‘Seven principle’ of treating gastralgia summarized from clinical practice are ‘huan’ (relieving spasm and pain), ‘bu’(icluding: invigorating qi, invigorating yang, invigorating ying), ‘wen’(warming middle jiao for dispellng cold), ‘qing’ (clearing and releasing stagnant heat of liver and gastric), ‘li’(soothing liver and regulating qi), ‘xiao’ (icluding: promoting digestion and regulating stomach,relieving dyspepsia), ‘hua’ (icluding: activating blood and absorb clots). ‘Seven principle’ basically include the common approach to treating gastralgia. ‘Relieving spasm and pain’can be commonly used as a basic therapeutic method for gastralgia. ‘Wen’ is one of the important principles of treating gastralgia, treating sthenia syndrome by warming middle jiao for dispelling cold, treating deficient syndrome by ‘wen’and ‘bu’. ‘Huan’and‘wen’can be used to treat over half of gastralgia. The clinic appication of‘Qing’, ‘li’, ‘xiao’ and ‘hua’should base on specifi c cases. For common complex pathogenesis and syndromes, ‘seven principle’ can be ? exibly combined to decide the prescription’s ‘jun, chen, zuo, shi’. "Seven principle" of composing prescriptions offers a new approach to syndrome differentiation and treatment of gastralgia.