Following are some of the main patterns of chronic erosive gastritis.
1. Pattern of Liver Fire Invading Stomach
Main symptoms: spitting blood, dark stool, belching, nausea, stomach and rib dull pains, irritability, red tongue, less coating, floating pulse.

2. Pattern of Spleen Qi Deficiency
Main symptoms: dull pain in the stomach, vomit, yellow complexion, fatigue, spitting blood, dark stool, white and greasy coating, deep and thin pulse.

3. Pattern of Excessive Heat Invading Stomach
Main symptoms: blood in the nose, haematemesis, fever, thirst, dry and dark stool, dark urine, red tongue, yellow coating, rapid pulse.

4. Pattern of Stagnation of Blood
Main symptoms: fixed stomach pain, sharp pain especially at night, haematemesis, hematochezia( blood in the stool), dark tongue with ecchymosis, floating pulse.

In TCM, a disease or a symptom might be caused by one pathogenic factor, even two or three pathogenic factors. When diagnosing a disease or a symptom, TCM doctors must follow the principle of "Syndrome Dfferentiation", and then "Suit the Remedy to the Case". In order to gain a more definite and valuable diagnosis, it's important and necessary for the doctor to learn the detailed health information of the patient, including his/her disease duration, age, sex, height, weight, family history, urine, stool, diet, sleep, sweat, energy, mood (emotion), as well as the tongue conditions and the palm conditions, etc. If you would want our expert to create a TCM diagnosis, you're welcome to contact us.