Due to irregular eating habits in daily life, many people have stomach problems. So how should we regulate our stomach? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that drinking these two types of tea regularly can help nourish our stomach. Let's learn about them below.
Two teas for stomach nourishment
1. Huang Jing Chuan Qiong Tea
First, prepare 5 grams of Huang Jing, 6 red dates, 5 grams of Chuan Qiong, and 5 longan fruits. Clean these ingredients and boil them in water. Drink it three times a day to achieve good stomach-nourishing effects.
Huang Jing Chuan Qiong Tea is an excellent tea for nourishing and warming the stomach. It can help warm the middle and dispel cold, prevent vomiting, and greatly improve the condition of feeling cold.
2. Perilla and Buddha's Hand Tea
Perilla and Buddha's Hand Tea has a history of several thousand years in China and originates from the famous medical book, "Essentials from the Golden Cabinet". First, prepare 5 grams of perilla, Buddha's hand, cloves, malt, and galangal each. Wash these ingredients and put them in a pot. Add an appropriate amount of water and boil for an hour before drinking.
In daily life, we may not have enough time to boil medicine every day. We can also make tea bags with these ingredients and steep them in hot water for five minutes before drinking. Although the effect is not as good as brewing, it can still have a proper stomach-nourishing effect.
Foods for stomach nourishment
1. Sweet Potato
Sweet potatoes are rich in starch, dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E, as well as potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium, and more than ten other trace elements and linoleic acid. They have high nutritional value and are considered by nutritionists as the most balanced health food. These substances can maintain blood vessel elasticity and are very effective in preventing and treating habitual constipation in the elderly.
2. Dried Hawthorn
Different from hawthorn slices that require a large amount of sugar and additives, dried hawthorn is made by directly dehydrating hawthorn. It has a high fiber content and is rich in vitamins, hawthorn acid, citric acid, and other nutrients. It tastes good and can be considered as a good food for digestion, awakening the stomach, and assisting in digestion.
3. Monkey Head Mushroom
Monkey Head Mushroom contains unsaturated fatty acids, which are beneficial to blood circulation and can lower blood cholesterol levels. It can improve the body's immune function, delay aging, inhibit the synthesis of genetic materials in cancer cells, and prevent and treat digestive diseases such as gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers, and gastritis.
4. Red Dates
Red dates contain triterpenoids and adenosine triphosphate, which have strong anti-cancer and anti-allergy effects. In addition, jujubes can increase the secretion of gastric and intestinal mucus, correct gastrointestinal lesions, and protect the liver.
5. Pumpkin
Pumpkin is very beneficial for maintaining the spleen and stomach and aiding digestion. From a nutritional standpoint, pumpkin is rich in vitamin A, which can protect the gastric mucosa and prevent diseases such as gastritis and gastric ulcers.
Stomach-nourishing porridge
1. Eight Treasure Porridge
Take 5 grams each of lotus seeds, fox nuts, coix seeds, Chinese yam, longan, red dates, and white beans, and 100 grams of rice. Cook and consume as porridge. It can nourish qi and blood, invigorate the spleen, and is suitable for physical weakness, poor appetite, and qi and blood deficiency.
2. Coix Seed and Red Bean Porridge
Take 15 grams of coix seeds, 15 grams of red beans, and 100 grams of rice. Cook and consume as porridge. It can promote diuresis, eliminate dampness, invigorate the spleen, and is suitable for poor appetite, bloating in the stomach, and edema due to spleen deficiency and dampness.
3. Ginseng and Red Date Porridge
Take 15 grams of ginseng, 10 red dates, and 100 grams of rice. Cook and consume as porridge. It can invigorate the spleen and qi, and is suitable for physical weakness, poor appetite, and bloating in the stomach.
