The article introduces XU Shan’s experience in treating chronic gastritis. XU thinks that the basic pattern of chronic gastritis with intestinal metaplasia is spleen-stomach deficiency. The treatment for chronic gastritis with intestinal metaplasia according to pattern identification should focus on liver-stomach disharmony pattern

liver- stomach depressed heat pattern and liver-stomach brewing heat pattern. The treatment should emphasize diagnosis and treatment according to pattern identification

regulating spleen and stomach

moving and transforming turbid and stag- nation and treating both tip and root.