What foods can strengthen the spleen?

Here are some foods that can strengthen the spleen:

1. What can I eat to strengthen the spleen?

Apple is a kind of health-care fruit, which has the effects of invigorating spleen and qi, benefiting stomach, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, and can improve spleen deficiency, anorexia, deficiency of stomach yin, stomachache due to yin deficiency and so on. 500g of apples, sago 100g, sugar 100g, and appropriate amount of water, and boiled into porridge. Apple porridge has the functions of promoting fluid production, moistening lung, relieving summer heat, and invigorating stomach. It is suitable for asthenia, nausea, dyspepsia, enteritis and dysentery, dry stool and hypertension.

2. What can I eat to strengthen the spleen?

Yam contains amylase and other nutrients. Yam can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, which is helpful for human digestion. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica says "tonify spleen and kidney, cure all diseases, treat five strains and seven injuries". Poor diet and partial eclipse can easily lead to gastrointestinal discomfort, and eating yam can also help. Yam belongs to starch root vegetables. It is advisable to steam when eating, and avoid cooking methods such as frying and frying.

3. What can I eat to strengthen the spleen?

Has the functions of promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis, stimulating appetite and helping digestion. In ancient medical books, it was also recorded that the method of "raw chewing" white radish was used to treat food retention. In fact, it is very scientific for the ancients to choose the treatment of "raw chewing" white radish. This is because amylase and lignin, which help digestion, are not heat-resistant and are destroyed at a high temperature of 70℃. Need to remind everyone that although white radish has a good digestive function, it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold because of its cool nature. People with chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer should not eat a lot of white radish. It is best to fry or stew.

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The importance of strengthening the spleen:

The spleen is located in the upper part of the left abdominal cavity, below the diaphragm, connected with the stomach through the membrane, "shaped like a dog's tongue and comb", and forms the spleen system with the stomach, meat, lips and mouth. Spleen is one of the peripheral immune organs, and its main functions are: supplying blood, filtering blood, storing blood and producing lymphocyte immunity.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are "the foundation of the day after tomorrow", and there is a saying that "the spleen and stomach are injured internally, and all diseases are born". Zhang Jingyue, a famous medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, also put forward the view that "spleen and stomach should be the first priority in health preservation", and said that spleen and stomach are the foundation and axis of the body, and its importance can be seen in general.

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10 All kinds of foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach have good effects-People's Daily Online