With the fast pace of life and irregular diet and rest, more and more people are experiencing gastrointestinal discomfort. If you have gastrointestinal discomfort, it is important to adjust it as soon as possible to avoid it developing into a chronic gastrointestinal disease. So, what should you do if you have gastrointestinal discomfort? How can you regulate your gastrointestinal system? Traditional Chinese medicine recommends 3 medicinal diets to help regulate the gastrointestinal system.
1. Jujube and Bean Yam Cake
Ingredients: 50g yam, 30g mung bean, 5g tangerine peel shreds, 50g jujube, 150g glutinous rice flour, sugar as needed.
Instructions:
1. Clean the yam and mung bean and cook them in a pot until done.
2. Remove the pits from the jujube and cut them into shreds. Mix 150g of water with the glutinous rice flour to form a slurry.
3. Add the jujube shreds, tangerine peel shreds, cooked yam and mung bean, and sugar into the slurry and mix well.
4. Pour the mixture into a plate or mold, steam it over boiling water until cooked, and then it is ready to be served.
Benefits:
1. Yam: Tonifies the spleen and stomach, suitable for symptoms of poor appetite and weak spleen and stomach.
2. Mung bean: Tonifies and nourishes the spleen, dispels dampness, and clears heat.
3. Tangerine peel: Stimulates appetite, aids digestion, lowers blood lipids, and treats constipation.
4. Jujube and Bean Yam Cake: Tonifies the spleen, nourishes the stomach, and invigorates qi.
2. Cordyceps Lily Duck Soup
Ingredients: 3g cordyceps, 25g lily, 100g duck meat.
Instructions:
1. Wash the duck meat and put it in a pot. Add an appropriate amount of water and stew for 30 minutes.
2. Then add the cordyceps and lily and stew for another 20 minutes.
3. Season the soup and consume the cordyceps and duck meat.
Benefits:
1. Cordyceps: Tonifies and nourishes the kidneys, nourishes yin, clears the lungs, and moistens the lungs.
2. Lily: Calms the mind, nourishes the heart, beautifies the skin, and moistens the lungs to relieve coughing.
3. Duck meat: Tonifies qi and supplements deficiencies, nourishes yin.
4. Cordyceps Lily Duck Soup: Tonifies the spleen, nourishes the stomach, moistens the lungs, and nourishes the kidneys. Suitable for patients with weak spleen and stomach, insufficient lung and kidney energy, and deficiency of vital energy.
3. Lotus Seed Porridge
Ingredients: 50g lotus seeds, 50g glutinous rice, 1 tablespoon brown sugar.
Instructions:
1. Soak the lotus seeds in hot water until they expand, then peel and remove the cores. Put them in a pot, add water, and simmer over low heat for half an hour.
2. Wash the glutinous rice and add it to the pot, along with water. Boil over high heat for 10 minutes, then pour in the lotus meat and soup.
3. Add brown sugar and simmer over low heat for half an hour.
Benefits:
1. Lotus seeds: Tonify the spleen, nourish the stomach, and lower blood pressure.
2. Glutinous rice: Tonifies the middle burner, strengthens the spleen, nourishes the stomach, and stops spontaneous sweating.
3. Brown sugar: Tonifies the spleen and nourishes the spleen, nourishes the blood.
4. Lotus Seed Porridge: Tonifies the middle burner, resolves dampness, nourishes the spleen, warms the stomach, stops diarrhea, and consolidates sweat. Suitable for patients with cold stomach, diarrhea when exposed to cold, and poor sleep.
Tips: To have a good gastrointestinal system, a healthy lifestyle and dietary habits are necessary. The above 3 traditional Chinese medicinal diets can help regulate the gastrointestinal system. Give them a try if you have gastrointestinal discomfort.
