How to distinguish stomach heat from stomach cold? What are the symptoms of stomach cold?

If we don’t understand our own physical fitness, we may eat some foods that are not good for our body in our daily diet, which will cause our health to deteriorate. Therefore, for the sake of our own health, we need to know more about our stomach. So, how do we distinguish between stomach heat and stomach cold?

Stomach cold: It is mostly related to eating habits, such as irregular diet, preference for raw and cold food, etc. Frequently eating hot and cold foods together, eating at irregular times, or not eating at equal times of hunger and fullness will cause stomach cold over time.

Stomach heat: It is mostly caused by eating too much spicy and greasy food, excessive stomach fire, or evil heat invading the stomach, or qi stagnation turning into fire. Symptoms include thirst and preference for cold drinks, bad breath, swollen and painful gums, nosebleeds, constipation and dark urine, red tongue with yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Symptoms of stomach cold and stomach heat

Symptoms of stomach cold

Stomach cold is mostly caused by external cold evil directly invading the stomach, or eating too much raw and cold food, which causes the cold evil to accumulate in the stomach and cause the disease. Stomach cold is divided into stomach cold excess syndrome and stomach cold deficiency syndrome.

1. Stomach cold syndrome: Most of them have a sudden onset, caused by cold abdomen or excessive consumption of fruits and cold drinks, and manifest as sudden cold pain in the stomach, severe pain, bland mouth without thirst, and even headache, sore joints and muscles, pale tongue, and thick white fur. For mild cases, you can use a hot water bag for external application, or drink hot water, ginger water, or take modified Huoxiang Zhengqi Pills. If the condition is more serious, you need to use dried ginger, galangal, pepper, Sichuan pepper, cinnamon twigs, etc. to warm the yang and dispel the cold.

2. Stomach cold deficiency syndrome: The disease is often long-lasting, with clear or sour water in the mouth, cold limbs, tasteless mouth without thirst, clear urine, loose stools, and the disease will occur if the abdomen is slightly cold or the diet is not careful. The tongue is pale and the tongue coating is white. It manifests as stomach pain, which may be continuous in mild cases or severe in severe cases. It is aggravated by cold. If hot water is applied, the pain will be relieved. For stomach deficiency and cold syndrome, in addition to the spleen and stomach strengthening drugs, some warming yang drugs should be added, such as dried ginger, prickly ash, pepper, cinnamon twigs, etc.