cause diarrhea. This is a very troublesome thing. What should you eat during diarrhea to effectively relieve it? The editor recommends the following dietary remedies for everyone, let's take a look!
Chinese Yam, Coix Seed, and Gordon Euryale Porridge
People with poor digestive health often experience diarrhea. This is because the stomach and intestines' ability to absorb water decreases, leading to food containing more moisture after digestion, which makes the stool too soft and causes diarrhea. People with poor digestive health who often have diarrhea must pay close attention to their eating habits in daily life to avoid diarrhea caused by diet.
China has a large population, and people in different regions have different eating habits. Some people prefer staple foods like steamed buns, noodles, and dumplings, while others have a special fondness for grains like millet and rice. In itself, there is not much difference in these eating habits; they are all staple foods. However, for people with poor digestive health, there is a big difference. Due to the weakened digestive system, people with poor digestive health cannot digest and expel foods like steamed buns, noodles, and potatoes in a timely manner, leading to a buildup of food in the body, which causes excessive gas in the intestinal cavity and increased flatulence. Therefore, nutritionists recommend that people with poor digestive health should reduce their intake of starchy foods and wheat-based products, and increase their intake of protein and vegetables to achieve a balanced diet.
Four Dietary Remedies to Treat Diarrhea
1. Gordon Euryale and Chinese Yam Porridge
Preparation Method: 30 grams of Gordon Euryale seeds, 30 grams of dried Chinese Yam, 50 grams of glutinous rice, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Wash the Gordon Euryale seeds, Chinese Yam, and glutinous rice, add rock sugar, and cook them into a porridge. Serve for breakfast or dinner in all seasons, while warm.
Effects and Functions: Tonifies the spleen and stomach, nourishes the lungs, and secures the kidneys. Suitable for treating diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency, chronic dysentery, and cough due to deficiency.
2. Lotus Seed and Gordon Euryale Porridge
Preparation Method: 15-20 grams of lotus seeds, 15-30 grams of Gordon Euryale seeds, and 100 grams of japonica or glutinous rice. Cook the lotus seeds, Gordon Euryale seeds, and rice together into a porridge. Serve for breakfast or dinner.
Effects and Functions: Strengthens the spleen to nourish the heart, benefits the kidneys, and resists aging. Can be used to treat weakness in old age, chronic diarrhea, dream-disturbed sleep, and frequent urination at night.
3. Jujube and Glutinous Rice Porridge
Preparation Method: 400 grams of Chinese Yam, 500 grams of Job's tears (Coix seed), 100 grams of water chestnut powder, 50 grams of jujubes, 2500 grams of glutinous rice, and 250 grams of sugar. Wash the Job's tears thoroughly and grind the Chinese Yam into powder. Put Job's tears, glutinous rice, and jujubes into a pot to cook porridge. When the Job's tears bloom and the glutinous rice is well-cooked, sprinkle the Chinese Yam powder into the pot while stirring. After about 20 minutes, sprinkle the water chestnut powder into the pot, stir well, stop heating, and ladle the porridge into bowls. Add 25 grams of sugar to each bowl. Eat one small bowl at a time, 2-3 times a day, while warm.
Effects and Functions: Tonifies the middle qi, strengthens the spleen, and eliminates dampness. Suitable for symptoms such as weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite with loose stools, and fatigue.
4. Hyacinth Bean and Chinese Yam Porridge
Preparation Method: 60 grams of hyacinth beans, 60 grams of Chinese Yam, and 50 grams of rice. Wash the three ingredients and cook them together in a clay pot into a porridge. Can be taken frequently; the dose for children should be halved.
Effects and Functions: Strengthens the spleen and benefits the stomach, clears summer heat, and stops diarrhea. Suitable for treating spleen and stomach weakness, nausea and vomiting with diarrhea, loss of appetite, food stagnation, infantile malnutrition, and thirst.
Summary: The above are the precautions and foods that can be eaten during diarrhea that the editor has summarized for everyone. I hope this is helpful to you all.
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