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Food therapies on Diarrhoea

Diarrhea is a common disease of digestive system, where patients have increased defecation, loose stool or diarrhea with undigested food, even stool alike water form.

General foods:

  • 1 Stored rice:Fry to burnt rice and apply;or smash the rice into flour, fry to burnt, take 6 grams each time of 2~3 times a day.

  • 2 Soybean skin:burn the skin into shaes, take 6~9 grams with boiled water.

  • 3 Fresh ma chi xian 200 grams, clean and smash for juice; or boil it of 60~90 grams, drink as tea.

  • 4 Proper vinegar, 2 duck eggs, cook well, eat eggs and drink vinegar.

  • 5 Qiao mai noodles: Eat as soup noodles or other meals for 3~4 days.

  • 6 3~5 grams of tea, salt, garlic each 3 grams, garlic paste, add appropriate amount of salt, stir-fry with slow fire, then drink with boiled water.

  • 7 Pig trip: stuff with appropriate amount of garlic.

A. Cold damp Diarrhea

clinical manifestations:

Loose stool, abdominal pain, fullness in gastral cavity, abdominal distension, dislike cold, fever, headache, body pain, poor appetite, thin white tongue coating, slow pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Disperse coldness and resolving dampness, antidiarrheal.

Food therapies:

Ginger porridge:ginger 5g, red dates 3-5 pieces, rice 100g. Boil the ginger and collect the juice, make porridge with red dates and rice. Apply one time a day as breakfast.

B.Dampheat Diarrhea

clinical manifestations:

Abdominal pain and diarrhea, anal burning, upset and thirsty, urinate short red or body heat, yellow greasy tongue coating, rapid and slippery pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Clear heat and remove dampness.

Food therapies:

  • 1 Che qian cao porridge:che qian cao 20 grams, fu ling 15 grams, boil it and collect juice, add 50 grams of rice, make porridge. Apply 2 times a day.

  • 2 Qing hao Mung bean porridge:5 grams qing hao, 60 grams of watermelon peel, proper fresh lotus leaf, mung bean 30 grams, 12 grams of chi fu ling. Boil qing hao, watermelon peel, chi fu ling into the pot, collect juice; boil mung bean, lotus leaf into porridge, remove lotus leaf, add the former juice, boil another round. Apply 2 times a day for 1 week.

C. Kidney yang deficiency Diarrhea

More than jiuxie, watery stool or non-transformation of food, pale, apathetic, cold limbs, pale tongue, thin white fur, pulse fine.

clinical manifestations:

Warm the yang and antidiarrheal.

Food therapies principles:

  • 1 Fu zi fu ling porridge:fu zi 6 grams, fu ling 20 grams, 60 grams of rice. First boil the fu zi for 30~50 minutes, take juice, add fu ling, rice and make porridge. Apply twice a day.

  • 2 Gui xin fu ling porridge:gui xin 2 grams, fu ling 10 grams, sang bai pi 3 grams, 50 grams of rice. Boil the first three for juice, add rice and make porridge. Apply 1 time a day for 4~5 days.

D. dyspepsia caused by excessive eating or improper diet

clinical manifestations:

Abdominal distension and pain, halitosis, loss of appetite, sour stool, relieved abdominal pain, thick and greasy tongue coating, slippery pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Help digest and clear stagnation.

Food therapies

  • 1 Shen qu fu ling porridge:shen qu 15 grams, fu ling 15 grams, 50 grams of rice. Smash the shen qu, mix with fu ling powder, make porridge. Apply 1 time a day for continuous 3~4 days.

  • 2 Tea fu ling porridge:old tea leaves 10 grams, fu ling 10 grams, 50 grams of rice, old tea. Boil tea leaves and collect juice, smash fu ling into powder, add rice and make porridge. Apply once a day as tea.

E. Spleen stomach deficiency coldness diarrhea

clinical manifestations:

Diarrhea; abdominal pain;poor appetite;lassitude;bad complexion;Pale tongue, weak pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Tonifying spleen and

Food therapies

Eight ingredients cake:yi yi ren, qian shi, bian dou, lotus seed, Chinese yam each 90 grams, dang shen, fu ling each 60 grams, 30 grams bai zhu, 240 grams of sugar. Smash them all. Mix with ground rice, water and steam well.