If you want to protect your stomach, especially during this Tet holiday, you should add the following vegetables to your menu.
Dill
Dill is considered a very good tonic during the winter season. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dill is good for controlling colds, dispelling colds and warming the body. Therefore, it is also known as the most powerful green leafy vegetable during the winter season.
Most vegetables are cold, but dill is warm. Dill is good for the stomach, has the effect of warming the stomach, dispelling cold, stopping diarrhea, and aiding digestion. People with weak spleen and stomach, prone to abdominal pain and diarrhea, can normally eat a lot of dill.
In addition, dill contains a large amount of essential oils, which can stimulate the digestive tract nerves and blood vessels, promote the secretion of digestive juices, increase gastrointestinal motility, and aid digestion. In addition, it can also reduce pain, nausea, and reduce stomach discomfort.
Because dill is warm, it is suitable for people who are afraid of cold in the winter and have cold hands and feet. You can eat it with meat or when cooking soup, you can add a handful of dill.
However, dill has a high sodium content, so people with high blood pressure and kidney disease who need to eat a low sodium diet should not eat it.
Garlic
Garlic is warm, spicy and hot, has the effect of clearing heat in the middle, replenishing Qi, dispersing blood stasis, and detoxifying. In addition, it can also stimulate blood circulation, warm and nourish yang, very suitable for people with cold hands and feet, poor blood circulation in the hands and feet. The volatile aromatic essential oil contained in garlic has the effect of warming the stomach and helping to increase appetite. Garlic contains a lot of fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal motility, and at the same time can remove waste in the digestive tract and excrete it through the stool. Therefore, garlic is also known as “intestinal cleansing vegetable”. In addition, eating garlic helps to clear the bowels, prevent constipation and intestinal cancer.
Research has shown that saponins, flavonoids and other substances in garlic have certain antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, which can help improve immunity and reduce blood lipids.
Chrysanthemum greens
Chrysanthemum greens were often used in the royal court in ancient China, so it was known as “the food of the Emperor”. This is not only a delicious dish but also very good for the stomach. Chrysanthemum stems and leaves can be eaten together, the taste is sweet, can nourish the spleen and stomach.
Tȏn Sima, the ancient Chinese medicine king, once recorded in his medical book that chrysanthemum can nourish the heart, nourish the spleen and stomach, and eliminate phlegm.