Why diet is especially emphasized for spleen and stomach diseases

  Just like how to make a barren piece of land grow crops, the maintenance of our stomach also encounters many issues of concern. Ancient Chinese medicine believes that stomach diseases need “three parts treatment, seven parts conditioning”.  At present, popular books on diet and disease prevention and treatment are particularly popular. The author has collected a lot of recipes for the reader, which is a good intention. But the reader should use scientific thinking to absorb its essence, to discover the corresponding conditioning methods with their own physique. If you follow them blindly, you will sometimes have problems. Recently some patients with stomach problems especially love to use mung beans, ginger, loach to maintain health, these three things are very good food. However, if you do not dial the body, do not pay attention to the cooking method, may bring unnecessary harm to the organism. Specifically: mung beans are cold food, only hot body can often use. Ginger is warm, only the cold body can be used for a short time. Loach can be tonic, but common sense tells us that it must be repeatedly washed and fully cooked. We often see some patients in the clinic because they do not understand the body, long-term misuse of mung beans lead to abdominal pain, misuse of ginger lead to bleeding, misuse of raw loach and more than diarrhea.  1, harmonious diet without partiality: stomach as our important digestive organs, it is always the first to taste the cold, warm, hot and sour, sweet and bitter, the first to bear the brunt of our daily diet. Food too sour, too sweet, too salty, too bitter, too spicy can hurt our stomach, and after the treatment of gastric disease should not make the five flavors have preferences. The usual diet should be more light, less fatty and sweet, more vitamin-rich food to help protect the gastric mucosa and improve its defense ability, and promote the repair of local lesions. Western medicine often uses folic acid in prevention to regulate gastric diseases, which is justified. Because folic acid is mainly found in green vegetables, it protects the gastric mucosa and improves its defenses. For patients with stomach problems, we recommend a variety of vegetables and fruits, but moderation is good, not too much. It is not a misconception that patients with stomach problems have long-term consumption of thin rice and noodles. Because long-term consumption of thin rice, the stomach is filled greatly, and the stomach acid is diluted, the initial digestion of the stomach is not necessarily beneficial. And a lot of water habit is not conducive to the recovery of chronic gastric disease, so patients with gastric disease should drink less water in moderation. Long-term use of fresh milk helps to recover from chronic gastric disease and physical weakness. Yogurt is also a good choice. But do not use yogurt if your stomach acid is high.  The stomach disease over time often leads to weakness of the stomach, and often there is a fire image on the top and a cold underneath, which is called a deficiency in Chinese medicine, hot and cold mixed. So in terms of diet, not because of the “fire” over-eating cold and make the stomach deficiency more cold, but also not because of the “cold” more spicy hot things to make the false fire more on the inflammation. Stomach disease often stomach acid secretion is not normal, so do not eat more sweet or too salty and starchy food. Stomach disease is often dysfunctional, so try to eat less hard and greasy indigestible food.  2, medicine and food supplement both appropriate This statement does not mean that there is no need to seek medical advice, but emphasizes that in the treatment at the same time, the correct diet can do to maintain our stomach. Cooking should be steamed, boiled, boiled, braised, less hard, rough food. When eating without haste, make the food in the mouth fully chewed, mixed with saliva fully and then slowly swallowed, which is conducive to digestion and repair after the disease. To pay attention to the regulation of dietary temperature in all seasons, grasp the hot and cold food moderate, the spleen and stomach deficiency cold people should be especially prohibited from eating cold food, liver depression and gas stagnation avoid eating immediately after anger. Regular diet to regular three meals a day eating style. Some experts also believe that gastric disease is not caused by a bad stomach alone, and therefore, nourishing the stomach should also take into account the spleen and liver. Chinese medicine believes that the early spring diet should be pungent and warm, light, because pungent and warm can dispel cold, light can benefit moisture, so that the body can resist the attack of wind and cold, wind and dampness of the evil, such as yam, poria, etc.. Can be used flat tonic diet. Foods with this effect are: buckwheat, barley and other cereals, soy milk, adzuki beans and other beans, oranges, apples and other fruits, as well as sesame seeds, walnuts, etc., can be taken for a long time. Spring weather dampness, easy to trap the spleen, so more should eat less prone to wet, stagnant food. Temperature changes, so the nutritional composition of the spring should be mainly high calorie, as hot and cold stimulation can accelerate the decomposition of protein in the body, resulting in lower resistance of the body and cause disease, it is necessary to supplement high-quality protein food, such as eggs, fish, chicken and soy products. In spring, the liver is vigorous, and it is easy to attack the spleen and earth and cause spleen and stomach diseases, while sour taste is the original taste of liver, so at this time we should reduce sour taste and increase sweet taste, such as jujube and yam.  For those who have yin deficiency and internal heat in spleen and stomach disease, the method of clear tonic can be used. Fruit therapy is most appropriate: these foods are: pear, lotus root, sugar cane, lily, etc.. These foods are cool in nature. After eating them, they have a clearing and anti-inflammatory effect, which helps to improve the poor constitution.