The Treatment of Modern Western - Biblio.nhat-nam.ru

REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS 483REMARKS1. Liver invading earth is the main disease mechanism of thiscondition. Depending on the patient’s constitution, age,diet, and lifestyle, this is then complicated by more or lessstomach disharmony, spleen vacuity, cold, dampness, foodstagnation, damp heat, depressive heat, yin vacuity, and/orblood stasis. In most Western patients with this condition,there will be depressive heat. When there is bile reflux, thereis always either damp or depressive heat.2. The disease mechanisms and patterns of hiatal hernia areessentially the same as for reflux esophagitis. Its root is a woodearthdisharmony causing stomach venter or chest pain.However, although depressive heat may be seen in hiatal hernia,its presence is not as common as in reflux esophagitis whereone can mostly assume its presence in Western patients.3. If pH monitoring shows that stomach acid is elevated, onecan add 12 grams of Wa Leng Zi (Concha Arecae) and/or MuLi (Concha Ostreae) to the above formulas based on the modernChinese treatment principles of lowering acid. In this case,these formulas should be taken after meals.4. The main Chinese medicinals for treating acid regurgitationare Gan Cao (Radix Glycyrrhizae), Duan Mu Li(Concha Ostreae), Hai Ge Ke (Concha Meretricis/Cyclinae),Hai Piao Xiao (Endoconcha Sepiae), calcined Wa Leng Zi(Concha Arcae), Zhen Zhu Mu (Concha Margaritiferae) andthe pairs: Huang Lian (Rhizoma Coptidis) and Wu Zhu Yu(Fructus Evodiae) and Hai Piao Xiao (Endoconcha Sepiae)and Zhe Bei Mu (Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii).