Anti Bloating Congee

Indications

A bloated stomach, aerophagia and intestinal gas are mainly caused by stagnant food in the stomach. This stagnation of food is mainly due to digestive weakness.

One of the main signs that food is poorly digested and stagnating in the stomach is the presence of undigested pieces of food in the stool, but this is not the only one.

Symptoms frequently encountered when there is food stagnation are:

• bloated stomach after meals
• Long, heavy digestion
• Feeling of food sticking to the stomach
• Bad breath
• foul-smelling belching
• Acid regurgitation
• foul-smelling gas
• Aerophagia
• Abdominal pain relieved after a bowel movement
• Alternating constipation and diarrhea
• Soft, foul-smelling stools with pieces of undigested food inside, or foul-smelling constipation with pieces of undigested food inside
• Nausea

If you have at least 2 symptoms from the list above, you have food stagnation in your stomach. Then this congee is for you.

Chinese medicine properties of this congee

The 3 herbs present in this herbal tea help :

• remove food stagnation in the stomach
• evacuate moisture blocking digestion
• Strengthen digestive functions (spleen)*

* Food stagnation in the stomach is essentially due to a deficiency of the spleen. The spleen is very important in Chinese medicine, as it is the orchestra conductor of digestion.

How to prepare this congee

Daily dosage: 1 sachet (27g). There are 7 bags in a pack.

Congee

Congee is generally taken at breakfast. It can be taken as a single dose or in 2 doses (morning, afternoon or evening).

For a single dose, simply :

1. Place 50g of rice in a pan that is not made of cast iron or aluminum. A stainless steel pan, for example.
2. Add the contents of a pouch of this porridge to the pan.
3. Pour in between 550 and 700ml of bottled spring water or filtered water (550ml of water will make the porridge thicker, 700ml will make it more liquid).
4. Cover the pan and heat over high heat until the water starts to boil.
5. Then simmer for 30 to 40 minutes (the porridge will continue to simmer).
6. Eat the whole thing for breakfast, but be careful of the hawthorn stones.

To take in 2 parts, eat half in the morning and the other half in the late afternoon or evening.

Decoction

If food stagnation is significant, the same ingredients should be prepared as a decoction without the rice, in 2 doses per day with the same herbs as explained on our decoction page.

Contraindication

– Make this congee with 50g of Job’s tears instead of rice for those with heat symptoms such as :

• red, swollen and painful gums
• red complexion
• dark yellow urine
• heat almost always present in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet