Recently, I met a patient, Mr. Song, who always had acid reflux and heartburn, so he took omeprazole all year round to suppress it. According to the patient, he started taking omeprazole when he was diagnosed with reflux esophagitis when he was 31 or 32 years old. Because the effect is very fast after taking the medicine, and he has his own medical insurance, it doesn't cost money to get the medicine. So as soon as I ate it, I ate it for more than ten years.
Recently, because of the physical examination, it was found that many indicators of the liver and kidney were abnormal, and the stomach disease has changed from reflux esophagitis to atrophic gastritis, and it is getting closer and closer to stomach cancer.
And the doctor who did the gastroscopy also warned him to pay special attention to his diet in the future. Because the area of ulcers in his stomach is large and numerous, eating a little irritating food may induce serious consequences such as gastric perforation and gastric bleeding.
He couldn't figure it out, in the past ten years, omeprazole for treating stomach problems has basically not been broken, but why is the stomach disease getting worse and worse the more he eats?
Why does stomach problems get worse the more you eat?
In fact, I have seen too many patients like Mr. Song. It's also sad to say, maybe those of us who are Chinese medicine practitioners don't work hard enough. When patients are sick now, their first instinct is to see a Western doctor.
Western medicine is used to eliminate symptoms. It's where you're uncomfortable, and he prescribes some medicine to help you relieve these uncomfortable places. Headache heals the head, and foot pain heals the feet. It's old-fashioned, but it's efficient.
As for traditional Chinese medicine, it takes half a day to see a doctor, half a day to prescribe medicine, half a day to dispense medicine, and half a day to boil medicine. The high-paced life of modern times also makes everyone have no time to find us old Chinese medicine doctors who "work slowly and carefully, and cure diseases can eradicate the roots".
Therefore, the patient's small problem has become so serious, and we TCM people also have a great responsibility. So I showed a lot of patience to Mr. Song, thinking that I could help him make up for it a little bit through my medical skills. The more you learn about the results, the more problems you find out about him.
After taking medicine for a long time and taking it for more than ten years, the liver and kidney function are a little damaged, but it is actually normal. It is also normal for stomach ulcers to worsen. After all, omeprazole, Mr. Song doesn't eat it all the time. He eats when he has symptoms and doesn't eat when he doesn't. But the absence of symptoms does not mean that there is not much stomach acid and will not corrode the gastric mucosa.
Moreover, Mr. Song, so Mr. Song's pharyngitis problem is also more serious, and his throat always feels like he can't finish spitting out phlegm all day long.
We all know that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of nurture, the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Omeprazole can only relieve stomach acid problems, and does not help to restore spleen and stomach function at all. Therefore, over the years, the phenomenon of his lack of blood will be obvious. For example, sallow, dizzy, palpitations, palpitations, palpitations, fatigue, etc.
The function of the spleen and stomach is already poor, and then it is not adjusted in time, this loophole is getting bigger and bigger, and the body cannot repair itself at all. The spleen and stomach do not work all year round, and the body is too lazy to support idlers, so it eventually induces the problem of atrophic gastritis.
How to solve it?
Combined with Mr. Song's good appetite, irritability, dry mouth and bitter mouth, red and yellow tongue, and pulse count, I determined that his problem was caused by liver and stomach depression.
So he prescribed him a prescription: danpi, gardenia, white peony, zexiao, zhejiang fritillary, green peel, tangerine peel, coptis, dogwood, sea cricket, corrugated seed
Since the patient has excessive gastric acid secretion, it causes stomach pain and acid reflux problems. If it is urgent, it will be treated, so I first use sea clams, corrugated seeds, soft acid to relieve pain, help him neutralize gastric acid, avoid excessive gastric acid secretion, and cause more serious damage to the gastric mucosa and respiratory mucosa.
Then use Coptis chinensis, Danpi, Gardenia, Zexiao, and Zhejiang Fritillary to clear the liver and relieve heat, and he will excrete the depressed heat that has been formed in the body through urine to help him restore the liver's main excretion function. White peony softens the liver and nourishes the liver and helps repair liver damage.
In this way, the excretion function of the liver is restored, and the spleen and stomach will no longer be offended, affecting the normal operation of the spleen and stomach.
At this point, although the liver has been sorted out and will no longer affect the spleen and stomach, the problem of damage to the spleen and stomach is already very serious. We need to use green peel, tangerine peel, Zhejiang fritillary, and Wu Zhuyu to help him open up the qi in his body.
Let the function of the spleen and stomach be restored, the spleen will be cleared, and the turbidity function of the stomach will be restored, and the spleen and stomach will be able to work normally. The problem of food accumulating, spoiling, and continuing to produce acid and putrid gas is completely controlled.
Sure enough, according to this idea, Mr. Song began to cooperate with the medication, and in less than a week, he felt that his acid reflux, heartburn, stomach pain and other conditions had improved. So although he complained about the pain of taking the medicine, he also insisted on cooperating with the treatment.
Finally, after more than two months of medication, his throat was uncomfortable and he always wanted to spit, which was completely solved, and his throat had returned to normal during physical examination. And the whole person is also refreshed, his face is ruddy, energetic, dizzy and palpitation, and other discomfort problems, I don't know when it has quietly subsided.
Because Mr. Song had been sick for too long, after all the discomfort disappeared, I prepared a better recipe for him and asked him to take it for a long time. Half a year later, the gastroscopy was rechecked, and the stomach environment was basically close to that of a normal person, which was a very happy ending, which made me feel very gratified.
Combined with Mr. Song's case, if you have occasional acid reflux heartburn, then there is no problem at all to turn to omeprazole. But if you have perennial acid heartburn, or repeatedly reflux acid heartburn, you can't just rely on omeprazole, otherwise you will be like Mr. Song, dragging your condition more and more serious, not to mention, and it will also affect other organs in the body.