How to regulate spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness after childbirth

Every mother should pay attention to her body's recovery after giving birth, so as not to suffer from postpartum diseases, which will have serious consequences for her life. Spleen and stomach deficiency is a disease caused by the invasion of cold air or frequent consumption of raw, cold and irritating foods. Therefore, pregnant women are also prone to spleen and stomach deficiency due to their weak body after delivery. How should we treat the problem of postpartum spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness?

Pregnant women with weak spleen and stomach mainly rely on diet to regulate

1. Prohibited food

Pregnant women can eat foods that can nourish the spleen and replenish qi, wake up the spleen and stimulate appetite and help digestion, such as japonica rice, indica rice, rice crust (scorched pot), cooked lotus root, chestnut, yam, lentil, cowpea, beef, chicken, rabbit meat, beef tripe, pork tripe, mandarin fish, grapes, red dates, carrots, potatoes, and shiitake mushrooms.

Foods that are cold in nature and can easily damage the spleen should be eaten less or not at all, such as bitter melon, cucumber, wax gourd, eggplant, water spinach, celery, amaranth, wild rice stem, lettuce, day lily, persimmon, banana, loquat, pear, watermelon, mung bean, tofu, and oatmeal.

The same is true for foods that are thick and greasy and can easily hinder the spleen's function of transporting and transforming, such as duck meat, pork, turtle meat, oyster meat, milk, sesame, etc. Foods that are good for promoting qi and eliminating accumulation and that can easily damage the spleen should also be avoided, such as buckwheat, hawthorn, radish, coriander, etc.

2. Medicinal Points and Medicinal Meals

Medicinal snacks and medicated rice are a method of preventing and treating diseases by combining grains with certain foods and medicines to make rice, cakes, biscuits, buns, steamed buns and other staple foods or snacks.

Tangerine Cake: 10 grams of fresh tangerine peel, crush into fine particles, soak in sugar, and then mix with flour to make cakes. Suitable for loss of appetite, indigestion, cough and excessive sputum.

Cardamom buns: Sprinkle 6 grams of white cardamom powder into an appropriate amount of flour, and then steam it into buns. It is suitable for abdominal bloating and loss of appetite.

Yam rice: 30 grams each of yam, lotus seeds, millet and lentils, wash and chop, peel the lotus seeds, core them and cook them until they are soft, then cook them together with japonica rice. It is suitable for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and loss of appetite.

Eight Immortals Cake: Astragalus, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese yam,

Amomum villosum lotus root powder: 5 grams of Amomum villosum, 2 grams of Panax notoginseng, 30 grams of lotus root powder, and appropriate amount of white sugar. Grind Amomum villosum and Panax notoginseng into fine powder and mix well. Suitable for stomach bloating and pain, vomiting and poor appetite.

Hemp seed corn cake: 30 grams each of hemp seeds and sesame seeds, appropriate amount of corn flour and brown sugar. Grind the hemp seeds, wash the sesame seeds, add corn flour and mix well, then add brown sugar and water to make the cake. Suitable for constipation caused by spleen deficiency and blood deficiency.

Ginger and Sugar Sweet Potato: Cook 500 grams of sweet potato, 2 slices of ginger and appropriate amount of honey together. Suitable for dry intestines and constipation.

3. Recipe recommendations

Japonica rice porridge: 50 grams of japonica rice, 10 grams of raisins. Use appropriate amount of water to cook the rice until it is 90% cooked, then add raisins and stew together until it is mushy.

Mushroom beef soup: Soak 10 grams of mushrooms, wrap 30 grams of lean beef with flour, add mushrooms after the soup boils, then put in beef slices, add appropriate amount of MSG, salt and sesame oil, and bring to a boil.

Stir-fried beef tripe and shredded potatoes: Cut 50 grams of cooked beef tripe into shreds, and 80 grams of potatoes. After cutting into shreds, rinse with clean water to remove the surface starch. After heating the oil in a pan, add a little shredded green onion and minced garlic, then stir-fry the tripe and potato shreds, and add appropriate amount of beef broth, salt and MSG. The shredded potato balls are cooked.

Lentil-filled buns: Two portions of fresh lentils and one portion of chicken, chop them up, add salt, MSG, fresh ginger juice and pepper water, mix well as the filling, use wheat flour to make the dough, pinch them into buns, place them in a steamer, and steam them over high heat for 20 minutes.