What medicine is more effective in treating digestive disorders

In fact, there is no general "best" medicine for regulating digestive disorders. Whether the medicine is effective depends entirely on whether it matches your triggers and symptoms. Ordinary medicines can be effective if they are right for you, but even expensive nutritional supplements are useless if they are not right.

A while ago, a girl who works in new media operations came to me for consultation. She said that she had been suffering from bloating for almost half a month. She farted so much at work that she was afraid to sit in the middle of her desk. She bought two boxes of probiotics imported from Internet celebrities and tried them to see if they were of any use. After careful questioning, I found out that she had stayed up late for more than a month in a row. Every meal she took out was heavy on pickled vegetables and fried chicken. After eating, She sat down and changed the plan. Occasionally, she would suffer from acid reflux, heartburn, and mouth pain. I asked her to check for Helicobacter pylori first. The result was good. It was just a simple lack of gastrointestinal motility and a mild imbalance of intestinal flora. The doctor prescribed Mosapride plus Bifidobacterium triple live bacteria for a week. On the fourth day of taking it, she said that most of her abdominal bloating had disappeared, and she no longer had much acid reflux. You see, it’s not that the probiotics are bad, it’s that her core problem at that time was that her gastrointestinal tract could not move, and the food she ate was fermented and produced gas. Just supplementing the bacteria could not solve the root motivation problem at all.

If you have irritable bowel syndrome that gets stomachaches and diarrhea when you are nervous, and there are no organic problems after a colonoscopy, or you like to eat raw and cold foods, and your stools are always shapeless and sticky in the toilet, then supplementing with probiotics of the corresponding strain or using some symptomatic antidiarrheal drugs such as montmorillonite powder will be much more effective than prokinetic drugs. I once met a boy who was preparing for the law exam. He was so anxious that he couldn't sleep every day for three months before the exam. He felt nauseous and couldn't eat when it was time to eat. After a full digestive tract examination, there was nothing wrong. Finally, the doctor prescribed some oryzanol and compound digestive enzyme tablets. After taking it for three or four days, he could eat normally. For such a disorder caused by emotional triggers, just staring at the gastrointestinal tract is useless.

At this point, some people must want to ask, are Chinese patent medicines gentler and suitable for long-term conditioning? This part is indeed still controversial. Most Western medicine systems believe that most Chinese patent medicines for regulating the spleen and stomach lack large-scale clinical evidence-based data and are not recommended to be taken blindly. However, in actual clinical practice, there are indeed many patients who take symptomatic Chinese patent medicines and have no effect. Wrong. For example, my aunt has a weak spleen and stomach all year round. She has diarrhea after eating something cold. Taking probiotics can only cure her for three to five days. Later, she went to a regular public hospital to diagnose the syndrome of spleen deficiency and dampness. She was prescribed Shenling Atractylodes Powder and took it for more than a month. Now her stools are basically formed. However, we should be reminded that you must not blindly buy stomach-nourishing proprietary Chinese medicines based on the recommendations of Internet celebrities. If they are not correct, they may aggravate the problem. For example, if a person with a strong stomach fire takes warm and tonic medicines to strengthen the spleen, the more he eats, the more he will suffer from internal heat and constipation.

There are also many people who just take Jianweixiaoshi tablets when their digestion is not good. In fact, they are more suitable for temporary accumulation of food after eating too much. If they have long-term functional disorders, they are basically useless. The hawthorn component in them may also stimulate gastric acid secretion, which will aggravate acid reflux and heartburn. My senior brother who has been in the gastroenterology department for almost six years often said that medicines for digestive diseases are always "remedial, but not essential." Medicines only help you restore the disordered gastrointestinal rhythm. If you take medicines while staying up late every day and making iced milk tea and hot pot, then the expensive medicines are useless. In the end, the treatment still comes down to the small things of eating well and having a regular schedule.