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Food accumulation vomiting

食积呕吐 〔食積嘔吐〕shí jī ǒu tù

Also food vomiting. Vomiting due to food accumulation arising when affect damage, external contraction of evil qì, or dietary irregularities cause damage to the spleen and impair the normal transformation of food. Vomiting is accompanied by fullness and oppression (in severe cases, pain and distension) in the stomach duct and abdomen, putrid belching, aversion to food, immediate vomiting of ingested foods, or vomiting in the evening of food ingested in the morning, turbid slimy tongue fur, and a slippery stringlike pulse.

Medicinal therapy: Disperse food and transform accumulation; fortify the spleen and harmonize the stomach. Formulas include Harmony-Preserving Pill (保和丸 bǎo hé wán).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment on alarm and lower uniting points of ST, and on PC and CV. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), PC-6 (Inner Pass, 内关 nèi guān), CV-10 (Lower Stomach Duct, 下脘 xià wǎn), Lǐ Inner Court (里内庭 lǐ nèi tíng), and CV-21 (Jade Swivel, 璇玑 xuán jī); needle with drainage and add moxa.

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