Stopping Stomach Medicine (PPI) and Laxatives

The reasons behind feeling like your stomach is "weak" vary by person. Some genuinely have a condition such as reflux or an ulcer, but in many cases, the stomach has simply forgotten how to regulate itself after long-term medication use, or repeated triggers such as irregular eating, overeating, or stress are at play. In the latter case, there is real room to reduce medication in consultation with your prescribing doctor by managing the triggers and training stomach function. However, it must first be confirmed through a medical evaluation whether an underlying condition genuinely requiring treatment is present.

Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective

Korean medicine looks at each person's different stomach strength and digestive tendencies through pulse diagnosis and consultation. A weak stomach often shows a pattern of either depleted qi unable to drive digestion forward, or heat tangled with stagnation, and Dongjedang focuses on correcting that imbalance. Rather than resigning to it as inborn, we work to rebalance your current state and guide the stomach toward a direction where medication can be gradually reduced.