Burning in your chest and feeling like there is a fire in your heart? If you are also still suffering from GERD symptoms, change your lifestyle and eating habits quickly! If you want to get rid of GERD, which is commonly known as “heartburn”, Chinese medicine doctor Sheng-Pu Lee suggests that eating slowly and chewing carefully, and nurturing good bacteria for the stomach and intestines is the only way to live a non-sick life.
GERD has almost become a synonym for civilized disease in Taiwan. According to a medical survey, in 2001, the prevalence of GERD in Taiwan was about 7%, but between 2004 and 2005, it rapidly climbed to about 14.2%, which has more than doubled in just three to four years. What is even more alarming is that, through clinical interview data, it is even estimated that one in ten people in Taiwan has GERD trouble. Acidic gastric acid often damages the delicate mucosa of the esophagus.
GERD is usually caused by the tension of the lower esophageal sphincter being relaxed, causing it to close loosely and allowing stomach acid or gas from the stomach to easily escape into the esophagus. In Chinese medicine, stomach acid is considered to be an important food-killing and cleansing fluid in the digestive tract and is indispensable to the human body.
Swallowing acid suppressants is not a cure! Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee, a Chinese medicine doctor, believes that many people swallow gastric milk and gastric tablets to suppress acid and stomach acid, thinking that they can get rid of the ” heartburn ” problem. From a Chinese medicine point of view, the reason for GERD could not be simpler: poor eating habits are the cause of the problem. Modern people often eat very fast, gobble up food, and spend no more than three to five minutes to stuff a whole stomach full of food, imagine, a whole stomach space are crowded with food, the secretion of stomach acid to where to go? Naturally, the only way is to overflow upwards and hurt the esophagus. If there is a problem with the secretion of stomach acid, it will not only cause GERD, but over time, Chinese medicine believes that it will also destroy the body’s immune system and become the root cause of all diseases.
There are a large number of beneficial bacteria, bad bacteria and intermediate bacteria living in the gastrointestinal tract of the human body, and Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee explained that the enzymes produced by these bacteria are closely related to the health of the human body’s immune system. According to Chinese medicine, good probiotics and enzymes will produce good vital Qi, so that when the body is invaded by external bacteria or viruses, the human body will be able to exert the necessary resistance and not get sick.
However, if you keep taking acid suppressants to inhibit the secretion of stomach acid, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said, the vicious cycle, the gastrointestinal bacteria killing function is not enough, bad bacteria breeding, the balance of bacteria in the human body, to use an analogy, like an election, as long as one side of the good bacteria and bad bacteria prevail, there will be a ” snuggle the big side of the watermelon ” effect, the middle bacteria to the side with more, resulting in a chain reaction, the good better, the bad more bad.
Therefore, in Chinese medicine, the stomach and large intestine are called the Yang Ming meridian, and the small intestine and bladder are called the Sun meridian. Yang is heat, and this place is the center of life, like the center of the earth, which sends heat outward in an endless stream. If there are too many bad bacteria, the body will become heavy and obese, the transportation of water and nutrients will become difficult, and the body will become poor, leading to allergies, skin diseases and even chronic autointoxication.
To be healthy, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee suggested that it is most important to change eating habits, eat slowly, chew carefully, eat until seven or eight percent full, stop, take a break, so that the food has time to fully mix with the stomach acid, naturally no GERD problems; at the same time, the growth of good bacteria, the body’s resistance is naturally enhanced, and also less likely to get sick.
Originally from: Health.chinatimes.com
Health Chinatimes/ Reporter Xue-Hua Wang reports 2010.07.28
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