Intestinal polyps are one of the common diseases in the gastroenterology department. In clinical practice, we can see that many patients come to the hospital multiple times because soon after the polyps are removed, new polyps are found, and they have no choice but to come back to the hospital for treatment. Operation. Such repeated cuts and lengthenings are a huge drain on the patient's financial resources and energy. Many elderly people undergo intestinal polyp removal surgery every six months. If they persist for several years, the polyps still recur, and the pain they suffer can be imagined.
Some patients simply gave up surgery and allowed polyps to grow after multiple recurrences. The scary thing is that intestinal polyps after recurrence still have the possibility of becoming cancerous. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, patients with repeated recurrence of such polyps basically have underlying organ problems that have not been resolved. Surgery can remove polyps, but it cannot replenish damaged organs and sometimes causes further deficiency of qi and blood. In this case, it is necessary to first find the root cause of the disease through syndrome differentiation and use precise medicine to target the problem.
According to my clinical experience, most of the causes of intestinal polyps come from spleen deficiency. The spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry. The water and grains we eat need to be transformed into subtle substances by the spleen's transportation and transformation, which are used to supply the whole body. If the spleen is deficient, the water and grains cannot be transported and transformed normally, causing water and dampness to stagnate and accumulate. When phlegm is formed, phlegm-dampness aggregates on the intestinal mucosa, forming intestinal polyps. Although many patients have had polyps removed through surgery, their spleen deficiency has not recovered, and phlegm and dampness are still continuously supplied, so the polyps soon "come back".
If you want to prevent polyps from recurring, you need to use traditional Chinese medicine to resolve the root problem of spleen deficiency. However, the problem of spleen deficiency is not simple. It is divided into spleen yang deficiency , spleen yin deficiency , spleen deficiency, etc. The symptoms caused by different syndrome types are also different. Doctors need to differentiate and treat according to the patient's condition to achieve the best results. Best therapeutic effect.
I have been a doctor for more than 50 years and have helped many patients to cure intestinal polyps with the method of strengthening the spleen. Among them, the treatment experience of one Mr. Liu left a deep impression on me.
Mr. Liu was diagnosed with chronic colitis when he was young, but his condition was not serious, with only slight congestion and edema, so he didn't care about it. He only used some Western medicine to relieve symptoms. He took medicine when he felt uncomfortable and stopped when he felt better. Medicine, spent 20 years like this. The year before last year, Mr. Liu felt that his gastrointestinal symptoms had become more and more serious. He often had diarrhea and abdominal pain. Sometimes he had to defecate five or six times a day. He had abdominal pain for a moment after each defecation, and then had to defecate again. Sometimes he felt the urge to defecate but had difficulty passing it out.
Mr. Liu had no choice but to go to the hospital for a colonoscopy. It was found that his colitis had progressed to a very serious level, and a large intestinal polyp with a diameter of 1.5cm appeared. The polyps had been surgically removed at that time, but Mr. Liu's abdominal pain and diarrhea did not improve after the operation, and the symptoms of chronic enteritis continued to occur or even worsened. After more than half a year of this, Mr. Liu went to the hospital for a review of the colonoscopy. As a result, new intestinal polyps were discovered, and he had no choice but to undergo a second operation.
After the second operation, Mr. Liu's symptoms of diarrhea and abdominal pain still did not improve at all. This time he decided to "take the initiative" and came to my clinic to see if Chinese medicine could treat it. During my consultation, I observed that Mr. Liu showed obvious fatigue. This fatigue was not a deficiency of Qi and blood caused by the operation, but a condition that had appeared inexplicably on him long before the operation. His limbs were often weak. When Mr. Liu mentioned this symptom, I had already made a judgment in my mind. Combined with tongue diagnosis and pulse diagnosis , I determined that the root cause was deficiency of spleen .
The reason why Mr. Liu is tired and weak in his limbs is because the spleen is in charge of muscles and limbs. Deficiency of spleen will lead to insufficient qi and blood in the body and malnutrition of the limbs. On the other hand, spleen deficiency also causes the movement of water and grains to become abnormal, with clear and turbid being mixed together, causing Mr. Liu's symptoms of diarrhea and abdominal pain. This is why "The Complete Book of Jingyue" has "the root of all diarrhea, All because of the records of " spleen and stomach ".
Mr. Liu's chronic enteritis and intestinal polyps are both caused by deficiency of spleen. If this root problem is not solved, not only will enteritis be difficult to heal, but the chance of polyps relapsing is also very high. According to Mr. Liu's condition, I treated him based on the principles of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi . At the same time, I supplemented the treatment with phlegm-removing and dampness-removing drugs to dissolve the phlegm-dampness that had formed. After Mr. Liu took the medicine according to this method for one month, his symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea were greatly relieved. After another two months of consolidation, he was cured. There has been no recurrence since the follow-up, and no polyps were found in subsequent colonoscopy reviews.
