Cholecystolithiasis is a common disease, and the patients are mostly women, generally over 40 years old. Unhealthy living habits can easily lead to gallstones, and obesity may also induce this disease. There are many complications of gallstones, so we must treat them as soon as possible and prevent them in time. # Gallstones #

People with gallstones are generally women after 40 years old. There are many causes of this disease, and obesity is likely to cause gallstones. In addition to this reason, long-term unhealthy diet or poor care during pregnancy can also induce gallstones. But most patients don't know about this disease, so what is gallstone? What are the symptoms?

First, what is gallstone?

Gallbladder stones, as the name suggests, are stones that grow in the gallbladder. This disease will bring serious discomfort to patients, and if it is not treated for a long time, it will easily become malignant in the later stage. Gallbladder stones can easily induce various complications, such as gallbladder inflammation or gallbladder perforation, and the more serious complications are sepsis or jaundice. After the illness, the patient may also have intestinal obstruction, which leads to difficulty in defecation and poor defecation. Cholelithiasis must be removed as soon as possible after it appears, otherwise it will easily become an incurable disease and cannot be cured.

Second, the symptoms of gallbladder stones

1. Persistent abdominal pain after meals

Patients with gallstones will have persistent abdominal pain just after eating. This kind of abdominal pain will be very severe, and some patients will even feel sick and vomit. However, after digestion for a period of time, abdominal pain can be effectively relieved, so many patients will refuse to eat because of this symptom and eventually become thinner.

2. Can't accept greasy food

Such patients will become unable to accept foods with high fat content after getting sick. Because gallstones can seriously affect people's ability to digest fat, patients will feel sick when they see greasy food, and symptoms such as fullness, discomfort and belching will also appear after eating such food. Therefore, the patient's diet will instantly become light after illness, but at the same time, the body will also lack fat energy.

3. Bile reflux

Because dieting will stimulate the gallbladder for a long time, it will cause the gallbladder to secrete too much bile, which will flow back to the stomach and even back to the esophagus. Therefore, patients will have symptoms of gastric acid reflux during illness, and it is easy to be misdiagnosed as gastritis when going to see a doctor at this time.

Cholelithiasis refers to the pathological change that bile condenses into sandstone due to physical and chemical variation, blocking circulation. Gallbladder stones are mostly cholesterol-bound or mixed stones, and bile duct and hepatobiliary stones are bile pigment stones. Patients with right hypochondriac discomfort, dull pain, shoulder and back pain and sudden colic are the main symptoms, so they belong to the category of hypochondriac pain in traditional Chinese medicine, and the evil lies in the liver and gallbladder. All anger, sadness, fullness, cold, falls, phlegm accumulation, blood stasis, etc. It can accumulate into a "fire of stagnation" and cause this disease.

First, stagnation of heat in gallbladder and fu-organs

Most of them are complicated with infection and acute attack. Symptoms are hypochondriac pain with high fever, polydipsia, constipation, epigastric pain, crimson tongue, dry moss and rapid pulse. The syndrome is stagnation of liver and gallbladder qi, internal heat and solid knot, and B-ultrasound diagnosis is gallbladder stone. It is advisable to soothe the liver and promote qi, purging heat and clearing the knot. Jiawei Sini Powder Prescription:

Bupleuri Radix, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Scutellariae Radix, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei preparata, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Natrii Sulfas, Radix Curcumae preparata, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli preparata, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae, Flos Lonicerae, Radix Aucklandiae, medulla Tetrapanacis, and Glycyrrhrizae Radix. One dose a day, decocted in water twice, and served separately. After three days of fever, defecation and pain relief, the prescription was still reduced according to the symptoms. After taking it for more than one month, the stones gradually disappeared and dissipated.

Second, damp-heat stagnation.

Subacute attack or complicated infection, hypochondriac pain with aversion to cold and fever, nausea and vomiting, constipation, bitter taste, chest pain, loss of appetite, jaundice, yellow greasy tongue coating and rapid pulse. The syndrome belongs to stagnation of qi in liver and gallbladder, damp-heat and blood stasis, and B-ultrasound diagnosis is gallstone. It is advisable to clear away heat and promote diuresis, reduce swelling and dissipate stagnation. Prescription of Bile Duct Paishi Decoction: Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Rhizoma Polygoni Cuspidati, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae, Jasper Powder (composed of talc, Radix Glycyrrhizae and Indigo Naturalis), Fructus Gardeniae, Rhizoma Corydalis, Radix Bupleuri, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Fructus Amomi Rotundus, Radix Aucklandiae, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus and Herba Epimedii. Take it as before.

