Five different symptoms of stomach disease in spring
The spleen and stomach deficiency-cold type manifests as dull epigastric pain, preference for warmth and pressure, cold hands and feet, loose stools. These patients often lack yang energy. Ginger, jujubes, chives, lamb, brown sugar, and longan are suitable foods. Ginger, scallion, lamb, and brown sugar soup can be used for supplementation.
Stomach Yin Deficiency Type presents as a thin body, dull pain in the epigastrium, dry mouth and throat, and constipation. These patients often have insufficient stomach yin and should eat less warming foods like lamb, and more yin-nourishing foods such as yam, lotus root, and tomatoes. You can choose yam, coix seed, red date porridge, or lotus root and pork rib soup for nourishment. Food stagnation in the epigastric region: Manifested as abdominal distension and pain, belching and acid loss, poor appetite, and thick, greasy tongue coating. These patients often experience food stagnation internally. They can eat more hawthorn, radish, malt, kumquats, and other foods, and eat less acidic foods to prevent excessive liver qi in spring from harming the spleen and stomach. Acidic foods are also harmful to patients with peptic ulcers.
Liver-stomach Qi stagnation type: Manifested as irritability, epigastric distension and pain, and pain in both flanks. These patients can eat foods such as daylilies, lily bulbs, and roses, and also use psychological adjustment to stabilize their emotions.
Cold pathogen invasion of the stomach type: These patients often have a history of stomach cold, manifesting as epigastric colic and aversion to cold and preference for warmth. Spring is warm but then cold, and the climate changes can easily cause cold pathogens and stomach problems recur. At this time, foods such as ginger, green onions, onions, and perilla leaves can be eaten to disperse external cold and keep warm.
\Recommended Stomach-Nourishing Recipes
\1 Honey and Ginger Tea. One piece of ginger (about thumb-sized), peeled and shredded, boiled in an appropriate amount of water for 30 minutes, then added 2~3 tablespoons of honey. Regular consumption can warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen.
\2 Mutton Astragalus and Glutinous Jujube Porridge. Take 150g lamb, 10g astragalus, 10 red dates (pitted), 5g dried ginger, 100g glutinous rice, add water to cook porridge and season. It has the effects of warming yang, replenishing qi, and strengthening the stomach, and can treat symptoms such as cold stomach pain and cold limbs.
3 Amomum and Lamb Soup.Boil 10 grams of amomum, 3 grams of white pepper, several slices of fresh ginger, and an appropriate amount of lamb together to make a soup. Once cooked, add an appropriate amount of salt. Take twice a week. Suitable for those with stomach disorders characterized by spleen and stomach deficiency cold according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, manifesting as mild stomach pain, preference for warmth and pressure, vomiting clear fluids, cold limbs, fatigue, and weakness.4. Crucian Carp Porridge: Take 1000 grams of live crucian carp, 10 grams each of amomum and dried tangerine peel, two bulbs of garlic, 10 grams each of pepper and pickled chili, and appropriate amounts of green onions, refined salt, and soy sauce. Remove the scales, gills, and internal organs of the crucian carp and wash it clean. Put the dried tangerine peel, amomum, garlic, pepper, green onions, and salt into the fish cavity. Then fry the fish in an oil pan until cooked, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer into a porridge. It can awaken the spleen and warm the stomach, treating chronic abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency cold.
5. Cinnamon and Hawthorn Drink: Take 6 grams of cinnamon, 10 grams of hawthorn fruit, and 30 grams of brown sugar. First, decoct the hawthorn, then add the cinnamon. Once cooked, filter out the juice, add the brown sugar, mix well, and drink hot. It has the effect of warming the stomach and dispersing cold, and can treat stomach pain caused by cold food and drinks.
