What porridge to drink for stomach cold

Friends who suffer from stomach cold need to pay special attention to their diet. Because the stomach's tolerance is worse than that of ordinary people, they should try to avoid cold or irritating foods. Friends with cold stomach can drink more nourishing porridge, such as yam and wolfberry porridge, sheep astragalus and glutinous jujube porridge, pepper porridge and other warm tonic porridges, which can properly regulate the health of the stomach.

What kind of porridge is good for stomach cold?

What is stomach cold? It generally refers to stomach pain caused by cold weather or eating cold food. The symptoms will be relieved after warming up. Drinking a bowl of hot porridge in the morning in winter is the most nourishing thing. Porridge can regulate the spleen and stomach, calm the nerves and help sleep. It is especially beneficial for people with bad stomachs. It can help and promote digestion and absorption. Cooking porridge with different ingredients can also have different health effects.

1. Chinese Yam and Wolfberry Porridge

Preparation method: 600 grams of yam, 50 grams of rice, a little wolfberry, rock sugar and green onion. Soak the rice for half an hour, wash the yam, peel it and cut it into pieces. Put the soaked rice into a pot, add water and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Then add wolfberry, yam pieces, rock sugar and green onions and cook together, stirring slightly, for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: Fresh yam nourishes the stomach, helps regulate digestion and endocrine system, and is best eaten when cooked into porridge. This porridge strengthens the spleen and stomach, nourishes the kidneys and lungs, calms the nerves and helps sleep. Regular consumption can also improve a yellowish complexion.

2. Lamb, Astragalus, Glutinous Jujube Porridge

Preparation method: 150 grams of mutton, 10 grams of astragalus, 10 red dates (pitted), 5 grams of dried ginger, and 100 grams of glutinous rice. Boil the glutinous rice, then add the mutton, astragalus, red dates (pitted), galangal, and glutinous rice and cook until cooked. Add a little salt to taste and serve.

Efficacy: It has the effects of warming yang, replenishing qi, and strengthening the stomach. It can treat symptoms such as cold stomachache and chills in the limbs.

3. Ginger porridge

Preparation method: 15 grams of galangal powder and 100 grams of rice. First put the galangal powder into the porridge pot, add 2000 ml of water, simmer over medium heat until 1500 ml is left, remove the galangal residue, then add washed rice and cook over low heat until it becomes porridge. Take while warm.

Efficacy: This porridge can warm the stomach, promote qi circulation, dispel cold and relieve pain. Suitable for stomach pain caused by spleen and stomach deficiency or wind-cold.

4. Pepper porridge

Preparation method: 5 grams of pepper, 50 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of salt. Select the peppercorns, boil them in water to extract the juice, add them to rice and cook into porridge. When it is cooked, add salt and other ingredients, and boil it for one or two more times. Alternatively, grind 1 gram of peppercorns into fine powder and add it to the porridge. Take 1 dose per day for 3 to 5 consecutive days.

Efficacy: It can warm the middle and dispel cold, strengthen the stomach and relieve pain. It is suitable for cold pain in the abdomen, loss of appetite, poor appetite, and cold limbs caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness.

5. Pumpkin porridge

Preparation: Peel and clean a fresh pumpkin, steam it in a steamer until soft, then mash it into a paste. Put rice in a pot, add water and bring to a boil, then add the pumpkin paste and cook while stirring until the rice and pumpkin are soft and tasty.

Efficacy: Pumpkin is warm in nature, sweet in taste, enters the spleen and stomach meridians, can warm the stomach and dispel cold, and is a very mild stomach-nourishing food. Modern medicine has also proven that pumpkin contains soluble dietary fiber (pectin), vitamins A, B, C, citrulline and arginine. Soluble fiber is an important guarantee for maintaining the normal structure and function of the gastrointestinal tract, and has the function of protecting the gastrointestinal mucosa.

6. Poria porridge

Preparation method: 5 grams of ginseng, 20 grams of poria, 5 grams of ginger, and appropriate amount of rice. Slice the ginseng and ginger, mash the poria, soak in water for more than half an hour, boil, remove the residue and take the juice, then add the glutinous rice to cook porridge.

Efficacy: Poria can strengthen the spleen and stomach, calm the nerves, protect the liver and kidneys, and enhance immunity. This prescription is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, easy fatigue, sallow or pale complexion. Regular consumption can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi and eliminate deficiency and cold.

7. Fennel porridge

Preparation method: 10-15 grams of fennel and 50-100 grams of glutinous rice. Put fennel into a casserole with clean water and boil it, take out the juice and remove the residue; wash the japonica rice clean. Put the pot on the fire, add the rice and medicinal juice and cook into porridge.

Efficacy: Fennel can strengthen the stomach and dispel cold. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is a pain reliever. This porridge has the effects of promoting qi and relieving pain, strengthening the spleen and appetite, and promoting lactation. It is suitable for treating symptoms such as stomach cold vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and gas, and lack of milk.

8. Astragalus, Codonopsis and Inner Gold Porridge

Preparation method: 15 grams of raw astragalus, 20 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams each of raw coix seed and red bean, 10 grams of chicken gizzard powder, 5 grams of tangerine peel, and 80 grams of glutinous rice. Add raw astragalus to water and boil for 20 minutes, take the juice, add coix seed, red bean, glutinous rice and cook into porridge, then add chicken gizzard powder.

Efficacy: This porridge has the effect of digesting food and soothing the stomach. It is used to treat abdominal distension, loss of appetite, physical fatigue and loose stools caused by spleen deficiency, dampness and food stagnation.

It is reminded that patients with stomach problems should not eat too much sweet porridge. To avoid acid reflux and bloating due to insufficient gastric motility, a little shredded ginger or tangerine peel can be added to the porridge.