What to do if food stagnation hurts the stomach and causes vomiting

Food stagnation and vomiting can cause many adverse effects on health, so scientific treatment and conditioning are necessary. Now some Chinese medicine and dietary methods can help improve the situation. The following are effective methods of treating food stagnation and vomiting with Chinese medicine.

1. "Jingyue Complete Works·Miscellaneous Symptoms·Diet" states: "Stomach diseases that are temporary are mostly fullness, while spleen diseases that are long-term are mostly deficiency. Doctors of the time, regardless of whether the disease is long-term or short-term, rarely use drugs that stimulate the appetite and promote digestion. This is because they do not know deficiency syndromes. The original function of the spleen and stomach is to digest food. Now that they cannot digest food, their only function is illness. Can we still focus on suppressing it and harm its function? Moreover, if we want to cure a disease, we must first replenish the stomach qi as the main factor for the medicine to work. If the stomach qi is full, it will go away if we attack it, and the disease is often easily cured. This is because the stomach qi is strong and the medicine works easily."

2. "Golden Chamber Wings·Food Swelling": "Eating and drinking excessively will cause stagnation in the middle abdomen. The symptoms are swallowing acid and warm air, aversion to the smell of food, and worsening after eating. The classics say: If you eat and drink excessively and have irregular daily routines, the yin will be affected, and the yin will enter the five internal organs. When it enters the five internal organs, the membrane will be full and blocked. This should be eliminated and removed, and in severe cases, it should be discharged. The so-called fullness in the middle is to purge it from the inside."

3. The treatment of food stagnation in the stomach and arrhythmia is mainly to remove the food stagnation. The treatment principle is: eliminate accumulation, resolve stagnation, relieve stomach stagnation and calm the mind. The prescription used is Baohe Pills (Dan Xi's Heart Method): Shenqu 15g, Crataegus 20g, Poria 15g, Pinellia 15g, Tangerine Peel 12g, Radish Seed 12g, Forsythia suspensa 10g. Hawthorn is used in the recipe to eliminate all food stagnation, especially the stagnation of greasy meat. Shenqu helps digestion and strengthens the spleen, so as to transform the accumulation of stale food and alcohol. Radish seeds can relieve gas and eliminate excess food and flour. Pinellia and dried tangerine peel can promote qi circulation, eliminate stagnation, harmonize the stomach and stop vomiting. Poria strengthens the spleen and stomach and stops diarrhea; because food accumulation can easily turn into heat, Forsythia suspensa is used to clear away heat and disperse the stagnation. All the medicines work together to help digest food and harmonize stomach qi. Add 10g of Acorus calamus, 12g of Ziziphus jujuba seeds, and 20g of Polygonum multiflorum to open the orifices and calm the mind, eliminate food stagnation, and relieve palpitations.

4. If the patient has severe symptoms of food stagnation, insomnia, palpitations, and abdominal distension, you can use Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases): 10g of Glauber's Salt, 1.0g of Rhubarb, and 6g of Licorice. It can attack the stagnation, regulate qi and calm the mind. If accompanied by chest pain extending to the back, back pain extending to the chest, chest tightness and fullness, add 20 g of Guarana, 15 g of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 12 g of Corydalis, and 12 g of Citrus aurantium. To relieve numbness, promote yang, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis.