Inside the intestine a battle of a billion of bacteria takes place. One group is good and one is bad. The good group helps our body to prevent poisons from additives during the digestion process and creates the ideal conditions for nutrition to be absorbed through the intestinal membrane. The bad group weakens our body’s resistance through a fermentation reaction in the intestine and it gains various toxins and can cause cancer. Bacteria also hide in the corner of the intestine and waits for an appropriate time when the balance between two groups is unsettled.
Under certain conditions the good bacteria are weaker than the bad, causing health issues. This normally happens when we take antibiotics, after a psychological trauma, after a bout of flu or sometimes just because we are too stressed.
In addition, the bad group is easy to spread and increase its activity if we smoke, drink alcohol or eat too much fat and processed food, instead of sticking to healthy options in our daily diet.
Eating fermented or pickled food can both create a good environment for useful microorganisms and balance the fermentation reaction caused by harmful microorganisms in the intestine.
As soon as harmful
bacteria take advantage they will cause negative effects which start to kill
all useful bacteria, they also create a fermentation reaction in the intestine
which suppress hunger feelings. They cause flatulence, tiredness and languidity
despite you taking enough sleep. This issue won’t stop here as the poison in
the intestine can be absorbed into the blood to cause a metabolic disorder of
sugar and fat.
This
can lead to diabetes and increased blood fats with the common consequences of
obesity and hypertension. The World Health Organization had good reason to warn
us that 70 % of modern diseases have been linked to this issue. Diseases
without symptoms are always more dangerous than predictable ones.
To
enhance our health, doctors usually advise us to eat yogurt containing
microorganisms. It seems this should be a good way to go, but in practice it
isn’t really effective. This is because a large quantity of microorganisms will
be destroyed as it passes through the stomach. Without medical practice
housewives have for years known a better way. They use fermented or pickled
dishes to either create a good environment for useful microorganisms and to get
a balanced fermentation reaction caused by harmful microorganisms in the
intestine. If we are strong then of course our enemies are weak.
Pickled
bean sprout, garlic soaked in vinegar, fermented tofu, fermented rice etc. are dishes
that are very good for the digestion system. Mr Sebastian Kneipp – a famous
doctor in Austria named the pickled cucumber “the brush inside the intestines”
A Clean house or a clean bowl will be better if our intestine is also cleaned.
Even
an expensive motorbike will be able not working if its muffler is blocked. A
vehicle owner despite being busy still has to wash his motorbike and change the
oil. Despite our intestine containing various poisons throughout our lives, it
is seldom cleaned and protected.
Nobody
wants medical intervention for intestinal issues. It is therefore better if we
know how to use good food to have the same effect. Eat well and you will keep
the doctor at bay.
Doctor Hoang Le Luong
(Extracted from articles about Medicine in Vietnam
Cuisine dedicated only to 2014 Golden Spoon contest)