What are the symptoms of intestinal gas?

The intestine is the most important organ in the body, and the intestinal tissue is the place where food is digested to obtain nutrition. Therefore, the health of the intestine is very important to the body. However, the intestine is prone to lesions when people lead an unhealthy lifestyle. For example, overeating can lead to intestinal obstruction, bloating, etc. Let’s take a look at the manifestations of intestinal bloating.

1. Mixed cold and heat type: This type of patient is the most common type of gastrointestinal bloating encountered in clinical practice. Symptoms: fullness in the stomach or abdomen, which is more severe in the afternoon and evening, and the feeling of fullness after eating a little; accompanied by bitter taste in the mouth or bad breath, or nausea, belching, fear of cold in the stomach and abdomen, wanting to eat cold food but not daring to, difficult bowel movements, constipation, or loose stools, or more flatulence; greasy white or yellow tongue coating. Treatment: Banxia Xiexin Decoction can be used with modifications. Traditional Chinese medicine that soothes the liver, regulates qi, and harmonizes the stomach can be used. It is very effective in treating this type of gastrointestinal flatulence.

2. Food stagnation type: Symptoms: abdominal distension and pain, belching and acid regurgitation (belching with a sour and rancid odor, vomiting acid water), or aversion to the smell of food, or flatulence and stool smelling like rotten eggs; thick and greasy tongue coating, and a deep and slippery pulse. Treatment: Baohe Pills are made with Fuzheng Tiaowei Powder.

3. Spleen and stomach deficiency and cold type: Symptoms: distension of the stomach and abdomen, which comes and goes, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, likes warmth and pressure, feels better after hot drinks and hot food, fatigue, loss of appetite; the tongue is fat and pale or has teeth marks, the tongue coating is thin white, and the pulse is slow. Treatment: Lizhong Decoction or Houjiangbanganshen Decoction.

4. Damp-heat accumulation type: Symptoms: abdominal distension, nausea, irritability, thirst without desire to drink, frequent sweating, loose stools, short and dark urine; red tongue with yellow and greasy coating, and weak and rapid pulse. Treatment: Prescription No. 10 of Fuzheng Tiawei San.

5. Internal accumulation of excess heat: persistent abdominal distension, or hard and painful abdomen, or pain around the navel, constipation, sweating of hands and feet, hot flashes and delirium; deep and solid pulse, or slow and strong pulse, dry yellow tongue coating, or scorched and cracked tongue coating. Treatment: Dachengqi Decoction and Fuzheng Tiawei San Formula No. 4. Note: Some acute abdomens (such as intestinal obstruction) may show symptoms of this type and require prompt emergency treatment or hospitalization to avoid delaying the condition.