8 tips to protect your stomach and intestines and keep healthy in autumn

Autumn is the season of alternating cold and hot weather. The temperature difference between day and night is large, and the weather is changing from cold to warm, which makes it very easy to get sick or have old illnesses relapse. In addition, the autumn harvest has a rich variety of food, which makes people's appetite increase, and autumn becomes a high-incidence season for gastrointestinal diseases. The gastrointestinal tract is very sensitive to cold stimulation. If you do not pay attention to protection and do not pay attention to diet and lifestyle, it will cause gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, you should take good care of your health and prevent diseases according to climate changes to prevent problems before they occur.

1. Protect your stomach in autumn

Pay attention to keeping warm. The stomach likes warmth and hates cold. Warmth disperses and condenses, which hurts the stomach. After the fall, special attention should be paid to keeping the stomach warm, especially for those who suffer from chronic gastritis. They should add clothes in time and avoid catching cold in the abdomen at night.

Eat less greasy food

After autumn, people's appetite returns and their tastes may gradually turn "heavy", and they no longer prefer light food as they did during the hot summer. It is recommended to eat more light and warm food during this season, because vegetarian food can keep the gastrointestinal qi in harmony. You should not consume too much spicy and greasy food to avoid increasing the burden on the digestive system and inducing gastrointestinal diseases. In addition, you should eat less spicy and dry foods that damage body fluids, such as chili peppers, raw onions, ginger, star anise, fennel, as well as hot pot and malatang, so as not to aggravate the impact of "autumn dryness" on the body. You should drink more water and eat more food and fruits such as honey and bananas.

2. Massage

Zhongwan Point

Zhongwan point is a very important acupuncture point in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. It is located on the midline, 4 inches above the navel. When performing acupressure, you should lie on your back, relax your muscles, exhale slowly, and press down firmly with your fingers. Remove your hands after 6 seconds and repeat 10 times. This will make your stomach feel comfortable. When you have stomach pain, the Zhongwan acupressure method is more effective.

Tianshu Point

This point is located in the middle abdomen of the human body, three fingers’ width to the left and right of the navel. The patient can lie flat on the bed and press down and massage this area with the middle three fingers for about 2 minutes. The main diseases treated by Tianshu point include indigestion, nausea, bloating, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc.

Zusanli is located on the anterior and lateral side of the lower leg, 3 inches below the outer kneecap, and one finger width outside the anterior crest of the tibia. Press the point for 6 seconds and then remove your hand. Repeat 10 times. This can promote gastric acid secretion, make the stomach feel comfortable, and also have a pain-relieving effect.

For abdominal massage, sit or lie down, place your palms together on the abdomen below the navel, and massage in a clockwise direction with the navel as the center for about 3 to 5 minutes, then stand up and take a short walk. It is generally best to do it half an hour after a meal.

The above methods should be performed 2 to 3 times a day, and attention should be paid to adjusting the diet, avoiding overeating, and not eating irritating foods. If you persist for a week, the symptoms of bloating, stomach pain, and indigestion can be relieved.

3. Drinking Tea

Jasmine tea

Jasmine tastes spicy and sweet, and is warm in nature. It can help the stomach digest and absorb, relieve stomach pain, and has a good effect on diarrhea and abdominal pain. Therefore, jasmine tea is known as "stomach protection tea". It has the effect of calming the mind and can make people feel happy, thus calming and relieving tension.

Jasmine milk tea. People with poor digestion can soak jasmine flowers in hot milk to make jasmine milk tea, which has a subtle fragrance and has good auxiliary therapeutic effects.

4. Keep warm

The stomach and intestines like warmth and hate cold. Warmth disperses and condenses, which then hurts the stomach. After the autumn gets cooler, the temperature difference between day and night changes greatly. Special attention should be paid to keeping the stomach warm, especially for people with chronic gastritis. They should add clothes in time as the climate changes, and cover themselves with quilts when sleeping at night to prevent the abdomen from catching cold, which may cause stomach pain or aggravate old illnesses. People with good physical fitness can wear light clothes, follow the rule of "cover in spring and keep cold in autumn" and exercise their cold resistance, but also try to avoid getting cold in the abdomen.

5. Eat a healthy diet

In autumn, you should eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten dryness to avoid harm from dryness, consume less spicy food and more acidic food. The food should be warm, soft, light, vegetarian and fresh. Be careful not to eat food that is too cold, too hot, too hard, too spicy or too sticky. Eat more easily digestible foods and less cold foods such as lettuce salad. Patients with stomach problems should eat small meals frequently, at regular times and in regular amounts, so that there is always food in the stomach to neutralize stomach acid and prevent erosion of the gastric mucosa and ulcer surface which would aggravate the condition.

6. Eat more fruits

The climate is dry in autumn and the air lacks moisture, which makes constipation particularly prone to occur. You should eat more fruits to replenish water. It is best to eat seasonal fruits according to the natural solar terms. Do not choose off-season fruits just because of convenient transportation and advanced technology. It is easy to eat the wrong food and affect your health. In particular, you should avoid fruits and melons because "autumn melons can upset your stomach". Fruits like watermelon and cantaloupe can easily damage the spleen and stomach. You may as well eat apples, persimmons, oranges, pears, grapes, longans and other fruits in moderation.

7. Mental Health

"Autumn wind and rain make people depressing." In autumn, the sunshine decreases, the temperature gradually drops, and in late autumn, the grass withers and leaves fall, and the flowers and trees die. Many people often feel desolate and old, and feel depressed, irritable and other emotions. The occurrence and development of gastrointestinal diseases are closely related to people's emotions and mentality. Therefore, it is important to maintain a happy spirit and stable emotions, and avoid the stimulation of negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, tension, sadness, etc. One should keep calm and peaceful to mitigate the impact of the cold and evil energy of autumn on the human body. At the same time, pay attention to the combination of work and rest to prevent excessive fatigue from harming the stomach and intestines.

8. Drink more lactic acid bacteria milk

People who often feel gastrointestinal discomfort and indigestion should drink more lactic acid bacteria milk. Lactic acid bacteria can break down the lactose in fresh milk and produce a large amount of lactic acid, making the human intestine acidic. This acidic environment is not conducive to the survival and reproduction of putrefactive bacteria, and can inhibit the toxic production of putrefactive bacteria in the human body. At the same time, the lactic acid bacteria rich in lactic acid bacteria milk also have the function of cleaning the intestines and promoting digestion, and it is known as the "stomach scavenger". Drinking lactic acid bacteria milk regularly is more conducive to solving the four major gastrointestinal problems such as indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, and gastric ulcers, thereby protecting the health of the stomach and intestines.