How to treat liver qi affecting the stomach?

When our body suffers from a certain disease or is about to suffer from a certain disease, our body will send a signal to the outside world, which is the symptom of the disease. It’s like a person who has bloating every day and insufficient gastrointestinal motility, and goes to the hospital for a check-up, but finds out it’s not caused by stomach disease. If stomach problems are ruled out, the most likely cause is a liver problem. So how to regulate the liver qi attacking the stomach?

1. There are many reasons for stomach bloating, such as mental stress, indigestion, etc., the main reason is insufficient gastric motility.

2. Bloating may be a symptom of stomach or intestinal problems. For example, chewing with your mouth open, talking while eating and swallowing a lot of air, drinking soup while eating, etc., can easily cause digestive problems and cause bloating.

3. Food allergies may also be the cause, which causes food to ferment in the colon, producing hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

4. Sugary foods contain bacteria, which are the main source of flatulence.

If the belching is frequent and loud, the abdominal distension decreases after the belching, and the belching attacks increase or decrease due to changes in emotions, it is mostly due to liver qi invading the stomach, which is a positive syndrome. Belching that is deep and intermittent, without a sour or rancid odor, and is accompanied by poor appetite, is mostly caused by stomach deficiency and qi reflux, which is common in the elderly or people with long-term illness and physical weakness, and is a deficiency syndrome. Frequent belching without sour or rotten smell and accompanied by abdominal pain are mostly caused by cold evil invading the stomach, which is a cold syndrome. Especially reflux esophagitis, chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and functional dyspepsia are often accompanied by belching symptoms.

What should we do? First, we need to distinguish whether it is real or false, and whether we have reflux esophagitis, chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and functional dyspepsia. These require the help of an experienced physician. Diseases that may cause belching: acute and chronic gastrointestinal inflammation, gastric dilatation, malabsorption syndrome, pyloric obstruction, intestinal obstruction, indigestion, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholecystitis, gallstones, pancreatitis, liver cancer, mesenteric thrombosis, peritonitis, asthma, hypokalemia, connective tissue disease, myxedema, etc.

1. Accompanied by belching, acid reflux, upper abdominal discomfort, and diarrhea - first visit the gastroenterology department

2. Accompanied by abdominal pain, progressive aggravation, abdominal muscle tension, refusal to press, and vomiting - Emergency General Surgery

3. With obvious abdominal mass, poor appetite, and weight loss: First visit the Department of Oncology or General Surgery

4. With bitter taste in the mouth, loss of appetite, palpitations, weakness, and convulsions - first visit the general surgery department

5. Accompanied by aversion to greasy food and fatigue - first visit a gastroenterologist or hepatologist.