Suffering from stomach ailments is painful and can even disrupt daily life and work. Learning methods to nurture your stomach in daily life is crucial. Let's explore them together!
How to Cure Stomach Ailments
1. Exercise Therapy for Stomach Ailments
As an effective adjunct therapy, stomach ailment patients can engage in activities such as qigong, tai chi, walking, jogging, and cycling.
Beginners should start with low-intensity activities. For example, take slow, relaxed walks for 20-30 minutes per session, keeping your pulse around 110 beats per minute. Walking about 2 kilometers in scenic surroundings helps regulate the central nervous system, improves overall bodily and gastrointestinal function, and can alleviate bloating, belching, and promote ulcer healing.As the condition improves, exercise intensity can be gradually increased, with the pulse rate during exercise reaching approximately 130 to 140 beats per minute. It is best to maintain 20 to 40 minutes of exercise daily.
2. Massage Therapy for Gastric Disorders
Abdominal Massage: Patient lies supine with knees bent. Overlap both palms and place them on the abdomen. Using the navel as the center, massage the middle and lower abdomen in a clockwise direction for about 5 minutes until warmth is felt. Start with light pressure, gradually increasing intensity, then expand the massage to cover the entire abdomen for about 2 minutes.
Rubbing the Lumbar-Sacral Region: The patient sits with the waist flexed forward. Keep the fingers of both hands together, press the palms firmly against the lumbar region, and rub vigorously toward the sacral area. Repeat continuously for about 1 minute until the skin feels slightly warm.
3. Dietary Therapy for Treating Gastric Disorders
3.1. Regular Meal Times, Quality, and Quantity.Regular Meal Times: Breakfast around 6 a.m., lunch around noon, dinner around 6 p.m. If snacks are needed, have them around 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., or a light snack around 9 p.m. Quality Meals: Ensure each meal is nutritious, easily digestible, flavorful, and minimally irritating. Avoid strong alcoholic beverages. Portion Control: The general ratio for three meals is breakfast (3 portions), lunch (4 portions), and dinner (3 portions).
3.2. Eat slowly, thoroughly cooked, and warm. Chew thoroughly: Chew slowly and thoroughly. Mix well with saliva before swallowing. Cooked well: Food should be soft, tender, and easy to chew and digest. Avoid coarse, hard, or tough foods. Warm: Food should be warm. Avoid scalding hot or cold foods.
3.3. Avoid heavy lifting, anger, and exposure to cold before meals. Avoid heavy lifting: Refrain from strenuous physical labor or vigorous activity before or after meals. Avoid anger: Maintain emotional stability; do not become irritated or angry.
3.4. Avoid exposure to cold: Keep the abdomen warm; avoid drafts or cold exposure to prevent aggravating stomach ailments.
What are some stomach-warming floral teas?
1. Jujube, Longan, and Goji Berry Tea
Goji berries, jujubes, and longan are excellent for nourishing blood and qi. Goji berries protect the liver, tonify the kidneys, improve vision, moisten the lungs, and combat aging.Adding a pinch of goji berries when brewing longan and red date tea enhances sweetness. Brown sugar, with its sweet and warm nature, is believed in traditional Chinese medicine to strengthen the spleen, warm the stomach, and promote blood circulation. Moderate consumption of brown sugar water can alleviate menstrual cramps.
Preparation: Remove the outer shell and seed from the longan, and pit the red dates. Place the longan, goji berries, red dates, and white sugar into a cup. Pour boiling water over them and steep for ten minutes before drinking.A cup of ginger black tea is excellent for warming the stomach. Ginger contains multiple active compounds that detoxify, reduce inflammation, dispel dampness, promote blood circulation, nourish and warm the stomach, stop vomiting, and eliminate bodily waste.
Ginger tea may alleviate mild colds with just one serving. For more severe symptoms, drinking it once daily for three consecutive days can stop runny nose, cough, fever, sore throat, and headache.Those prone to colds can also drink it every three days for preventive effects.
Preparation: 5g black tea, 2g ginger powder, brown sugar to taste. Place tea and ginger powder in a cup, pour in water above 90°C; let cool slightly before adding brown sugar and drinking.
3. Jasmine Tea: A Stomach-Warming Floral Infusion
Jasmine possesses a pungent-sweet flavor and warm nature, aiding digestion and absorption while soothing stomach pain. It effectively treats diarrhea and abdominal discomfort. Thus, jasmine tea is known as the "stomach protector," calming the mind and easing tension to promote emotional well-being.
Preparation: Place an appropriate amount of jasmine flowers in a cup, then pour boiling water over them. When brewing jasmine tea, pour the boiling water from above downward. This allows the jasmine tea leaves to swirl, releasing the tea's fragrance and the floral aroma.