Constipation Tonic Diet

constipation

Constipation refers to the dysfunction of large intestine conduction, leading to constipation and prolonged bowel cycle; Or if the cycle is not long, but the feces are dry and difficult to excrete, Or the feces may not be hard, and although there is a tendency to defecate, the stool may not flow smoothly

In Western medicine, habitual constipation, functional constipation, drug-induced constipation, constipation in the recovery period of enteritis, irritable bowel syndrome, rectal and anal diseases, endocrine and Metabolic disorder, and dysuria caused by muscle weakness can be treated by referring to the relevant contents of this section.

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1、 Principle of Tonic Diet

(1) This disease can be divided into two categories: deficiency and excess. Heat and qi constipation, which are characterized by internal stagnation of dryness and heat, and ineffective qi stagnation, belong to the category of empirical treatment suitable for promoting diarrhea; Weakness of qi and blood, and coagulation of yin and cold belong to deficiency syndrome, and should be treated with nourishing and tonifying

(2) The diet should be light and consume more fresh leafy vegetables. It is prohibited to drink stimulating foods such as strong liquor, strong tea, chili peppers, coffee, and spicy fried goods

(3) Eat less sweet and greasy foods to prevent stagnation of the diaphragm, help heat damage the body, and worsen the condition.

Chinese medicines such as ginseng, Cistanche deserticola, and astragalus

2、 Dialectical Diet

（1） Gastrointestinal fever

Clinical manifestations include dry and dry stools, dry mouth and bad breath, hot face and body, short and red urine, restlessness, abdominal distension or pain, red tongue, yellow or dry fur, and smooth pulse

The principle of food therapy is to relieve heat and promote stagnation, moisten the intestines and relieve constipation

Tonic Diet Formula

1. Celery Congee (Compendium of Materia Medica

【 Ingredients 】 Fresh celery 60g, japonica rice 50-100g

[Usage] Wash celery and cut it into pieces, put it in the casserole with the cleaned japonica rice, add about 600ml of water, and cook it into Congee. Eat in the morning and evening every day, and take it warm. This Congee is slow and needs to be taken frequently for a long time to be effective. It should be cooked and eaten now rather than kept for a long time

【 Efficacy Indications 】 Clearing away heat and evil, dispelling restlessness and thirst, and relieving constipation

2. Aloe Vera Juice

【 Ingredients 】 An appropriate amount of fresh aloe vera leaves

【 Preparation Instructions 】 Take 3-4 cm of fresh aloe vera leaves, remove thorns, wash, cut into small pieces, and add 80ml of cold boiled water. Drink 2-3 times a day

【 Indications 】 Clear heat and relieve constipation

3. Fresh bamboo shoots mixed with celery

Chinese medicines such as ginseng, Cistanche deserticola, and astragalus

Ingredients: Fresh and tender bamboo shoots, 100g celery, 100g sesame oil, salt, and an appropriate amount of monosodium glutamate

【 Production Usage 】 Boil and slice bamboo shoots, wash celery and cut into sections, blanch slightly with boiling water, mix well with salt, monosodium glutamate, and sesame oil, and serve with a meal

【 Efficacy Indications 】 It can relieve heat and promote stagnation, moisten the intestines and relieve constipation

4. Rock Sugar Banana Drink

Ingredients: 1-2 bananas and an appropriate amount of rock sugar

【 Usage 】 1-2 bananas each time, peeled, with an appropriate amount of rock sugar added, simmered over water. 1-2 times a day, taken continuously for several days. 【 Efficacy 】 Clear heat and promote fluid production, moisten intestines and relieve constipation. Suitable for constipation caused by excessive heat and fluid damage

5. Senna leaf tea

【 Ingredients 】 A moderate amount of 5-10g white sugar from senna leaves

【 Usage 】 Put senna leaves into a teacup, add boiling water to soak for 5 minutes, and drink frequently instead of tea 【 Efficacy Indications 】 It can relieve heat and promote stagnation, promote hydration, and reduce bloating

6. Mahen Congee

Ingredients: 50g of sesame seed, 100g of japonica rice, 5g of scallion white, 5g of ginger powder, and an appropriate amount of monosodium glutamate

[Usage] Wash sesame seeds and japonica rice with clean water, drain them, put them into a pot, add clean water and heat them to boil. When the rice grains are boiled until they bloom, add onion white, ginger powder, fine salt, and monosodium glutamate to boil them together into Congee.

