Can Damp Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder Cause Acid Reflux

Damp heat of the liver and gallbladder may lead to excessive stomach acid. Liver-gallbladder damp-heat is a pathological change in which the patient’s liver and gallbladder damp-heat are embedded (damp and heat evils accumulate with each other in the body), leading to a decrease in the liver and gallbladder’s function of detoxification. Long-term liver and gallbladder damp-heat will seriously affect the spleen and stomach, leading to malfunction of the spleen and stomach’s function of transportation and digestion, and symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, gastric distention and fullness, and loss of appetite. Since Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat will cause the patient’s stomach qi to rise (stomach qi rises instead of falling), it may cause the patient to experience acid reflux. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with the above mentioned Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat should go to the Chinese Medicine Department of the hospital in time and be treated under the doctor’s diagnosis.