Diarrhea is a common symptom of digestive system diseases, which refers to more frequent bowel movements than usual, thin stools, and increased water content. Sometimes it may contain more fat, undigested food, or pus and blood. This condition can occur throughout the year, but it is more common in summer and autumn, so it is particularly important to prevent diarrhea in summer. Here are ten medicinal diets that specifically treat diarrhea, to help you easily solve the problem of diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Medicinal Diet One: Ginger Porridge
Ingredients: 6g of ginger, 15g of white atractylodes rhizome, 30g of polished round-grained rice.
Method: Put the ginger, white atractylodes rhizome, Sichuan pepper, and star anise in a gauze bag, put it in a pot with water, boil for 20 minutes, then add the polished rice to cook porridge. Take 1 dose daily, divided into 3 doses, and take it warm. Continue for 1-2 weeks.
Efficacy: Warm the middle and invigorate the spleen, dispel cold and promote diuresis.
Main Treatment: Cold and damp diarrhea, abdominal pain, thin and watery stools, loss of appetite.
Medicinal Diet Two: Su Ye Tea Egg
Ingredients: 15g of perilla leaves, 15g of black tea, 1 egg.
Method: Boil the egg in water, remove it, and crack the shell. Put it in water with perilla leaves and black tea, boil for another 10 minutes, remove the egg, remove the shell, and eat it while hot with sauce.
Efficacy: Disperse exterior cold, warm the middle and stop diarrhea.
Main Treatment: Cold and damp diarrhea or cold-induced diarrhea, abdominal pain, loose stools, distention and fullness in the chest, nausea, vomiting.
Medicinal Diet Three: Cucumber Leaf Instant Drink
Ingredients: 1000g of fresh cucumber leaves, 500g of white sugar.
Method: Wash the fresh cucumber leaves, boil them in water for 1 hour, remove the residue, continue to simmer over low heat until the pot is almost dry, then turn off the heat and mix in dried powdered sugar to absorb the liquid. Mix well, spread it out to dry, crush it, and store it in a bottle. Take 10g each time, 3 times a day, dissolve it in boiling water and drink it in one go.
Efficacy: Clear heat and promote diuresis, invigorate the spleen and stop diarrhea.
Main Treatment: Summer dampness or damp heat diarrhea, loose stools with a strong odor, fever, abdominal pain.
Medicinal Diet Four: Three-flower Wind-preventing Tea
Ingredients: 24g of lentil flowers, 12g each of jasmine flowers, rose flowers, and wind-preventing herb.
Method: Boil the above four ingredients in water and drink it as a substitute for tea.
Efficacy: Suppress liver, strengthen spleen, and stop diarrhea.
Main Treatment: Diarrhea caused by liver depression invading the spleen, diarrhea immediately after abdominal pain, relieved pain after diarrhea, chest and rib distention and pain, discomfort in emotions.
Medicinal Diet Five: Buddha's Hand Citron Egg
Ingredients: 15g of Buddha's hand citron, 10g of jasmine flowers, 2 eggs.
Method: Boil the eggs in water, crack the shells, then cook them together with Buddha's hand citron and jasmine flowers for a few minutes, and eat the eggs, 2 eggs each time.
Efficacy: Soothe the liver, regulate qi, invigorate the spleen, consolidate the intestines.
Main Treatment: Liver depression and spleen deficiency diarrhea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, relieved pain after diarrhea, distention and fullness in the sides, frequent sighing, frequent warm qi.
Medicinal Diet Six: Painful Diarrhea Porridge
Ingredients: 120g of Chinese yam, 12g of stir-fried white peony root, 6g of tangerine peel, 6g of wind-preventing herb.
Method: Grind the Chinese yam into powder and set aside. Boil the white peony root, tangerine peel, and wind-preventing herb in water, remove the residue and take the liquid, boil it with the Chinese yam powder to make porridge, and add brown sugar.
Efficacy: Relieve liver, strengthen spleen, alleviate pain, and stop diarrhea.
Main Treatment: Diarrhea caused by disharmony between the liver and spleen, spleen deficiency and sluggishness, pain in the abdomen and diarrhea, relieved pain after diarrhea.
Medicinal Diet Seven: Spleen Diarrhea Rice Spoon Pills
Ingredients: 90g of rice pot ash, 60g each of lotus seed meat and Chinese yam.
Method: Stir-fry the lotus seed meat and Chinese yam separately until fragrant, grind them into powder. Cook the rice pot ash and mix it with the lotus seed meat and Chinese yam powder to form pills, each the size of a wutong seed. Take 100 pills each time, on an empty stomach with water or Atractylodes macrocephala soup.
Efficacy: Invigorate the spleen, nourish the kidneys, benefit the stomach, and aid digestion.
Main Treatment: Chronic diarrhea due to spleen and kidney deficiency, poor appetite, fatigue and weakness.
Medicinal Diet Eight: Pork Kidney Stew
Ingredients: 150g of fresh pork kidneys, 30g of crushed deer antler.
Method: Wash the pork kidneys and cut them into slices. Put them in a casserole with the crushed deer antler, add water, and cook until tender. Eat it in 2 servings.
Efficacy: Warm and tonify kidney yang.
Main Treatment: Long-term kidney deficiency and diarrhea, soreness and weakness in the waist and legs, mental fatigue, frequent or prolonged urination.
Medicinal Diet Nine: Prepared Aconite and Ginger Porridge
Ingredients: 10g of prepared aconite, 15g of dried ginger, 100g of polished rice.
Method: Grind the two herbs into fine powder, sift through a sieve, and take 10g to cook the porridge with the polished rice. Take it on an empty stomach.
Efficacy: Warm and tonify the spleen and kidneys.
Main Treatment: Chronic diarrhea, dysentery, spleen and kidney yang deficiency, cold internal accumulation, abdominal colic, likes warmth and pressure, clears out after diarrhea, cold limbs.
Medicinal Diet Ten: Cardamom and Fruit Stewed Black Chicken
Ingredients: 1 black-boned chicken (about 1000g), 15g of cardamom, 6g of fruit of Chinese magnoliavine.
Method: Slaughter and clean the black-boned chicken, remove the feathers and internal organs, wash it, fry the Chinese magnoliavine until burnt, put it in the chicken, tie it up, and cook until done. Drink the soup and eat the meat.
Efficacy: Warm the middle, dry dampness, invigorate the spleen, and stop diarrhea.
Main Treatment: Chronic diarrhea due to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, slippery and loose stools that do not heal for a long time, cold and painful abdomen, loss of appetite.
These ten medicinal diets not only have the effect of stopping diarrhea and relieving pain, but also can regulate the spleen and stomach and prevent a series of sequelae caused by diarrhea. In addition, with the hot weather in summer and people's preference for cold food, it is easier to cause diarrhea. Therefore, these medicinal diets play an essential role!
