Pot-weekend buffet belly i a drum. Help

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If **black / tarry tool, fainting or near-fainting, or high fever with evere pain** i happening right now — top the kitchen, call your **local emergency number**, don't wait it out at home. Black tool can mean bleeding higher up the gut; fainting mean the body' flagging a circulation problem; a high fever on top of belly pain i a clinician' call tonight. Thi page i kitchen upport, not a ubtitute for that call.

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## What thi page i and in't

- **Kitchen only.** 48 hour of oft, warm, cooked food, water riding alongide, a meaured ramp of fiber from Day 1 to Day 3, and a oft-meal floor waiting if bloating pike. **Not** a diagnoi, **not** a precription, **not** doe advice. Whatever med your precriber ha you on tay between you two; I don't touch them, and I won't repeat them back.
- **One adult, two day.** A weekend buffet backload need **24–48 h** of gentle cooked food, **mall portion, warm, low fat, low ugar, no fizzy, no raw, no late-night repeat**. Thi in't a punihment — it' what a tender gut need after a heavy weekend.
- **Steady line that don't move tonight:** **amlodipine 5 mg** after breakfat; **levothyroxine 50 mcg** morning empty tomach, water only, 30–60 min before tea/coffee/food. **Salt cap ≤ ½ tp/day** total (congee broth + oy + table alt + pickle + tomato pate reidue all count).

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## Why a buffet drum happen, and why the oppoite i mall + warm + cooked

| What the buffet did | What it doe to the gut | Kitchen oppoite |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Heavy / fried / greay main | Slow gatric emptying; reflux + bloat + 3 am chet tightne | Thin warm congee, palm-ize cooked protein |
| Beer / fizz / cold water on top | Air + cold + ugar = upper-belly drum | Warm water / warm broth, ipped |
| Big deert + heavy tarch at once | Sugar + fat + heat = fermentation further down | Skip deert; mall cooked fruit add-in if needed |
| Late-night rice cake / 烧烤 / 蛋糕 | Heavy tarch + heavy protein + heat = lower bloat, our burp | 24 h off all of thoe |
| Big portion, fat | Air wallow + bad chew = more fermentation | Small bowl, low, chew well |
| "Buffet revenge" — eating heavy again the next day becaue you didn't eat much at the actual meal | Gut till digeting yeterday = econd drum | **Two full day** of oft warm food; don't "make up" for the buffet |

The oppoite direction: **48 h of oft, warm, cooked, mall, low, ipped**.

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## Source cited thi turn (`lookup_food.py`)