【 Indications 】 Moisturizing dryness and smoothing the intestines, nourishing and tonifying deficiency, dispelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation, and clearing gonorrhea （2） Qi stagnation

Clinical manifestations: constipation of stool, no appetite, less belching, fullness of chest and abdomen, even abdominal distention and pain, thin coating. The principle of food treatment is to follow qi and stagnate. Tonic Diet formula

1. Cassia seed, radish seed tea ("Food Materia Medica")

Ingredients: 15g cassia seeds, 10g radish seeds, and an appropriate amount of honey

【 Production Usage 】 Mash the cassia seeds and radish seeds, put them into a pot, add water, and cook over high heat. After boiling over high heat, switch to low heat and cook for 15 minutes. Add an appropriate amount of honey and stir well before ceasing the fire. Pour into a tea cup and drink it as tea once a day

【 Indications 】 It can clear heat and moisten dryness, regulate qi, and relieve constipation, especially suitable for those with food accumulation and constipation

2. Modified Areca Congee

【 Ingredients 】 Betel nut 10-15g, japonica rice 100g, honey 15-20g

[Usage] First, remove the dregs from the decoction of areca tablets, and then cook Congee with japonica rice. After cooking, add honey. Take it twice a day. [Efficacy] Follow the qi and stagnate the movement. It is suitable for food retention, abdominal distention and pain, and uncomfortable bowel movements

3. Perilla and sesame seed Congee (Puji Recipe)

【 Ingredients 】 10g Su Zi, 15g Huo Ma Ren, 100g Japonica Rice

[Usage] First, mash the seeds of Su Zi and hemp seed, add water to the grind, filter the juice, and cook it with japonica rice into Congee. Take it arbitrarily. [Efficacy] Promote qi, nourish yin, and relieve constipation. It is suitable for the elderly and puerperal women who are weak in body and dry in intestines, and whose stool is hard to resolve

4. Plum and Orange Soup

Ingredients: 6g plum blossom, 1 orange cake

【 Usage 】 Wash plum blossoms, slice orange pancakes thinly, and put them together in a pot. Add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then switch to low heat and continue cooking for 5 minutes. Twice a day, take warm clothing

[Efficacy] Soothing the liver and regulating qi, regulating the spleen and stomach. It is suitable for constipation with obstructed qi, with Globus pharyngis, or cough with phlegm and dampness （3） Qi deficiency constipation

Clinical manifestations include either dry or non-dry bowel movements, although there is a tendency to defecate, fatigue during toileting, shortness of breath due to sweating, dull complexion, fatigue in the mind and limbs, pale tongue coating, and pulse deficiency

Principle of food treatment: invigorate qi and deficiency, moisten intestines, and relieve constipation. Tonic Diet formula

1. Mahen liquor

【 Ingredients 】 Cannabis kernel 300g

【 Production Usage 】 Grind 300g of hemp kernels and put them into a bottle. Add 1000ml of rice wine and soak for 3 days. Take 2 times a day, and drink 1 small cup each time, about 30ml

【 Indications 】 Moisturizing the intestines and relieving constipation

2. Astragalus ginseng Congee

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Ingredients: 30~60g of roasted Astragalus membranaceus, 3~5g of ginseng (or 15~30g of Codonopsis pilosula), 100g of rice, and an appropriate amount of white sugar

【 Production Usage 】 First, cut astragalus and ginseng into thin slices, soak in cold water for half an hour, fry in a casserole, then use low heat to fry into a thick liquid. After taking the liquid, add cold water, and fry two liquids as above to remove the residue; Combine the two decoctions and divide them into two portions. Boil the rice porridge in the morning and evening every day, add white sugar, and then take it. Take it twice a day, 3 to 5 days as a course of treatment

【 Indications 】 Benefiting Qi and tonifying the middle, strengthening the spleen, and relieving constipation.

