Reflux esophagitis gastritis Symptoms and feeling something stuck in throat and epigastric pain treatment
Comfortable in stomach, feeling better!
Jin Han, PhD, Oriental medical doctor
Graduated from Kyunghee University, College of Oriental Medicine (2002)
Graduate School of Oriental Medicine (2007) Acquired Doctor degree of Oriental Medicine (2010)
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Feel like something’s stuck in your throat,
Feel a pressure on your chest,
Do not digest well?
Nowadays, the number of patients with reflux esophagitis and gastritis is increasing. Even those who thought the stomach was strong in the past could feel that the digestion is not good in the recent years. In addition to digestive disorders, abdominal muscles often experience lumps. When you press the stomach, you will feel a little harder. If you feel warmer in stomach, you will feel comforable. From this point on, shoulder and back pain often occur, but it is the only time to get a general physical therapy or acupuncture and feel better. Furthermore, if the function of gastrointestinal motility is poor, you do not think that you want to eat food.
If the stomach is not functioning properly and uncomfortable, you would have an endoscopy. You would have been diagnosed with reflux esophagitis or gastritis after your checkup.
In general, reflux esophagitis is caused by eating foods contains a lot of caffeine such as chocolate and coffee, green tea and spices, which lower the pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter. And the cause of gastritis is overeating, preferring meat or flour food. But the main cause is mental and physical stress.
You have received many treatments for reflux esophagitis and gastritis. It seems to be getting better, but it would be harder because of frequent recurrence.
Reflux esophagitis and gastritis can also triggers
Migraine headache, muscle pain, bad breath, sense of numbness of hands and feet
Panic Disorder, Depression and Insomnia
The main symptom of Reflux esophagitis is globus pharigis. It feels like something’s stuck in throat. There are also chest tightness and back pain. The figure below shows the occurrence and change of globus pharyngis.

Symptoms of globus pharyngis start from area 1 and gradually rise to area 2. In the early stage of the onset, gastric acid reflux causes the area 1 to be burned. But you'll feel like something's stuck in throat in chronic stage.
Globus pharyngis may appear only at certain times of the day, but in severe cases it appears throughout the day. The area 2 is the muscles of the throat, which is called sternocleidomastoid muscle. You feel uncomfortableThe thyroid gland, which is the starting point of the area 2, When it is severe, stiffness appears to the ear area. After that, you may have tinnitus or migraine.
When you have many symptoms as above, you can feel anxiety and suffer from insomnia. This leads to chronic fatigue, which reduces your concentration and can cause panic disorder and depression.
After meals
Are you frustrated that
Stomach is bloating?
or
Feeling like a heartbeat on your abdomen?
Epigastric pain and abdominal discomfort are common symptoms of reflux esophagitis and gastritis. Symptoms of each area in abdomen are characteristic. Please see the picture below.
Pain or discomfort is the most common in areas 1, 2 and 3. You can feel stiffness the under the left rib with the postprandial stuffiness. If the first area is stiff, it is difficult for the food to pass over from the esophagus to stomach. If you feel sick here, you often get insomnia, and it takes a long time to get to sleep at night and have a broken sleep.
If the areas 2 and 3 are stiff, it means that the food is not decomposed and stagnated at the center or exit of the stomach. You feel bloated and your appetite fails. In some cases, the area 3 contracts repeatedly as if the heart is beating. It often occurs in anxious and nervous people.
Abdominal fullness appears frequently in area 4. You still feel bloated after dumping your load when you feels like the flesh of other person. Area 4 also tends to beat like a heartbeat if abdominal distension is severe.
If you want strong stomach,
Heart and lungs should be strong
The heart and lungs are the pivotal organs of systemic blood circulation. The heart is responsible for the arterial circulation and supplies fresh oxygen and nutrients to the cells or tissues through the blood. The lungs are responsible for the venous circulation and transfer waste and carbon dioxide from cells and tissues into the blood and send them back to the heart. In this process, the carbon dioxide is replaced with fresh oxygen and waste products are discharged from the body. The blood from the heart is important, but the blood that returns to the heart is also important.
If the heart and lungs are strong, the gastrointestinal motility, the ability to absorb and dissolve and the physical strength will also be improved.
Even if you do not have any abnormality on ECG, CT or ultrasound, if you have a weak pulse, your heart will not be able to supply enough blood to your hands and feet as well as your stomach, You can be skittish to feel your heart thump and feel numbness in hands and feet and lose concentration. When the heart and lungs are strong, the mind is relaxed and the anxiety and tension are relieved, so the symptoms of insomnia, depression and panic disorder are alleviated, and it also helps to prevent varicose veins and hemorrhoids.
We prescribe a combination of powder medicine, Ostericum Gongjindan (OG) (strengthening the heart) and Ginseng Hwang-gi-san (GH) (strengthening the lung) depending on the symptoms and constitution of the patient to treat reflux esophagitis and gastritis.
Reflux Esophagitis and gastritis
Treatment prescriptions
The following prescriptions are formulated according to the individual's symptoms and constitution.

Ostericum Gongjindan (OG)
Ostericum Gongjindan is a medicine that we substitutes musk in the existing Gongjindan with By-gone ostericum and elecampane for the treatment of gastrointestinal disease. It strengthens the heart, improves arterial circulation, relieves mental and physical stress and enhances physical strength, which helps relieve symptoms of feeling something stuck in throat and chest tightness. Kyunghee Hyoza Oriental medicine clinic makes a unique blend ratio of Ostericum Gongjindan.

powder medicine
Powdery medicines can be prescribed only by Kyunghee Hyoza Oriental Medicine Clinic, which has been treating patients with gastrointestinal diseases for more than 10 years and consist of carefully selected herbs with good effects. They increase the digestion and absorption of food, control gastric acid, protect the gastric mucosa and treat inflammation. Especially, it is effective to relieve epigastric pain and heartburn.

Ginseng Hwang-gi-san (GH)
Ginseng hwang-gi-san was originally developed by Kyunghee Hyoza oriental medicine clinic to replace rehmania with milk vetch root to solve the problem of poor digestion. It is good for lungs and improve venous circulation and immunity. It also alleviate frequent coughing, phlegm and hoarse voice as well as reflux esophagitis and laryngitis.
How long will it take to treat
reflux esophagitis and gastritis?
The usual treatment period is about 100 days. People who are in a early stage of disease or younger are treated earlier.
Symptom improvement is individual differences, but in some cases the symptoms may improve in a week or so.
During the subsequent period after treatment, the body is rejuvenated to maintain its improved condition and to prevent recurrence.
You may think that 100 days is long. But if you want to relieve and treat recurrent reflux esophagitis and gastritis symptoms that do not get well, I think it is time to invest.
Recurrent Reflux esophagitis and gastritis treatment,
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