This article is to summarize Professor LI Diangui’ s six medication characteristics in treating chronic atrophic gastritis with intestinal metaplasia. LI Diangui holds that turbidity-toxicity is an important pathogenic factor and pathogenic product of chronic atrophic gastritis with intestinal metaplasia. LI often treats the root cause by restoring and activating spleen and treats the manifestation by aromatics and bitter-cold herbs combined with dissolving turbidity and detoxication. Meanwhile

LI is good at treating symptoms of fear to cold and diarrhea unsmooth due to turbidity-toxicity internal retention by retrograde treatments

such as "treating false-cold syndrome with cold methods"and "treating incontinent syndrome with dredging methods".