Sluggish digestion - the cause of constipation

One of the common causes of constipation - sluggish digestion, due to the "inconsistent" operation enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract or their lack. Excess food creates a foundation for the development of constipation.

IN saliva, gastric, and other intestinal juices contain dozens of different biologically active substances - enzymes, acting very coherently. And each of them not only fulfills its function – cleaves certain food ingredients, but also stimulates the production of enzymes in the lower digestive tract. If at least one of the enzymes is highlighted time and in sufficient quantity, the whole cycle of digestion of food broken. As a result, most of the nutrients pass through the body "in transit", without bringing any benefit. Undigested products are often toxic, they almost always serve as a medium for the rapid growth of microorganisms. And all this again predispose to constipation.

So first of all we need to adjust the enzymatic function of the gastrointestinal tract. Here are some tips, that will avoid a sluggish digestion.

• During any food and for two hours after the drink anything, except for hot beverages - tea, coffee, preheated jelly, compote, etc.. P. Ingress of cold liquid in the stomach causes reflex contraction of its walls, and content selection in intestine. Besides, liquid also dilutes the gastric juice, and so the enzyme is less active. And while pepsin digestion phase (first 2 o'clock) temperature of the contents of the stomach is more than 37 °. So, even water at room temperature (20 ° C) It is a strong irritant to the stomach.
• Eat 5-6 times per day, but less than the usual 20-30%. Try not to mix meat and flour, milk and flour, and so on. d.
• Carefully chew all, what you eat.
• Try to start eating only at rest. The talks over dinner or to no good result. The body can only concentrate on one thing: or a thought, or a digestion.
• As for the reception of synthetic enzymes, then, According to well-known experts on diseases of the intestine, those doses, who are usually appointed physicians, do not exert the necessary influence. But the body, feeling, enzymes present in the digestive tract, stops producing them yourself, that eventually required larger and larger "infusion".

When constipation, associated with gastritis with low acidity of gastric juice or zero acidity, You can drink before eating a couple of sips of infusion of wormwood, or St. John's wort (or similar liqueurs - 5-10 drops on 100 ml of water). The same effect has the infusion of mint or chamomile: 1 teaspoon of herbs to brew cup boiling water, insist for 20 minutes. Drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals. Course - 10 days.