Third, disharmony between liver and spleen.

It is more common in patients with gallstones in bile duct or gallbladder and a history of chronic cholecystitis, and most of them have a history of improper diet or depression. Symptoms include hypochondriac pain, chest tightness, shortness of breath, slight thirst, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, alternating cold and heat, dark and dry tongue coating and thready pulse. The syndrome is stagnation of liver qi, spleen aversion to stomach invasion, and B-ultrasound diagnosis is bile duct mudstone stone. It is advisable to harmonize the liver and spleen, relieve depression and open the knot. The prescriptions of Danzhi Xiaoyao Powder and Lidan Paishi Decoction consist of Bupleurum, Angelica, Poria, Radix Paeoniae Alba preparata, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae, Radix Curcumae preparata, Flos Rosae Rugosae, Cortex Moutan, Fructus Gardeniae, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus preparata, Radix Aucklandiae, Scutellariae Radix, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei with wine, Herba Menthae, and Radix Glycyrrhizae. Take it as before.

Fourth, qi stagnation and blood stasis.

It is more common in bile pigment stones in biliary tract or intrahepatic bile duct, and mixed gallbladder stones can also be seen. The course of the disease is long, with no symptoms of cold and heat, jaundice, hypochondriac pain often delayed or irregular, which is characterized by fixation, repeated radiation to the shoulder and back, dry tongue with little moss or ecchymosis. The syndrome is that the disease enters the collaterals for a long time, qi stagnation and blood stasis, and B-ultrasound diagnosis is hepatolithiasis. It is advisable to break blood stasis and promote blood circulation, and soften and dissipate hard mass. Prescription Compound Sini Powder: Bupleurum, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae, Rhizoma Polygoni Cuspidati, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli, Radix Curcumae preparata, Carapax Trionycis preparata (crushed first and then fried), Fructus Gardeniae preparata, Rhizoma Sparganii, Rhizoma Curcumae, Radix Glycyrrhizae and panax pseudo-ginseng (fried first and then swallowed). Take the above, for example.

What can't gallstones eat?

1, drink less beer

Some people think that beer can induce diuresis and prevent urinary calculi. In fact, wort for brewing beer contains acidic substances such as calcium, oxalic acid, uridine and purine nucleotide, which can increase uric acid in human body and become an important inducement of kidney calculi.

2. Eat less meat and animal offal.

Control the intake of meat and animal viscera, because meat metabolism produces uric acid, and animal viscera is high purine food, and catabolism also produces high blood uric acid, and uric acid is the component that forms stones.

Therefore, the daily diet should be mainly vegetarian and eat more foods rich in cellulose.

Step 3 eat less salt

Too salty diet will increase the workload of the kidneys, and salt and calcium have a synergistic effect in the body, which can interfere with the metabolic process of drugs for preventing and treating kidney calculi. The daily intake of salt should be less than 5g.

4. Be careful with spinach

According to statistics, more than 90% stones contain calcium, and calcium oxalate stones account for about 87.5%. If the intake of oxalate in food is too high and the calcium oxalate in urine is supersaturated, the excess calcium oxalate crystals may precipitate out of urine and form stones. Among foods, spinach has the highest oxalate content, and spinach is one of the vegetables that people often eat.

Don't drink milk before going to bed.

Because milk contains more calcium, most stones contain calcium. The most dangerous factor of stone formation is the sudden increase of calcium concentration in urine in a short time. 3 hours after drinking milk is the peak of calcium elimination through the kidney. At this time, it is in a state of sleep, urine is concentrated, and calcium passes through the kidney more, which is easy to form stones.

6, should not eat sweets.

After taking sugar, the concentration of calcium ion, oxalic acid and uric acid in urine increased, and the degree of uric acid increased, which made calcium urate and calcium oxalate easy to precipitate and promoted the formation of stones.

7. Avoid irritating food.

Such as pepper, curry, mustard and so on. These foods are very irritating and very bad for patients with gallstones, as well as alcohol, coffee and strong tea.

8, gallstones can not eat spicy food.

Gallstones and gallstones mostly belong to excess-heat syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, all spicy and fire-fighting things should be avoided. Strong irritating condiments, such as gluttony and pepper, can promote gallbladder contraction, make the biliary sphincter not relax in time, cause bile outflow obstruction, and thus induce acute attack of cholelithiasis, so it is not suitable to take.