Doing this after a meal can actually help you stay healthy

Many people take a walk after meals. In fact, this is one of the basic ways to maintain health after meals. However, most people may not know that there are many other ways to maintain health after meals. So what can you do after meals to maintain your health?

Abdominal massage after meals

Sun Simiao, a great medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, once said: "After lunch, rub your belly with your hands and walk one or two hundred steps slowly. Rubbing the belly after a meal can cure all diseases." Massaging the abdomen after a meal can promote gastrointestinal motility and blood circulation in the abdominal cavity, which is beneficial to enhancing gastrointestinal function, but also can serve as a benign stimulus, which is transmitted to the brain through nerves, which is beneficial to the regulation and function of the central nervous system, and is beneficial to fitness and disease prevention.

Specific method: Place your palms on your abdomen, with the navel as the center, and slowly and gently massage clockwise and counterclockwise for 20 circles each.

Walk slowly after meals

"Sheyang Zhenzhong Fang" records: "Walking a few hundred steps after eating is very beneficial to people." It means that walking slowly after eating can help promote gastrointestinal motility, the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juices and the digestion and absorption of food, which is beneficial to human health. However, you should not walk briskly, do strenuous exercise, or sit down or lie down to rest immediately after eating, otherwise it will be harmful to your health.

Rinse your mouth after meals

The ancient medical scientist Zhang Zhongjing pointed out: "You should rinse your mouth after eating to keep your teeth healthy and your mouth fragrant." Rinsing your mouth after eating can keep the mouth moist and clean the teeth. It can stimulate the taste buds on the tongue, enhance the taste function, and effectively prevent and treat oral and dental diseases. Protecting the mouth and teeth is beneficial to increasing appetite and aiding digestion and absorption. In this way, the elderly will feel that their food is delicious, their body is healthy, and they can live a healthy and long life.

Enjoy music after dinner

The ancients said: "Don't get angry after eating, and don't eat after getting angry." Soft and light music, or even a pleasant environment, can act as a benign stimulus to regulate the body's digestion and absorption functions through the central nervous system.