Reflux esophagitis belongs to the category of “choking and diaphragm” in traditional Chinese medicine and can be categorized into phlegm-qi obstruction, blood stasis and blood stagnation, qi deficiency and yang miniature, and fluid deficiency and heat stagnation.
Patients with reflux esophagitis usually suffer from acidity, retrosternal and gastrointestinal burning, and other accompanying symptoms vary according to the type of syndrome.
1. Phlegm-qi interlocking syndrome: accompanied by chest distension, frequent belching (belching), poor bowel movement, often due to emotional reasons for the onset of pain, the use of Qidi Diaphragm Sansheng plus reduction to open up the depression and resolve phlegm.
2. Blood stasis and internal knotting evidence: accompanied by skin armor error (skin rough and dry, like dry fish scale armor interlacing), food can not go down, pain has a fixed place, refused to press the painful place, was a needle prick or cut pain, can use Tong Yu Tang plus reduction to activate blood stasis, regulate qi and stop the pain.
3. Qi deficiency and yangwei syndrome: accompanied by pain not obvious, fatigue (mental fatigue, physical fatigue), even hands and feet are not warm, loose stools, loss of appetite, like warmth, can be used to replenish qi and transport the spleen soup plus or minus in order to warm up the middle and strengthen the spleen.
4. Evidence of fluid deficiency and heat knot: accompanied by emaciation, dry stool, red tongue with little fluid, dry mouth and pharynx, etc., Sha Shen Maimendong Tang can be used to nourish yin and harmonize stomach with additional subtractions.
It should be noted that the above is the conventional identification and treatment of the disease, due to the different personal illnesses, the treatment will be added or subtracted to adjust the use of drugs, the patient himself can not be according to the above typing into the number, according to the prescription of the medicine, to take on their own. Specific treatment should be under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, so as to avoid the medication not being appropriate and causing other physical discomforts.