Several nutritious and delicious porridges, good helpers for nourishing and protecting the stomach

We know that stomach health is important for us to digest food and absorb nutrients. People with poor stomachs often feel bloated and indigestion. For people with bad stomachs, we recommend drinking more porridge, because porridge puts less burden on the stomach and the nutrients are easily absorbed.

1: 100 grams of oatmeal, 300 grams of milk, 100 grams of sugar, 5 grams of butter, and salt to taste. Cook the oatmeal into porridge (soak it in water for about half an hour first). When it is almost cooked, add milk and cook for about 10 minutes. Add sugar, butter and salt and cook until the oatmeal is soft. It can replenish qi and strengthen the stomach, and can treat frequent epigastric pain, abdominal distension, belching and acid reflux. It is also a therapeutic diet for people with gastric or duodenal ulcers.

Cook 15 grams of coix seed, 15 grams of red bean and 100 grams of polished rice into porridge. It can drain dampness and promote diuresis, strengthen the spleen and replenish Qi. It is suitable for poor appetite, abdominal distension, and edema caused by spleen deficiency and dampness.

Take 15 grams of Northern Adenophora each time, mash it, select 50 grams of polished rice and an appropriate amount of rock sugar, put them into a casserole, add 500 ml of water, and cook until the ginseng is rotten and the rice is crispy, and the soup is thick and oily. Or use 30 grams of fresh Northern Adenophora, wash and slice it, and cook it into thick porridge in the same way; if you use Adenophora australis to cook porridge, first grind it into fine powder, use 15 grams of the powder each time, add it to the porridge, and cook it into thick porridge. Take warm twice a day, morning and evening. A course of treatment is 3 to 5 days. It has the functions of moistening the lungs and nourishing the stomach, clearing away heat and nourishing yin, and removing phlegm and relieving cough.

15 grams of lotus seeds, 15 grams of Euryale ferox, 100 grams of polished rice, and 5 grams of Psoralea corylifolia, cook into porridge and eat. It can strengthen the spleen, replenish qi and nourish the stomach, tonify the kidney and consolidate essence. It is suitable for loss of appetite, abdominal distension, cold body and limbs, and soreness of waist and knees caused by deficiency of both spleen and kidney.

1: Add mulberry grains and mulberry juice to cooked rice porridge, millet porridge, oatmeal porridge and other white porridges. It can help with bowel movements, nourish the stomach, relieve summer heat and clear away heat.

1: Cook porridge with 90 grams of yam, 40 grams of lily, 15 dates, 30 grams of coix seed and appropriate amount of rice. Take twice daily. Yam has the function of nourishing the spleen and stomach; lily has the function of clearing away heat and moistening dryness; jujube and coix seed have the function of nourishing the spleen and stomach. The combination of these ingredients has the effect of nourishing yin and stomach, clearing away heat and moistening dryness. This porridge is especially suitable for patients whose stomach problems are diagnosed as insufficient stomach yin by traditional Chinese medicine. Patients often show symptoms such as dull pain in the stomach, loss of appetite when hungry, dry mouth and throat, weight loss, red tongue with little coating, and thin pulse.

People with irregular diet should not drink porridge, but should choose other foods that are easy to digest and absorb, such as soft pasta such as noodles, chew them slowly to promote digestion. When cooking porridge, you should also add an appropriate amount of alkali to balance the acidity, which is more beneficial to nourishing the stomach.