What do I need to pay attention to in my diet for gastrointestinal disease?

  Many patients in outpatient and inpatient settings ask what diet they need to follow for gastrointestinal disease, what foods they can and cannot eat. It needs to be discussed in detail. For example, if the patient is identified as having a deficient spleen, we should use more foods that strengthen the spleen and benefit the qi, such as yam, white lentils, Chen Pi, lotus seeds, gorgonzola, jujube, cooked lotus root, etc., and eat less cold vegetables and fruits: cucumber, celery, banana, pear, watermelon, mangosteen, popcorn, etc. . If it is damp heat, we should use more lotus leaves, coix seeds, adzuki beans, papaya, poria, dandelion and other damp heat food, do not eat durian, mango, longan, litchi and other damp heat fruits. Yang deficiency should eat more mutton, rabbit, dog, pigeon, leek and other warm food, eat less cold food. Yin deficiency should eat more yu zhu, sage, rehmannia, etc., and eat less warm and dry food, fried and greasy food. When drinking patients need to stop drinking, Gehua, wolfberry, American ginseng infusion, eat more meat food can eat more hawthorn, habitual constipation patients can eat more coarse fiber food, cereal, powdered kudzu, eat more fruits and vegetables, eat less meat and protein food, you can try cassia seeds infusion, peach kernel, almonds cooked porridge.  There is another principle: the patient himself is the most accurate person to judge whether it is appropriate which food, rather than doctors, they eat certain foods appear uncomfortable feeling should try to avoid, they eat the kind of food comfortable, you can eat. These need to own in daily life carefully experience and observation!