Gastrolithiasis is caused by ingested animal and plant components, hair or some minerals that are undigested in the stomach and condensed into blocks. Common persimmon, black jujube, hawthorn and so on. The cause of persimmon gastrolith is generally believed to be that persimmon is rich in tannic acid, which generates some water-insoluble precipitates under the action of gastric acid, and binds with pectin and food residues to form clots. Hawthorn is rich in pectin, which can gel at a suitable PH value, coagulate into blocks in the stomach and produce stones. Further research confirmed that drinking tea, drinking alcohol and eating more foods that increase the acidity of gastric juice after eating raw hawthorn on an empty stomach are the main inducing factors for the occurrence of hawthorn stomach stones.

After the formation of gastrolith, most patients have epigastric discomfort, fullness, nausea or pain; Some patients have symptoms similar to chronic gastritis, such as loss of appetite, indigestion, abdominal distension, dull pain, acid reflux, heartburn, etc. Some patients may be complicated with gastric ulcer; 1/3 patients with gastric persimmon stone can touch the hard mass moving in the upper abdomen. If the patient has the above symptoms and signs, lives in persimmon producing areas and has a history of eating a lot of persimmons on an empty stomach, especially astringent persimmons, the general diagnosis can be confirmed. If there is doubt about the diagnosis, X-ray gastrography or gastroscopy is feasible. In the past, the treatment of gastric persimmon stone mostly used traditional Chinese medicine to dissolve stone or surgical stone removal. With the development of fiberoptic endoscopic therapy,

For patients with mild initial illness, you can take 5 rhubarb soda tablets, 2-3 times a day.