Case follow-up of Barrett’s esophagus with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapy

I 2014-11-11 in the website published “Barrett’s Esophagus Chinese medicine” article introduced by the American-Chinese Ms. Wang in May this year back to China to see me, but also brought this year’s United States LANCASTER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (LANCASTER MEDICAL CENTER) 2015. April 5, 2015 gastroscopy and esophageal biopsy report: Negative for Barrett’s Esophagus that is, no Barrett’s esophagus performance. After she felt the efficacy of Chinese medicine, she had introduced a patient friend who was also in Pennsylvania to come to Shanghai Chinese Medicine Literature Library for consultation. Zhan, male, 48 years old, professor of a university in the U.S. Initial diagnosis in January, 2014 The patient was diagnosed with reflux esophagitis, hiatal hernia, chronic gastritis, and Hp (+) after endoscopy and biopsy at LANCASTER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER in Pennsylvania in February 2013 due to worsening of pharyngeal foreign body sensation, post-sabinal distension, and belching accompanied by twitching discomfort in the epigastric region alternately with a sensation of swelling in the upper abdomen over the past year. After anti-Hp treatment, Hp (-) was rechecked. He was given lansoprazole and ranitidine for half a year, but there was no significant reduction of the above symptoms. in December 2013, he was diagnosed with Barrett’s Esophagus (enteric esophagus), esophageal hiatal hernia, and chronic gastritis by endoscopy and biopsy. The hospital continued to administer lansoprazole and ranitidine, and the patient entered the night with increased noisiness and decreased energy. Weight loss of 152 pounds, when he came to the clinic, foreign body sensation in the pharynx was aggravated, post-saber swelling and pain, noisy and hot during fasting, belching after meals, accompanied by convulsive discomfort in the epigastric region and a feeling of swelling and alternating, and the patient’s face was obscurely yellow and tired, with thin yellowish greasy moss, a dark red tongue, a soft stringy pulse and a pronounced sub-saber pressure pain. Traditional Chinese medicine dialectic is spleen deficiency and stomach heat is the main, the treatment of the main use of tonic Qing stomach soup, 1 post per day, long-term use, back to the United States, telephone follow-up, with the symptoms of the addition and subtraction. The patient was also asked to cooperate with the three points mentioned in the article on the above website: 1) stop taking the western drug azoles, i.e., PPI; 2) dietary methods, “two should be four don’ts”; and 3) adhere to the self-thoracic and abdominal massage in the Shao-Yang meridian for 5 min 1h after meals. Six months later, in July 2014, endoscopy and pathological biopsy showed that: esophagitis with squamous epithelial hyperplasia, mild chronic pain, and chronic gastric hyperplasia, with a high degree of chronicity. epithelial hyperplasia, mild chronic atrophic gastritis with enterocolitis, Hp (-). No Barrett’s esophagus-like mucosa, no obvious esophageal hiatal hernia, continue to take Chinese medicine every day. 1 year later, January 20, 2015 in LANCASTER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (LANCASTER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER) again review endoscopy diagnosis of chronic gastritis, chronic esophagitis, no intestinalization and abnormal structure; no obvious hiatal hernia. Symptoms were significantly relieved, and her weight increased from 152 lbs to 162 lbs. She called from the U.S. at the beginning of August to report that she had been out of the country for a month without taking the herbs and was pleased that her symptoms had not flared up. She was pleased that she had not taken the Chinese medicine for a month, but her symptoms had not flared up. She suggested that the Chinese medicine could be gradually reduced. The two cases of Chinese Americans with the U.S. hospital test data verified the efficacy of Chinese medicine in the treatment of Barrett’s esophagus is significantly better than Western medicine characteristics.