There are 10 kinds of food that can warm the stomach when you have a cold stomach. Do you know which ones they are?

The weather is cold in winter, and many people suffer from recurrence of stomach problems. People with cold stomach will experience symptoms of epigastric pain, vomiting of clear saliva, bland mouth and preference for hot drinks. Once the weather turns cold, or if you eat cold food, it will cause pain. The pain is accompanied by a cold feeling in the stomach, and the symptoms will be alleviated by warming up. What can you eat to warm up your stomach?

1. Brown sugar

Brown sugar is warm in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the spleen. It has the effects of replenishing qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is also suitable for the elderly and children with anemia. Brown sugar, longan, and ginger juice are boiled together to make brown sugar, longan, and ginger water, which has the effect of replenishing blood and warming the middle, and no longer cold hands and feet in the cold winter.

2. Dog meat

Dog meat is a common food for warming up in autumn and winter. It is warm in nature and can warm up the stomach and strengthen yang. It is especially effective in treating some diseases of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness. In addition, if patients have cold hands and feet, fear of cold, and weak constitution, eating dog meat can play a good role in keeping warm.

3. Sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes (especially yellow-hearted ones) can provide the human body with a large amount of mucus protein, sugar, vitamin A and vitamin C. They can replenish deficiency, strengthen Qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach, strengthen kidney yin, and have the effects of harmonizing the stomach, warming the stomach, and benefiting the lungs. They can prevent atrophy of connective tissue in the liver and kidneys.

4. Hairtail

Hairtail is tender, fat and delicious. It has only one large bone in the middle and no other small thorns. It is easy to eat and has beneficial effects on symptoms such as weakness after illness and bleeding due to trauma. Chinese medicine believes that it can warm the stomach and replenish the body, moisturize the skin and beautify the skin.

5. Pepper

What can you eat to warm your stomach when you have a cold stomach? In fact, pepper soup is a good choice. Most peppers grow in high-temperature and long-term humid areas. They are spicy and hot in nature, so they have a stronger effect of warming the middle and dispelling cold and relieving pain. White pepper has a slightly higher medicinal value and a slightly lower seasoning effect. Its taste is spicier than black pepper, so it has a stronger function of dispelling cold and strengthening the stomach.

6. Ginger

As the saying goes, "Keep ginger at home and you won't panic when you have a minor illness." Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and has health benefits such as dispelling cold and sweating, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, soothing the stomach, and stopping vomiting. In addition, ginger is strong in warming and is very effective in treating stomach problems caused by coldness, and coldness in women. When cooking, add different auxiliary ingredients such as brown sugar, dates, and green tea, and it has endless uses.

7. Lychee

Lychees are sweet, sour and warm in nature, and can warm the stomach and dispel cold. Take 5-7 lychees, 7 red dates, 100 grams of polished rice, and an appropriate amount of sugar. First, remove the shells of the lychees, put them into a casserole together with the washed red dates and polished rice, add 500 grams of water, and cook until there is a layer of porridge oil on the surface of the porridge, then add sugar and cook until it melts. It has the effect of nourishing the lungs and warming the stomach.

8. Pork belly

Pork tripe, which is the stomach of a pig, is most commonly paired with pepper and blended into a pot. It has no fishy smell and the soup is milky white after it is cooked. It has unusual therapeutic effects such as warming the stomach and preventing cold. It is often used for children with weight loss, diarrhea due to spleen and stomach deficiency, frequent urination and inuria. It is a home-cooked dish during the period of warming and turning cold.

9. Lamb

Eating mutton in winter has the dual effects of nourishing the body and preventing cold. Mutton has the effects of nourishing qi and blood, warming the middle and nourishing the lower body, nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang, regenerating muscles and strengthening strength, and resisting wind and cold. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Mutton can warm the middle and nourish the body, nourish the middle and nourish qi, stimulate appetite and strengthen the body, benefit the kidney qi, nourish the gallbladder and improve eyesight, and treat deficiency, fatigue, cold, and the five fatigues and seven injuries."

10. Osmanthus tea

Drinking some osmanthus tea can warm the stomach. The ancients believed that osmanthus was the best of all medicines and could "dispel cold air." Osmanthus is warm in nature and spicy in taste. Boiling it in soup, making tea, or soaking it in wine can dissipate phlegm and blood stasis. It has a certain effect on loss of appetite, phlegm and cough, intestinal wind and bloody diarrhea, and abdominal pain caused by amenorrhea.