What’s going on with the damp heat in the stomach?

Stomach dampness-heat is mainly related to improper diet, environmental dampness-heat and other factors. 1. Improper diet: If you are addicted to fatty, sweet, greasy, spicy and stimulating food, it may lead to strong stomach fire, which affects the spleen’s function of transportation and digestion (mainly the function of transportation and digestion of water and dampness), then the combination of fire and dampness can produce dampness and heat. 2. Environmental dampness and heat: environmental factors for the formation of gastric dampness and heat also has a certain impact, especially for long-term living in a humid and hot environment in the climate of the crowd, over time can lead to the constant invasion of dampness and heat in the body, resulting in gastric dampness and heat. Stomach dampness-heat is mainly manifested as spleen and stomach dampness-heat (spleen and stomach feel dampness-heat evil) symptoms, such as heartburn, acid reflux, nausea, bitter taste in the mouth, abdominal distension, gastric pain, loss of appetite, abnormalities of the bowels and so on, and the treatment of which should be guided by a physician’s identification of the use of medication, and should not be blindly self-medication.