Stomach pain every night, nothing happens during the day

Stomach pain is a typical symptom of stomach disease. There are no restrictions on the occurrence of stomach pain, and the pain may occur anytime and anywhere. However, some people's stomach pain has a very obvious time characteristic, with stomach pain every night but no pain during the day. Traditional Chinese medicine diagnoses stomach pain every night without any discomfort during the day as stomach pain caused by damp-heat in the spleen and stomach. This is mainly because the condition is aggravated by the heavy dampness and coldness at night, and Chinese medicine needs to be used for conditioning.

Preventive care

1. Pay attention to food and drinking water hygiene. Don't be too greedy for coolness in summer. Keep the indoor air circulating to eliminate moisture. In summer, it is advisable to use appropriate amounts of fresh patchouli, fresh perilla, fresh lotus leaves, and roasted malt to make a decoction as a drink to aromatically clear turbidity, wake up the feet and harmonize the stomach, and prevent the occurrence of dampness-obstruction disease.

2. When a patient with cholera suffers from vomiting and diarrhea, he or she should not eat until the evil qi is cleared. After the vomiting and diarrhea stop, the patient should gradually resume eating and preferably eat liquid or semi-liquid light food.

3. For this syndrome of ascites, the abdomen is large, hard, distended and painful. The patient should take a semi-recumbent position, eat a low-salt or salt-free diet, avoid fried, hard, rough, and spicy foods, and eat a semi-liquid, residue-free diet. Eat small meals frequently, eat less for dinner, and eat nutritious foods. If you need to take diuretics, it is best to take them in the early morning on an empty stomach. Pay attention to the frequency, amount and color of urination and defecation after taking the medicine. Patients with ascites should also measure their weight and abdominal circumference regularly to understand changes in their condition.

Other treatments

1. Acupuncture treatment

(1) Needling

Acupuncture of Shaoshang, Quchi, Weizhong, or the blue or black veins under the tongue can cause bleeding. Treat cholera and colic.

(2) Body acupuncture

Select Zhongwan, Neiguan and Sanli points. If vomiting is severe, add Hegu. If vomiting is even more severe, add Tiangai. If there is abdominal pain, add Gongsun point. Use purgation method to treat cholera.

2. Diet therapy

Dietary precautions: Avoid eating raw, cold, melons, fruits, greasy, sweet and fatty foods. Eat light and easily digestible foods.

(1) Lotus Leaf Porridge: 50g of white rice is cooked in the usual way. When the porridge is almost cooked, wash a fresh lotus leaf and cover it on the porridge. Simmer over low heat for a while, then remove the lotus leaf. When the porridge turns light green, mix well and serve. It can clear away heat and promote salivation.

(2) Soak 0-20 large field snails in clean water to remove the mud, take out the snail meat, add a little rice wine and mix, then put it back into clean water to stew until cooked. Drink the soup once a day. It can clear away dampness and heat and facilitate urination.

(3) Winter melon soup: Boil 500g of winter melon into three large bowls of soup and drink it in divided portions. It can clear away heat and dampness. Drinking watermelon juice frequently can clear away heat and promote diuresis.

(4) 30g mung beans, boiled into a soup and drunk frequently, can eliminate summer heat and promote urination.