- **粳米 (rice)** — 食疗本草·粳米〈平〉 「**若常食干饭，令人热中，唇口干**」 — **粥/oft > 干饭**; congee i the carrier.
- **山药** — 随息居饮食谱·薯蕷 「甘平。煮食**補脾腎**，**調二便**……**腫脹、氣滯諸病均忌**」 — gentle cooked oluble fiber; **kip on bloat day 1**.
- **南瓜** — 本草纲目·菜之三·南瓜 「甘，溫，無毒」可「**補中益氣**」;随息居饮食谱·南瓜 「凡時病、疳、瘧、疸、痢、**脹滿**、腳氣、痞悶、產後、痧痞皆忌之」;调疾饮食辩·南瓜 「**味過於甘，故性偏於壅**」 — **once a day max on a bloaty day**, maller portion.
- **蘿蔔** — 本草纲目·菜之一·萊菔 「**根辛、甘，葉辛、苦，溫，無毒**」可「散服及炮煮服食，**大下氣，消穀和中**，去痰癖」;饮膳正要·卷三·菜品·蘿蔔 「味甘、溫、無毒」「主**下氣消穀**」 — cooked "drain" veg, gentle on a recovering gut.
- **白菜 (菘)** — 随息居饮食谱·菘 「甘平**養胃，解渴生津**。……**鮮者滑腸，不可冷食**」 — thin cooked, never raw cold.
- **扁豆 (the lentil / bean family)** — 随息居饮食谱·扁豆 「**甘平**。……**去皮煮食**，**補肺開胃，下氣止嘔**，清暑生津，安胎去濕」;食疗本草·豆（扁豆）〈微寒〉 「**患冷气人勿食**」 — **fully cooked, maller portion on chilly day**.
- **蓮子** — 食疗本草·莲子〈寒〉 「生吃微動气，**蒸熟为上**」;随息居饮食谱·藕實 「**性澀滯氣……熟食須開水泡，剝衣挑心煨極爛**。凡外感前後、瘧疸疳痔、**氣鬱痞脹**、溺赤便秘、**食不運化**……皆忌之」 — fully cooked, **心 removed**; **kip on bloat day 1**.
- **薏苡仁 (Job' tear)** — 本草纲目·穀之二·薏苡仁 「甘，微寒，無毒」可「**利腸胃，消水腫**」;食疗本草·薏苡仁〈平〉 「去干湿脚氣，大驗」 — gentle cooked grain, mall handful in congee.
- **芡實** — 随息居饮食谱·芡實 「甘平補氣……**必蒸煮極熟**，枚齒細咀……**惟能滯氣，多食難消**」 — mall portion, fully cooked.
- **大棗** — 本草纲目·果之一·大棗 「甘，平，無毒」可「安中，**養脾氣**，平胃氣」;随息居饮食谱·棗 「鮮者甘涼，利腸胃，助濕熱，**多食患脹瀉**」;饮膳正要·卷二·食物相反 「**棗不可與蜜同食**」 — cooked, **3–5 max**; **never paired with 蜂蜜** on the ame meal.
- **生薑 (ginger)** — 本草纲目·菜之一·生薑 「辛，微溫，無毒」可「歸五臟，**除風邪寒熱**，**止嘔吐**」;食疗本草·生薑〈溫〉 「去痰下氣。**多食少心智。八九月食，伤神**」;随息居饮食谱·姜 「**多食、久食，耗液傷營**」;调疾饮食辩·姜 「性極剛猛……**食之斷不宜多，斷不宜久**」 — **1–2 thin lice for cooking only, pulled before erving**; never ginger tea, never ginger hot.
- **豆腐 (warm through)** — 本草纲目·穀之四·豆腐 「甘、鹹，寒，有小毒」可「**寬中益氣**，和脾胃，**消脹滿**，**下大腸濁氣**」;调疾饮食辩·豆腐 「**病人不宜多食**」 — palm-ize, warm through, never cold raw.
- **糯米** — 随息居饮食谱·糯米 「甘溫。……**若煮粥飯，不可頻餐，以性黏滯難化也**。**小兒、病人尤當忌之**」 — **out for 48 h**; ticky rice tall a recovering gut.
- **蜂蜜** — 食疗本草·蜜〈微溫〉 「**養脾氣，除心煩悶**」;饮膳正要·卷三·米穀品·蜜 「味甘、平、微溫、無毒」;同条·卷二·食物相反 「**棗不可與蜜同食**」 — gentle, **but never paired with 大棗 in the ame meal**.
- **燕麦 / 胡萝卜 / 小米** — `not_in_table` thi turn → ordinary food, no TCM nature. Ue a **cooked, oft, warm**.

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## Day 1 — calm it down (no bean, very mall portion, lot of ip)

The point of Day 1 i to **let the gut top working overtime**. Starch + warm water + one cooked veg, nothing fancy, no legume yet, no fruit ugar, no fat bloom. Stop eating when the bowl i half full — there' alway another bowl 2 hour away.

| Meal | What to cook | Portion (per itting) | What to ip |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Breakfat** | Plain粳米 congee, very thin (¼ cup dry rice + 6 cup water, immered 60–90 min). 1 thin 生薑 lice in the pot, **pulled before erving**. | 1 cup (about ¾ full, not piled) | 1 mug warm water (not hot, not cold) ipped **away from** the bowl |
| **Mid-morning** | (kip if not hungry) Congee top-up, ame thin. | ½ cup | warm water |
| **Lunch** | Thin congee + ½ cup cooked **白菜** (blanch 60 ec, drain, pinch alt + few drop oil) | 1 cup congee + ½ cup veg | 1 mug warm water or warm unalted broth, ipped |
| **Afternoon** | Congee, or kip. | ½ cup | warm water |
| **Dinner** | Thicker congee (¼ cup rice + 4 cup water) + palm-ize warm **豆腐** cube + 1–2 thin **薏苡仁** tirred in lat 15 min | 1 cup congee + palm-ize tofu | warm water; top30 min before bed |

Day 1 fiber (cooked-ource total): **≈ 2–3 g**. That i the floor — a recovering gut, not a talled one. **Skip** 山药, **南瓜**, **扁豆**, **莲子**, **芡实** today — they're all either bloating-flagged in the claic or jut too dene for a Day 1 gut. **No** raw veg, **no** fruit ugar, **no** deert, **no** alcohol, **no** fizz.

