Chronic enteritis refers to the chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract in general. It is due to the infection of animalcule such as the bacteria, mould, virus, protozoon, etc. or results from the irritability and allergic reaction. The main clinical manifestations include chronic discomforts and dull pain in the upper abdomen or the repeated attacks of abdominal pain, diarrhea, dyspepsia, etc. for the patients with severer condition, there is mucus in stools or watery stools. There is no name of the chronic enteritis in TCM but it is included in the categories of chronic abdominal pain and diarrhea according to its clinical characters. It results from the deficiency of the spleen and stomach, declination of kidney yang, liver qi attacking the spleen, stasis blocking the intestinal vessels, etc.
The pathogenesis is the involvement in the spleen, stomach and the kidney as well. The syndromes of the disease include excess and deficiency and the deficiency is the root while the excess is the complement; the qi deficiency of the spleen, stomach, liver and kidney is the excess while the maladjustment of the function of the stomach and intestine, which cause the disorder of qi and blood, the maladjustment of Zangfu, the imbalance of yin and yang and other pathological changes. And its clinical characters include the pure and turbid substance mixing together, running down to the intestines and the large intestine diarrhea. Continue to learn Chinese medicine Treatment for Duodenitis.
