Chronic Gastritis
- Liver-Stomach Disharmony Pattern
- Liver-Stomach Stagnant Heat Pattern
- Spleen-Stomach Damp-Heat Pattern
- Stomach Collateral Blood Stasis Pattern
- Spleen-Stomach Qi Deficiency Pattern
- Stomach Yin Deficiency Pattern
- Spleen-Stomach Yang Deficiency Pattern
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃脘胀痛，痛窜两胁，嗳气频作，气怒痛甚，胸脘痞闷，嘈杂吞酸，喜太息，舌边红，苔薄白，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Distending pain in the epigastric region, with pain also radiating to both sides of the ribcage
- Frequent belching
- Pain worsens when feeling angry
- Chest tightness and discomfort
- Epigastric noise and discomfort, often accompanied by acid reflux
- Often prefers deep sighing for relief
- Redness along the edges of the tongue with thin white coating
- Tight, wiry pulse, suggesting an association with emotional impact and liver-stomach disharmony
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝理气，和胃止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing the liver and smoothing the “stuck qi,” the approach helps the qi mechanism flow more freely, relieving discomfort such as rib-side distension and pain, chest oppression, emotional frustration, irritability, and frequent sighing.
- At the same time, it regulates the stomach’s function so that “upward-rushing qi” descends and pain is relieved, reducing epigastric stuffiness and bloating, belching, acid reflux, hiccups, nausea, poor appetite, and gradually easing distending pain or dull aching.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃脘饥嘈不适或灼痛，心烦易怒，反酸，口干口苦，大便干燥，舌红苔黄，脉弦或弦数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Epigastric noise and discomfort resembling hunger, or a burning type of pain
- Easily feeling agitated and irritable
- Frequent acid reflux
- Dry mouth and often experiencing a bitter taste
- Dry, difficult bowel movements
- Red tongue with yellow coating
- A tight, wiry, or wiry-rapid pulse, suggesting heat accumulation in the liver and stomach
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝和胃，解郁清热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing the liver qi and regulating the stomach, it helps the qi mechanism move more smoothly and makes the stomach and intestines more comfortable, relieving rib-side distension and pain, chest oppression, epigastric stuffiness and bloating, poor appetite, and similar discomfort.
- It also resolves emotional constraint and clears the constrained heat, helping relieve irritability, bitter and dry mouth, headache and head distension, dry and sore throat, and facial heat/flushing.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃脘痞满或胀痛，胃脘灼热，口苦口臭，身重纳呆，烦闷嘈杂，大便黏滞不爽，小便短赤，舌苔黄腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Epigastric bloating or pain, sometimes with a feeling of being blocked
- Burning discomfort in the stomach
- Often a bitter taste in the mouth and bad breath
- Heaviness of the body and poor appetite
- Chest vexation and oppression, with noise and unease in the stomach
- Sticky, sluggish bowel movements and scanty, yellow urine
- Yellow, greasy tongue coating
- A slippery and slightly rapid pulse, suggesting damp-heat stagnation in the body
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清化湿热，宽中醒脾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By clearing damp-heat, it resolves both dampness and heat together, relieving sticky and stifling sensations, bitter taste, sticky mouth, heavy fatigued body, thick greasy tongue coating, and scanty yellow urine.
- It also unbinds the middle burner and boosts the spleen’s transportation and transformation, supporting smoother digestion and helping relieve epigastric stuffiness and bloating, post-meal fullness, belching and acid reflux, nausea, poor appetite, and loose or sticky bowel movements.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃痛如割，痛久拒按，痛处不移，入夜痛甚，痛彻胸背，食后痛重，或见呕血、黑便，舌质紫暗或舌质暗红，或有瘀斑，脉弦涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stomach pain that feels like a cutting or stabbing knife
- Pain is persistent and unrelieved, and pressure makes it worse
- Pain has a fixed, unchanging location
- Pain is more severe at night and may radiate to the chest and back
- Pain worsens after eating
- May be accompanied by vomiting blood or passing black stools
- The tongue appears dark purple or dusky red, sometimes with visible stasis spots
- A wiry, rough pulse, indicating stasis obstruction in the stomach
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血通络，理气化瘀
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By invigorating blood flow and unblocking the channels and collaterals, it helps qi and blood move more smoothly, relieving stabbing pain, numbness, spasmodic pain, fixed or pressure-aggravated pain, and easing cold limbs and restricted movement.
