How to distinguish between stomach cold and stomach heat? Men must know these factors

Among common stomach diseases and problems, stomach cold and stomach heat are two different types of diseases that people must pay attention to, and we also need to know more about the difference between the two.

Stomach cold syndrome

Stomach cold syndrome is mostly caused by external cold pathogens directly invading the stomach, or eating too much raw and cold food, which causes cold pathogens to accumulate in the stomach. Stomach cold syndrome is divided into stomach cold excess syndrome and stomach cold deficiency syndrome.

Symptoms of stomach cold: Most symptoms start suddenly, caused by cold in the abdomen or excessive consumption of fruits and cold drinks. It shows sudden cold pain in the stomach, severe pain, light mouth and lack of thirst, and even headache, sore joints and muscles, pale tongue, and thick white coating. If the condition is mild, use a hot water bottle for external application, drink hot water or ginger water, or take flavored Huoxiang Zhengqi pills. If the condition is severe, you need to use dried ginger, galangal, pepper, Sichuan peppercorns, cinnamon twigs, etc. to warm yang and disperse cold.

Stomach cold deficiency syndrome: The condition often lasts longer, with clear or sour water in the mouth, cold limbs, bland mouth without thirst, clear urine, foul stool, and the disease will occur if the abdomen is slightly cold or if the diet is not careful. The tongue is pale and the tongue coating is white. It manifests as stomach pain, which can be continuous in mild cases or severe in severe cases. It is aggravated by cold. If hot water is applied, the pain will be relieved. Stomach cold deficiency syndrome should be treated with some warming Yang drugs on the basis of spleen and stomach drugs, such as dried ginger, prickly ash, pepper, cinnamon twig, etc.

Stomach heat syndrome

Stomach heat (fire) syndrome is divided into stomach real heat syndrome or deficiency heat syndrome. It is mostly caused by eating too much spicy, fried, and greasy food, or by depression, which turns into fire and leads to stomach heat syndrome.

Stomach heat syndrome: Most symptoms include stomach pain or burning sensation, accompanied by bad breath or gum pain, mouth and tongue sores, dry stool, irritability and insomnia, red tongue with yellow fur, and slippery and rapid pulse. In this case, you can use drugs such as honeysuckle, gypsum, radix rehmanniae, knotweed, moutan bark, yam, rhubarb, etc. to clear fire, clear heat and detoxify. You can also use Chinese patent medicines such as Niuhuang Jiedu Tablets and Sanhuang Tablets for emergency treatment. When making soup, you can add collapsing bowl, snake tongue grass, dandelion, and fire charcoal mother for auxiliary treatment.

Stomach deficiency fire syndrome: symptoms include stomach discomfort, dry mouth, bitter mouth, oral ulcers, worsening after fatigue or staying up late, bad breath, dry stool, dry mouth and no desire to drink water, pale, fat, slightly tender and red tongue, weak pulse, etc. When there is deficiency fire, it is necessary to nourish yin and clear heat or replenish qi and clear heat, use drugs such as raw rehmannia, gypsum, ophiopogon, Pseudostellaria baicalensis, and Adenophora scabra. When making soup, you can use raw rehmannia, ophiopogon, Adenophora scabra, and Ipomoea aquatica.