Have you experienced more or less abdominal bloating and nausea after enjoying various delicious dishes that are not easy to cook until New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other festivals? Symptoms of indigestion such as acid, belching, stomach pain, and inability to eat.
“Su Wen·Bi Lun”: “Diet is self-increasing, and the stomach and intestines are injured.” The theory of traditional Chinese medicine believes that: the stomach controls the acceptance, the spleen controls the transportation and transformation, the stomach qi descends to be harmonious, and the spleen rises to health, If you eat improperly, or eat too much greasy, the spleen and stomach are not transported and transformed in time, the food accumulation will stop in the middle, and the qi mechanism of the middle energizer will be blocked, so you will see abdominal distention, belching, acid swallowing, not wanting to eat, and even pain.
In order to let you enter the best working state as soon as possible after the holiday, Tao Rui, the chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Emergency General Hospital (formerly Coal General Hospital), recommends several good methods for nourishing the stomach and digesting food:< /p>
Massage the acupoints on the human body and adjust the technique
1. Kneading Neiguan: Neiguan acupoint is located on the inner side of the wrist, about three horizontal fingers (three horizontal fingers) away from the wrist crease. At the width of two fingers together), at the width of two tendons and two fingers together, take a hole between the two tendons. Knead with your thumb, position and rotate 36 times, alternately with both hands.
2. Rub Zusanli: Zusanli acupoint is located three inches below the eye of the outer knee (the width of four fingers together), about 1 finger lateral to the outer side of the tibia. Press Zusanli 36 times with the thumbs of both hands.
3. Massage the abdomen: Cross your hands, rub the abdomen with the navel as the center, 36 circles clockwise.
Make your own healthy tea substitute
1. Malt hawthorn drink
Composition: 15g raw malt, 15g hawthorn, 9g dried tangerine peel.
How to take: Drink after boiling or brewing.
Efficacy: promoting qi and digestion, and appetizing depression.
2. Radish Honey Tea
Composition: 120g white radish, 5g green tea, 20g honey Take the juice from the rotten green tea, brew the green tea in boiling water for 5 minutes, and then take the juice. After mixing, add honey and mix thoroughly. Heat and drink.
Efficacy: lowers qi and stomach, clears heat and guides stagnation.
Appropriately eat some proprietary Chinese medicine
1. Baohe Pill
Composition: hawthorn, half Summer, Poria, Divine Comedy, Chenpi, Forsythia, Radix.
Indications: internal stoppage of food accumulation, abdominal distention, belching and swallowing acid, unwillingness to eat and so on.
Recipe: This recipe comes from the “Danxi Heart Method” in the Yuan Dynasty. In the prescription, hawthorn is good for eliminating the accumulation of greasy meat and is the king medicine. Divine Comedy is good at eliminating the accumulation of stale wine and food; Radix is good at eliminating the accumulation of phlegm and qi in the grain and noodles, and they are the official medicine. Pinellia and tangerine peel are used as adjuvants to remove stagnation of qi, harmonize the stomach and stop vomiting; Poria to invigorate the spleen and remove dampness; forsythia to clear heat and disperse knots. The combination of various medicines can dissolve food accumulation, clear stagnation and heat, smooth Qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach.
2. Yueju Pills
Composition: Cyperus officinalis, Chuanxiong, Cangzhu, Divine Comedy, Gardenia.
Indications: chest tightness, abdominal distension, belching, expectoration and other symptoms.
Recipe: This recipe is from “Danxi Heart Method”. The original meaning of cube is to relieve the “six depression” syndrome, that is, the collective name of the six depression syndromes including qi, blood, dampness, fire, phlegm and food. Depression is stagnation or stagnation. In the prescription, Xiangfu soothes the liver and relieves depression. Chuanxiong is fragrant, promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, and is used as a ministerial medicine to treat blood stagnation. Gardenia clears heat and purifies fire to treat fire stagnation; Atractylodes japonica dries dampness and transports spleen to treat damp stagnation; Divine Comedy eliminates food and induces stagnation to treat food stagnation. The three drugs are adjuvant. Although there are six stagnations, they are all caused by qi stagnation. The treatment should focus on activating qi to relieve stagnation. If qi moves, blood will be smooth and fire will be clear.
If the symptoms are still not relieved by the above methods, it is recommended that you go to the hospital for further diagnosis and treatment.
(Expert interviewed: Tao Rui, attending physician of Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Emergency General Hospital)
(Mo Peng, Beijing Youth Daily)