What should I do if I accumulate food after eating and drinking in the New Year? TCM Health Reminder: Medicinal Food Escort

Source: Guangming Network

Experts in this issue: Wei Wei, Department of Nutrition, Oriental Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

It is about to be the Lunar New Year, and the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger. If you want to say the thing that can best set off the festive atmosphere, it is not to eat. Food culture has a long history in China, and eating fragrant, spicy, drinking in large bowls, and eating meat in large mouths is given the meaning of embodying a better life. However, with the development of the economy, the prosperity of agricultural products, eating and drinking, not only can not symbolize a happy life, but also bring about health risks. So, if you accidentally eat too much and drink too much, is there any way for Chinese medicine to solve it?

In traditional Chinese medicine dietary therapy, there is a special type of medicinal diet that has the effect of digesting food and relieving alcohol. It contains foods and medicinal materials that are mainly used to consume alcohol and anti-alcohol drugs and foods, and have the effects of digesting food and stagnation, relieving alcohol and waking up drunk. This kind of medicinal diet is suitable for eating uncontrollably, excessive eating of fatty and greasy or raw cold and cold food or drinking, resulting in symptoms such as drunkenness or stomach pain, stomach bloating, bloating, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal discomfort symptoms.

Usually after eating and drinking, there are several different reactions. 1. Stomach bloating, stomach acid hiccups, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, etc., which are manifestations of food accumulation. 2. Stomach pain likes to press, abdominal pain likes to rub, do not think about eating, faceless, loose stool, which belongs to the manifestation of spleen and stomach weakness. 3. Dizziness and headache, nausea and vomiting, dry mouth and thirst, hot body, etc., which is a manifestation of drunkenness. In view of several different reactions after eating and drinking, we will introduce several simple and easy medicinal diet recipes to everyone, and everyone can try them at home.

Food accumulation - consumption of food stagnation

Hawthorn malt tea

Source: Chinese Medicinal Diet

Composition: Hawthorn 10g, raw malt 10g

Preparation Method: Wash and slice the hawthorn, put it in a cup with malt, pour boiling water, cover and brew for 30 minutes, then drink instead of tea.

Solution: Hawthorn and raw malt are commonly used drugs for digestion and stagnation, and they are also food. Hawthorn, commonly known as "mountain red", "red fruit", etc., is a dry ripe fruit of the rosaceae plant mountain red or hawthorn, with a sour taste and slightly sweet taste. Hawthorn contains a lot of vitamin C and has certain nutritional value. In addition, the lipase contained in hawthorn can promote fat digestion, and the sweet and sour taste can stimulate gastric acid secretion, which has the effect of helping dairy products and meat food digestion. Raw malt contains proteolytic enzymes and B vitamins, which are mostly used to eliminate rice noodles, potato food accumulation, and food stagnation. This medicinal diet is brewed together with hawthorn and raw malt, which has the effect of digestion and stagnation of the stomach, and is often used clinically to alleviate the symptoms of food accumulation, loss of appetite, stomach distension, nausea and vomiting caused by eating too much meat and dairy foods. And because the taste is sweet and sour, it is more suitable for the taste of the elderly, children and other groups of people, and it is easy to be accepted by them.

If you think that the way to make tea is too single, you can also brew the hawthorn and raw malt water, add japonica rice and boil it together into a porridge, add brown sugar to taste, and then eat it in parts. Although the effect of digestion is weaker, the effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach has been enhanced, and it is more suitable for the elderly and children.

Spleen and stomach weakness - healthy spleen and digestion

Stomach digestion custard