What are the treatment options for cholecystitis?

Patients with cholecystitis should pay attention to the correct treatment methods and can adopt dietary therapy to help regulate their condition. Foods such as hawthorn, yam, cinnamon, dried ginger, and tangerine peel are all relatively effective foods for the treatment of cholecystitis.

1. Stagnation type: The main symptoms are pain in the ribs, fullness in the stomach, or nausea, uncomfortable bowel movements, thick and greasy tongue coating, and slippery pulse. The treatment should be to regulate qi, aid digestion, harmonize the stomach and relieve stagnation. The following dietary recipes can be used.

1. Hawthorn and yam cake: appropriate amounts of hawthorn, yam and sugar. Remove the core of the hawthorn, steam it together with the yam, add sugar after it cools down, mix well, press into a thin pancake and take one dose per day.

2. Dried ginger, pepper and amomum villosum pig stomach: 6 grams each of dried ginger, pepper and amomum villosum, 3 grams each of cinnamon and tangerine peel, 1 pig stomach and appropriate amount of seasoning. Wash the pig's stomach, wrap the medicine in a cloth, add water and cook until the pig's stomach is well-cooked. Remove the residue and drink the juice. Take out the pig's stomach, slice it, season and eat. One dose every two days.

2. Liver Qi Invading the Stomach Type: The main manifestations are pain in the ribs, fullness in the stomach, pain in the abdomen, frequent gasping, constipation, pain attacks caused by emotional factors, thin white tongue coating, and wiry pulse. When treating with the aim of soothing the liver and regulating qi, the following dietary treatments may be used.

1. Tangerine peel and betel nut: 20 grams of tangerine peel, 200 grams of betel nut, 10 grams each of cloves, cardamom and amomum. Wash all the herbs and put them into the pot. Add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat; when the medicinal liquid is dry, turn off the heat and let it cool. After the medicine has cooled, take out the betel nut and chop it into soybean-sized pieces with a knife for later use. Take a small amount after each meal.

2. Salvia miltiorrhiza and frog soup: 30 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 10 grams of jujube, and 250 grams of frog. Wrap the salvia miltiorrhiza in cloth, remove the core of the jujube, and peel and clean the frogs. Add water and stew until the frogs are cooked, then remove the medicine bag, add salt, MSG and other ingredients to adjust the taste, take 1 dose per day.