Liu Geng, deputy director of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that eating less and eating more meals is aimed at the elderly with decreased gastrointestinal function and some special people, such as patients who have undergone gastrointestinal surgery or subtotal gastrectomy. Because their gastrointestinal function declines, they can no longer eat three meals a day regularly like healthy people, so they need to eat less and eat more meals to reduce the burden of gastrointestinal emptying, otherwise they will have indigestion and even suffer from more serious digestive system diseases.
So, does eating less and eating more apply to everyone? Hu, chief physician of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that eating less and eating more meals is not suitable for everyone. She explained that on the one hand, most people have developed the habit of eating three meals a day since childhood, and the pacemaker cells and gastric acid secretion in the stomach have also formed a corresponding working law, namely the biological clock. If we disturb this rule casually, it will inevitably lead to the disharmony of stomach movement, gastric acid secretion and other functions, and the symptoms of stomach discomfort will appear. On the other hand, if you eat too many times, don't regularly quantify, and don't rest, your stomach is more likely to have problems. In addition, for patients with gastric ulcer, eating less and eating more meals will increase the secretion of gastric acid and pepsin, which is not conducive to the healing of ulcer.
Just after the Spring Festival, it is a good time to nourish your stomach in spring. Traditional Chinese medicine health theory holds that "acid should be preserved and sweetened in spring to nourish temper." This is because the spleen and stomach are weak in spring, so it is best to eat less hot and sour food, and slightly sweet food is more suitable.
So what problems should we pay attention to in life to realize scientific stomach nourishing?
1. Avoid overeating or hunger disorder or irregular diet;
2. Be careful with drugs that are irritating to the stomach, such as aspirin, hormones, and phenylbutazone; Use drugs that are too cold with caution, such as Radix Gentianae, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Rhizoma Coptidis, etc.
3. Patients with stomach diseases should give up smoking and alcohol, and avoid cold, fat, sweet, rough, hard, sour, spicy and other irritating foods.
Li Peng, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing You 'an Hospital, made a scientific examination.