1 May 2010

Ginger tea to help the elderly to do to improve appetite

Ginger tea to help the elderly to do to improve appetite

Many elderly people have such feelings, the same dishes, children who eat gusto, no flavor of its own feel, how is this going on?
Experts pointed out that the elderly do not eat taste, loss of appetite, often with both factors. First, with age, the elderly tongue taste buds will gradually degraded, thus, the tongue gradually reduced perceived reactions to food. Second, the decline in the elderly digestive function will lead to cold stomach, causing loss of appetite. Sometimes, old people taking too much cured powder (such as berberine, etc.), will lead to no appetite. For different reasons, experts, several very practical ways to help the elderly increase in appetite.
If particularly afraid of eating something cold or greasy, the stomach may be too cold, heat enough. Then, choose a dish of ginger sauce, serve warm stomach and cold, stimulate the senses of taste and appetite, reduce the greasy effect. Ginger can be added to the dishes and dumplings, or made ginger drink.
If the decline is due to digestive system, leading to poor absorption, indigestion, you can choose hawthorn, dried tangerine peel, Divine Comedy and some Jianweixiaoshi drugs. Hawthorn can be eaten as snacks, fresh, dried hawthorn soaked in water to drink, or soup to drink; dried tangerine peel can cut wire, when the beverage to drink; Divine Comedy can be used to hedge a boy, also be used to soup. If elderly people can be about half an hour before meals, drink a cup of tea, hawthorn juice or tangerine peel, the effect will be better.
In addition, more than usually Zusanli massage is one of the ways to improve the spleen and stomach function. Zusanli located outside the 3-inch below the knee, lateral tibial about Wang pointed. Massage, can be thumb injury on the foot by three miles, do push, then push aside muscles, even to do seven times, alternating on both sides. The leg with a hand rubbed, top to bottom and 1 times, about 1-3 minutes, can also serve heat and stomach, promoting digestion and absorption, increase the appetite.