Academician Tong Xiaolin believes that intestinal metaplasia of gastric mucosa is a precancerous lesion,which should be paid more attention to and whose treatment is of great signi fi cance. Intestinal metaplasia of dampnessheat stagnation type, one of its common types, is often caused by disharmony of diet, long-term excessive intake of fatty diet with rich fl avour, which in turn generates dampness and heat over time and accumulates them in spleen and stomach. It can also be caused by feeling the obstruction of dampness and heat in the middle jiao. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that stomach prefers moisture to dryness. According to Academician Tong Xiaolin, the key points of treatment are as follows: fi rst, improve the humid and hot environment in the stomach, improve the survival state of the mucosa and make it moisturized; second, protect the digestive tract mucosa in addition to the gastric mucosa;third, continue to look for speci fi c drugs for a certain target. In clinical practice, Academician Tong Xiaolin often uses dandelion, hedyotis, asiatic cornelian cherry fruit to make up a minor basic prescription to treat this disease. Dandelion and hedyotis are used for clearing stomach heat, resolving toxins and removing dampness, thus cutting o ff the origin of pathogenic factors. The two medicines are both sweet and cool, which can dry dampness without damaging stomach yin. Asiatic cornelian cherry fruit is an empirical medicine for the treatment of intestinal metaplasia. The common dosage of the three medicines is 15-30 g, 9-15 g and 9-30 g respectively.