Application of the Theory of "Treating the Future Disease" in Spleen and Stomach Damp-heat Type Chronic Atrophic Gastritis: an Investigation

Abstract

Chronic atrophic gastritis is a kind of digestive disease which is easy to recur and difficult to be cured. Damp-heat syndrome of spleen and stomach is one of the main syndromes of chronic atrophic gastritis, and the intractability of this disease determines the importance of its prevention and treatment. In this paper, we analyze the prevention and treatment of chronic atrophic gastritis of the damp-heat spleen and stomach type from three aspects of the theory of "treating the disease before it gets worse", and elaborate the etiology of chronic atrophic gastritis of the damp-heat spleen and stomach type in Chinese medicine as well as the prevention and treatment strategy of chronic atrophic gastritis of the "treating the disease before it gets worse" theory. It also describes in detail how the theory of "treating the future disease" guides its prevention and treatment strategies. The prospect of the theory of "treating the disease before it is diagnosed" in the treatment of CAG with damp-heat spleen and stomach is also discussed, which will provide new ideas and methods for the clinical treatment of spleen-stomach-damp-heat chronic atrophic gastritis.