Gastritis is the name of a Western medicine disease, belongs to the Chinese medicine category of stomach pain, vomiting, etc., deficiency cold belongs to the Chinese medicine evidence type, the relevant symptoms are usually hidden pain in the stomach and epigastrium, like warmth and like to be pressed, and loose stools and other symptoms.
Gastritis generally refers to inflammation of the gastric mucosa due to some reason. Deficiency cold syndrome is generally caused by careless living and feeling cold, or over-eating cold and damaging zhong yang (spleen and stomach yang qi).
The common clinical symptoms of this disease are fullness, hidden pain, lingering pain in the stomach and epigastric region, more pain in the empty stomach, which can be relieved by eating food, a preference for warmth and pressure, which usually flares up or worsens with exertion, vomiting of clear water, little food and dullness (no appetite, reduced food intake), lack of warmth in the limbs, loose stools (unshapely stools), a light tongue with white coating, and a slow, feeble pulse.
Treatment of this disease should focus on warming the middle and strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the stomach, and can use Astragalus Jianzhong Tang and other prescriptions with additions and subtractions, consisting of astragalus, cinnamon sticks, peony, ginger, licorice, jujubes, caramel and other drugs. The adverse effects of this formula are not clear.
If patients develop clinical symptoms related to this disease, it is recommended to go to regular hospitals for consultation and treatment in time.