Oriental medicine has many simple and effective remedies to help relieve bloating and indigestion that often occur during Tet, supporting digestion and the digestive process.
Tet is a time for family reunion, when every family gathers around warm and rich meals. However, the diversity and richness of Tet dishes such as banh chung, meat jelly, gio cha or fried, stir-fried, grilled dishes... can easily cause digestive disorders. Symptoms of bloating and indigestion become common problems, causing discomfort and affecting the joy of Tet.
In Oriental medicine, digestive herbs are used to aid digestion, reduce bloating and indigestion, especially useful during the holidays when the diet is often rich and can easily cause digestive disorders.
Here are some typical medicines:
1. Hawthorn treats bloating and indigestion
- Properties: Hawthorn has a sour taste, cold properties, and affects the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians.
Bloating and indigestion are common symptoms during Tet.
- Uses:
+ Lipid digestion: Hawthorn helps digest fats and fatty meats, because it contains enzymes and organic acids that support lipid breakdown, reducing bloating after eating a lot of fat.
+ Blood circulation and stasis removal: Hawthorn has the ability to promote blood circulation, help improve blood circulation, and support the treatment of coronary artery diseases.
- Origin and usage:
+ Origin: Hawthorn is the fruit of the hawthorn tree, which often grows in high mountainous areas.
+ Used parts: Hawthorn fruit is harvested, dried or sun-dried to make medicine.
+ Dosage: Take 3-10g per day in decoction or powder form.
Hawthorn medicine reduces bloating.
- Application during Tet holiday:
+ Hawthorn tea: Boil 10g of hawthorn with water, drink after meals to aid digestion, reduce the feeling of fullness caused by eating a lot of greasy foods.
+ Food: Combine hawthorn in stews or soak with honey to make desserts, to help aid digestion.
2. Malt
- Properties: Malt has a salty taste, warm properties, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians.
- Uses:
+ Digesting carbohydrates: Malt contains the enzyme amylase, which helps break down starch into simple sugars, supporting the digestion of carbohydrate-rich foods.
+ Milk benefit: Malt is also used to treat low milk supply in postpartum women.
- Origin and usage:
+ Origin: Malt is germinated barley grain, used in traditional medicine.
+ Processing: Barley seeds are soaked in water to germinate, then dried and ground into powder.
+ Dosage: Normally can use 10 - 15g/day.
Malt
Application during Tet holiday:
+ Malt tea: Boil 10g of malt with water, drink after meals to aid digestion, especially after eating starchy foods.
+ Food: Malt can be used in desserts or cakes, both creating natural sweetness and aiding digestion.
3. Divine Comedy
- Properties: Shen Qu has a sweet, spicy taste, warm properties, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians.
- Uses:
+ Digestion of protein and lipids: Shen Qu contains digestive enzymes, which help break down proteins and lipids, supporting the digestion of foods rich in protein and fat.
+ Reduce bloating and indigestion: Shen Qu is used to treat symptoms of bloating, indigestion, diarrhea and dysentery.
- Origin and preparation: Than Khuc is made from a combination of many medicinal herbs such as wormwood, red beans, almonds, horsetail leaves... mixed with wheat flour or rice flour, then fermented and dried.
Dosage: 10-20g per day, raw or roasted.
The medicine reduces bloating and indigestion.
- Application during Tet holiday:
+ Divine Knot Tea: Boil 10g of divine knot with water, drink after meals to aid digestion, reduce the feeling of fullness caused by eating foods rich in protein and fat.
+ Food: Shenqu can be used in dishes such as Shenqu cake, suitable for the elderly with weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, indigestion, bad breath, bloating, belching, thinness, weakness, and vomiting when eating.
Malt cake.
4. Notes when using
Malt, Chinese clematis, and hawthorn are also known as "three immortals" in traditional medicine. They are often used together and can support each other to increase the ability to digest food and eliminate bloating. In prescriptions, these ingredients are often combined with qi-activating herbs (tran bi, poria...) and spleen-tonifying and qi-enhancing herbs such as roasted white bean, atractylodes, and Chinese yam.
However, using these medicines too much or for a long time can damage the spleen and stomach, so they should only be used when there is bloating, used for a short time, and when the bloating is gone, stopped using them.
For best results, combine with a reasonable diet, avoid overeating and avoid fatty foods. If symptoms of bloating or indigestion persist or become severe, consult a doctor or traditional medicine specialist for proper diagnosis and treatment.
BSNT. Nguyen Thanh Hang
Source: https://giadinh.suckhoedoisong.vn/3-vi-thuoc-tri-day-bung-kho-tieu-172250131204834054.htm
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