Stomach heat can be divided into real heat and imaginary heat, can play the role of stomach heat clearing Chinese medicine, including Chinese herbs (such as Huanglian, gypsum, dendrobium, etc.), Chinese herbal soup (such as clearing the stomach, beneficial to the stomach soup) and proprietary Chinese medicines (such as rhubarb stomach pills, ginseng plum stomach granules), generally in the physician’s guidance under the circumstances of the use of reasonable and will not have a significant adverse effect on the stomach.
1. Chinese herbal medicines: mainly include Rhizoma Coptidis, Gypsum, Dendrobium, Ophiopogon, etc. Among them, Rhizoma Coptidis has the efficacy of clearing away heat and drying dampness, diarrhea and detoxification, Gypsum has the efficacy of clearing away heat and diarrhea, relieving vexation and quenching thirst, which can be used for clearing solid heat in the stomach; Dendrobium has the efficacy of benefiting the stomach and generating fluids, nourishing the yin and clearing away heat, while Ophiopogon has the efficacy of nourishing yin, generating fluids and moisturizing the lungs and clearing away heat, which can be used for clearing false heat in the stomach.
2. Traditional Chinese medicine soup: mainly includes Qinggongsan and Yiqi Tang, in which Qinggongsan has the efficacy of clearing the stomach and cooling blood, and can be used for treating the evidence of gastric heat; Yiqi Tang has the efficacy of nourishing yin and benefiting the stomach and can be used for treating the evidence of gastric yin insufficiency (insufficient yin fluid in the stomach), and the evidence of yin deficiency generating heat.
3. Proprietary Chinese medicines: including Rhubarb Pills for Clearing the Stomach, Compound Ox-Huang Pills for Clearing the Stomach, Pellets for Stomach Pain in Yin Deficiency, and Ginseng and Plum Pellets for Nourishing the Stomach, etc. The first two can be used for clearing the fire in the stomach; the latter two can be used for nourishing Yin and harmonizing the stomach.
Stomach heat and stomach yin deficiency both belong to the heat of the stomach, but the former is real heat, common elimination of grain and good hunger (eat a lot and still easy to hunger), bad breath, swollen and painful gums, etc.; the latter is false heat, common cacophony (stomach similar to hunger, emptiness with burning sensation), hunger, tongue red with little moss and other symptoms.
If there is any discomfort, it is recommended to consult the hospital in a timely manner, and the specific medication should also be under the guidance of the physician’s diagnosis.