Chinese medicine teaches you how to nourish your stomach

　　Chinese medicine teaches you how to nourish the stomach in autumn? The stomach is the digestive organ of the human body. A poor stomach will cause many diseases, so everyone should take good care of the stomach in daily life. The following Chinese medicine teaches you how to nourish the stomach in autumn.

　　Recently, there has been an increase in the number of patients with gastrointestinal diseases seeking medical treatment in outpatient and emergency departments, mainly for gastrointestinal disorders, peptic tract ulcers, and gastrointestinal bleeding.

　　This is because every autumn, when the human body is stimulated by cold, the sympathetic nerves are excited, which on the one hand causes an increase in the secretion of thyroxine and adrenocortical hormones, a strong metabolism in the body, and an increase in heat; on the other hand, it causes the skin blood vessels to contract and reduces heat dissipation to help the body resist the cold. Increased hormone secretion is very detrimental to gastric diseases such as ulcers. If the secretion of adrenal cortical hormone is increased, the blood vessels of the gastric mucosa can constrict, the blood supply is reduced, and the digestive function is weakened; while the increased secretion of thyroxine can make the basal metabolism strong, increase food intake, and increase the burden on the stomach. This series of changes often leads to the occurrence or recurrence of gastric problems, and in severe cases can cause gastrointestinal bleeding.

　　Pay attention to mental health. In recent years, studies have shown that stomach diseases such as stomach and duodenal ulcers are closely related to people's emotions. Therefore, everyone should pay attention to work adjustment, not to put too much pressure on themselves, maintain a happy mood, emotional stability, and prevent excessive fatigue.

　　Pay attention to diet and maintenance. The diet of patients with gastric diseases should be warm, soft and light. They should eat small, frequent meals at regular intervals so that there is often food in the stomach to neutralize gastric acid and prevent it from eroding the gastric mucosa and ulcer surface. At the same time, you should also pay attention to chewing slowly when eating to facilitate digestion and absorption and reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Avoid overeating, otherwise it will destroy the rhythm of gastric acid secretion and induce ulcer disease. You should also pay attention not to eat raw, cold, overheated, hard, greasy and irritating foods, and quit smoking and drinking to prevent irritation of the gastric mucosa and the worsening and recurrence of ulcers.

　　Prevent the abdomen from catching cold People suffering from chronic superficial gastritis should pay special attention to keeping the stomach warm, otherwise it is easy to cause stomach pain or aggravate stomach problems due to catching cold.

　　Strengthen physical exercise and actively participate in various physical exercise activities after daily rest. This will help improve blood circulation in the gastrointestinal tract, enhance the body's physical fitness, improve the body's ability to adapt to climate change, and effectively reduce the chance of disease.

　　In addition, if the symptoms of general stomach pain are the same as usual, you can take some commonly used drugs that inhibit gastric acid secretion. If there is no improvement after taking it for one week to 10 days or if the symptoms worsen, you should go to the hospital for examination in time to avoid delaying the condition. If patients with chronic peptic ulcer find dizziness, palpitation, black stools, obvious fatigue, etc., they should go to the hospital immediately. This may be a sign of gastrointestinal bleeding, and if not treated in time, their lives may be in danger.

　　Patients with stomach problems, gastric ulcers and functional dyspepsia should also avoid drug stimulation. Clinical practice has proven that the stimulation of certain Chinese and Western drugs can expand the ulcer surface, worsen the condition, and even cause bleeding. Therefore, drugs that are highly irritating to the gastric mucosa, such as prednisone, dexamethasone, aspirin, phenylbutazone, indomethacin, Fangfeng, Jianghuo, and Duhuo, must be taken strictly in accordance with the doctor's instructions. If you need to take these drugs due to illness, they should be taken after meals, or at the same time, drugs for treating gastric problems should be added.

　　Chinese medicine teaches you 5 ways to nourish your stomach

　　1. Porridge

　　Porridge is a good food for nourishing the stomach in our daily diet. The best porridge is soft and warm. Therefore, if conditions permit in life, drinking porridge once a day is the most affordable and simple way to nourish the stomach. For different groups of people and different physiques, some medicinal materials can be added to the white porridge. If you have a hot body, you can make porridge with dandelion and prunella vulgaris; if you have a cold body, you can add dangshen, astragalus, etc. appropriately. Eating milk oatmeal porridge for breakfast can nourish the stomach and spleen; eating millet porridge for dinner can warm the stomach and calm the nerves; corn porridge, pumpkin rice porridge and other grain porridge can clear the intestines and stomach; beef porridge can replenish qi and nourish the intestines and stomach; mutton porridge can replenish qi and deficiency, warm the body and strengthen the stomach and spleen; japonica rice, jujube and lotus seed porridge can nourish the stomach and spleen, and can also prevent and treat iron deficiency anemia.

　　2. Appropriate exercise

　　Exercise is good for health, and proper exercise can also help people have a stomach-healthy effect. The simplest stomach-nourishing exercise takes place in our mouths—stirring up body fluids with your tongue every morning and swallowing them, which has the effect of promoting body fluids and nourishing the stomach. In addition, the internal organs of the human body have corresponding acupuncture points on the feet. From the perspective of meridians, the stomach meridian passes between the second and third toes of the feet. Regularly moving the toes can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. When moving the toes, you can stand or sit, place your feet flat, close to the ground, shoulder width apart, and perform gripping and relaxing movements with your toes continuously for 60 to 90 times, which will stimulate the meridians of the feet alternately. You can do this action barefoot or wearing soft flat shoes, and you can repeat it multiple times a day.

　　3. Self-massage

　　We must learn to self-massage in our lives. This is a very good way to nourish the stomach and improve gastric function. For example, self-massaging the epigastric area twice a day in the morning and evening (fold your hands and massage the upper abdomen in clockwise and counterclockwise directions 30 to 50 times each) can improve gastrointestinal motility and immune function. In addition, before going to bed at night, massaging the Zusanli point after washing your feet also has significant stomach-nourishing effects.

　　4. Learn to drink soup

　　In daily life, people like to drink hot drinks or soup from church. Especially in the cold season, people are used to drinking scalding hot drinks, including hot soup and hot tea. As everyone knows, these hot soups flow all the way into the stomach along with the digestive tract, which can cause damage to the digestive tract and gastric mucosa, providing an opportunity for gastric ulcers and chronic gastritis.

　　5. Have better mental emotions

　　A person's mentality is related to many diseases. According to the traditional Chinese medicine book, "Excessive thinking and stagnation of spleen will damage the integrity and abnormal transportation over time." This shows that bad mental emotions in life will affect the function of the spleen and stomach. It is not advisable to think about problems while eating and bring business negotiations and work meetings to the dinner table. In addition, chewing slowly is an important principle for nourishing the stomach.

　　In short, whether we are preventing or treating gastric cancer in our lives, we must first take good care of our stomach, so that we can better prevent and treat diseases. This is also the basis for the treatment of gastric cancer, so we and gastric cancer patients must pay attention to this in our lives.