3. Sweet jujube meat

【 Ingredients 】 500g of clean pork ribs, 180g of red dates, 6g of clean roasted grass, 60g of Shaojiu, 60g of soy sauce, 50g of rock sugar, 30g of soft white sugar, 15g of scallions, 10g of ginger cubes, 100g of fresh soup, and 60g of cooked lard

[Usage] Scrape and wash the pork ribs, put them into a boiling water pot, and boil them until they are 50% ripe. Use a knife to cut several X-shaped cracks on the skin of the meat, so as to taste better. Place the casserole on the middle fire, place a bamboo grate on the bottom of the pot, add pork, and add broth, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, rock sugar, onion knots, ginger, and roasted licorice. Cover the pot and boil for a few minutes. Move it to a low fire. After about 1 hour of stewing, take out the meat, and put the skin down into a bowl, Put about 100ml of the original soup in the pot into a bowl. Wash the red dates, boil them thoroughly, remove the skin and core, and press them into jujube paste with a knife face. Place the casserole on high heat, add cooked lard, jujube paste, and soft white sugar, and stir fry until fragrant. Spread the jujube paste on the meat surface, seal the mouth with Cellophane, steam in the cage for about 1 hour, remove the Cellophane, pick up ginger, onion, and licorice, and turn the meat into a plate

【 Indications 】 Benefiting Qi and tonifying deficiency, moistening intestines, and relieving constipation

4. Niu Sui Gao ("Medical Formula Collection")

Ingredients: 60g of ginseng, beef pulp, peach kernel, almond, and yam each, 240g of honey, and 90g of walnut meat (peeled and ground separately)

[Directions] Grind the meat of ginseng, beef pith, peach kernel, almond, yam, and walnut into fine powder for use. Put the beef pith into an iron pot, heat and melt it, then add honey for refining, boil it, filter out the dregs, add all the powder of medicine, stir it with bamboo pieces continuously until it is yellow, let it cool, and put it in porcelain. Each serving is 5-10g, chew it carefully when empty

【 Efficacy Indications 】 It can help regulate qi, replenish deficiency and damage, moisten the intestines, and relieve constipation. However, it should not be used in cases of intestinal deficiency and diarrhea due to intestinal smoothness

5. Apricot crispy Congee (Qimin Yaoshu)

Ingredients: 10g almonds, 50ml fresh milk, 100g japonica rice, and an appropriate amount of white sugar

【 Production Usage 】 Wash almonds, grind them into powder, wash japonica rice thoroughly, put them into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and bring to a boil over low heat. Change to low heat and cook the rice until it is cooked and rotten, add white sugar, and mix well. Serve on an empty stomach twice a day

【 Indications 】 Nourishing Qi and strengthening the spleen, moistening the intestines, and relieving constipation. Suitable for Qi deficiency constipation. (4) Blood deficiency

Clinical manifestations include constipation, dull complexion, palpitations, dizziness, pale lips and tongue color, and fine veins

The principle of food therapy is to nourish blood and nourish dryness

Tonic Diet Formula

1. Peach kernel wine

[Ingredients] 60g peach kernel, 60g Tetradium ruticarpum, and 3 sections of onion white

[Directions] Take peach kernel and Tetradium ruticarpum and stir fry them. The cornel is burnt, and then remove the cornel. Take peach kernel, peel off the skin and tip, grind it fine, add 3 sections of scallion white (simmer until cooked), dip 1000ml of rice wine in it for 5 to 7 days, and take it twice a day, about 30ml per serving

【 Efficacy Indications 】 Activating blood circulation, moistening intestines, and relieving constipation. It can also treat spleen deficiency, qi pain, and unbearable pain, and can be used to treat postpartum blood deficiency, fluid injury, constipation, and swelling and pain caused by falls.

