Herbs for stomach problems

Gastroparesis belongs to the category of gastric pain and gastric plumpness in Chinese medicine, and can be treated with Chinese herbs such as hawthorn and muxiang under the diagnosis of Chinese medicine practitioners. 1. Hawthorn is the dried mature fruit of rose hawthorn plant. It has the effect of eliminating food and strengthening stomach (promoting food digestion and strengthening the function of stomach and internal organs), promoting qi circulation and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering lipids (clearing the body of turbidity and reducing the excess fat in the body), and it is used for treating the stagnation of meat and food, stomach and epigastric distension and fullness, diarrhea and dysentery and abdominal pain, menstrual closure of stasis and blood circulation, postpartum stasis, abdominal and heart stabbing pains, pectoral paralysis (chest tightness and pain), and heartburn, and pain of hernia and other diseases. People with deficiency of spleen and stomach without accumulation and stagnation are forbidden to take hawthorn. Pregnant women, people with excessive stomach acid and peptic ulcer should use hawthorn with caution. 2. Mucuna pruriens is the root of Mucuna pruriens plant of the family of Asteraceae, which has the efficacy of promoting qi and relieving pain (relieving pain by regulating the body’s qi), strengthening the spleen and eliminating food and is used for treating chest and hypochondriac (the general term for the chest and ribcage area) distension and pain, diarrhea and dysentery, food stagnation (the accumulation of indigested food in the stomach), and not thinking of food and drink, and other diseases. Use Mucuna pruriens with caution in cases of yin deficiency and fluid deficiency. If there is any discomfort, it should be treated with medication under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used blindly on its own to avoid adverse reactions.