Many friends experience discomfort in the spleen and stomach. The weakness of the spleen and stomach is closely related to daily diet. In addition to daily external care, dietary conditioning is also very important. Below, the editor will introduce some foods that help condition the spleen and stomach, hoping to be helpful to everyone.
I. Foods for Strengthening the Spleen and Stomach
1. Corn
Corn has the effects of regulating the middle jiao, stimulating the appetite, reducing turbidity, and promoting urination. It is suitable for conditions such as urinary tract stones, edema from chronic nephritis, hypertension, and loss of appetite.
2. Sorghum
It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the kidneys, promoting urination to drain dampness, and stopping dysentery. It is suitable for conditions such as indigestion in children, damp-heat vomiting and diarrhea, and dysentery.
3. Watercress
It has the effects of clearing heat and promoting urination. It is suitable for conditions such as painful and difficult urination, hematuria, and leukorrhea.
4. Winter Melon
It has the effects of clearing heat and promoting urination, reducing swelling and detoxifying, promoting the production of body fluids to relieve vexation. It is suitable for summer heat vexation and thirst, edema, difficult urination, polydipsia, and conditions like edema, shortness of breath, and fullness due to water retention.
5. Onion
It has the effects of harmonizing the stomach and directing qi downward, transforming dampness and dispelling phlegm, detoxifying and killing parasites. It is suitable for conditions such as chest tightness and epigastric fullness, cough with excessive phlegm, and difficult urination.
6. Purslane
It has the effects of clearing heat and dispelling dampness, dispersing blood to reduce swelling. It is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, painful and difficult urination, jaundice, and gingivitis.
7. Coix Seed
It has the effects of promoting urination to drain dampness, strengthening the spleen to stop diarrhea. It suitable for conditions such as scanty and dark urine, edema and beriberi, rheumatic arthralgia, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, and flat warts.
8. Hyacinth Bean
It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the middle jiao, eliminating summer heat and transforming dampness. It is suitable for summer heat-dampness vomiting and diarrhea, vomiting due to spleen deficiency, poor appetite with loose stools, diarrhea and edema, and red and white leukorrhea.
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II. What Porridge is Good for Strengthening the Spleen
1. Brown Sugar and Two-Grain Porridge
Millet, glutinous rice, brown sugar. Wash an appropriate amount of millet and glutinous rice, put them in a soup pot with an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the grains are soft and the soup is thick. Add an appropriate amount of brown sugar to the cooked porridge while it is hot and stir well to eat.
2. Crispy Rice and Lotus Seed Porridge
An appropriate amount of rice crust, 60g of coreless lotus seeds, a little white sugar. First, cook rice with rice and save an appropriate amount of the crust; remove the cores from the lotus seeds, wash them, and soak them in water; cook the crust and lotus seeds with water over high heat, then simmer for about 1 hour to make the porridge.
3. Alpinia Oxyphylla and Japonica Rice Porridge
50g japonica rice, 5g alpinia oxyphylla seeds. First, grind the alpinia oxyphylla seeds into powder. Wash the japonica rice and put it in a clay pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat to make porridge. Add the alpinia oxyphylla powder and seasonings, and cook for a short while. This porridge tonifies the middle jiao, benefits qi, strengthens the spleen and nourishes the stomach. It is suitable for symptoms like kidney deficiency and cold pain in the abdomen.
4. Watermelon Peel Porridge
200g watermelon peel, 100g japonica rice, 30g sugar. Peel the hard outer skin of the watermelon, cut it into small pieces, and cook with japonica rice. First, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat to make porridge, and add sugar. Effect: Clears summer heat and relieves vexation, promotes urination and reduces swelling.
5. Red Date and Glutinous Rice Porridge
Method and effects: Cook red dates and glutinous rice together, then add an appropriate amount of sugar. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and blood, draining dampness to stop diarrhea, and promoting the production of body fluids to quench thirst. It is more suitable for people with poor appetite or chronic enteritis.
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