There are many proprietary Chinese medicines for treating stomach coldness and dampness, such as Lizhong Pill and Xiangsha Nourishing Stomach Pill. Clinical evidence needs to be based on the patient’s clinical symptoms to identify and select the appropriate proprietary Chinese medicine for treatment.
1. Lizhong Pill has the efficacy of warming the middle and dispersing the cold (dispersing the cold with medicine that warms the spleen and stomach), strengthening the stomach, and clinically treating coldness in the spleen and stomach, vomiting and diarrhea, chest fullness (chest distension and discomfort), abdominal pain, and dyspepsia. It should be used with caution in cases of stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea caused by damp-heat obstruction (accumulation of damp and heat evils to form stasis).
2. Xiangsha Nourishing Stomach Pill has the efficacy of warming the middle and harmonizing the stomach, clinically treating stomach pain caused by insufficient stomach yang and dampness obstruction and stagnation of qi, plumpness (stomach distension and discomfort), symptoms such as vague stomach pain, epigastric stuffiness, vomiting and acidity, cacophony (stomach feeling similar to hunger, emptiness with burning sensation), discomfort, lack of food and drink, and tiredness of the limbs, etc.. This medicine should not be taken by those who suffer from stomach pain with burning in the stomach and dry mouth.
There are many proprietary Chinese medicines for the treatment of gastric coldness and dampness, but they should be applied selectively according to the patient’s specific etiology, constitution, signs and symptoms, and other specific conditions, and it is recommended to take the medicines under the guidance of a physician.