Gastrointestinal diseases in spring

First, the cold pathogen invades the stomach and hurts the spleen and stomach yang

Spring corresponds to the liver in the five internal organs, and it is easy to have excessive liver qi, which has adverse effects on the spleen and stomach and hinders the normal digestion and absorption of food, thus leading to frequent gastrointestinal diseases. Specifically, there are three main reasons:

(1) In spring, liver-qi dominates, and liver-qi easily invades the spleen and stomach;

(2) It is windy in spring and the temperature changes greatly. If you are not careful, your body will easily catch cold. Among exogenous pathogens, cold is the most likely to attack the stomach, and cold is yin evil, which is easy to hurt yang qi. Suffering from cold or drinking too much cold, the yang of the spleen and stomach is injured, and gastrointestinal diseases will occur, especially those who are greedy for cold and drink cold in summer and autumn. In winter and spring, the weakening of spleen and stomach function will be highlighted, but in Guangzhou.

(3) There are many festivals in early spring, and overeating is more likely to cause gastrointestinal diseases.

Stomach diseases are mostly caused by qi stagnation in the liver and stomach at the beginning, but after a long time, the stomach loses its balance and falls, resulting in epigastric pain. Therefore, once there is stomach discomfort, we should take active measures and must not delay for a long time.

Second, self-massage helps to improve gastrointestinal function.

(1) The first is cold protection. Including preventing cold and overeating and preventing abdominal cold. Patients with stomach diseases should add clothes in time according to the rise and fall of temperature to keep warm. Cover the quilt when sleeping at night to minimize the chance of recurrence or aggravation of stomach disease caused by abdominal cold.

(2) Pay attention to diet aftercare. Patients with gastropathy should have a warm, soft, light and vegetarian diet, do not eat cold, overheated, hard and irritating foods, eat regularly and quantitatively, avoid overeating, and quit smoking and drinking. If you take medicine, you should pay attention to the method of taking medicine to prevent the medicine from irritating the gastric mucosa.

(3) Keep cheerful, comfortable and emotionally stable. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that excessive thinking, depressed temper, long-term injury and abnormal transport indicate that tension and anxiety will affect the spleen and stomach function. It is not advisable to think while eating and bring business negotiations and work meetings to the dinner table. In addition, chewing slowly is an important principle of nourishing the stomach.

(4) Pay attention to the combination of work and rest. Pay attention to daily life, keep good habits of work and rest, have a good rest and go to bed on time to prevent fatigue.

(5) Strengthen physical exercise. Actively participating in physical exercise and doing physical activities as much as possible can improve the blood circulation of gastrointestinal tract, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, improve the resistance of gastrointestinal tract and the adaptability of human body to the climate from hot to cold.