Gastrointestinal flatulence is a general term for a series of symptoms caused by indigestion. Indigestion is often manifested as abdominal pain or discomfort after a meal, often accompanied by nausea, belching, snoring, and stomach swelling. Among them, hernia, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, excessive exhaustion, snoring, etc. are considered to be gastrointestinal flatulence. The gas in the gastrointestinal tract is excreted as helium, discharged through the anus as an exhaust gas, and a part is absorbed by the intestinal wall. Normal adults will have a feeling of flatulence when the amount of gas in the gastrointestinal tract increases. Long-term dyspepsia can also lead to malnutrition and decreased immune function. Indigestion is only a clinical manifestation, and needs to be differentiated from early gastric cancer, pancreas, gallbladder, and liver diseases, so patients with dyspepsia should seek medical treatment as soon as possible.
The main function of the gastrointestinal tract is to digest and absorb nutrients through the foods that are eaten, through the muscles of the gastrointestinal wall, and the digestive enzymes and bile in the digestive juice. However, the “work” of the gastrointestinal tract is not always successful, and almost everyone has experienced indigestion, bloating, and diarrhea. Most of these discomforts can be self-healing, but if the symptoms are obvious or recurrent, it may affect the work and life of the patient. You should seek medical advice at this time.
While eating or gorging, inadvertently eating a lot of air is the main cause of flatulence, followed by indigestion (due to excessive stress, emotional stress, life without regularity, etc. can lead to insufficient secretion of digestive enzymes), And various gastrointestinal diseases cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, blocked pathways, decreased intestinal wall gas absorption, etc., which often cause flatulence. A large number of foods that are easily fermented and produced, such as beans, peanuts, hawthorn, etc., or due to allergies to certain foods, cause excessive gas in the intestines, and are also prone to flatulence. Others, due to excessive use of antibiotics, inhibited normal bacteria, caused dysbacteriosis, and gas. As long as you try to avoid these factors that are prone to flatulence, such as developing a good habit of not talking, eating slowly, and so on, you can greatly reduce the occurrence of flatulence. Those with weaker digestion ability, eating soft and slag food is the best choice to avoid flatulence.
TCM classification of Gastrointestinal flatulence
Cold and hot mixed type
The most common type of gastrointestinal flatulence patients encountered in the clinic is this type. Symptoms: Stomach suffocation or abdominal fullness, heavier in the afternoon and evening, full of eating and feeling full; accompanied by bitterness or bad breath, or nausea, belching, stomach abdomen, cold, want to enter a cold diet and dare The stool is not smooth or constipation or thin, or more vaginal (fart); the tongue is greasy or yellow.
Food stagnation
Symptoms: The abdomen is full of pain, phlegm and phlegm (smell acid rot, smell of sour water), or annoying smell, or sagging, stool smells like a scum; the tongue is thick and greasy, and the pulse is slippery.
Spleen and stomach deficiency type
Symptoms: stomach abdomen is full, when the time is up, when it is light and heavy, like warmth, press, hot drink, hot food is comfortable, loss of appetite; tongue fat or scalloped, thin white fur, veins late.
Damp heat accumulation type
Symptoms: stomach fullness, nausea, vomiting, heart trouble, thirst do not want to drink more, always sweating, stool sputum, urinary short red; red tongue yellow greasy, pulse number.
Solid heat junction
Abdominal fullness, or abdominal pain, or around the umbilical pain, constipation, sweating of hands and feet, hot and humid slang; pulse is solid, or late, strong, dry tongue or coke cracking. Note: Many acute abdomen (such as intestinal obstruction, acute peritonitis, etc.) can be seen in this type of symptoms, need to quickly see emergency or hospitalization, so as not to delay the disease.
According to the above syndrome differentiation and treatment, the traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture of traditional Chinese medicine are used to regulate the flatulence of the gastrointestinal tract, and the problem is solved fundamentally.
In addition, everyone should pay attention to daily living habits and develop good eating habits.
Tips for relieving gastrointestinal flatulence
Eat more meals but each time just eat less, timing quantitatively: no matter how busy
life is, the time spent on diet can't be changed. Everyone must pay attention to regular and regular meals in life, and don't have overeating, except one. In addition to three meals a day, you can have a meal in the morning and in the afternoon, but don't eat too much food for each meal. Pay attention to the nutrition of the food and less irritating food.
Keep a comfortable mood: Have a good mood every day, in order to have a good body, no matter how busy you are, keep smiling every day, have a good mood, comfortable psychology is a prerequisite for achieving a healthy body.
