During the Spring Festival, large and small gatherings come one after another, and some people often neglect to eat healthy. How to regulate the body after the festival and avoid gastrointestinal diseases? With these questions, the reporter interviewed Zhang Feng, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology of Fangta Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Overeating can add to the burden on the stomach and intestines, most commonly causing indigestion. After a holiday, some people may feel bloated, nauseous and have a decreased appetite due to irregular diet. Some people will also cause gastrointestinal dysbiosis, which will lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction. In addition, eating too much spicy food or drinking too much alcohol will cause irritation to the gastric mucosa, which may induce gastric ulcers and cause symptoms such as stomach pain and acid reflux if it persists for a long time.
How to reduce the burden on the stomach? Zhang Feng introduced that first of all, we should maintain good living habits, try to maintain a balanced diet, eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains and protein foods, reduce the intake of high-fat and high-sugar foods, and avoid eating too many spicy, greasy and irritating foods; Secondly, moderate exercise, maintaining a happy mood, and regular work and rest can significantly relieve the tension of the gastrointestinal tract.
In terms of traditional Chinese medicine, we can also start by regulating the spleen and stomach, eliminating food and stagnation, and regulating qi and blood. Zhang Feng shared a small recipe for regulating the spleen and stomach - tangerine peel wolfberry barley tea, with 10 grams of tangerine peel, 10 grams of wolfberry, 15 grams of fried barley, boil water for 10 minutes and then take it. This formula can play a role in regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, diluting dampness and dissolving phlegm, and nourishing the liver and kidneys.
Zhang Feng suggested that if there are obvious gastrointestinal discomfort symptoms, such as severe abdominal pain, hematemesis, black stool, or rapid weight loss in a short period of time without deliberately, it is necessary to pay attention to it and seek medical attention in time.
Recently, there is a lot of information about adjusting the diet on the Internet, and Zhang Feng said that in daily life, the proportion of coarse grains eaten every day should account for less than one-third of the staple food, and excessive consumption of coarse grains will cause excessive gastric acid secretion, which can cause diseases such as reflux esophagitis.
*: Shanghai Songjiang.