The annual Spring Festival is approaching, inviting family and friends to celebrate the New Year together. While enjoying the festivities, everyone should remain vigilant and be aware of common illnesses and accidents.
The digestive system is a vital part of the body. However, as life pressures increase, many people's digestive health is severely affected, leading to various gastrointestinal diseases. Today, the editor will share effective methods to regulate your digestive health. Come and take a look!
7 Health Tips to Regulate Your Digestive System
1. First, prevent coldness
This includes preventing exposure to cold and excessive consumption of raw and cold foods, as well as keeping the abdomen warm. Patients with stomach diseases should add or remove clothing in a timely manner according to the temperature changes to enhance warmth. At night, make sure to cover yourself with a quilt to minimize the chances of stomach problems recurring or worsening due to a cold abdomen.
2. Drink barley tea regularly to regulate the digestive system
Barley tea has the effects of calming the stomach, quenching thirst, eliminating heat, and aiding food digestion. It is also beneficial for one's complexion and the health of the five vital organs, which perfectly matches the barley flower's meaning, "digestive yeast."
For those who love meat and spicy food, drinking a cup of warm, strong barley tea after a satisfying meal can not only relieve greasiness but also promote digestion. Moreover, steaming hot barley tea has the effect of nourishing, warming, and strengthening the stomach, which can reduce the stimulation of hot food on the gastric mucosa.
A reminder: Do not drink too much ice-cold barley tea, as its effect on regulating the digestive system is too strong, making it more suitable for relieving constipation.
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3. Maintain a pleasant mood, a relaxed state of mind, and emotional stability
Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that "excessive worry leads to depression of the spleen qi, which over time damages the body's vitality and disrupts digestion." This indicates that tension and anxiety can affect the function of the spleen and stomach. It is inadvisable to think about problems or bring business negotiations and meetings to the dinner table. Additionally, chewing slowly is an important principle for stomach health.
4. Pay attention to a balance between work and rest
It is important to maintain a regular daily routine, establish good sleep habits, balance work and rest, sleep on time, and prevent excessive fatigue.
5. Self-massage the stomach and abdomen
Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that regular self-massage of the stomach and abdomen can help improve stomach function.
The specific method is: Place one hand over the other on the upper abdomen, centered at the xiphoid process below the sternal柄. Rub and massage in clockwise and counterclockwise directions 30 to 50 times each. Then, use the same method to massage around the Shenque point (the navel) 30 to 50 times each.
In addition, massage the Zusanli points on both legs (located 3 inches below the outer side of the left kneecap, in the depression above the outer side of the tibia) 50 to 100 times. Do this twice daily, in the morning and evening.
As you persist with the massage, your digestive system may react, perhaps with burping, bowel sounds, or flatulence. These are all normal and beneficial physiological responses, resulting from the stimulation and regulation of the digestive system.
6. Strengthen physical exercise
Actively participating in physical activities and sports that you are capable of can improve blood circulation in the digestive system, enhance gastrointestinal motility, and increase the body's resistance to disease and its ability to adapt to the changing climate from hot to cool.
7. Emphasize dietary conditioning
For patients with stomach diseases, the diet should be warm, soft, light, and simple. Avoid eating foods that are too cold, too hot, too hard, or overly stimulating. Eat at regular intervals and in moderate amounts; avoid overeating. Also, quit smoking and alcohol.
If taking medication, pay attention to the method of administration to prevent the medication from irritating the gastric mucosa.
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