Do you get stomachaches after eating? Do you sometimes feel chest tightness, have gas and a turning stomach, and sometimes even nausea or vomiting? Yuen Oi-lin, a registered traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner in Hong Kong, said on the program “100 Diseases and 100 Cures“ that emotions and eating habits will affect gastrointestinal (GI) health. She also explained that self-healing can be achieved through diet therapy and applying pressure to two acupoints, and stomach pain and other problems can be improved.
Gastrointestinal disorders are common among all walks of life and ethnicities. Chronic abdominal pain is one such condition primarily affected by irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). About 6 million visits are made to emergency departments in the United States for abdominal pain yearly, though many more are made to primary care clinics.
