With the weather getting colder, people with poor stomachs tend to suffer from stomach problems. So, what should we eat when we have a cold stomach? What are the causes of a cold stomach? Let's find out together.
What are the symptoms of a cold stomach?
1. Vomiting
Vomiting is the result of the reverse peristalsis of the esophagus, stomach, or intestines, accompanied by strong muscle spasms and contractions of the abdominal muscles, forcing the contents of the esophagus and stomach to flow out through the mouth and nose. Vomiting helps to eliminate harmful substances from the stomach and small intestine.
2. Abdominal pain
Abdominal pain refers to pain that occurs below the epigastrium and above the pubic hairline, often accompanied by a series of related symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and sweating.
3. Gastric pain
When the stomach is severely cold, symptoms of gastric pain may occur. Especially in hot summers, do you feel pain when you eat cold food or drink? Does the pain come with a feeling of coldness? The symptoms will be relieved when the stomach is warmed. This is the gastric pain caused by a cold stomach.
4. Chills
Chills refer to the feeling of being cold, even when wearing more clothes or covering oneself with a blanket indoors or near a fire, the feeling of being cold cannot be relieved.
What are the suitable foods for a cold stomach?
1. Pumpkin
Pumpkins are warm in nature and taste sweet. Pumpkins have a good stomach-nourishing effect because they contain vitamins, pectin, and carbohydrates. Vitamins can promote the elasticity of the stomach muscles, carbohydrates can protect the stomach from stimulation, and dietary fiber is soft and easy to absorb. Pectin has good adsorption ability and can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury, and radioactive elements, playing a detoxification role.
Pectin has good adsorption ability and can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury, and radioactive elements, playing a detoxification role.
2. Spinach
Spinach contains a substance similar to insulin in its leaves, which can stabilize blood sugar levels. Spinach is rich in various vitamins and can prevent and treat angular cheilitis and night blindness. Spinach also contains a large amount of antioxidants, which have anti-aging and cell proliferation effects. It can activate brain function, enhance youthful vitality, and prevent brain aging. In addition, spinach can clean the heat toxins in the intestines and stomach, prevent constipation, and make people look radiant. It is known as the "cleaner" for heat toxins in the intestines and stomach and is a good stomach-nourishing food.
3. Onion
Eating onions can reduce the nitrite content in the stomach. Importantly, onions contain a substance called quercetin, which is a natural anticancer substance. Studies have shown that people who eat onions regularly have a 25% lower incidence of gastric cancer and a 30% lower fatality rate from gastric cancer compared to those who eat onions less or not at all.
4. Garlic
Garlic is a recognized anti-cancer food and has obvious anti-cancer effects. Epidemiological surveys have shown that people who eat raw garlic have a very low incidence of gastric cancer, because garlic can significantly reduce the nitrite content in the stomach and reduce the synthesis of nitrosamines, thus having an anti-cancer effect.
5. Millet
Millet has the effects of invigorating the spleen, replenishing the middle, benefiting the kidney, clearing deficient heat, promoting urination, and treating restlessness and thirst. It is a highly nutritious stomach-nourishing food for the treatment of weak spleen and stomach, physical weakness, damage to essence and blood, postpartum deficiency, and loss of appetite. It is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin B2, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and other nutrients. Millet is so nutritious that it is known as "health rice". However, Gu Wanli pointed out that because millet is slightly cool in nature, it is not suitable for those with stagnant qi, weak and cold constitution, and frequent and long urination to consume too much.
6. Carrots
Carrots are sweet and mild in nature. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that they can "descend qi, strengthen the middle, moisten the intestines and stomach, calm the five viscera, and have the effect of nourishing food". The rich carotene in carrots can be converted into vitamin A, which can improve eyesight, enhance resistance, and prevent respiratory diseases. Carotene is fat-soluble and is most suitable for stewing with meat, resulting in better taste.
