Introduction: It is not uncommon for modern white-collar workers to suffer from various stomach ailments. Instead of constantly resorting to injections and medication, it is better to adopt dietary therapy, paying more attention to your diet to fundamentally nourish and protect your stomach. What foods are good for the stomach? Below, the editor will introduce three major stomach-nourishing foods whose effects are no less than expensive medicines.
I. Stomach-Nourishing Tea Therapy
Tea therapy has unique advantages in regulating stomach ailments. It adopts the method of "warming the cold, cooling the heat, replenishing the deficient, and purging the excess" to regulate the patient's constitution. Based on the principle that "where there is free flow, there is no pain," it regulates qi, invigorates blood, harmonizes the stomach, and alleviates pain to achieve a根治 (radical cure). As the saying goes, "Three parts treatment and seven parts care for a stomach ailment," and tea therapy is one of the most convenient ways to regulate the spleen and stomach.
Tea therapy is gentle and long-lasting. Ancient Chinese medicine has long had the saying that "tea is the medicine for ten thousand diseases." In addition to the general health benefits of tea, tea therapy also has its own unique medicinal and nourishing effects. Selecting various tea materials for specific purposes can achieve excellent conditioning and therapeutic results.
Tea therapy has the effects of other medicines but is different from them. It has its advantages in improving physical constitution, treating minor ailments, managing chronic diseases, and preventing serious illnesses. Medicinal teas, prepared by extracting and blending Chinese medicinal herbs to replace daily tea consumption, can act directly on the affected area. Tea therapy is also based on the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and its health-preserving mechanism is similar to other Chinese medicines.
Tea therapy involves regulating the body or treating related conditions by drinking tea. By adding different biologically extracted medicinal herbs to the tea, you can brew a fragrant medicinal tea suitable for specific conditions, helping to alleviate pain, strengthen the body, maintain vitality, and achieve health and wellness benefits without spending too much time.
(Coarse salt, fine salt, or refined salt can all be used) First, dissolve the salt in boiling water, then add a little cold water to make it a "warm salt soup" that is ready to drink.
II. The Miraculous Effect of Salt on Nourishing the Stomach!
1. Clearing stomach heat
In the morning on an empty stomach, drinking a cup of light salt soup can not only clear stomach heat, eliminate bad breath and the taste of bitterness in the mouth, but also enhance digestive function, increase appetite, and clear internal heat from the intestines.
2. Soothing the liver and regulating the stomach
Liver-qi stomach pain is a common symptom for stomach patients. You can use a salt and fennel hot compress therapy. The method is: 31 grams of fennel seeds, 16 grams of small fennel seeds, crushed. Add one bowl of coarse salt (about 400-500 grams). Put the above medicinal materials into a pot and stir-fry until hot, then place them in a cloth bag. Wrap with a towel and apply it hot to the stomach and back. This can relax and soothe the patient's stomach spasms, effectively promoting stomach qi and resolving stomach ailments.
III. Eating Ginger and Garlic Slices for Breakfast to Nourish the Stomach and Resist Cold
Many people are used to eating breakfast outside, as it is convenient and saves trouble. In my family, however, we have insisted on making our own breakfast every day for years. On the breakfast table, steamed buns, bread, twisted rolls, noodles, etc., can be changed according to taste, but there is one small dish that is always present: "ginger and garlic slices."
The appearance of "ginger and garlic slices" on my family's dining table was quite accidental. My mother had suffered from stomach problems for many years and could not eat rice for over a decade. When I talked to a friend who practices Traditional Chinese Medicine, he recommended a method: to regularly eat "ginger and garlic slices," and long-term adherence is very beneficial to the body.
This is because ginger is pungent and warm in nature, with effects such as dispelling cold and inducing sweat, resolving phlegm and stopping cough, harmonizing the stomach, and stopping vomiting. Confucius advocated: "Never be without ginger at your meals." Folk sayings include "Three slices of ginger in the morning are better than drinking ginseng soup," "October ginger is like a little ginseng," and "Three slices of ginger a day, and you won't need a doctor to write a prescription," which are widely known.
Garlic has the effects of warming the middle jiao to aid digestion, promoting the flow of stagnant qi, warming the spleen and stomach, resolving food stagnation, detoxifying, and killing parasites. Especially its rich allicin can kill many pathogenic fungi and hookworms, pinworms, and trichomonads. Eating raw garlic is an effective method for preventing the flu and intestinal infectious diseases.
Method
Peel the garlic and slice it. Let the garlic slices sit for a few minutes so that alliin and allinase can fully combine in the air to produce allicin. Then, wash the ginger and shred it. Mix the two together, add a small amount of salt, and lightly marinate to combine the ginger and garlic slices. Then, sprinkle with sesame oil. In this way, a delicious and appetizing small dish that nourishes the stomach, is anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial is ready.
Whether you are eating steamed buns, bread, or Chinese noodles, "ginger and garlic slices" can accompany any meal, making it suitable for both Chinese and Western cuisines.
"Ginger and garlic slices" also have a side beauty effect. Because the gingerol in ginger can produce an antioxidant enzyme in the body, which has a strong ability to combat oxygen free radicals, eating this small dish regularly can also prevent aging. For the elderly, it can help remove "age spots."
It is worth noting that patients with stomach ulcers and those suffering from headaches, coughs, toothaches, and other ailments should not eat garlic. Those with yin deficiency and internal heat, or with excessive pathogenic heat, should avoid eating ginger.