Expert comment: The main symptom of gastritis is epigastric pain or fullness discomfort, which is called epigastric pain in Chinese medicine and can be divided into different types such as stomach cold, stomach heat, qi stagnation and blood stasis. Reader Li described a typical stomach cold syndrome, and it is necessary to warm the stomach and dispel the cold in treatment. Pepper is warm, can warm the middle warmer and regulate qi, and can treat epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting caused by cold phlegm accumulation.
Pork belly is warm, which can make up deficiency and strengthen spleen and stomach, which accords with the theory of nourishing viscera with viscera in traditional Chinese medicine. Boiling pepper and pork belly together, and eating soup and pork belly together can cure the syndrome of spleen deficiency and stomach cold, which is in line with the principle of traditional Chinese medicine. But this method is not suitable for stomach pain caused by stomach heat or insufficient stomach yin.