What are the Chinese patent medicines for treating digestive disorders

I have been doing health consultation related to spleen and stomach conditioning for almost ten years. Currently, the most common Chinese patent medicines commonly used in the clinic to regulate digestive disorders are Xiangsha Liujun Pills, Baohe Pills, Chaihu Shugan Pills, and Fuzi Lizhong Pills. Don’t choose blindly based on the names. They must be based on your actual symptoms to be effective. If they are not correct, they will aggravate the discomfort.

A while ago, I met two young people with similar symptoms. They were both in their early twenties. They had a gastroscopy and found no organic problems. They were diagnosed with functional digestive disorders, and their medication was very different. One is an operator. He has to deal with Party A every day and is not eating properly. He always feels congested in his chest. He feels bloated after just two mouthfuls. He also suffers from acid reflux and hiccups. He is also in a bad mood and likes to sigh. He is diagnosed with liver stagnation and qi stagnation. He recommended Bupleurum Shugan Pills. After taking it for about ten days, he said that the flatulence disappeared and his food tasted better. Another girl works as an administrator. She usually likes to drink iced milk tea. In summer, the air conditioner blows on her stomach. Whenever she eats something cold, she feels so painful that she has to run to the toilet. Her stools are always unformed. She also said that she just heard that the person in front of her took Bupleurum Shugan Pills and it was very effective. Can she use it too? I quickly stopped her. She had a deficient and cold constitution and taking liver-soothing cold medicine would only make diarrhea worse. I recommended her Aconite Lizhong Pills, which was equivalent to covering her spleen and stomach with a small warm blanket. After warming her stomach for more than half a month, she no longer had stomach upset after drinking room temperature water.

It is also interesting to say that when many people hear that they have digestive disorders, their first reaction is "I have a weak spleen and stomach and I need to supplement it", and they buy various spleen-strengthening tonics. In fact, this is not the case at all. For example, if you have just celebrated a holiday recently and have dinners with skewers and hot pot for several days, you will feel upset in your stomach after eating, and your burps will be filled with the rancid smell of wine and meat. You will either be unable to pass stool or the stool will be smelly. This is not a deficiency at all, but because you have eaten too much and accumulated it in your stomach. Just take some Bohe Pills, which is equivalent to "clearing out the blockage" in your clogged intestines and stomach. Once the stagnation is cleared, you will naturally feel better. If you have no appetite all year round, feel bloated after eating something, often have undigested vegetable leaves in your stool, and feel lazy and don’t want to move at all times, this is a true deficiency of spleen and stomach qi. Taking Xiangsha Liujun Pills can treat the symptoms. The properties of the medicine are mild and stable, and it can help the spleen and stomach slowly restore the power of transportation and transformation without compensating for internal heat.

Nowadays, many people think that taking Chinese patent medicines for digestive disorders is useless and the effects are too slow. It is not as fast as taking gastric motility drugs or probiotics. I don’t refute this. For acute abdominal distension and nausea, Western medicine can indeed relieve the discomfort within a few dozen minutes. However, for digestive disorders that have been suffering for months or even years, most of them are problems caused by long-term diet, emotions or living habits. Western medicine can only suppress the immediate symptoms, and it is easy to relapse after stopping the medicine. Use Chinese patent medicines to treat the symptoms for 1-2 months, and many people can avoid it for more than half a year. Of course, the premise is that the syndrome differentiation must be accurate. If you buy medicine blindly and take it incorrectly, let alone having an effect, you may cause new problems.

By the way, if there is no improvement at all after taking Chinese patent medicines for a week or so, or even the abdominal pain, diarrhea, and acid reflux are getting worse, don’t take it hard. Go to the hospital to check whether you have Helicobacter pylori infection or chronic gastroenteritis. Don’t delay treatment just by thinking about conditioning.