Introduction: After a series of sumptuous feasts during the Spring Festival, have you found your stomach in turmoil from all the raw, cold, and greasy foods? Overindulging in eggs, meat, milk, and other rich, hard-to-digest foods can lead to bloating, discomfort, and incessant hiccups that last for many days. Even the most delicious food loses its appeal, leaving you feeling full of grease, with a protruding belly and a larger waistline. What can you do? The following introduces several foods that can help you cut grease, detoxify, aid digestion, and relieve greasiness.
1. Barley Tea – Relieves Greasiness, Spiciness, and Aids Digestion
The aroma of barley tea is the scent of sunshine and of whole grains. Barley tea has the effects of calming the stomach, quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, and aiding digestion. It is beneficial for food digestion and can also improve complexion and benefit the five vital organs, which perfectly matches the barley flower's meaning, "digestive yeast." This tea is suitable for all ages and is especially ideal for drinking during holiday feasts to relieve greasiness, spiciness, and aid digestion. For those who tend to perspire, barley tea that has been chilled in the refrigerator is a good choice. It is not only a great thirst-quenching and heat-relieving beverage but can also accelerate intestinal peristalsis. However, it should be noted that drinking too much ice-cold barley tea is not advisable, as its effect on regulating the stomach's function is too strong, making it more suitable for relieving constipation.
Barley Tea
2. Lemon Honey Water – Detoxifies, Relieves Constipation, and Anti-Aging
Lemon is a fruit with extremely high nutritional and medicinal value. It has strong antioxidant effects and is very effective in promoting skin metabolism, delaying aging, and inhibiting pigmentation. Moreover, Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that lemon also has the effects of promoting saliva production to quench thirst, harmonizing the stomach to reduce nausea, and resolving phlegm to stop coughs. Regular consumption can promote bowel movements, purify the blood, enhance beauty, and boost immunity. Especially at the onset of a cold, drinking honey lemon water can relieve a sore throat and reduce throat dryness. Therefore, it is recommended for all beauty-conscious ladies to drink it not only during big meals but also regularly.
3. Green Radish – Relieves Greasiness, Aids Weight Loss, and Fights Cancer
What is the best thing to cut through the greasiness after a heavy meat meal? The answer lies in the old saying, "Eat radish in winter, eat ginger in summer." Radish is a wonderful thing; some people even eat it like a fruit at home. Radish contains few calories and a lot of fiber, which creates a feeling of fullness and aids in weight loss. Radish can induce the human body to produce its own interferin, increase immunity, and inhibit the growth of cancer cells, playing an important role in cancer prevention and treatment. The mustard oil and fine fiber in radish can promote gastrointestinal motility and help expel waste from the body. Eating radish often can lower blood lipids, soften blood vessels, stabilize blood pressure, and prevent diseases such as coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, and cholelithiasis.
Mixed Green Radish
4. Papaya – Regulates the Stomach and Removes Grease
Modern research has shown that papaya contains a large amount of papain, also known as papaya enzyme, which has a strong hydrolysis ability on animal and plant proteins, polypeptides, esters, and amides, thus it can remove the grease from food. After meat products enter the human body, proteins in the meat are broken down into small molecules that are easily absorbed by the body, primarily by pepsin secreted by the stomach and trypsin produced by the pancreas. The papain contained in papaya works on the exact same principle as pepsin and trypsin. The tenderizing powder that people are familiar with is made from papain extracted from papaya mixed with starch, although it contains very little papain. Eating it after a meal can regulate the stomach, aid digestion, relieve constipation, clear summer heat and quench thirst, detoxify from alcohol, lower blood pressure, reduce swelling, expel parasites, and has effects in treating gastritis and indigestion.
Papaya and Tremella Stewed Pork Ribs