Professor Jiang Shumin Treating Functional Dyspepsia Experience

Functional dyspepsia is the most common gasrtintestinal disease forclinician.Although FD will not take threat to patients’lives,patients aresuffering from its complex symptoms and repeated attack.Routine treatment hasunsatisfying effect.FD belongs to the areas of distension syndrome andepigastralgia from the aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine.TCM has its uniqueunderstanding of the pathogenic factors and pathogenesis of FD,and treats FDunder the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment.The effect isexact.TCM has an advantage in treatment of FD.Professor JiangShuMin learned from Professor LiYuQi.He has engaged intreatment of digestive diseases for nearly three decades.He got abundanttherapeutic experiences.Prof. Jiang has an unique theory in the understandingof FD.He thinks pathogens of FD include the exopathic factor,the dietaryfactor,the emotional factor,and the main cause is the emotional factor.FDresulting from the emotional factor is related to liver and spleen,and hurtsthe mind.FD takes spleen weakness as original cause.mixtures syndrome ofdeficiency and excess,cold and heat in FD is common.FD locates in spleen andstomach,which is concerned to five organs.The basic therapeutic principle issupporting the spleen and replenishing Qi.He usually use regulating the liverqi as a general method,warming and cooling,acrid-openning and bitter-descendingas a flexible method.He also use other therapeutic methods,includingblood-activiating and stasis-dissolving,removing stagnated food and promotingdigestion,dispersing the lung-qi,nourishing heart to calm mind,coorderatingheart-kidney.Prof. Jiang is well versed in herbal potency.He uses medicationssuch as using military forces.Nuring in psychology and diet are also important.The clinical symptoms improved significantly, with the good curative effect.