TCM recognizes 3 issues as the root of the problem for today's common issue - gastric pain.
1⃣ Weak Digestive System - due to long term overworking, irregular meals, and long term medication.
2⃣ Bad Dietary Habits - consumption of alcohols, spicy, cold and raw foods; overeating, resulting in bloatedness, gastric pains, acid reflux and burping
3⃣ Emotional Imbalance - due to stress
How to prevent gastric pains:
❣Best time for Breakfast - 7am to 9am
❣Best time for Dinner - 6pm to 8pm
❣Food Choice - warm, soft, bland, easily digestible and fresh
❣Avoid fried, dry, hard and spicy foods
❣Avoid fruits after 8pm as the sugars in fruits may turn acidic and irritate the gastric
❣Eating speed - chew softly and swallow gently
What to do during gastric pains:
✅ Drinking warm water can relieve the tension and muscle cramps in the gastric (but not solving the root of the problem)
✅Massage Zhong Wan acupoint (RN12) to relieve gastric cramps
✅Massage Nei Guan acupoint (PC6) to relieve bloatedness and gastric pains
