Acute gastritis is the acute inflammation of the gastric mucosa. Its clinical manifestations include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, etc. It is common in summer and fall and most of it due to the improper diet, engorgement, or intake of cold, raw and dirt food. It falls into the category of gastric abscess, chronic atrophic gastritis in TCM. By its pathogeny, clinical symptoms and the manifestation of tongue and pulse, it is divided into the types of retention of food in the stomach, heat-damp in summer attacking the stomach, cold-evil attacking the stomach, flaming of the stomach-heat and liver depression and qi stagnation. Continue to learn
Chronic Gastritis in TCM.
