How to nourish the stomach? Chinese medicine recommends six ways to nourish the stomach

The stomach is an important digestive organ for people. A bad stomach can cause many human diseases. In real life, many people suffer from stomach diseases due to bad habits such as irregular eating and overeating. So what are some ways to help people nourish their stomachs?

1: Porridge is a good food for nourishing the stomach in our daily diet, and the best porridge is the thin, soft and warm one. Therefore, if conditions permit in life, drinking porridge once a day is the most economical and simple way to nourish the stomach. According to different groups of people and different physiques, some medicinal materials can be added to the white porridge. If you have a hot constitution, you can use dandelion and selfheal to make porridge; if you have a cool constitution, you can add codonopsis, 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 whole grain porridges can clear the stomach and intestines; beef porridge replenishes the middle and replenishes qi, nourishes the stomach and intestines; mutton porridge replenishes qi and replenishes deficiency, warms the middle and lower body, strengthens the stomach and spleen; japonica rice, jujube and lotus seed porridge nourishes the stomach and spleen, and can also prevent and treat iron deficiency anemia.

A person's mentality is related to many diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine says that "excessive thinking will cause spleen qi to be depressed, which will damage the body's health over time and cause abnormal metabolism", which means that bad mental emotions in life will affect the spleen and stomach functions. It is not advisable to think about problems while eating or bring business negotiations and work meetings to the dinner table. In addition, chewing slowly is an important principle for nourishing the stomach.

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

Lie flat on your back, support your body from the soles of your feet, heels, back of your calves, knees, back of your thighs, waist, back, and back of your neck, hold for 5 seconds, then slowly lower your body. You can do 2 to 3 cycles every day. Breathing should be natural, but abdominal breathing can also be used.

In life, people like to drink hot drinks or soup in church, especially in cold seasons, people are accustomed to drinking boiling hot drinks, including hot soup and hot tea. Little do people know that these hot soups will flow all the way into the stomach through the digestive tract, causing damage to the digestive tract and gastric mucosa, providing an opportunity for gastric ulcers and chronic gastritis.

1: Exercise is good for health, and proper exercise can also help people strengthen their stomachs. The simplest stomach-nourishing exercise takes place in our mouth - use your tongue to stir out saliva and swallow it every morning, which has the effect of promoting saliva production and soothing the stomach. In addition, the human body's internal organs have corresponding acupoints on the feet. From the perspective of meridians, the stomach meridian passes between the second and third toes. Regularly moving the toes can help strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. When moving your toes, you can stand or sit with your feet flat on the ground, shoulder-width apart. Repeat the gripping and relaxing motion of your toes 60 to 90 times to stimulate the meridians in your feet by alternating tension and relaxation. You can do this exercise barefoot or in soft flat shoes and repeat it several times a day.

Whether preventing gastric cancer or treating gastric cancer, we must first take good care of our stomach so that we can better prevent and treat the disease. This is also the basis of gastric cancer treatment. Therefore, we and gastric cancer patients should pay attention to this in our lives.