Dietary conditioning for children with spleen and stomach deficiency

Most of the manifestations of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness are weak stomach and spleen and stomach. In addition, due to weather reasons and daily living habits, or failure to adjust one's eating habits in time, the main factors causing spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness are diarrhea, loss of appetite, and poor stomach. Nowadays, many children are prone to partial eating and picky eating. At this time, parents should pay attention to the occurrence of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness in their children. How to regulate the diet of children with spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness?

The syndrome of spleen and stomach deficiency and cold is caused by congenital spleen deficiency, or long-term spleen deficiency, which affects the spleen yang and makes the spleen yang also deficient. Eating too much raw and cold food can damage the spleen, leading to spleen yang deficiency that is unable to warm the gastrointestinal tract, and coldness is generated from within. Chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, duodenitis, malabsorption syndrome, and ulcerative colitis often present or are accompanied by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold syndrome.

Foods that are cold in nature and can easily damage the yang energy of the spleen and stomach, such as buckwheat, oats, mung beans, tofu, spinach, water spinach, eggplant, black fungus, day lily, lettuce, winter melon, celery, amaranth, wild rice stem, cucumber, bitter melon, watermelon, persimmon, banana, loquat, pear, peach, etc.

Foods that are thick and greasy, difficult to digest, and easily hinder the functioning of the spleen and stomach, such as pork, duck, turtle meat, oyster meat, glutinous rice, etc.

Foods that have the effect of promoting qi and aiding digestion, but can damage vital energy and aggravate deficiency and cold, such as hawthorn, radish, leek, coriander, etc.

Diet therapy

a. Red Date and Indica Rice Porridge: 7 large red dates and 50 grams of indica rice, simmer together in clean water over low heat until cooked, add 10 grams of brown sugar and serve hot.

b. Shredded tripe soup: Wash the beef or pork tripe, boil it in clean water for 3 minutes, then remove it from the pot, pour out the original soup, add clean water and simmer until it is 70% cooked, add appropriate amount of salt, cooking wine, pepper, and fennel and continue cooking. When it is cooked through, remove it from the pot, let it cool until it is not hot to the touch, cut into 100 grams of shreds, put it into a large bowl, add three slices of fresh ginger and appropriate amount of MSG, pour the soup from the second cooking into the bowl of shredded tripe until it covers the shredded tripe, steam it in a steamer for 45 minutes and serve hot.

c. Fennel buns: Chop 100 grams of fennel and 50 grams of boneless and skinless chicken, mix them evenly, add appropriate amount of fresh ginger juice, pepper powder, MSG, salt and sesame oil, mix well to make the stuffing; use the wheat flour to make the dough, put the stuffing in the dough, pinch it into buns, steam it in a steamer over high heat for 20 minutes and serve hot.

The above article introduces the dietary conditioning methods for children with weak spleen and stomach, as well as what to pay attention to for children. First of all, weak spleen and stomach is caused by the fact that children are always picky eaters on weekdays, and parents do not pay attention and often take their children to eat foods like KFC. Over time, their children's stomachs are affected. The main factor causing this is that we should pay attention to the reasonable combination of children's diet.