Effect of Hewei-Decoction on chronic atrophic gastritis and eradication of Helicobacter pylori

Table 2 Grade quantifications of chief symptoms and signs.

Symptoms	1	2	3
Gastric fullness	Slight	Endurable	Unendurable
Dull gastric pain	Slight	Endurable	Unendurable
Pricking gastric pain	Slight or none	Endurable	Severe and fixed
Dryness in mouth	Occasionally	In morning	On whole day
Bitter taste	Occasionally	In morning	On whole day
Tastelessness	Occasionally	From time to time	Frequently
Nausea	Frequently	Occasionally	From time to time
Stickiness in mouth	Occasionally	From time to time	Frequently
Acid regurgitation	Occasionally	From time to time	Frequently
Loose stools	Occasionally	Frequently	Severe
Dyschesia	Slight	Moderate	Severe
Dry stools	Occasionally	Frequently	Severe
Black stools	Occasionally	Moderate	Severe
Anorexia	Reduction of food ≤1/4	Reduction of food ≤1/3	Reduction of food ≤1/2
Fullness in chest	Slight	Sometimes	Severe
Lassitude	Slight	Hard to deal with daily tasks	Unable to deal with daily tasks
Short breath	After physical exercises	After mild physical exercises	Even in calm status
Yellow urine	Occasionally	Frequently, with scanty urine	Dark yellow severe and scanty urine