Ai Jiaren | How to self-regulate for a weak spleen and stomach?

Stomach diseases are mostly related to people’s intemperance of diet, while temperament diseases are related to people’s overwork. Although the causes of spleen and stomach diseases are different, they must be nourished together. The spleen and stomach have four fears: first, cold, second, life, third, support, and fourth, anger, such as all kinds of cold drinks, raw vegetables and fruits, etc., which will carry cold energy in the body, which is most likely to hurt the spleen and stomach. How to regulate the spleen and stomach?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bad emotions can affect the regulatory function of the liver, which in turn affects the spleen and stomach. When a person is angry, resentful or anxious, the stomach is congested and red like the face; when a person is sad, depressed or depressed, the stomach becomes pale, the secretion of gastric juice is insufficient, and the activity decreases. It can be seen that learning to laugh is the best gift for the spleen and stomach.

You can also adjust your diet and life. Millet red dates porridge, lotus seed yam porridge, sand ginger Ophiopogon lentil porridge are all good choices. The mood needs to be kept cheerful and free from mental trauma caused by excessive fatigue, worry, sadness, terror, tension and other factors. Use your brain less before meals, focus on eating, rest less after meals, and develop good living habits. Pay attention to keeping warm, especially the abdomen, and do not sleep in the cold in summer. Exercise regularly to enhance physical fitness, and properly do Inner Yang Qigong, health exercises and Tai Chi.

All foods that are cold and easy to damage the temper are taboo foods, such as bitter gourd, cucumber, wax gourd, eggplant, water spinach, celery, amaranth, water spinach, Lettuce, golden needle, persimmon, banana, loquat, pear, watermelon, mung bean, tofu, naked oat, etc. Foods that easily hinder the function of spleen movement, such as duck, pork, soft-shelled turtle, oyster, milk, sesame, etc. Foods that are easy to deplete the temper, such as buckwheat; hawthorn, radish, coriander, etc.