Digestion & Elimination

Stomach Pain TCM Diagnosis

By Markov ⋅ March 5, 2007 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Imbalance causes qi not to flow smoothly in our body’s energetic system. Imbalance of stomach qi is usually a matter of the stomach not calming DOWN. Instead, stomach qi reverses upward.

This may cause pain, which can at its simplest be divided into replete (实) or deficient (虚) pain.

A replete (实) pattern may be diagnozed if pain is enhanced after food. This may be due to reasons as follows:
- cold (寒)
- heat (热)
- qi stagnation (气滞)
- blood stagnation (血瘀)
- food stagnation (食积)

A deficient (虚) pattern may be diagnozed if pain diminishes after food. The reasons are:
- stomach yin deficiency. otherwise known as deficient stomach fire or dry stomach not enough moisture.
- stomach yang deficiency.

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