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Domperidone usually refers to domperidone tablets. Generally, domperidone tablets are commonly used gastrointestinal prokinetic agents. Their effects and functions mainly include promoting gastrointestinal motility, relieving postprandial fullness, improving nausea and vomiting, accelerating gastric emptying, and reducing epigastric discomfort. Detailed explanations are as follows:

1. Promoting gastrointestinal motility: Domperidone tablets can act on the smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, enhance the tone of the lower esophageal sphincter, and simultaneously promote the motility of the stomach and duodenum, making gastrointestinal peristalsis more rhythmic. This helps improve insufficient gastrointestinal motility and reduces the possibility of food retention in the gastrointestinal tract.

2. Relieving postprandial fullness: For the feeling of fullness commonly experienced after eating, domperidone tablets can promote gastrointestinal motility, accelerate food digestion and transit, reduce bloating and discomfort caused by food accumulation in the stomach, and help the body return to a more comfortable state faster, improving physical feelings after meals.

3. Improving nausea and vomiting: This medication acts on the chemoreceptor trigger zone in the medulla oblongata, inhibiting the vomiting reflex, thereby reducing or alleviating nausea symptoms and decreasing the frequency of vomiting. It is commonly used to relieve nausea and vomiting caused by insufficient gastrointestinal motility, gastritis, and other conditions.

4. Accelerating gastric emptying: Under normal circumstances, food enters the intestines after initial digestion in the stomach. Domperidone tablets can shorten the time food remains in the stomach, speeding up the gastric emptying process and preventing discomfort such as acid regurgitation and belching caused by prolonged retention of food in the stomach.

5. Reducing epigastric discomfort: For discomfort symptoms such as dull pain, burning sensation, and belching in the epigastric region, domperidone tablets regulate gastrointestinal function, improve gastrointestinal motility, and reduce gastroesophageal reflux, thereby alleviating these epigastric discomforts and helping restore normal gastrointestinal function.

During use, attention should also be paid to its contraindications and precautions, such as contraindication for those allergic to its components, strictly following medical advice for medication, and using the drug according to the prescribed dosage and duration to ensure safe and effective medication use.