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Food reversal

食厥 〔食厥〕 shí jué

A reversal pattern resulting from voracious eating and drinking when contraction of wind-cold or depression and anger stir and cause qì to rise counterflow, blocking the clear orifices. The signs are clouding reversal, asphyxiation, abdominal distension and fullness, and a slippery replete pulse in patients who have overeaten.

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