Acupuncture for chronic gastritis

  The chronic gastritis patients have abdominal pain, bloating, stomach acid, nausea, belching and other symptoms, some patients do not have obvious signs, but the harm of chronic gastritis should not be underestimated, serious cases can lead to gastric malignancy.   The chronic gastritis modern medicine refers to the stomach, Chinese medicine is on the stomach and spleen, spleen and stomach together. The stomach is the master of the nasal, nothing is not accepted, if due to unclean diet, hunger and satiety is not normal, hot and cold disorders, or external feeling of six evil, internal injury to the seven emotions, resulting in evil offending the stomach, the stomach lost and descending (spleen also by the evil), transport and transformation is out of order, the gas is stagnant, the water back to wet, grain back to stagnant, clear and turbid dry, stagnant from within, stagnation is the pathological characteristics of chronic gastritis. The cause of the disease, from diet, fatigue, the seven emotions hurt. If the liver is depressed, depression and fire, cross-reverse offense stomach, or food accumulation, insect silt and other real evil stagnation in the stomach, blocking the qi, the stomach lost the function of ventilation and lowering; or inherent lack of endowment, after the disease is not regulated, resulting in the spleen and stomach dysfunction, do not transform water and grain essence. The basic pathogenesis of chronic gastritis is summarized as liver depression, spleen deficiency, and stomach solidity. If the Qi is not relieved, it is depressed; if it is cold, it is condensed; if it is hot, it is congested and does not descend; if the Yang is deficient, it is stagnant and does not move; if the Yin is deficient, it is astringent and does not work; if it is stagnant, it is blocked.  Chronic gastritis will be diagnosed as different types, including cold food injuring the stomach, liver-stomach disharmony, liver-depression and stomach-heat, spleen-deficiency and stomach-cold, qi-stagnation and blood-stasis, and yin-deficiency and stomach-dryness. Doctors must provide different treatments according to the different types of evidence, and they must also be able to control and adjust themselves in terms of diet and emotions to complement the treatment. The chronic gastritis is usually divided into chronic clear-cut gastritis and chronic atrophic gastritis in Western medicine.  The chronic atrophic gastritis is often characterized by hidden pain in the upper abdomen or bloating, belching, loss of appetite, or wasting, anemia and other symptoms, and its onset is related to factors such as Helicobacter pylori infection, dietary habits, immune abnormalities, bile or duodenal fluid reflux, and genetics. Chronic atrophic gastritis is a precancerous lesion of the stomach and has a parallel relationship with the prevalence of gastric cancer, so active treatment of chronic atrophic gastritis is important to interrupt precancerous lesions and prevent the occurrence of gastric cancer. Chronic atrophic gastritis has a long course and progresses slowly, and complications such as gastric bleeding, gastric ulcer, anemia and gastric cancer often occur in the course of its pathology, which should attract the full attention of medical workers and patients.  In recent years, there have been many reports of acupuncture treatment for chronic atrophic gastritis, which is helpful in improving the patient’s conscious symptoms and promoting the recovery of the disease. At present, acupuncture and moxibustion are mainly used to treat chronic atrophic gastritis, and the main treatment methods are acupuncture and moxibustion, which can effectively improve the symptoms of chronic gastritis such as gastric distension, pain, poor appetite, belching, etc. Compared with the internal use of drugs, it not only reduces the burden on the stomach and intestines, but also has no It can reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines without the disadvantages of toxic side effects.