What does gastrointestinal stagnation mean?

Many people do not know what gastrointestinal stagnation means. Gastrointestinal stagnation means that the food we did not eat is not digested and absorbed normally by the body, but accumulates in the gastrointestinal tract. When gastrointestinal stagnation occurs, it will cause indigestion in patients. At the same time, patients also feel bloating and vomiting. If a child suffers from gastrointestinal stagnation, parents should take the child to the hospital for treatment.

Symptoms of gastrointestinal stagnation

1. No appetite for milk or food, abdominal distension and pain, sour and smelly vomit, loose stools with a smelly taste like rotten eggs.

2. Irritability, crying at night or having fever etc.

3. Have a history of breast or food damage. Stool examination shows undigested food residues or fat globules. Children who do not control their milk and food intake, or are fed improperly, eat too much milk and food, or eat too much fatty, raw, cold, and indigestible food can damage the spleen and stomach. The stomach is responsible for receiving and is the sea of ​​food and water; the spleen is responsible for transportation and transformation and is the source of Qi and blood. If the spleen and stomach are injured, their functions of receiving, transporting and transforming are impaired, the ascending and descending order is disrupted, milk and food stagnate, and they accumulate and cannot be digested, thus causing stagnation. Physical weakness and weak spleen and stomach after illness can also lead to indigestion of milk and food, which can cause illness.

4. Stagnation is closely related to food poisoning and malnutrition. If the damage caused by milk and food is not digested for a long time, it may turn into accumulation. If the accumulation is not digested for a long time, it will cause heat and consume body fluid, which can turn into malnutrition. Therefore, there is a saying that "accumulation is the mother of malnutrition" and "malnutrition will not occur without accumulation".

What medicine should I take for gastrointestinal stagnation?

1. 3g Xuanming powder and 0.5g pepper powder, grind them into fine powder. Fill the navel, cover with oilcloth or oil paper, cover with sterilized gauze, fix with adhesive tape, and change the dressing once a day. Used for symptoms of severe food accumulation.

2. Stir-fry 30g of rhubarb and 20g of sodium sulfate and grind into coarse powder. Mix the mixture and put it into a cloth bag, then apply it to the navel and abdomen of the child. Used for abdominal distension, abdominal pain and constipation caused by food accumulation.

3. Fry 100g of wine lees in a pan, divide it into two bags, and use them to heat the abdomen alternately, once a day, each time for 3 hours. Used for patients with spleen deficiency and accumulation.

Diet therapy

1. Cut 500g white radish into thin strips, squeeze out the juice, stew it and take it orally. Take one dose daily, divided into two doses. Used for food stagnation caused by eating too much meat.

2. 10g betel nut and 3 kumquats. Crush the two ingredients and put them into a pot, boil them in water for 20 minutes, take the juice and add appropriate amount of sugar to season. Take several times a day as a tea substitute. Used for children with food accumulation and qi stagnation.

Massage therapy for gastrointestinal stagnation

Push and rub Banmen 100 times, Qing Dachang 100 times, rub Zhongwan 100 times, push the abdominal yin and yang 50 times, massage the abdomen for 2 minutes, rub Zusanli 100 times, push the seven vertebrae 100 times, push the spine 10 times, and pinch the spine 3-5 times. For those with milk and food accumulation in the body, pinch the four seams 10 times, grab the belly corners 3-5 times, or pierce the four seams. For those with spleen deficiency and accumulation, supplement the spleen and earth 100 times, and transport water into earth 100 times.