How to distinguish between stomach cold and stomach cold, judge by symptoms

Stomach cold and stomach heat are both common stomach diseases. Generally, stomach cold will cause pain after the weather turns cold and eating cold food. Patients with stomach heat usually like raw and cold foods, and their stomachs will feel comfortable only after eating cold things. Both of these diseases need to be treated in time.

1. Stomach cold syndrome

Stomach cold syndrome 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 syndrome is divided into stomach cold excess syndrome and stomach cold deficiency syndrome.

Stomach cold syndrome: Most of them have 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.

Stomach cold deficiency syndrome: The disease often lasts for a long time, 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.

2. Stomach heat syndrome

Stomach heat (fire) syndrome is divided into stomach real heat syndrome or false heat syndrome, which is mostly caused by eating too much spicy, fried, and greasy food, or by depression, which turns into fire.

Stomach heat syndrome: Most of the symptoms are stomach pain or burning sensation, accompanied by bad breath or swollen and painful gums, mouth ulcers, dry and hard stools, restlessness and insomnia, red tongue with yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse. In this case, you can use drugs such as honeysuckle, gypsum, reed root, knotweed, moutan bark, gardenia, and rhubarb to clear heat, clear away toxins, or you can use Chinese patent medicines such as Niuhuang Jiedu Tablets and Sanhuang Tablets for emergency treatment. When making soup, you can add Bengdawan, Snake Diffusion, Dandelion, and Fire Charcoal Mother for auxiliary treatment.

Stomach Deficiency and Fire Syndrome: Manifestations include stomach discomfort, dry and bitter mouth, oral ulcers, aggravated after fatigue or staying up late, bad breath, dry stool, dry mouth and no desire to drink water, pale, fat, slightly tender and red tongue, and a thin and rapid pulse. When there is deficiency fire, you need to nourish yin and clear heat or invigorate qi and clear heat, use raw rehmannia, gypsum, ophiopogon, Pseudostellaria baicalensis, Adenophora scabra and other medicines. When making soup, you can use raw rehmannia, ophiopogon, Adenophora scabra, Ipomoea aquatica, etc.

When treating spleen and stomach diseases, Chinese medicine often adopts the method of "warming if cold, cooling if hot". For mixed symptoms of cold and heat, it is necessary to use both cold and heat, such as Banxia Xiexin Decoction, Wumei Pills, etc. For mixed symptoms of deficiency and excess, both attacking and supplementing methods need to be used together. It should be noted that treating the spleen should not be too hot or too cold. If the heat is too much, it will inevitably damage the spleen yin; when treating the stomach, it is not suitable to be too cold or too cold. If the cold is too cold, it will inevitably damage the stomach yang. It is best to achieve a proper balance between cold and heat.