The Indonesian population has a high level of self-medication behaviour. One of the diseases that has become a major problem in global public health is gastritis. Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest incidence of gastritis. Gastritis is considered a trivial thing but is the beginning of a disease that can disrupt a person's quality of life, so many people do self-medication to treat gastritis. The right behaviour in self-medicating gastritis is very important in determining the achievement of treatment goals. So it is necessary to review several articles related to self-medication behaviour to find out how the description of gastritis self-medication behaviour by the community. A literature search using the Google scholar database obtained 12 articles that met the inclusion criteria. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that the picture of gastritis self-medication behaviour by the community with a higher level of rational behaviour than irrational ones. However, health promotion is still needed, especially for non-health gastritis patients so that the rationality of gastritis self-medication increases.