What food is suitable for stomach pain?

The stomach is the most vulnerable organ in our body. Generally, patients’ stomachs are easily damaged due to long-term bad eating habits. Therefore, if you want to nourish your stomach, the best way is to eat a reasonable diet. Especially when patients have stomach pain, they need a more reasonable diet. So, what foods are suitable for stomach pain?

Fruits are divided into hot, cool and warm types. For people with stomach problems, it is better to eat warm fruits, such as cherries, pomegranates, lychees, green fruits, papayas, ginkgo nuts, etc. In addition, people with chronic gastric disease are particularly sensitive to fruits containing tannic acid and are prone to heartburn, so they should eat less of them.

For people who often suffer from stomach pain, there may be many ways to treat it. So, are there any convenient and delicious vegetables? Stomach pain can be simply divided into three types: deficiency-cold stomach pain, liver-stomach qi pain, and damp-heat stomach pain.

1. Millet: warms the stomach and calms the mind

2. Pumpkin: Pumpkin is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It can detoxify: Pumpkin contains vitamins and pectin. Pectin has good adsorption properties and can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals, thereby detoxifying; it can protect gastric mucosa and help digestion: The pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect the gastrointestinal mucosa from the stimulation of rough food, promote the healing of ulcer surfaces, and is suitable for patients with stomach problems. The ingredients contained in pumpkin can promote bile secretion and enhance gastrointestinal motility. Helps digest food; eliminates carcinogens: Pumpkin can eliminate the mutation effect of the carcinogen nitrosamine, has anti-cancer effects, and can help restore liver and kidney functions and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells.

3. Spinach, carrots, onions, and garlic.

Dietary therapy for stomach pain: Once you suffer from stomach problems, it will take a long time to fully recover. If you usually have stomach pain, you should pay attention to your diet and lifestyle habits. Mild stomach pain can still be treated through diet therapy. If you persist in it for a long time, it will help the functional recovery of the stomach.

In terms of diet, those who want to protect their stomach should pay attention to eating a light diet, not eating too complicated food, and not thinking that all supplements are good things. Appropriate supplements are the right way. Moreover, the most important thing for nourishing the stomach is the amount of food you eat. Don’t go hungry for one meal and full for the next. The most important thing is to eat until you are 70% full at each meal to avoid eating too much. Overeating will increase the pressure on the gastrointestinal tract and affect the digestion and absorption function of the stomach.

Patients with severe stomach pain must develop good eating habits and not eat properly only when stomach problems occur, otherwise it will be difficult to nourish the stomach. Don't overeat all the time. It is recommended that patients eat small meals frequently and eat more light foods. Do not eat greasy foods during stomach pain.