How to protect gastrointestinal health in daily life?

First, have a bowl of millet porridge for breakfast.

Millet porridge has the function of strengthening the spleen and stomach, especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. It is an ideal food for people with dyspepsia, and also has the effect of preventing nausea and vomiting.

After the millet porridge is cooked, let it cool and settle slightly. You can see a tiny sticky substance floating on the porridge, which is porridge oil.

Porridge oil has the functions of tonifying kidney, replenishing essence, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi, and is especially suitable for chronic gastroenteritis and patients with chronic gastric ulcer.

Second, always drink stomach-nourishing tea.

Dandelion is a medicinal and edible plant. Ancient medical books recorded that dandelion was effective for stomach diseases. For example, in the Collection of Surgical Syndrome and Treatment in Qing Dynasty, it was written: "Dandelion tile is baked black, and fire wine is used to send powder to cure stomach pain." Modern research has found that it can not only kill and inhibit Helicobacter pylori, the pathogen of gastric diseases, but also repair the damage of gastric mucosa.

Now medical research has proved that dandelion has a good antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect, which can be called "natural antibiotic" and has a good elimination effect on pathogenic bacteria including Helicobacter pylori, Staphylococcus aureus and hemolytic streptococcus.

Helicobacter pylori is the pathogen of gastritis, gastric ulcer and other stomach diseases. Cleaning dandelion root, baking to make dandelion root tea, soaking in water every day instead of tea, can make Helicobacter pylori turn negative, heal ulcer surface and relieve pain. It can also improve gastritis and gastric ulcer.

But dandelion is slightly cold. If it is spleen and stomach deficiency, it can be mixed with mild roses to make dandelion rose tea, which is neither cold nor dry. You can also maintain the health of the stomach by soaking in water, which is suitable for people with cold body or weak spleen and stomach.

Third, often press Zhongwan point.

Zhongwan point is located on the midline of abdomen, at the midpoint between the junction of chest and sword and the center of navel. The so-called combination of chest and sword means pressing down from the middle of the chest and pointing down from hard to soft, that is, the bottom of the sternum.

The stomach is located under the diaphragm, with its upper side connected with esophagus and its lower side connected with small intestine. Its upper mouth is "cardia" and its lower mouth is "pylorus".

Epiglottis is located between cardia and pylorus. In the middle of the stomach, it is mainly used to treat stomach diseases.

Fourth, don't exercise after meals.

As the saying goes, walk a hundred paces after a meal and live to ninety-nine. But after this meal, you don't exercise immediately after eating.

Instead, you should take a walk about half an hour after meals, which is good for digestion and gastrointestinal tract.

Fifth, chew slowly.

Gobbling will increase the burden on the stomach, make the muscles of the stomach tired, and reduce the initiative of the stomach, which will lead to stomach damage.

Therefore, no matter which meal, we should fully chew the food and make it as "thin" as possible to reduce the burden on the stomach.

The more times you chew, the more saliva you secrete, and the greater the protective effect on gastric mucosa.