What to do if you have stomach pain and discomfort

Once gastrointestinal diseases occur, the impact on our health seems to be very great. Stomach pain and discomfort are typical examples. There are many reasons for stomach pain and discomfort. If it is caused by a disease, it must be treated symptomatically as soon as possible. If it happens occasionally, you can try some relief methods, which can have very good results. So, what should you do if you feel stomach pain and discomfort? Let’s take a look at the solution below.

1. Use cool peppermint oil to massage your stomach in circles, massaging your belly along the circles.

2. Do simple relaxing exercises, squat down, hug your legs with your hands and bend them, and bring your thighs close to your stomach. This will help gastrointestinal digestion and relieve stomach bloating.

3. Walk more when you have belching or flatulence, belch or pass gas to keep your stomach and intestines elastic, and do not induce vomiting, which will cause gastroesophageal reflux. Get up and walk around, it will help to relieve the belching or gas.

4. Drink tea. Citrus and mint tea can aid digestion and eliminate bloating.

Chinese medicine conditioning

Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on overall conditioning rather than starting from superficial symptoms. For example, Shi Tanqiu's ancient recipe, called Song Tea, adds medicinal materials for patients with gastrointestinal diseases into the tea to directly regulate the stomach and intestines, allowing the stomach to enjoy the most intimate care at all times.

Improper food matching will cause digestive problems. For example, protein and starch are not a good match. Vegetables and fruits are also a bad combination. Milk should not be consumed at the same time as meals. Sugar should not be taken with protein or starch.

Dietary precautions

1. Chew slowly

You should chew slowly when eating, do not chew with your mouth open, talk while eating, or drink soup while eating, as these can easily cause digestive problems and lead to bloating.

2. Chew rice soup

Rice soup and barley porridge are effective for bloating, flatulence and heartburn. Add one part rice (millet or barley) to five parts water and boil for 10 minutes. Cover and simmer for another 50 minutes. Filter, cool, and drink several times a day.

3. Drink vinegar

Mix one tablespoon of pure apple cider vinegar with a glass of water and sip it with your meals to aid digestion. You can also drink a glass of lemon water when you wake up in the morning, it also has therapeutic and blood-purifying effects.

4. How to smoke beans

If you like to eat beans but don't want bloating, here is a solution. Beans seem to lose most of their gas-producing substances when placed in water.

Studies show that soaking beans for 12 hours, or covering them with a damp paper towel for 24 hours, can significantly reduce the levels of gas-causing compounds. Cooking in a pressure cooker and then soaking for 30 minutes can reduce 90% of these compounds.

5. Stay away from wrong food combinations

6. Don’t sit down immediately after eating

After eating, you can take a walk or stand for a while. Don’t lie down to rest or sit immediately, especially lying down can easily put pressure on the stomach, causing indigestion, bloating, and even stomach pain.

Diet

The autumn diet for patients with stomach problems should be warm, soft, light, vegetarian and fresh. They should eat at regular times and in fixed quantities, with small meals and frequent meals, so that there is always food and gastric acid in the stomach to neutralize each other, thereby preventing erosion of the gastric mucosa and ulcer surface and worsening of the condition.

Avoid eating to maintain

Patients with stomach problems should pay attention to their diet and avoid eating food that is too cold, too hot, too hard, too spicy, or too sticky. They should also avoid overeating and quit smoking and drinking.