- By smoothing the “stuck qi” and gradually dispersing congealed blood, it dissipates the sensation of being blocked, reducing distending pain or stabbing pain, local hardness or a knot-like feeling, and bruises or purplish patches.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃脘胀满或胃痛隐隐，餐后明显，纳食不振，疲倦乏力，少气懒言，四肢不温，大便溏薄，舌淡或有齿印，苔薄白，脉沉弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Epigastric fullness or dull pain, more pronounced after meals
- Poor appetite
- Physical fatigue and lack of strength
- Shortness of breath and a low, weak voice
- Often feeling that the limbs are not warm enough
- Loose, unformed stools
- Pale tongue, possibly with tooth marks on the edges, and thin white coating
- A deep and weak pulse, suggesting spleen-stomach weakness and insufficient transportation
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾益气，和胃宽中
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By regulating the spleen and stomach and supplementing the middle qi, it strengthens transportation and transformation, helping relieve easy fatigue, poor appetite, post-meal bloating, body heaviness and tiredness, and loose stools.
- It also harmonizes stomach qi and unbinds the middle burner, reducing epigastric stuffiness, bloating or distending pain, belching and acid reflux, nausea and hiccups, thereby improving digestion and the sensation of fullness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃脘灼热隐痛，口干舌燥，烦渴思饮，食少干呕，似饥不食，空腹症重，或有大便干结，舌红少津，或有裂纹无苔，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Epigastric burning sensation and dull pain
- Dry mouth and tongue
- Easily thirsty and often wanting to drink
- Eating only small amounts and often prone to retching
- Often a feeling of “like hunger but not wanting to eat”
- Symptoms are worse on an empty stomach
- Dry, difficult bowel movements
- Red tongue with little moisture, possibly with cracks; tongue coating is very scanty or absent
- A thin and slightly rapid pulse, indicating yin deficiency with internal heat
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
养阴生津，益胃和中
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By nourishing yin fluids and promoting the generation of body fluids, it makes the body more “moist,” relieving dry mouth and throat, dry skin, dry cough with scant sputum, vexation and irritability, and night sweats.
- At the same time, it regulates stomach qi and harmonizes the middle burner, improving poor appetite, post-meal bloating, epigastric stuffiness, belching and acid reflux, nausea, or loose stools.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃凉隐痛，喜按喜温，遇冷痛重，得食痛减，纳少便溏，畏寒肢冷，口淡流涎，舌淡有齿痕，舌苔薄白，脉沉细迟
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Dull pain in the stomach that likes warmth and pressure; the pain worsens with cold
- Pain is relieved after eating something
- Poor appetite and small food intake
- Loose stools
- Sensitive to cold, with hands and feet that easily become cold
- Lack of taste in the mouth and tendency to drool
- Pale tongue with tooth marks and thin white coating
- A deep, thin, and slightly slow pulse, suggesting spleen-stomach yang deficiency
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气健脾，温胃止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By supplementing the middle qi and regulating the spleen and stomach’s transportation and transformation, it makes the body stronger and digestion smoother, helping relieve easy fatigue, poor appetite, post-meal bloating, body heaviness and tiredness, and loose stools.
- By warming the stomach and alleviating pain, it gradually reduces cold or distending-pain in the upper abdomen—discomfort that finds comfort with warmth or pressure—and helps improve belching and acid reflux, nausea, and sensitivity to cold or a cold sensation in the abdomen.
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