Keep the stomach away from the trouble of old stomach trouble 3.
In recent years, due to the change of people’s lifestyle, the incidence of stomach diseases is increasing year by year. At present, about 70% of the general population suffers from stomach diseases, and it shows a trend of younger age.
At the turn of the season, it is the high incidence season of stomach diseases. On the one hand, the heat in summer has not completely faded away, and people often don’t avoid cold food. On the other hand, the weather is getting colder, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the gastrointestinal function is weakened, so it is easy to suffer from gastrointestinal diseases. Huang Feijian, an expert in internal medicine at Dongcheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that people should pay special attention to the acquired protection of the spleen and stomach and try to avoid chilled drinks and foods in summer.
Gastropathy mostly develops from chronic superficial gastritis.
As mentioned in Huangdi Neijing, the spleen and stomach are the sea of water valleys. Only when the spleen and stomach are good, what we eat can be digested and absorbed normally, and then we can study and live energetically. If the digestion is not good, the human body may have a series of problems such as hypoxia and ischemia, which may lead to dizziness and weakness in walking, and even more serious diseases such as enteritis and heart disease. Therefore, it is very important to protect the spleen and stomach.
In today’s era, common stomach diseases include chronic superficial gastritis, chronic congestive gastritis, chronic antritis, chronic erosive gastritis, chronic esophageal reflux gastritis, bile reflux gastritis, chronic atrophic gastritis, gastric ulcer, intestinal ulcer and colitis. Among them, chronic superficial gastritis, atrophic gastritis and gastric ulcer are common diseases in our lives. In recent years, with the increasing pressure of life, people’s irregular eating habits and lifestyle changes, more and more people suffer from such stomach diseases.
Huang Feijian said that chronic superficial gastritis can be said to be the basic gastritis of all stomach diseases, and there are many patients. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, chronic superficial gastritis is related to cold pathogen or damp pathogen, and the main symptoms include flatulence, bowel sounds, abdominal sounds, and unpleasant diet. If it is a stomach disease caused by cold and dampness, the main symptoms are noisy and restless stomach, flatulence, acid regurgitation, slight vomiting and constipation, and there will be cases where the symptoms are aggravated by eating cold things and slightly relieved by eating hot ones. After wet and cold stasis appear in the body, the body will have symptoms such as fear of heat, dry mouth, dizziness, insomnia, palpitation, shortness of breath and even high blood pressure.
Among many stomach diseases, chronic superficial gastritis is a mild and easy-to-treat disease, but it should be found and treated early. For chronic superficial gastritis, the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine focuses on promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis on the basis of dispelling cold, dehumidification and strengthening the body resistance. The medicine contains Erchen decoction, Huaqi decoction and Lizhong decoction.
Attention should be paid to the fact that gastric ulcer and atrophic gastritis can induce cancer.
Gastric ulcer and atrophic gastritis are concepts of western medicine. Among them, the symptoms of gastric ulcer are applicable to the category of epigastric pain in traditional Chinese medicine, and the lesions are mostly in the upper abdomen, and may also appear in the left upper abdomen or behind the sternum and xiphoid process. Patients often feel dull pain, dull pain, distending pain, burning pain, bloating, fullness, anorexia, indigestion, poor diet or inability to eat. In life, overeating sweets is usually one of the causes of gastric ulcer. The stomach can’t digest and metabolize a lot of sweets completely, and it accumulates in the stomach, which in turn leads to gastric ulcer.
Patients with gastric ulcer often have their symptoms relieved or disappeared after meals. The pain is obvious from half an hour to an hour after meals, and gradually relieved after 1-2 hours, and the pain is aggravated at night. The pain gets worse after catching cold, overeating and drinking. Some patients also have nausea, vomiting, acid regurgitation, belching and diarrhea, and some patients may have no symptoms or take complications such as bleeding and perforation as the first symptom. Gastric ulcer can lead to perforation of ulcer, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and long-term attack can easily lead to gastric cancer.
Atrophic gastritis, also known as chronic atrophic gastritis, is a chronic digestive system disease characterized by atrophy and reduction of gastric mucosa epithelium and glands, thinning of gastric mucosa, thickening of mucosal base, or metaplasia of pyloric gland and intestinal gland, or atypical hyperplasia. Often manifested as dull pain in the upper abdomen, fullness, belching, loss of appetite, emaciation, anemia, etc., it is a multi-pathogenic disease. According to data observation, if atrophic gastritis is not treated in time, the canceration rate is quite high. In the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, atrophic gastritis mainly focuses on relieving qi, strengthening the body resistance, supplementing qi and blood, and improving immunity, and on this basis, it clears up the environment for the growth of Helicobacter pylori. It can be cured in a month or two or three months.
Gastric ulcer and atrophic gastritis can occur independently or simultaneously. Gastric ulcer disease occurs on the basis of chronic gastritis, and many patients with gastric ulcer have chronic atrophic gastritis.
