TCM treatment for functional dyspepsia

Chinese medicine believes that the pathogenesis of functional dyspepsia is spleen deficiency and the attack of liver-Qi on stomach. It is a syndrome of intermingled deficiency and excess. Currently,we are lack of a recognized syndrome type standard. Most physicians summarized it into five syndrome types such as spleen Qi stagnation,disharmony of liver and stomach,damp heat in spleen and stomach,deficient cold of spleen and stomach,cold and heat syndrome. According to those five types,methods as replenishing Qi to invigorate the spleen,dispersing stagnated liver Qi for regulating stomach,regulating Qi to dissipate blood stasis and pungent and amara drugs are adopted.