Chronic gastritis, a high-incidence and complex disease, has a profound impact on the quality of life of patients. Unlike some other diseases that can be quickly cured with short-term drug treatment, once chronic gastritis is diagnosed, the basis for curing is the word "slow".
The symptoms of gastritis are easy to treat, and there are various solutions and drugs for all kinds of stomach pain and bloating, and the disease of chronic gastritis has to be treated slowly, and most of them take six months or even longer to eradicate the disease of chronic gastritis. Patients with chronic gastritis need to abandon the illusion of a quick cure, to understand that this is not a quick and easy battle, the whole process is a protracted battle, like surviving the long night and dawning, which requires patience and confidence. Some people say that the stomach will not hurt after taking medicine for three days, and some people say that the stomach distension will be cured after seven days of medicine. The alleviation of symptoms is necessary, such as neutralizing gastric acid to relieve pain, promoting gastric motility to reduce bloating, these are the purposes of short-term medication, which can be effective in the short term to reduce the discomfort and pain caused by the patient's stomach pain and stomach distention. The real cure of chronic gastritis is the cure of the disease, and the cure of the gastric mucosal pathologies such as atrophy and intestinalization observed under gastroscopy, and precisely these pathologies are a chronic lesion formed by the gastric mucosa after suffering from continuous inflammation and damage for several years or even more than ten years, so it is necessary to have sufficient time to recover. At this point, if chronic gastritis wants to be cured, the first thing is the word "slow"!
On the basis of slowness, there are two more keys.
The first key is to consider the syndrome type of the disease
Chronic gastritis, especially chronic atrophic gastritis (one of the more serious chronic gastritis, often combined with intestinalization or even dysplasia, the cumulative incidence of gastric cancer in patients with extensive gastric mucosal atrophy is close to 10% in 5 years), the special thing is that although it is the name of Western medicine, the Western medicine used in clinical practice can only alleviate its symptoms, but there is no clear and effective Western medicine or biological medicine can treat the disease. However, there are many TCM syndrome types corresponding to chronic gastritis, such as gastric yin deficiency syndrome, gastric stasis obstruction pattern, spleen and stomach qi deficiency pattern, liver and stomach depression and heat pattern, spleen and stomach damp heat pattern, liver and stomach qi stagnation pattern, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold pattern, and the syndrome type is prone to compound with the development of the disease, that is, patients with chronic gastritis have two or three syndrome types at the same time. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, if you are taking traditional Chinese medicine decoction, you need to adjust the prescription every half a month according to the evolution of the course of the disease, in this case, you need to find an experienced and skilled doctor, follow up the treatment for more than half a year, do not easily change doctors, so that in the treatment process of more than half a year, follow the course of the disease to use medicine, in order to achieve the correct syndrome differentiation treatment. If you choose Chinese patent medicine, you have to find a drug that can cover a variety of syndrome types, which can greatly reduce the difficulty of syndrome differentiation and treatment caused by the compound of syndrome type changes. If chronic gastritis patients are also accompanied by liver insufficiency and other diseases, they should first adjust the liver and then treat the stomach.
Second, the key is to pay attention to the bias of the drug
In the treatment of chronic gastritis, you should pay attention to avoid the toxicity, cold and heat of the drug, and you must try to ensure that the Chinese medicine formula is non-toxic, no cold and no heat. Short-term treatment does not have to worry about the bias of cold, heat and poison in the medicine, some master doctors specially use poison to fight poison for patients to diagnose and treat certain diseases, and can also produce miraculous effects, but I have never heard of a master doctor who fights poison with poison for the same patient for a long time. Because you want to treat chronic gastritis, there is a high probability that you need to take the drug continuously for more than 6 months, this long-term use of the drug, first of all, it must be non-toxic, otherwise you may use too much toxic accumulation, which will cause metabolic problems, and some will also cause chronic poisoning. Toxic medicinal materials are clearly recorded in the 2020 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, with a total of 83 kinds, divided into large poison, poisoning, and small poison. In addition, it is necessary to avoid the bias of the drug with great cold or heat, traditional Chinese medicine talks about the three points of poison of medicine, and the poison in the broad sense here refers to the bias of some Chinese herbal medicines that may have great cold or heat, and you can refer to the list of Chinese herbal medicines classified by medicinal properties in the "A+ Medical Encyclopedia" to evaluate the cold and heat intensity of the drug formula. Why can't you take cold or hot medicine for a long time, because the human body needs to balance yin and yang, or cold and heat balance, if you take cold medicine for a long time, the cold in the body will be aggravated, and the yin and yang will decline, damage the yang energy and inhibit the immune system, making the body weaker. If you take hot drugs for a long time, the temperature in the body will be aggravated, and the yang and yin will be weakened, and the yin fluid depletion will also cause three scorching fires, and there will be problems such as mouth and nose sores, chest tightness, and upset. Therefore, in order to prevent stomach diseases from becoming new diseases before they are cured, it is best to choose those drugs with appropriate cold and heat and mild medicinal properties.
At the same time, for the effectiveness of the drugs used, it is necessary to consider the selection of drugs that have been validated by high-quality RCTs (randomized controlled trials) studies, because high-quality RCTs often use randomized controlled, double-blind and double-simulation, and multicenter designs, which have high reliability and effectiveness, and are also considered to be the "gold standard" for evaluating causal evidence of clinical efficacy. In the (2009~2023) "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Gastritis in China", "Guidelines for the Clinical Management of Integrated Gastric Precancerous Lesions in China", "Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Chinese Patent Medicine in the Treatment of Chronic Gastritis", "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Gastritis in Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Gastritis". Choose a good drug, in the long-term treatment process of chronic gastritis, you must remember to raise it when you really use it, try to have a regular schedule and rest, emotional stability, avoid alcohol and avoid spicy, and when you take long-term medication, you should take it for a few days and stop for two days, slowly move forward, take care of yourself and care for the future.
Finally, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts who suffer from chronic gastritis can not only relieve pain when the stomach hurts, promote digestion when the stomach is distended, but always think about whether the treatment is symptomatic or disease, whether the symptoms are cured and the disease is still there, whether it is on the road of work and rest for three days to fish and dry the net for two days, and look forward to the dawn of the night for a long night to cure chronic gastritis, just four words - "slow and unbiased"!