Patient's question:
My stomach has always been relatively healthy. Usually, I only occasionally experience symptoms of stomach pain, but it improves significantly after taking medication. However, recently, for some unknown reason, whenever I eat, the stomach pain becomes extremely severe, and sometimes the pain lasts for quite a long time. After checking at the hospital, they said it was something called erosive gastritis.Doctor's answer:
Chronic atrophic gastritis is one of the common and difficult diseases in the digestive system. Clinically, it is primarily characterized by symptoms such as fullness and pain in the stomach, discomfort, poor appetite, and irregular bowel movements (either dry or loose). The pathological features include atrophy of gastric glands, thinning of the mucosa, thickening of the muscularis mucosae, and associated with intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia. Currently, there are no effective treatments for this condition in both domestic and international medicine. However, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) offers significant advantages in treating this disease and has achieved remarkable therapeutic effects.