After entering old age, the immune system of many people starts to decline, and the body's metabolism slows down, leading to frequent indigestion and bloating. One common disease in the elderly is chronic gastritis, which is characterized by postprandial bloating in the upper abdomen, stomach discomfort, heartburn, belching, acid reflux, and nausea. Below, I will introduce several medicated diets for the treatment of chronic gastritis in the elderly.
Medicated Diet 1: Nutritious Warming Stomach Powder
Ingredients: 500g soybeans, 1000g glutinous rice, 30g dried tangerine peel, 10g ginger
Method: Soak the soybeans in rice water for 4 hours (until they become swollen), then rinse with clean water and drain. Heat a cast iron pan and add the soybeans, stir-frying until they make a popping sound and the skin turns yellow. Remove from heat and sieve out the soybeans while hot, grind into coarse powder. Cut the tangerine peel and ginger into small pieces, dry them, and mix them with the soybean powder. Grind them together into fine powder. Wash and drain the glutinous rice, stir-fry until slightly yellow. Remove from heat, grind into fine powder, mix evenly with the soybean powder, and grind again to make it very fine. Put it in a bottle, seal tightly, and keep it dry. When consuming, pour the powder into a pot, add brown sugar or white sugar for taste, dilute with water, and cook until it bubbles into a paste.
Effect: Tonifies the middle burner, strengthens the spleen, warms the stomach, and promotes digestion.
Indications: Suitable for elderly patients with chronic gastritis.
Note: Best consumed in winter and spring.
Medicated Diet 2: Coconut Meat Jujube Chicken Glutinous Rice
Ingredients: 100-150g coconut meat, 100g chicken, 50g jujube, 100-150g glutinous rice
Method: Cut the coconut meat into small pieces. Remove the pits from the jujube. Cut the chicken into shreds. Wash the glutinous rice. Cook them together with water in a pot to make rice.
Effect: Tonifies the middle burner, strengthens the spleen, and replenishes qi.
Indications: Suitable for elderly patients with chronic gastritis and deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, manifested as poor appetite, fatigue, etc.
Medicated Diet 3: Chenpi Oil-Blanched Chicken
Ingredients: 1 tender chicken (about 1500g), 15g chenpi, 10g each of green onion and ginger, 5g salt, 2g peppercorns, 25g rock sugar, 1000ml vegetable oil (75ml consumed), 2g monosodium glutamate, 3ml sesame oil, appropriate amount of marinade
Method: Wash and cut the chenpi into 5mm-wide shreds. After slaughtering and cleaning the chicken, wash it. Wash the green onion, ginger, and peppercorns, and put them into a pot with water. Place over medium heat and bring to a boil. Add the chicken and half of the chenpi shreds, boil for 20 minutes, then remove the chicken and let it cool. Discard the soup. Pour the marinade into the pot, bring to a boil over medium heat, then add the chicken and simmer until cooked. In another frying pan, add a small amount of marinade, add rock sugar, and cook until the sauce thickens. Add salt and monosodium glutamate for seasoning. Spread the sauce on the surface of the chicken. Clean the frying pan, place over medium heat, add vegetable oil, and heat until the foam dissipates and blue smoke appears. Remove from heat, let the oil cool slightly, and fry the remaining chenpi until crispy. Remove from oil. Pour the oil over the chicken twice, turning the chicken red and shiny. Brush sesame oil on the surface of the chicken, cut it into pieces, and serve on a plate. Sprinkle with chenpi shreds.
Effect: Strengthens the spleen, invigorates the stomach, and relieves pain.
Indications: Suitable for elderly patients with chronic gastritis, weak spleen and stomach, manifested as poor appetite, gastric distension, bloating, nausea, and loss of appetite, and can also be used to treat gastric prolapse.
Note: Drink the soup and eat the meat several times. Not suitable for patients with hematemesis.
Medicated Diet 4: Orange Peel Steamed Lean Pork
Ingredients: 1 orange, 200g lean pork
Method: Cut off the top of the orange and remove the flesh. Chop the lean pork and make it into meatballs. Put the meatballs into the orange, add an appropriate amount of water, cover the top, and seal it tightly with bamboo skewers. Place it in a bowl, steam over low heat for 2 hours until the meatballs are tender. Remove the meatballs and mix with soy sauce or sugar for consumption.
Effect: Strengthens the spleen, warms the stomach, promotes digestion, and relieves pain.
Indications: Suitable for elderly patients with chronic gastritis and deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, manifested as stomach pain, abdominal distension, diarrhea, and poor appetite.
Medicated Diet 5: Pepper Pig Stomach
Ingredients: 1 pig stomach (or lamb stomach), 1.5-2.5g white pepper
Method: Flip the pig stomach inside out and wash it inside and outside. Stuff it with white pepper and tie the ends tightly with string. Add water and simmer over low heat for 3 hours until cooked.
Effect: Strengthens the spleen, invigorates the stomach, warms the middle burner, and relieves pain.
Indications: Suitable for elderly patients with stomach cold, vomiting of food or clear water, abdominal pain, preference for warmth and pressure, cold limbs, and other symptoms of chronic gastritis and gastric ptosis.
Note: Consume the soup and meat multiple times. Not suitable for patients with hematemesis.
Medicated Diet 6: Five Spice Ginseng Stomach Roll
Ingredients: 1 pig stomach, 4g chuanxiong, 10g sand ginger, 20g roasted tangerine peel, 25g codonopsis root, 4g bupleurum, 5g ground pepper, 30g five spice powder, 10g minced garlic, 10g minced ginger, 30ml marinade, 5g monosodium glutamate
Method: Remove impurities from chuanxiong, sand ginger, roasted tangerine peel, codonopsis root, and bupleurum, dry them, and grind into powder. Wash the pig stomach and cut it into slices. Mix salt, Chinese herbal medicine powder, five spice powder, ground pepper, monosodium glutamate, minced ginger, minced garlic, and marinade together. Spread the mixture on the pig stomach slices, roll them from the inside out, and tie them evenly with hemp rope. Hang them in a well-ventilated place to air dry or oven dry. Steam until cooked. Let it cool. Cut into round slices.
Effect: Tonifies the spleen and stomach, raises clear qi.
Indications: Suitable for elderly patients with chronic gastritis and deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, manifested as stomach pain or distension, warm feeling, fatigue, thinness, and can also be used to treat gastric ptosis.
