What should I do if I have bloating and can’t eat?

Stomach bloating and loss of appetite should be caused by obstruction of the gastrointestinal digestive system. Faced with this disease, some people choose Western medicine treatment, but they do not know that the drugs are very irritating to the stomach. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment is quite effective. Traditional Chinese medicine will prescribe the right medicine according to the patient's different conditions. For example, the medicines for spleen and stomach weakness, food stagnation, emotional depression, etc. are all different.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, abdominal distension is mostly caused by alcohol, food, emotional depression, etc., and can be divided into virtual distension and real distension. Treatment is generally based on the cause of the abdominal distension. Patients can use the following folk remedies under the guidance of a doctor:

1. Weak spleen and stomach type, characterized by loss of appetite, preference for heat and massage, shortness of breath, fatigue, tiredness and laziness. You can use: 10 grams of Amomum villosum, 6 grams of dried tangerine peel, 20 grams of yam, decocted in water to extract juice, and take it in 3 times; 12 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 6 grams of chicken gizzard lining, decocted in water to extract juice, and take it in 3 times.

2. Food stagnation type, characterized by being unable to press, pressing will aggravate the discomfort symptoms, belching and nausea, and a foul smell after burping. You can use: 30 grams of charred hawthorn, 15 grams of stir-fried aurantium, decocted in water to extract juice, take it in 3 times after meals; 15 grams of Shenqu, 10 grams each of tangerine peel and Cyperus rotundus, 6 grams of chicken gizzard lining, decocted in water to extract juice, take it in 3 times; 6 grams each of stir-fried aurantium and Magnolia officinalis, 15 grams of hawthorn, decocted in water to extract juice, take it in 3 times; 6 grams each of Magnolia officinalis and Atractylodes macrocephala, 10 grams of tangerine peel, decocted in water to extract juice, take it in 3 times; 15 grams of hawthorn and 10 grams of radish seeds, decocted in water to extract juice, take it in 2 times.

3. Emotional depression type, generally manifested as irritability, irritability, and swelling in the flanks. Patients can use the following under the guidance of a doctor: 6 grams each of bupleurum, stir-fried aurantium, 10 grams of white peony root, 3 grams of licorice, decocted in water to obtain juice, and taken in 3 times; 10 grams of stir-fried aurantium, 12 grams of stir-fried atractylodes, 15 grams of charred hawthorn, decocted in water to obtain juice, and taken in 3 times; 6 grams each of amomum and gardenia, 10 grams of tangerine peel, decocted in water to obtain juice, and taken in 3 times; 5 grams of chuanxiong, 10 grams of cyperus rotundus, 15 grams of Shenqu, decocted in water to obtain juice, and taken in 3 times.