The Ideas and Methods on Treatment of Chronic Gastroenteritis Given by Herbs

The treatment ideas for chronic gastroenteritis are mostly accord with the principle mentioned below: promoting qi and tonifying spleen, replenishing stomach and reinforcing deficiency as the main method, combining with moving qi, invigorating flow of blood, expelling dampness, resolving phlegm, dispersing accumulation and promoting discharging in order to expelling stasis evil, plus small amount of expelling exterior evil herbs and clearing heat and anti-inflammation herbs, or adding 2-3 herbs according patients’ symptoms. We can modify the prescription in terms of patients’ basic condition, for example: 1. the deficiency usually belongs to spleen-stomach qi deficiency, however, qi-yin deficiency, spleen-stomach deficiency-cold can be seen simultaneously. 2. moving qi, invigorating flow of blood, expelling damp, resolving phlegm, digesting food, discharging herbs for the purpose of disperse stasis evil should be accord with the principle of “ every herbs used must correspond with the syndrome” ,  and the theory of prescription matching including invigorating flow of blood, expelling damp, resolving phlegm, promoting discharging, the herbs and related dosage and nature should be selected according the syndrome. 3. the herbs of expelling exterior evil, clearing heat, relieving inflammation mainly indicate relieving exterior syndrome herbs, clearing heat herbs and resolving damp with aromatic herbs etc, since chronic inflammation’s exterior evil always has low toxicity force, it is similar with “deficiency evil” mentioned in “Nei Jing”, it is mostly slow and not acute, these herbs should be added with small amount. 4. The disease’s symptoms are usually slight and slow, and should not be treated according to symptoms, adding 2-3 herbs according to symptoms for the acute circs. The writer has treated chronic gastroenteritis all along with ideas and methods mentioned above and got satisfied effect in recent years.

Key words: Chronic Gastroenteritis, herbs, ideas, methods

Writer: Shishan Sun
Qu Bu TCM school, Shandong province (273100)