What causes the heating?

The stomach is a relatively important part of the human body. The stomach is the part that digests food. If the stomach is uncomfortable, you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. Belching is a common condition in the digestive tract. When the stomach has reflux esophagitis or chronic gastritis, belching may occur. You should pay attention to your diet, avoid eating irritating foods, and eat some foods that nourish the stomach and intestines. What causes belching? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What causes the heat?

A Chinese medicine term for belching. Commonly known as "burping" or "belching", it is one of the common symptoms of various digestive tract diseases. Especially reflux esophagitis, chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and functional dyspepsia are often accompanied by belching symptoms. In traditional Chinese medicine, belching is considered as "upward movement of Qi". Belching is the sound made by gas in the stomach rising up the throat. The sound is long and slow, and was called "hiccups" in ancient times. It is also a manifestation of stomach qi disharmony and upward reflux.

2. In traditional Chinese medicine, belching is generally divided into the following three situations

A. Food stagnation and belching: belching is accompanied by a sour and rancid smell (of indigestion), the belching sound is dull or nauseating, the belching attacks are discontinuous, there is a feeling of fullness and tightness in the chest and abdomen, loss of appetite, the stool has a sour and rancid smell (of indigestion) or constipation, the tongue coating is thick and greasy, and the pulse is slippery and firm. Zhishi Daozhi Pills or Baohe Pills can be used for treatment. TCM Diet Therapy: Please browse the dietary therapy for food accumulation and stagnation.

B. Liver Qi invading the stomach and causing belching: frequent belching, loud belching, chest tightness and discomfort, dull pain in the ribs, thin white tongue coating, and wiry pulse. Treatment can be done with Chaihu Shugan Powder, Qizhi Weitong Granules, and Shugan Jianwei Pills. TCM Diet Therapy: Please browse the dietary therapy for Qi stagnation syndrome.

C. Belching due to weak spleen and stomach: intermittent belching, weak belching sound, vomiting of clear water, loss of appetite, pale or sallow complexion, pale tongue with thin white coating, and weak pulse. Ginseng Jianpi Pills can be used for treatment. TCM diet therapy: Please browse the diet therapy for spleen deficiency syndrome.

3. Hiccups are divided into cold hiccups, hot hiccups and deficiency hiccups in traditional Chinese medicine

A. Hiccups due to stomach cold: The hiccups are deep, slow and forceful, with discomfort in the stomach. They are relieved by heat and aggravated by cold. The tongue coating is white and moist, and the pulse is sluggish. Clove and persimmon calyx soup can be used for treatment. Chinese medicine diet therapy: please browse the diet therapy for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold syndrome.

B. Stomach fire hiccups: loud and regurgitated hiccups, bad breath, thirst, short and dark urine, constipation, yellow tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse. For treatment, you can use tangerine peel, bamboo shavings soup plus rhubarb. TCM Diet Therapy: Please browse the dietary therapy for gastrointestinal heat syndrome.

C. Hiccups due to spleen and kidney yang deficiency: constant hiccups, discontinuous breathing, cold hands and feet, pale complexion, poor appetite and drowsiness, weakness in the waist and knees, clear and long urination, loose stools, pale tongue, moist white tongue coating, and deep and weak pulse. Treatment can be with Jingui Shenqi Pills plus Xuanfu Daizhe Decoction. TCM diet therapy: Please browse the diet therapy for spleen and kidney yang deficiency syndrome.

D. Hiccups due to insufficient stomach yin: hiccups with shortness of breath and discontinuity, dry mouth and tongue, thirst and restlessness, red tongue, and a weak pulse. Yiwei Decoction can be used for treatment. TCM diet therapy: Please browse the diet therapy for stomach yin deficiency syndrome.

4. Four major causes

1. Improper diet, eating raw and cold fruits or sticky and difficult to digest foods, which damages the spleen and stomach. The foods are stagnant in the middle palace and cannot be digested, resulting in belching. The Treatise on the Origin of Diseases states: "If food is not digested, there will be bloating and gas reversal, which is why there is a tendency to belch and swallow acid."

2. External wind-cold can invade the stomach and cause belching. For example, the Treatise on Febrile Diseases says: "In case of febrile disease, sweating may occur. If vomiting or diarrhea is relieved, there may be a hard lump under the heart and belching that cannot be stopped."

3. Excessive worry and thinking can damage the spleen and stomach; or violent anger can damage the liver, and the liver qi can invade the stomach and cause belching.

4. Weak spleen and stomach after illness or in old age, as well as stomach deficiency and qi reversal, can cause belching.