As the saying goes, "ten stomachs and nine diseases", many people feel that their stomachs are not strong enough: they are either afraid of cold or heat, and their stomachs start to hurt if they don't pay attention to eating a little.
So many people start to nourish their stomachs, but are you really raising them right?
Save a penny of stomach and keep a penny of life
"Stomach qi" is a proper term in traditional Chinese medicine.
One of the meanings of the so-called "stomach qi" refers to the stomach's acceptance function (the function of receiving and accommodating), and the prosperity and decline of stomach qi determines the strength of the stomach's main acceptance function.
In the Lingshu Five Flavors Chapter, it is said: "The stomach, the sea of the five internal organs, the water valley is all in the stomach, and the five internal organs and six internal organs are all in the stomach." ”
This means that after our daily diet is consumed, it needs to be absorbed in the stomach and intestines, and then converted into nutrients needed by the human body to nourish the body's internal organs, meridians and limbs.
If the stomach qi is sufficient, the human body can eat well and absorb it, and the body will have a high degree of health;
If the stomach qi is damaged and the grains cannot be digested, the body will become more and more emaciated, and the resistance and immunity will decrease, and various diseases may occur.
Generally speaking, everyone also has this common sense: no matter how serious the illness is, as long as you can still eat, it is that the stomach is not exhausted, and the prognosis is good.
If the stomach qi is decayed and the diet is not good, the prognosis is not very good.
It's not right to nourish the stomach, and the effort is in vain
Many people pay attention to the two words "warm" and "soft" when they nourish their stomach, and think that if they have stomach problems, they should eat warm, easy-to-digest food.
However, some people have stomach pain, and after eating hot food, it is worse, why is that?
Actually, that's because you don't distinguish between cold and heat!
01 The stomach needs to be warmedIn traditional Chinese medicine, about 90% of stomach diseases are stomach cold.
Stomach rotten food needs calories, stomach cold will cause no fire in the stomach, it will not be able to rot food, stomach belly [wǎn, stomach belly is the whole stomach body] cold pain, diarrhea, poor appetite, indigestion, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms will appear.
In the long run, the cold will continue to damage the digestive function and immune function of the stomach, which will not only easily lead to frequent stomach diseases, but also may cause malnutrition and frailty.
Workaround:Warm and replenish the heart and yang.
Fire can give birth to earth, that is, heart fire gives birth to stomach soil, that is to say, supplementing heart fire helps the health of the stomach, and heart fire can make the stomach prosperous, which is what the five elements say, "Deficiency is to make up for its mother".
You can add some medicinal and edible homologous herbs that warm and replenish the heart and yang when making soup or cooking, such as薤 [xiè].White, cinnamon, dried gingeretc., to help the stomach start a fire.
In addition, it can also enhance stomach motility by drinking hot water, eating hot food, and exercising outdoors reasonably.
02 Stomach heat needs to be coldInsufficient stomach fire will cause stomach cold, and excessive stomach fire will cause stomach heat.
Patients with stomach fever often have a sense of hunger and always feel that they can't eat enough, which is commonly known as "panic rice", and traditional Chinese medicine calls it "eliminating grain and good hunger".
Gastric heat is a catalyst for inflammation, and patients with acute alcoholic gastritis, hemorrhagic gastritis, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and habitual constipation often have gastric heat.
Long-term gastric heat and frequent inflammation cause great damage to the gastric mucosa and have a chance to induce carcinogenesis of mucosal epithelial cells.
Workaround:Clear the heat and get off the fire.
For patients with stomach fever just rising, eating cold medicinal ingredients can clear away heat and relieve fire, nourish yin and nourish yin, such as lettuce, bitter gourd, pear, watermelon, mint, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, barley, etc., and pay attention to replenishing water.
I would like to recommend a small food remedy for clearing the stomach and fire——Preserved eggs mixed with tofu
Method:Use two preserved eggs every day, add four taels of gypsum tofu, mix well, add sesame oil, put a small amount of salt, and eat as a dish.
It should be noted thatEveryone must go to regular supermarkets to buy lead-free preserved eggs with inspection marks, and patients with high blood pressure should be cautious about eating preserved eggs.
For people with long-term stomach fire, long-term illness will inevitably hurt the yin, and there will be symptoms of thirst, hunger and can't eat, sometimes accompanied by slight cough, sweating, constipation, bloating and other symptoms.
Workaround:Nourishes stomach yin.
You can try to use ingredients such as dendrobium, jade bamboo, reed root, and black plum to nourish yin and nourish the body.
Reed root. Self-examination of stomach heat and stomach cold
If you can't tell if you have a cold stomach or a hot stomach, hurry up and collect this **:
If you find that neither of the above scenarios match yours, don't worry.
Because, in clinical cases, the situation of gastric disease is sometimes not single, in addition to simple stomach cold and simple stomach heat, many people will also manifest a mixture of cold and heat, at this time it is best to seek help from a doctor in a regular Chinese medicine hospital.
How to nourish the stomach and protect the stomach
There is a saying that gastric diseases are "three points of treatment, seven points of nourishment", and stomach nourishment, prevention and conditioning are the first choice
Eat regularly, avoid overeating or excessive hunger, and avoid coarse, irritating foods.
Chewing slowlyChewing slowly allows the saliva to be well stirred with the food, which aids digestion and can have a protective effect on the gastric mucosa.
Get up early and drink a glass of warm water slowly, one can wake up the spleen and stomach, and the other can warm the yang energy of the spleen and stomach.
Take a walk after a meal and take a calm walk 1 hour after a meal can play an "assist" role in the digestion of food by the stomach and reduce the workload of the stomach.
For those who have difficulty in massage, you can warm your hands after meals or before going to bed, massage 60 90 circles clockwise with the navel as the center, and then massage your hands to relax your lower abdomen.
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