Ancient healers attached great importance to keeping the bowels clear. Ge Hong believes that: "the son wants not to die, no dregs in the intestines; the son wants to live forever, when the intestines are clear." Zhu Zhenheng also proposed in the "Danxi Xinfa": "five flavors into the mouth, that is, into the stomach, stay poisonous not dispersed, accumulated for a long time, resulting in injuries to the Chonghe, all diseases born." That is to say, the intestinal residue, turbid substances should be timely and constantly cleaned up, discharged from the body, in order to ensure the normal physiological function of the body. If the bowel movement is often not smooth, can lead to turbid gas on the disturbance, qi and blood inversion, visceral dysfunction, inducing a variety of diseases.
Chinese medicine believes that constipation is divided into two categories: real constipation and virtual constipation, real constipation, including heat constipation, gas constipation, cold constipation, etc., virtual constipation, including gas deficiency, blood deficiency, Yang deficiency. Most of the constipation of the weak and the elderly is a deficiency constipation, such patients are intolerant of drug attack, more suitable for the application of dietary therapy, and dietary therapy has a combination of offensive and complementary, laxative and does not hurt the positive characteristics, more conducive to the patient's positive qi to recover, an early recovery. The following to introduce to you a few suitable for false constipation patients laxative food.
Qi deficiency: Rabbit with Astragalus and Bamboo in Casserole
Constipation in qi deficiency is often manifested as: the stool is not dry, the toilet struggle is weak, difficult to discharge, weakness after defecation, sweating shortness of breath, white face, fatigue, tired and lazy speech. This kind of patients can take astragalus and bamboo boiled rabbit meat to improve the symptoms.
Ingredients: Astragalus 30 grams, 12 grams of bamboo, 250 grams of rabbit, salt.
Practice: cut rabbit meat into small cubes, put into the casserole; astragalus, jade bamboo to remove impurities, wrapped in clean gauze, and put into. Boil with a gentle fire, cook the rabbit meat is crispy and rotten, remove the package, put the right amount of salt to taste.
Efficacy: tonifying the middle qi, laxative. Astragalus is one of the most common medicines to replenish qi in our life, "The Materia Medica Easy to Read" recorded that it "benefits the vital energy, strengthens the spleen and stomach", "The New Edition of the Materia Medica" believes that "Astragalus is a holy medicine to replenish the qi", "The Classic of the Bible Feng Yuan" also has Astragalus "can replenish all the deficiencies of the five organs", "can replenish the five organs and all the deficiencies". It is also recorded in the book of "Feng Yuan of Ben Jing" that astragalus can replenish all the deficiencies of the five organs. Jade Bamboo was known as "Weiwei" in ancient times, and it was recorded in "Tongxuan of the Materia Medica" that it "can nourish the middle and benefit the qi, expel heat and remove steam, and cure all the deficiencies". As the main ingredient, rabbit meat also has a tonic effect, the "Materia Medica Detailed Section" that rabbit meat "the main tonic to benefit qi". The three together will become a tonic Qi, laxative delicious dishes.
Blood deficiency: Shouwu boiled egg
Blood deficiency constipation common symptoms are: dry stools, difficult to struggle down, pale, dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath, insomnia and forgetfulness, dry mouth and heartburn, tinnitus, lumbar and knee pain and weakness. Blood deficiency constipation can take shouwu boiled eggs to replenish blood and lubricate the intestines, improve constipation.
Ingredients: 6 grams of Radix Polygoni Multiflori, two eggs, green onions, ginger, salt, cooking wine in moderation.
Practice: the first will be washed, and then the eggs, the Shouwu together into the pot, add the right amount of water, and put the right amount of green onions, ginger, salt, cooking wine. Then boil with military fire, and then switch to civilian fire to cook until the egg is fully cooked. Then fish out the eggs, remove the shell, and put them back into the pot to cook for 2 minutes.
Efficacy: nourish blood, laxative. He Shouwu is a blood tonic medicine, the "medicinal properties of the cut with" recorded in its "benefit the liver and tonifying the kidney, as a good medicine for the flat Yin blood". And He Shouwu has been used since ancient times to treat hemorrhoidal diseases, in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the He Shouwu "treatment of hemorrhoids, stop heartache, benefit blood" records. Egg is a common flesh and blood products, "get with the Materia Medica" recorded that it has "benefit qi and blood" function. The two together, both can nourish the blood to eliminate hemorrhoids and can be qi and blood with complementary, play blood nourishing blood, laxative effect.
Yang Deficiency: Cistanchis Porridge
Yang deficiency constipation is often manifested as: hard and astringent stool, difficult to discharge, limbs are not warm, like heat and fear of cold, urine is clear and long, abdominal cold pain and constriction, lumbar and knee pain and cold. People with constipation due to Yang deficiency can take Cistanches Porridge to warm up Yang and pass stool.
Ingredients: 10 grams of Cistanches, 200 grams of mutton, 150 grams of round-grained rice.
Directions: First, add 100g of Cistanchis with water, decoct for 30 minutes, remove the dregs and set aside. Then put mutton slices into a pot, add water and simmer until the mutton is crispy, then set aside. Start another pot, add round-grained rice and water, cook round-grained rice until the rice is thickened, add the juice of Cistanchis and stewed mutton, cook for a few moments to cease fire, and then cover tightly and smother for 5 minutes.
Effects: Warming the yang, tonifying the kidney, laxative. Cistanchis can not only tonify the yang, but also has the effect of laxative. It is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica that Cistanchis can "benefit the marrow, please the color, prolong the life, and tonify the yang", and in the Easy Reading of Materia Medica, Cistanchis is "the most slippery for the large intestine, suitable for those who have constipation". It is suitable for those who have a knot in the bowel". Mutton is warm in nature and has the function of tonic. The "Materia Medica Prepara" believes that it can "replenish deficiency, benefit qi and blood, strengthen the yang channel, open the stomach and strengthen the strength." Japonica rice, as one of the most common staple food, is also a good product to benefit qi and stomach. The Diffractions of the Materia Medica recorded that Japonica rice can "calm the five organs and tonify the stomach". Combined, it becomes a dish that not only tastes delicious, but also warms the yang and tonifies the kidneys, lubricates the bowels and passes stools.
