Progress in the Treatment of Chronic Atrophic Gastritis with Depression and Anxiety

Abstract

Chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) is a common chronic deficiency disease in the gastroenterology department. Its disease is located in the stomach, involving the two viscera of the liver and spleen. The incidence is related to seven emotions, with a long course of disease and easy to repeat. And depression, anxiety is mainly caused by excessive thinking, "thought hurt the spleen", directly affect the spleen transport, aggravated CAG repeated attacks, accelerated CAG to gastric cancer transformation process, affecting the quality of life and life cycle of patients. The studies on CAG associated with depression and anxiety are few and not deep. Trying to talk about CAG with depression and anxiety from the "spleen main thought" of traditional Chinese medicine is conducive to the prognosis of the disease, and at the same time guide the clinic and enrich the theory.