What are the medicinal foods that can strengthen the spleen?

The health of the spleen and stomach is very important to each of us. Therefore, we must protect our stomach and intestines. Pay attention to your daily diet and maintain a regular and normal schedule. Do you know any medicinal food that can protect the spleen and stomach? For example, yam, red dates and wolfberry. They are all very beneficial to the spleen and stomach. But do you know their specific methods and effects? Let me talk to you in detail about protecting the stomach and intestines and the medicinal food that can ensure gastrointestinal function. I hope everyone is in good health.

What should we eat to strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach? What are the foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach? Which medicinal foods can help strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach? Let’s take a look at three recipes for strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach.

Stewed Beef Tendon with Red Ginseng and Poria

Red ginseng, 8 grams of Poria cocos, 3 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 150 grams of beef tendon, and appropriate amount of ginger slices. Wash and slice the beef tendon, put it into a stewing pot together with the washed medicinal materials, add 300 ml of water, and stew it for 2 hours.

Nutritional analysis: Red ginseng tastes sweet, slightly bitter and neutral in nature. It can greatly replenish vital energy, nourish the spleen and lungs, promote the production of body fluids and calm the mind. It can be used for all symptoms of insufficient qi, blood and body fluids. Poria has a sweet and mild taste and is neutral in nature. It can strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, and calm the mind and soothe the nerves. Atractylodes macrocephala tastes sweet and slightly bitter, is warm in nature, and can strengthen the spleen, dry dampness, promote diuresis, and calm the fetus. Beef tendon is mild in nature and sweet in taste, and can replenish qi

Applicable people: those who suffer from epigastric distension and pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and loss of appetite due to weak spleen and stomach; those who are weak and malnourished after illness.

Chicken feet stew with lentils and barley

100 grams of chicken feet, 10 grams of lentils, 10 grams of coix seeds, 6 grams of Poria cocos, and 1 slice of ginger. Peel the chicken feet, wash and blanch them, then put them into a stewing pot together with the washed medicinal materials. Add 300 ml of water, stew for 2 hours, season and serve.

Nutritional analysis: Lentils are sweet and warm in nature, nourishing the spleen without being greasy, and warm but not dry; Job's tears are sweet and light in taste, and neutral in nature; and chicken feet are the best for strengthening tendons and bones.

Applicable people: Especially suitable for those who suffer from gastroenteritis caused by spleen deficiency and dampness and have diarrhea.

Red Ginseng, Dendrobium and Bamboo Chicken: 3 grams of red ginseng, 3 grams of dendrobium, 150 grams of bamboo chicken, and appropriate amount of ginger slices. Remove the feathers from the bamboo chicken, clean it, cut it into pieces, put it into a stewing pot with the cleaned medicinal materials, add 300 ml of water, and stew it over high heat for 2 hours.

Nutritional analysis: Red ginseng can greatly replenish vital energy, nourish the spleen and lungs, promote salivation and calm the mind. Dendrobium is sweet and mild in nature. It nourishes stomach yin, produces body fluid, nourishes kidney yin, moistens the lungs, strengthens the spleen and eliminates deficiency heat. Black chicken is used to treat symptoms such as fatigue, thirst, diarrhea, diarrhoea, metrorrhagia, and leucorrhea.

Applicable population: People with deficiency of both Qi and Yin who have symptoms such as fatigue, consumptive heat, dry mouth and tongue, insomnia, dreaminess, metrorrhagia and leucorrhea.

If your stomach and intestines are not in good condition, it will take a process to adjust them. This process may be long, but you need to persist. The recovery of the organs in the body requires a process, so don't worry. I wish you all good health.