Look, hear and ask questions, and intervene according to the symptoms
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that six evils and seven emotions are both factors leading to atrophic gastritis of gastric ulcer. Most patients with gastric ulcer and atrophic gastritis have white, thick and greasy tongue coating, heavy and astringent pulse, and the pulse is full of yang, and the yin and cold are heavy, which leads to the breeding of Helicobacter pylori. The principle of Chinese medicine in treating diseases is not to directly kill Helicobacter pylori, but to regulate the body itself and fundamentally change the breeding environment of Helicobacter pylori, so that there is no soil for Helicobacter pylori to breed again.
Therefore, whether it is gastric ulcer or atrophic gastritis, it is necessary to find out the cause according to the patient’s pulse, tongue and face, and distinguish which constitution the patient belongs to, cold, dampness, cold and dampness, or stasis. After the diagnosis, the problem can be fundamentally solved by targeted treatment according to the lesions and symptoms.
Diet and life management are indispensable for the treatment of old stomach diseases.
It is very important to protect the temperature of the stomach for patients with gastric ulcer and atrophic gastritis. Diet should be warm, soft, light, vegetarian and fresh, so as to achieve regular quantitative, eat less and eat more meals, do not eat hot, hard, too spicy, too sticky food, but also avoid overeating, smoking and drinking. Under the guidance of a doctor, we should avoid taking drugs that irritate the stomach, and pay attention to the method of taking them, preferably half an hour after meals, in order to avoid irritating the gastric mucosa and worsening the condition. In particular, you can’t eat things that are too cold often. Generally speaking, the temperature of the stomach is around 36 degrees, while the temperature of iced food is between MINUS 1 degree and MINUS 2 degrees. If you drink and eat for a long time, the temperature of the stomach will drop, which will lead to stomach diseases. Therefore, even in hot summer, all kinds of iced drinks and foods should be avoided as much as possible.
Gastric ulcer and atrophic gastritis are closely related to mood and mentality. Therefore, we should pay attention to mental health, keep cheerful and emotional stability, and avoid the stimulation of bad emotions such as tension, anxiety and anger. At the same time, the law of life, work should be combined with rest, ensure sleep, and insist on proper exercise.
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Experts recommend traditional Chinese medicine prescription for nourishing stomach
Stomach fever: 1 gram of honeysuckle and 1 rose.
People with stomach cold: stir-fried coix seed 10 grams, Poria cocos 10 grams, 3 slices of ginger, or put a little black tea to protect the gastric mucosa.
Women with stomach fever: 1 gram of chrysanthemum and 2 grams of Bai Meihua.
Women with stomach cold: 1 rose, 2 grams of dried tangerine peel, make tea to drink.
Old people: 6 grams of Astragalus, 6 grams of Poria, make tea to drink. Or add 6 grams of Salvia Miltiorrhiza.
Flatulence: Draw a circle along the navel every night, 36 times clockwise and 36 times counterclockwise, until you have a fever.
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Several behaviors that are easy to hurt the stomach
1. Frozen diet is prone to "gastritis"
In the hot summer, you can sweat when you sit still. Many people will gulp down a glass of cold beer or drink a bottle of frozen drink quickly in order to cool down and quench their thirst. I feel carefree, but the cold drink and cold beer I just drank will stimulate the warm stomach. Just like conditioned reflex, the gastric mucosa will contract rapidly, leading to gastric ischemia and hypoxia, which will lead to the recurrence of gastritis or gastropathy.
2. Blowing the air conditioner makes the stomach "cold"
Because of the hot weather, many people blow the air conditioner for a long time at night or blow the fan all night, and don’t cover the quilt at all. Although doing so can increase the comfort of sleep, but let the body stay in a low temperature state for a long time, which will easily make the stomach catch cold, cause stomach discomfort, nausea, bloating and other symptoms.
Irregular diet hurts the stomach the most.
If you don’t eat breakfast, you are hungry for a full meal, and your three meals are unbalanced or overeating, you can do it occasionally, but if you do this for a long time, the damage to your stomach will accumulate over time, which will cause great trouble. Especially for people who have problems with their stomachs, it is simply worse.
Expert:
Huang Feijian, Vice President of Dongcheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
He studied under Professor Tong Xiaolin, the chief researcher of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and is now a member of Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has been engaged in scientific research and clinical work on digestive tract diseases, respiratory diseases and allergic diseases for more than 30 years. Good at treating spleen and stomach diseases, gastric ulcer, intestinal ulcer, atrophic gastritis, colitis, etc. Allergic rhinitis, acute and chronic sinusitis, paranasal sinusitis, nasal polyps, urticaria, eczema and other intractable diseases. (Beijing Morning Post reporter Zhang Xiaoli Zhu Fengqi)