dampness-heat in the spleen and stomach

Spleen-stomach damp-heat is a disease pattern name, also known as middle-jiao damp-heat. It is mostly caused by invasion of dampness pathogen, or improper diet, excessive intake of rich and fatty foods, leading to the accumulation of damp-heat in the spleen and stomach. Symptoms include epigastric and abdominal fullness, fatigue and heavy body sensation, loose stools, fever with bitter taste in the mouth, thirst with no desire to drink much, scanty and yellow urine, and even yellowing of the face and skin like orange color, with a yellow and greasy tongue coating and a soggy and rapid pulse. Treatment primarily focuses on clearing heat and promoting diuresis. This pattern is encountered almost daily in outpatient clinics and involves multiple diseases across the digestive, oncological, and urinary systems, with digestive system diseases being more common, such as chronic gastritis, reflux esophagitis, gastric or duodenal ulcers, gastritis, chronic hepatitis B, liver cirrhosis, fatty liver, cholelithiasis, and gallbladder polyps. It may appear at various stages after liver cancer surgery or esophageal, gastric, or intestinal cancer surgery, with chronic gastritis ranking first.