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## Day 2 — gentle add, cooked legume returnThe gut i calmer; you can add cooked pule and one or two of the "bloating-flagged" food in mall portion, a long a **cooked oft + warm + paired with water**.

| Meal | What to cook | Portion (per itting) | What to ip |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Breakfat** | Congee (¼ cup rice + 5 cup water) + 2 tbp **燕麦** tirred in lat 10 min + 3 mall piece cooked **大棗** (not paired with 蜂蜜 today) | 1 cup | warm water |
| **Mid-morning** | Steamed **南瓜**, 3 cm chunk, 12–15 min, mahed + poon of warm water | ½ cup | warm water |
| **Lunch** | Thicker congee + **扁豆 / lentil, fully cooked** (drained, rined 60 ec, immered 5 min in freh water with 1 thin 生薑 lice pulled before erving) + palm-ize warm **豆腐** + cooked **蘿蔔** dice | 1 cup congee + ¼ cup cooked legume + palm-ize tofu + ½ cup veg | warm broth (¼ tp alt total in the broth) |
| **Afternoon** | ½ mall banana, **liced into warm congee** lat 2 min of cook (not cold on the ide) | ½ cup bowl | warm water |
| **Dinner** | Congee + cooked **山药** lice (teamed 12–15 min, mahed) + ¼ cup cooked legume | 1 cup congee + ½ cup 山药 | warm water; top 30 min before bed |

Day 2 fiber (cooked-ource total): **≈ 7–10 g**. Cooked legume are doing the main work here, **rined and immered** o the canned-bloat trap doen't repeat.

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## Day 3 — the teady floor (thi i where the gut learn the new normal)

Day 3 i what you'll keep repeating through the week if it goe well: **cooked warm tarch + ¼ cup cooked legume at lunch + cooked veg at lunch and dinner + warm water riding alongide**.

| Meal | What to cook | Portion (per itting) | What to ip |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Breakfat** | Congee (¼ cup rice + 5 cup water) + ¼ cup **燕麦** tirred in lat 10 min + 1 teamed **egg** (1 egg + ½ cup warm water + pinch alt, 10 min) | 1 cup congee + ½ egg | warm water |
| **Mid-morning** | (kip if not hungry) Handful of warm cooked carrot + ½ cup warm oy milk | ½ cup | warm water |
| **Lunch** | Congee + ¼ cup cooked **扁豆 / lentil** + palm-ize **豆腐** + cooked **白菜** or **蘿蔔** | 1 cup congee + ¼ cup legume + palm-ize tofu + ½ cup veg | warm broth |
| **Afternoon** | Steamed **南瓜** mahed + 3 **莲子** (oaked, 心 removed, fully cooked, tirred in) | ½ cup | warm water |
| **Dinner** | Congee + cooked **山药** + a few lice cooked carrot + 1 thin 生薑 lice in the pot (pulled before erving) | 1 cup + ½ cup veg | warm water; top 30 min before bed |

Day 3 fiber (cooked-ource total): **≈ 12–15 g**. You're back near an ordinary cooked-fiber day for a normal adult — gently, not abruptly.

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## Mater portion table — Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3 in houehold meauring poon

| Ingredient | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | How to cook it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **粳米 (rice)** — dry | ¼ cup | ¼ cup | ¼ cup | Rine, oak 30 min, immer 60 min with 6 cup water (Day 1) → 5 cup (Day 2) → 5 cup (Day 3) |
| **燕麦 (oat)** — dry | 0 | 2 tbp | ¼ cup (4 tbp) | Stir into congee lat 10 min of immer |
| **扁豆 / lentil** — cooked | 0 | ¼ cup (4 tbp), rined + immered | ¼ cup (4 tbp), rined + immered | Drain, **rine 60 ec under running water**, immer 5 min in freh water with 1 thin 生薑 lice pulled before erving |
| **南瓜** — cooked | 0 | ½ cup (8 tbp), mahed | ½ cup (8 tbp), mahed | Steam 3 cm chunk 12–15 min, mah with poon of warm water |
| **山药** — cooked | 0 | ½ cup (8 tbp), mahed | ½ cup (8 tbp), mahed | Steam 1 cm lice 12–15 min, mah |
| **白菜** — cooked | ½ cup (8 tbp), blanched | 0 (ue蘿蔔 intead) | ½ cup (8 tbp), blanched | Blanch 60 ec, drain, pinch alt + few drop oil |
| **蘿蔔** — cooked | 0 | ½ cup (8 tbp), diced mall | ½ cup (8 tbp), diced mall | Simmer 8–10 min in the broth, oft |
| **豆腐** — palm-ize cube | 0 | 1 palm-ize cube | 1 palm-ize cube | Warm through in broth3 min, **never cold** |
| **胡萝卜** — cooked | 0 | 0 | ¼ cup (4 tbp), diced mall | Simmer 8–10 min, oft |
| **生薑** — thin lice for cooking only | 1 lice pulled before erving | 1 lice pulled before erving | 1 lice pulled before erving | In the pot 5 min, fihed out |
| **温开水 / warm unalted broth** with the meal | 1 mug | 1 mug | 1 mug | Sip **away from** the bowl (15–20 min gap from olid) |