2. Honey Cassia Cream (Food Materia Medica)

【 Ingredients 】 10~30g of raw cassia seeds and an appropriate amount of honey

【 Usage 】 Crush the cassia seed, add 200-300ml of water, boil for 5 minutes, pour in honey, stir well, and serve as tea 【 Indications 】 Moisturizing dryness and clearing heat, purging heat, and defecating. Used for constipation caused by insufficient body fluid in elderly and postpartum women, as well as the inability to lubricate bowel movements

3. Immortal Congee (Zunsheng Bajian)

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Ingredients: 30g of Polygonum multiflorum, 60g of japonica rice, 5 Chinese dates, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar

[Usage] Use a knife to scrape off the first black skin, slice it, put it into a pot, add some water to fry it for 40 minutes, remove the dregs, and take the juice. Then add rice and jujube to cook Congee, add brown sugar when Congee is ready, and then boil it again. Eat it warm on an empty stomach twice a day. Avoid using an iron pot when boiling

【 Efficacy Indications 】 Nourishing qi and blood, benefiting the liver and kidney, moistening intestines, and relieving constipation. It can be used for symptoms such as premature whitening of hair, dull complexion, and constipation caused by insufficient yin and blood

4. Sesame Congee

Ingredients: 10g sesame seeds, 100g japonica rice, and an appropriate amount of white sugar

【 Production Usage 】 Stir fry sesame until cooked and fragrant, set aside; Wash the japonica rice thoroughly and put it into a pot. Add an appropriate amount of water, boil it over low heat to medium heat, then add sesame seeds and sugar. Serve on an empty stomach twice a day

【 Indications 】 Tonify the kidney and essence, moisten the intestines, and relieve constipation （5） Yang deficiency

Clinical manifestations include difficult and astringent bowel movements, difficulty in urination, clear and long urine, lukewarm limbs, aversion to cold and heat, cold pain in the abdomen, or cold waist and spine, pale tongue coating, and delayed pulse sinking

Principle of food treatment: warming yang to relieve constipation, Tonic Diet formula

1. Pine nut kernel Congee (Compendium of Materia Medica)

【 Ingredients 】 50g pine nut kernels, 50g minced pork, 10g minced scallions and ginger, 50g water chestnuts, 25g sesame oil, 10g refined salt, 50g watery shiitake mushrooms, 100g glutinous rice

[Directions] Clean water chestnuts, peel them and dice them. Mushrooms are also diced. Clean glutinous rice, add clean water and heat it to a boil. When the rice blooms, add pine nuts, minced pork, water chestnuts, diced mushrooms, refined salt, chopped onion and ginger, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, and continue to boil them into Congee

【 Indications 】 Moisturizing the heart and lungs, regulating the large intestine. Suitable for elderly patients with insufficient qi and blood and constipation

2. Sweet potato syrup

Ingredients: 300-500g sweet potatoes, 2 slices of ginger, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar (or white sugar)

【 Usage 】 Wash, peel, and cut sweet potatoes into pieces. Add water and cook in moderation. When cooked and softened, add brown or white sugar in moderation. Add 2 slices of ginger and cook for a while before serving

【 Indications 】 Warm yang and relieve constipation

3. Cistanche deserticola Congee (on medicinal properties)

Cistanche deserticola soup

[Ingredients] Cistanche deserticola 15g · refined mutton 100g, japonica rice 50g

[Usage] Add 100ml of water to Cistanche deserticola and boil it to remove residue; Slice the lamb into a sand pot and add 200ml of water. Fry until the meat is cooked, then add 300ml of water; Boil the japonica rice until the rice soup is thick. Add the Cistanche deserticola juice and mutton, and then boil them together for a while to cease fire. Cover tightly and stew for 5 minutes. Take warm clothes every morning and evening

【 Indications 】 Tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang, moistening the intestines, and relieving constipation. Suitable for elderly constipation, habitual constipation, etc. Avoid taking it for those with diarrhea or excessive heat.