What methods can be used to regulate insufficient gastric motility?

Insufficient gastric motility is a common disease nowadays. Patients with insufficient gastric motility generally have symptoms of bloating, nausea, and vomiting. Severe cases will cause gastritis, which will affect the normal blood circulation of gastric motility. Patients with insufficient gastric motility will have problems with their body mass, organ secretion, and cell systems. Patients with insufficient gastric motility can first find out the cause and receive dietary therapy according to their condition, which is more effective in regulating insufficient gastric motility.

Basic Information

Symptoms such as early satiety and abdominal bloating will affect the patient's normal eating and will also affect the body's absorption of normal nutrients. In addition, slower gastric emptying can cause food to stay in the stomach for a longer time, increase gastric acid secretion, and further cause mucosal damage. Over time, gastritis can easily occur. Gastritis will further slow down gastric motility, thus creating a vicious cycle.

Influencing factors

1. Gastric secretory dysfunction: There are two types of cells with secretory function in the human stomach wall, one secretes digestive enzymes and the other secretes gastric acid. When the function of these cells declines, the secretion of digestive enzymes and gastric acid also decreases, which reflexively inhibits the contraction and peristalsis of the stomach muscles, resulting in gastric motility disorders.

2. Mental and emotional changes: Mental stress and sadness can disrupt gastric electrical activity, affecting the sympathetic nerves and causing slow gastric muscle contraction frequency. Food in the stomach cannot be discharged into the intestines in time, resulting in food and gas retention in the stomach, causing abdominal distension, belching, nausea and many other symptoms.

3. Functional dyspepsia: The gastric emptying rate slows down, causing a series of indigestion symptoms, which is called "functional dyspepsia". Because the proximal stomach's ability to accommodate and store food declines and cannot relax normally after eating, patients will experience a feeling of fullness, usually accompanied by belching, abdominal distension, and even nausea and vomiting.

4. Improper eating: eating too much radish, potato, sweet potato, chestnut and other foods. Overeating and overeating will cause the stomach to overload, the stomach muscles will not move enough, the stomach will not be able to empty on time, and food will accumulate in the stomach for too long, which will lead to insufficient gastric motility.

5. Bad living habits: Bad living habits, such as excessive smoking, can relax the pyloric sphincter and cause bile reflux. Drinking alcohol can damage the gastric mucosa and cause gastric motility disorders.

Diet therapy

1. Bitter vegetable and brown sugar soup 1). Take 15g of bitter vegetable and wash it once (once is enough), put it into a pot (any pot will do), add about 1000ml of water; 2.) After boiling, cook for about 5 minutes, then remove the residue, and put the remaining soup into a thermos or container and store it in the refrigerator; 3). When drinking bitter vegetable soup, it must be taken warm. 50-100 ml each time, three times a day. First put brown sugar in a cup, pour the cooked bitter vegetable soup into the cup and stir it thoroughly, drink it when it is warm, brown sugar (preferably the ordinary dark brown sugar sold in bulk in department stores), add two or three spoons of brown sugar. 4). Take 30 minutes after meal

2. Honey for removing blood stasis and nourishing the liver: 250 grams of hawthorn, 500 grams of salvia miltiorrhiza, 250 grams of wolfberry, 1000 grams of honey, and 60 grams of rock sugar. Soak the first three herbs for 2 hours and then boil them into liquid medicine. Add honey and sugar into the liquid medicine and boil it over low heat for 30 minutes. Remove from heat when the honey and liquid medicine are dissolved and become viscous. After cooling, pour into a container and seal it for storage. Take 1 spoon 3 times a day, mix with boiled water and drink. It can be taken continuously for 2 to 3 months.

3. Black bean and Chuanxiong porridge: 25 grams of black beans, 10 grams of Chuanxiong, 50 grams of polished rice, and 20 grams of brown sugar. Boil Chuanxiong in water and remove the residue. First add black beans and cook until done. Then add polished rice and cook into porridge. Add brown sugar and it’s done. Take for breakfast and dinner.