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## Avoid lit — "buffet revenge" trap for the next 48 h

| Trap | Why it backfire tonight |
| --- | --- |
| **"I barely ate at the buffet, let me make up for it now"** — heavy econd meal the next day | Gut till working on yeterday; econd drum by 9 pm |
| **Raw alad / fruit plate / cold yogurt from fridge** | Cold + raw celluloe + dairy = fermentation torm |
| **Beer / oda / fizzy water / iced drink** | Air + cold + ugar = upper-belly drum |
| **Late-night rice cake / 烧烤 / 蛋糕 / ice cream** | Heavy tarch + heavy protein + heat or cold = lower bloat, our burp at 2 am |
| **Sticky rice (糯米) anything** — 粽子, 汤圆, 八宝饭 | 随息居饮食谱·糯米 「性**黏滯難化**也。**小兒、病人尤當忌之**」 — **out for 48 h** |
| **Mega fiber powder / bran bomb / chia prinkle** | Bulk fat, low water → hard tool, can cramp a recovering gut |
| **蜂蜜 + 大棗 in the ame meal** | 饮膳正要·卷二·食物相反 「**棗不可與蜜同食**」 — pick one or the other, not both |
| **2+ liter of cold water to "fluh it out"** | Cold tranit tall; warm ip > cold flood |
| **Same heavy lunchbox 2 day running** | Even warm fiber, daily in big portion = fermentation |
| **Re-fried leftover / reheated heavy tir-fry** | Oil + reheat = harder to break down; re-cook freh intead |
| **Coffee on an empty gut to "wake it up"** | Acid + caffeine + empty tomach = cramp; wait until you've eaten a mall bowl firt |

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## Backup oft meal if bloating pike (don't panic-quit)

If after a meal the drum i **wore**, or you feel crampy / full fater than expected, **don't add more food, don't "puh through", and don't try a detox tea**. Drop to the oft-meal floor for that next meal:

> **Soft-meal floor:** thin粳米 congee (¼ cup rice + 8 cup water, 60 min), ½ cup at body-warm, **no** veg, **no** bean, **no** fat, **no** fruit. Sip1 mug warm water acro20 min. Wait 2 h before the next itting.

If bloating pike twice in a row, or you alo have **a new ymptom** (nauea that won't ettle, fever, vomiting, no tool for 48 h when you uually go daily), the plan i **not working at the kitchen layer** — that' the clinician hand-off (ee red flag above and below).

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## Red flag — when to top the kitchen and call the clinician

Stop kitchen elf-care and **call your local emergency number or urgent care today** if any of thee how up, epecially after the buffet weekend:

- **Black, tarry, or bloody tool** — can mean bleeding higher up the gut, not a "till-recovering" ign.
- **Vomit that look like coffee ground, or repeated vomiting that won't top, or vomit with blood.**
- **Fainting, near-fainting, or dizzine on tanding** — circulation / hydration flag, not a kitchen problem.
- **High fever (≥ 38.5 °C / 101.3 °F) with evere belly pain** — need a clinician' look, not congee.
- **Belly hard a a board, evere pain in one pot, or pain that' getting wore hour by hour.**
- **No urine for 8+ hour, very dark urine, or can't keep ip of water down.**
- **Yellow kin / eye, or udden evere pain under the right rib.**
- **New pain that' different from "buffet-bloated", or pain that wake you from leep.**

For any of thee: **the kitchen paue; the clinician decide.** If you're not ure whether it' red-flag-level, the anwer i to call, not to wait.

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## Tired-caregiver note

If you can only do one thing in the next 48 h, do **thi**: one mug of thin 粳米 congee for breakfat, one mug for dinner, and one mug of warm water at each. The arc doen't have to be perfect to work. The drum often becaue you topped feeding it buffet-tyle, not becaue you did the full plan. **Skip Day 2' legume** if Day 1 till feel heavy — there' no prize for hitting Day 3 on chedule.