No Purgation for Chronic Spleen-Stomach Disease: Laxatives Should Be Used Cautiously by Stomach Patients
In treating chronic spleen-stomach disease, the purgation method should be used with great caution. From the TCM perspective, patients with chronic gastric illness belong to spleen-stomach deficiency; from the Western-medicine perspective they are functional disorders. Neither is an excess pattern suited to purgation. If the…
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