Chinese medicine practitioners remind that if you want to improve gastroesophageal reflux, in addition to drug treatment, you must seriously change your living and eating habits; the picture shows the situation.

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〔Health Channel/Comprehensive Report〕Modern people are under high pressure in life, coupled with unhealthy eating habits such as refined diet, staying up late and eating midnight snacks, not only easily induce cardiovascular diseases, but also increase the incidence of gastroesophageal reflux.

In this regard, doctors of traditional Chinese medicine remind that in addition to drug treatment, you must seriously change your life and eating habits, such as slow food + moderate; reduce greasy food or sweet food; avoid irritating food (such as coffee and strong tea); Do not eat for 4 hours; lose weight, reduce smoking and alcohol; keep the intestinal tract unobstructed.

Xie Peifen, director of the Zhubei Branch of Yafeng Weixin Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, posted on the Facebook fan page "Xie Peifen Chinese Medicine Physician. Chat between clinics", pointing out that esophageal reflux (GERD) refers to the reflux of gastric contents, causing esophageal mucosal damage and related Various symptoms, the main cause comes from the dysfunction of the lower esophageal sphincter (cardia), which cannot close normally.

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Xie Peifen said that when discussing the digestive system in traditional Chinese medicine, there is a so-called theory of "spleen ascending and stomach descending". The process by which nutrients are absorbed and delivered to tissues throughout the body.

Therefore, when the function of the stomach is normal, digestion should go all the way down. If there is something wrong with the stomach and cannot go down normally, the stomach gas will go up, or hiccup, or reflux with gastric acid, and in severe cases, it will cause nausea and vomiting .

Xie Peifen emphasized that there are many reasons that can affect the function of the stomach and cardia, such as overeating, eating too fast, often eating irritating diets such as coffee and strong tea, or lying down after eating. These conditions are likely to cause repeated gastric acid reflux erosion, In addition, if the belt is too tight, sitting for a long time, and obesity will cause high abdominal pressure, it is also easy to cause esophageal reflux.

For TCM treatment of esophageal reflux.

Xie Peifen said that it is not only aimed at the stomach, for example, when the body feels pressure or emotions, it will affect the function of the stomach through the nervous system, which is what Chinese medicine says "disharmony between the liver and spleen", "liver wood restrains spleen soil" (here The liver is similar to the autonomic nervous system of the human body), so the treatment must consider soothing the liver.

Or stay up late and sleep abnormally, which can easily lead to stomach yin deficiency and affect the normal function of the stomach in the long run. The treatment must add stomach yin nourishing drugs such as Chinese yam Polygonatum Polygonatum and other medicines.

In fact, there are many types of treatment for the spleen and stomach, which are dialectical and delicate. This kind of disease can be said to be a large number of outpatients in traditional Chinese medicine.

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