Keep your stomach healthy in spring and get sick less than a year
Our reporter Yan Sheng
Spring is the season for nourishing the liver, and adapting to nature to soothe the liver and nourish the liver is the key to health preservation. But we not only pay attention to nourishing the liver, but also the spleen and stomach that need the most care at this time. The spleen and stomach dominate the body’s transportation and transformation of food, absorb the nutrients of food into the body, and act as the “express delivery” task, transferring nutrients to the whole body organs. Only when the internal organs are full can they work hard.
As people say:
Nourishes the spleen and stomach in spring, and gets sick less than a year.
Save acid and increase sweetness to nourish temper
Traditional Chinese medicine believes: “In spring, it is better to save acid and increase sweetness, so as to nourish the temper.” Liu Wanli, deputy director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, once introduced that this is because the spring is the source of liver qi. Prosperous time. Liver qi will affect the spleen, so the symptoms of weakness of the spleen and stomach are easy to appear in spring, and eating more sour foods will make the liver yang hyperactive and restrain the spleen and stomach (Chinese medicine believes that the liver belongs to wood, the spleen and stomach belongs to earth, and the abundance of wood restrains earth), so the spring diet It is best to eat less hot and sour, slightly sweeter is more appropriate, such as yam, lily, fungus, etc. Chinese medicine believes that porridge is the most nourishing diet for the spleen and stomach.
If you usually feel abdominal pain, poor appetite, dry mouth and throat, and even lose weight. May belong to the stomach yin deficiency, might as well eat some yam lily jujube porridge. If the work pressure or bad mood cause stomach discomfort, it is recommended to eat some fried pork slices with fungus.
A good mood can regulate the spleen and stomach
The weather in spring is dry and people are prone to get angry, so learn to regulate bad emotions and prevent “adding fuel to the fire”. Zhi Jiehua, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology at Yangzhou First People’s Hospital, suggested in his article that a good mood is more conducive to improving body metabolism and spleen and stomach operation. If you keep yourself trapped in negative emotions, it is not good for your body to detoxify. There is a great relationship between human emotions and health, and a good mood is more conducive to the regulation of the spleen and stomach.
In addition to diet and emotional conditioning, increase exercise. The body has just experienced the cold winter and needs to increase exercise appropriately to adapt to the changing seasons. When everything recovers in spring, there will be a lot of flowers and plants growing along the roadside. You often go to the roadside for walking or exercising. One is to relax your mind, and the other is to absorb negative ions in the air, which is good for your health. Adequate exercise also helps to smooth the blood and enhance the function of spleen deficiency.
Enough sleep can protect the spleen and stomach
Traditional Chinese medicine says: “Lying at night and getting up early should nourish the spleen and stomach”, which means that in spring, you should arrange your sleep time reasonably and develop good sleep habits. The plan of the day is in the morning. After a good night’s sleep, you will wake up with more energy and energy, which is more conducive to the growth of yang. The key to nourishing the spleen and stomach is whether the yang qi is sufficient, so it is more beneficial to the spleen and stomach to comply with the spring’s conditioning laws.
In addition, Zhi Jiehua also suggested to try toe exercise. For example, when waiting in line, standing on the subway or bus, you might as well keep your feet close to the ground, shoulder-width apart, and use your toes to repeatedly practice grasping and relaxing, so as to stimulate the spleen and stomach meridians alternately. Before going home and going to bed, you may wish to massage along the direction of the toes to achieve the purpose of purging stomach fire; massage against the direction of the toes, it also has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on those with weak spleen and stomach and diarrhea.
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Edit || Yan Sheng Wan Tao
Director on duty || Fan Hongbo