How should stomach yin deficiency be diagnosed and treated?

Many people are born with weak bodies, while others suffer from it because they do not pay attention to conditioning. Most people with stomach yin deficiency have poor gastrointestinal digestion function, mainly because they usually eat spicy and greasy food or eat greasy food, which will cause adverse reactions in the body, and will also be accompanied by chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and duodenitis. In general, patients often have dry mouth and tongue, constipation, and the saliva and taste in the mouth will be affected. In terms of diagnosis of the disease, if these symptoms exist for a long time, Chinese patent medicine should be used to nourish the body in time. In addition, it is more necessary to cooperate with diet therapy. There are precautions in diet. Many foods cannot be eaten casually, but there are also foods that are good for the body, especially those that can regulate stomach yin deficiency.

Clinical manifestations

The main symptoms include dull pain in the stomach, loss of appetite despite hunger, dry mouth and throat, dry and hard stools, or abdominal distension and discomfort, or dry retching, a red tongue with little fluid, and a thin and rapid pulse. This syndrome is mostly caused by prolonged stomach disease, or failure to restore yin fluid in the late stage of fever, or a habit of eating spicy food, or emotional frustration, which causes qi stagnation and fire to deplete stomach yin.

The stomach likes moisture and hates dryness, and the best way to feel smooth is to descend. Insufficient stomach yin, internal generation of virtual heat, heat stagnates in the stomach, and qi fails to harmonize and descend, resulting in dull pain in the stomach with a burning sensation, noisy discomfort, and bloating; virtual heat in the stomach disturbs food, resulting in hunger, and failure to nourish stomach yin, resulting in delayed digestion, resulting in hunger but no appetite; failure to harmonize and descend, stomach qi goes against the flow, resulting in dry retching and hiccups; deficiency of stomach yin, inability of yin fluid to nourish upward, resulting in dry mouth and throat; inability to moisten the intestines, resulting in dry and hard stools; scanty urine, red tongue with little coating and fluid, and a thin and rapid pulse are signs of yin fluid deficiency.

diagnosis

The main basis for syndrome differentiation is the presence of stomach discomfort, burning pain, loss of appetite, and symptoms of deficiency-heat.

treat

Treatment principle: Nourish yin and stomach, strengthen spleen and replenish qi. Prescription: Chinese yam, Codonopsis pilosula, Polygonatum sibiricum, Polygonatum odoratum, Dendrobium candidum, lotus leaf, Bupleurum chinense, lentil, bergamot, Jiao Sanxian, etc. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times.

Dietary precautions

1. Suitable food

(1) Foods that nourish stomach yin, such as wheat, milk, eggs, pork, duck meat, etc.

(2) Foods that nourish the stomach, such as white fungus, bird's nest, loquat, pear, apple, tomato, black plum, tofu, etc.

2. Avoid eating foods

(1) Foods that are warm in nature and have the effect of damaging yin through heat, such as indica rice, walnut kernels, dog meat, mutton, chicken, river shrimp, sea shrimp, sea cucumber, grass carp, and chain fish.

(2) Foods that are spicy, warm, and dry in nature and that tend to increase heat and deplete Yin, such as leeks, fennel, mustard greens, allium macrostemon, lychee, chili peppers, cinnamon, dried ginger, Sichuan pepper, pepper, cumin, garlic, and white cardamom.