Multiple appetizer dishes, perfect for you to try one by one. Detailed instructions make it easy for even kitchen beginners to create delicious meals. This comprehensive stomach-nourishing cookbook offers appetizing and stomach-friendly meal plans, nutritional values, and practical recipes. Its convenient size allows for quick reference, while rich color illustrations make it easy to follow. Promoting healthy concepts with diverse dishes, it offers quality at affordable prices, benefiting thousands of households.
Stomach-Nourishing Recipe Method
Ingredients: 1 papaya, 100g catfish tail.
Method: Peel and dice papaya. Briefly pan-fry catfish tail in oil. Add papaya and a few ginger slices, pour in sufficient water, and simmer for about 1 hour.
Benefits: Nourishing and digestive.Provides auxiliary relief for undigested food accumulation and chest/abdominal distension.
Nutritional Benefits: Papaya's papain enzyme aids digestion and absorption, effectively treating indigestion, dysentery, stomach pain, gastric ulcers, and duodenal ulcers. Its lipase breaks down fats into fatty acids, facilitating fat digestion and absorption.Papain also promotes and regulates pancreatic secretion, treating indigestion caused by pancreatic insufficiency. Grass carp has a sweet taste and warm nature. It functions to warm the stomach, harmonize the middle burner, and aid digestion. Ginseng, Astragalus, and Monkey Head Mushroom Stewed Chicken Ingredients: 100g monkey head mushroom,1 hen (approx. 750g), 10g each of astragalus root, codonopsis root, and red dates, appropriate amounts of ginger slices, scallion knots, Shaoxing wine, clear broth, and cornstarch.Remove the head and feet from the hen, chop into chunks, and place in a stewing pot. Add ginger slices, scallion knots, Shaoxing wine, and clear broth. Top with the monkey head mushroom slices and the softened, washed astragalus root, codonopsis root, and red dates. Simmer gently over low heat until the meat is tender and falling apart. Season to taste before serving.
Function: Tonifies qi, strengthens the spleen, and nourishes the stomach.
Nutritional Benefits: Monkey head mushroom, also known as Hericium erinaceus, aids digestion and benefits the five internal organs. Suitable for indigestion, gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers, chronic gastritis, gastritis, stomach pain, bloating, and neurasthenia. Chicken benefits qi, nourishes blood, strengthens the spleen and stomach, treats deficiency, and effectively nourishes the five organs.Astragalus fortifies qi and solidifies the exterior, promotes wound healing and tissue regeneration, stimulates hematopoiesis, and exhibits anti-ulcer and anti-inflammatory properties. Codonopsis tonifies the middle burner, boosts qi, nourishes blood, and generates fluids. Jujube strengthens the stomach, replenishes blood, and provides nourishing fortification.
Preparation: Clean the pig stomach. Stuff the cardamom and astragalus into the stomach. Simmer in water until tender. Season and serve.
Function: Boosts qi and strengthens the spleen, aids digestion and stimulates appetite. Suitable for spleen-stomach deficiency with poor appetite, loose stools, and epigastric pain. May be used for gastric ptosis and chronic gastritis.
Food Properties: Amomum villosum promotes qi circulation, harmonizes the stomach, and awakens the spleen, treating poor appetite and food stagnation. Clinically, appropriate doses stimulate digestive secretion and enhance gastrointestinal motility. Pig stomach fortifies the spleen-stomach and replenishes deficiencies.
Astragalus and Chicken Gizzard Porridge
Ingredients: 12g raw astragalus root, 10g each raw coix seed and red adzuki beans, 7g chicken gizzard powder, 1 kumquat cake, 80g glutinous rice.Recommended Reading: Light Vegetarian Diets May Alleviate Menstrual Cramps in Women
Preparation: Simmer raw astragalus in water for 20 minutes, strain the liquid, then add coix seeds, red adzuki beans, and glutinous rice to cook into porridge. Stir in chicken gizzard powder before serving.
Function: Promotes digestion and harmonizes the stomach. Addresses epigastric distension, loss of appetite, fatigue, and loose stools caused by spleen deficiency with dampness stagnation and food retention.
Food Properties: Astragalus tonifies qi, fortifies the exterior, and promotes wound healing. Job's tears strengthen the spleen, drain dampness, relieve arthralgia, and stop diarrhea. Red adzuki beans drain dampness, clear jaundice, clear heat, and detoxify. Chicken gizzard aids digestion and fortifies the spleen, increasing gastric acid secretion and motility while accelerating gastric emptying. Glutinous rice tonifies the middle burner and boosts qi.
Chinese Yam and Honey Decoction
Ingredients: 30g Chinese yam, 9g chicken gizzard lining, 15g honey.
Preparation: Decoct Chinese yam and chicken gizzard lining to extract liquid. Stir in honey until well blended. Take one dose daily, divided into two warm servings.
Function: Strengthens the spleen and aids digestion. Used for spleen-stomach deficiency with impaired transformation and transport, leading to undigested food accumulation and poor appetite.
Nutritional Benefits: Chinese yam fortifies the spleen and lungs, strengthens the kidneys, and nourishes essence. It addresses indigestion and pediatric anorexia. Its digestive enzymes promote protein and starch breakdown, enhancing appetite. Honey tonifies the middle energizer, benefits qi, moistens the intestines, and promotes bowel movements. It also exhibits astringent, nourishing, and wound-healing effects on skin surfaces.