The treatment method of hepatitis B in traditional Chinese medicine mainly focuses on three aspects: dampness, depression and deficiency. 1. Dampness Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hepatitis B virus is a kind of "dampness-heat epidemic poison" evil. Clinical studies have also found that damp-heat stagnation is the most important TCM clinical syndrome type of chronic hepatitis B. Chinese herbal medicines known to be able to treat hepatitis B, such as Xihuangcao and Artemisia wormwood, are targeted at dampness and heat. Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that dampness is sticky and difficult to remove, which can easily prolong the course of the disease and form chronic diseases. Therefore, if the dampness evil is not removed, hepatitis cannot be cured. Even so, not every hepatitis patient needs to use wormwood and artemisia to remove dampness. Damp evil is generally divided into two types: damp-heat and damp-turbidity. Damp-heat patients are more common. They present with dry and bitter mouth, like to drink cold water, easily get angry after eating fried food, yellow urine, and yellow, thick and greasy tongue coating. In terms of treatment, these patients generally use Yinchenhao Decoction and Longdan Xiegan Decoction as the main prescriptions, and then add or subtract drug treatments as appropriate. In terms of Chinese patent medicines, you can choose Longdan Xiegan Pills, Xihuangcao Granules, Shuanghu Qinggan Granules, Hepatitis B Qingrejiedu Granules, etc. In terms of dietary therapy, traditional Chinese medicines such as Xihuangcao, Braised Artemisia, Radix Isatis, Tianjihuang, Chicken Bone Grass, Buza Leaves, etc. can be used to make soups or boil water instead of tea. Such patients must pay attention to two issues: 1. Do not use tonic medicines too early. Removing damp heat is a long process. Some patients with chronic hepatitis took medicine for three months before their tongue coating cleared up. If the dampness and heat are not completely eliminated and supplements are used too early, not only will the patient's physical fitness not be improved, but the dampness and heat will be aggravated. 2. Go to the hospital for regular follow-up visits. Drugs that clear away heat and remove dampness are relatively bitter and cold, and may damage the spleen and stomach. Therefore, after taking them for a period of time, patients should ask a doctor to check their tongue and pulse to see if the dampness and heat have been completely eliminated. If so, do not continue to take those drugs to avoid damaging the body's righteousness. There are relatively few patients with dampness and turbidity. The difference between them and damp-heat patients is that although the tongue coating is thick and greasy, it is not yellow; they also have dry mouth and bitter mouth, but they do not like to drink water. The most important and representative thing is that they have an obvious feeling of physical sleepiness. They feel very tired every day, as if they are carrying heavy things on their backs. Patients with dampness and turbidity generally have a poor appetite. In severe cases, there is a sticky feeling in the mouth and the stool is rotten. In terms of treatment, you can choose Weiling Decoction, Huopu Xialing Decoction, etc. In terms of Chinese patent medicines, diuretic powder, spleen-invigorating and damp-removing granules can be used. As a dietary supplement, the most worth mentioning is Smilax Turtle in Claypot, which has the effect of removing dampness and clearing turbidity. Of course, those with poor financial conditions can use barley, poria, etc. to make soup or sugar water, and the effect is also good. Patients with dampness and turbidity must not use drugs to treat dampness and heat, otherwise they will damage the spleen and stomach, making it more difficult to remove dampness and turbidity. 2. Depression Yu is stagnation of liver qi, which is what we usually call unhappiness. If you say you will get hepatitis if you are unhappy, everyone will definitely say it makes no sense. Yes, you won’t get hepatitis if you are unhappy, but you will definitely be unhappy if you get hepatitis. Traditional Chinese medicine believes: "The liver governs dispersion and is the organ of wind and wood. It has a strong and violent nature, which makes people happy and prone to depression." Therefore, when the hepatitis virus invades the liver, it will first inhibit the dispersion of liver qi, which is why hepatitis patients are unhappy. Pathological basis. In clinical practice, there are often some patients whose various examinations are within the normal range, but they always feel a little uncomfortable, such as feeling tired, losing appetite, or feeling bulging in the liver area, etc. Although these manifestations have their own characteristics, they have one thing in common - worry about the condition. Another characteristic is that the symptoms of discomfort are related to mood. If the patient is doing something else, the patient generally does not feel any discomfort. When he calms down, the discomfort suddenly becomes obvious. The treatment of this type of patients is actually not difficult. What is difficult is the understanding and self-regulation of this state. Bupleurum Soothing Gan Powder has a relatively good effect on liver qi stagnation; if you like to lose your temper, you can use Danzhi Xiaoyao Powder; if you have a bad appetite, use Xiaoyao Powder. For such patients, dietary conditioning has little effect. The key is to solve the problem of how to treat hepatitis B objectively. 3. Deficiency Generally speaking, deficiency syndrome is more common in patients who have been ill for a long time and cannot receive good treatment; some are also caused by congenital deficiencies. The deficiency of patients with chronic hepatitis B is quite special. One of its fictitiousness comes from "natural disasters" and the other comes from "man-made disasters". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver belongs to wood and the spleen belongs to earth. Liver disease will damage the function of the spleen and stomach. Poor function of the spleen and stomach will lead to poor nutrient absorption, which in turn will naturally affect the liver. The soil is poor and trees cannot grow and flourish. This is the so-called "natural disaster". The so-called "man-made disaster" refers to the excessive use of heat-clearing and dampness-clearing drugs. Therefore, the treatment of deficiency syndrome of liver disease must first avoid "man-made disasters" and then deal with "natural disasters". The "natural disaster" is that the soil is not good, so "fertilize" the soil - replenish the spleen and stomach. Patients with weak spleen and stomach often suffer from loss of appetite and mental fatigue. Their clinical manifestations are somewhat similar to those of patients with dampness and turbidity, but the main feeling of patients with spleen deficiency is weakness, without feeling sleepy. And the most important point is that the tongue coating of these patients is generally not thick and greasy. In terms of treatment, Sijunzi Decoction or Xiangsha Liujunzi Decoction are better choices. In terms of Chinese patent medicines, Xiangsha Liujunzi Pills and Buzhong Yiqi Pills are also good. Usually, you can use Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, Atractylodes macrocephala, jujube and other medicines to make soup or porridge, which can also play a role in diet conditioning.