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Dizziness, headache, nausea, retching and vomiting, agitation and rashness, or clouding sleep attributable to excessive liquor consumption. Liquor is hot in nature and toxic, and tends to cause heat signs. Liquor damage is treated by harmonizing the stomach and promoting soberness, using such formulas as Amomum Splenic Beverage (缩脾饮 suō pí yǐn) and Pueraria Flower Liquor-Resolving Decoction (葛花解酲汤 gé huā jiě chéng tāng). Long-term intemperate drinking causes damage to the stomach and spleen causing glomus blockage in the chest and diaphragm, reduced food intake, and diarrhea. This is treated by fortifying the spleen and disinhibiting dampness using formulas such as Stomach-Calming Poria Five Decoction (胃苓汤 wèi líng tāng) or Poria Five Powder (五苓散 wǔ líng sǎn). For spleen-kidney vacuity, Stomach Gate Brew (胃关煎 wèi guān jiān) can be used. If there is damage to yīn-blood marked by tidal heat and stirring of the blood, treatment should take the form of cooling the blood and nourishing yīn, using formulas such as Clearing Transforming Beverage (清化饮 qīng huà yǐn). Severe cases of liquor damage can cause concretions and conglomerations, jaundice, and drum distension.

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, CV, SP, LI, and ST. To harmonize the stomach, select BL-20 (Spleen Transport, 脾俞 pí shù), BL-21 (Stomach Transport, 胃俞 wèi shù), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), ST-25 (Celestial Pivot, 天枢 tiān shū), and SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo), and needle with supplementation. To fortify the spleen and disinhibit dampness, select LR-13 (Camphorwood Gate, 章门 zhāng mén), PC-6 (Inner Pass, 内关 nèi guān), CV-6 (Sea of Qì, 气海 qì hǎi), and SP-9 (Yīn Mound Spring, 阴陵泉 yīn líng quán), and needle with supplementation and add moxa. To supplement the spleen and kidney, select BL-23 (Kidney Transport, 肾俞 shèn shù), CV-4 (Pass Head, 关元 guān yuán), KI-3 (Great Ravine, 太溪 tài xī), LR-13 (Camphorwood Gate, 章门 zhāng mén), and SP-4 (Yellow Emperor, 公孙 gōng sūn), and needle with supplementation. To cool the blood and nourish yīn, select BL-17 (Diaphragm Transport, 膈俞 gé shù), LR-3 (Supreme Surge, 太冲 tài chōng), SP-10 (Sea of Blood, 血海 xuè hǎi), KI-6 (Shining Sea, 照海 zhào hǎi), KI-2 (Blazing Valley, 然谷 rán gǔ), and LR-2 (Moving Between, 行间 xíng jiān), and needle with even supplementation and drainage.

See liquor jaundice; water drum.

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