Is TCM effective in treating chronic superficial gastritis?

Superficial gastritis is a chronic disease and is relatively common in our lives. Patients sometimes experience some symptoms of indigestion, while others do not have any particularly obvious symptoms. Therefore, some people do not even know that they have superficial gastritis. In severe cases, symptoms of erosion and bleeding may also occur. So is Chinese medicine effective in treating chronic superficial gastritis?

Experts have summarized many years of clinical experience in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and combined with the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine's syndrome differentiation and treatment to develop a series of traditional Chinese medicine "Twenty-six Ingredients Jianzhong Decoction" to treat chronic superficial gastritis. Its representative prescription is: "Twenty-six Ingredients Jianzhong Decoction" No. 1 prescription plus or minus, containing: Bupleurum, Cyperus rotundus, Atractylodes, Cinnamon bark, Amomum villosum, etc., which have the effects of soothing the liver and regulating qi, harmonizing the stomach and relieving pain, strengthening the spleen, and removing blood stasis. While adjusting gastrointestinal function and eliminating mucosal inflammation, it also has the effect of protecting gastric mucosa and enhancing the disease resistance of gastric mucosa. It can effectively improve and eliminate symptoms such as epigastric distension and pain, poor appetite, hiccups, upward gas, acid reflux, burning sensation, etc., thereby completely solving the problem of superficial gastritis being difficult to cure and easy to recur.

Prevention of chronic superficial gastritis

(1) Acute gastritis should be treated early and thoroughly to prevent the disease from developing into chronic superficial gastritis.

(2) Avoid or use less drugs that are harmful to the gastric mucosa, such as aspirin, phenylbutazone, indomethacin, reserpine, tolbutamide, hormones, etc. If these drugs must be used, they must be taken after meals, or antacids and gastric mucosal protective drugs must be taken at the same time to prevent damage to the gastric mucosa.

(3) Actively treat chronic infection foci in the oral cavity, nasal cavity, and pharynx to prevent long-term ingestion of bacteria or their toxins from local infection foci, which may cause inflammation of the gastric mucosa.

(4) The diet should be light, nutritious, regular, and in fixed amounts. Avoid being too hungry or too full, or overeating. At the same time, avoid strong tea, coffee, spices, rough and hard food, quit smoking and drinking to prevent damage to the gastric mucosa.

(5) Avoid mental stress, depression and excessive fatigue. Live a moderate life, combine work and rest, and be optimistic. At the same time, you should increase physical exercise to improve your physical fitness and strengthen your gastrointestinal motility.

(6) Actively treat systemic diseases that may lead to chronic gastritis, such as liver, gallbladder, pancreas, heart, kidney diseases and endocrine diseases.

In fact, chronic superficial gastritis is an old stomach disease, which is difficult to cure with general Western medicine, so many friends choose to use traditional Chinese medicine for treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment can help us regulate the gastrointestinal function of the body, eliminate the source of the disease, so that the disease can be effectively cured, and it has no side effects on the body.