Gastroptosis may be constitutional (in persons with an as-thenic constitution) or acquired (sharp decrease in weight, sedentary way of life, repeated pregnancies, or the result of muscles of the abdominal wall being insufficiently exercised). Most frequently there are no symptoms, but sometimes gastroptosis causes a sense of heaviness in the epigastrium, belching, and abdominal distention. Gastric digestion and evacuation of the bowels remain substantially undisturbed. Treatment and prevention consist of physical exercises to strengthen the abdominal muscles and increase the general tonus of the body and, in cases of emaciation, a high-calorie diet and water treatment. Staying at a sanatorium or a health spa is also part of the treatment. During pregnancy and after childbirth the necessary hygienic requirements must be observed.

Traditional Chinese medicine thinks gastroptosis, though in the stomach, but closely associated with liver and spleen. Patients with ferrite is deficient, food drink is not adjustable, overeating binge drinking cold things, time will damage the spleen and stomach and cause spleen and stomach weakness, gas subsidence, mucous membrane is not solid, the stomach muscle weakness; or for tired too, feel the fever, gastric estrangement, change, change often, body is deficient, no luck; pixu (spleen deficient) or for the modern internal injuries, unreasonableness make stomach, wood by spleen earth, liver depression and qi stagnation, pathogenesis is disorder, gastric estrangement drop; or for a feed, feed pressure, after the bumpy ride over time harming the ultimate cause gastroptosis. Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Stomachache.