Malign obstruction

Also pregnancy vomiting; aversion to food (2). A condition of aversion to food, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, not considered untoward unless it severely affects food intake. Malign obstruction is the manifestation of impaired harmonious downbearing of stomach qì.

Biomedical correspondence: emesis gravidarum (morning sickness). See liver heat malign obstruction; phlegm stagnation malign obstruction; stomach cold malign obstruction; stomach heat malign obstruction; weak stomach malign obstruction.

Etymology

Chin 恶 è, malign; zǔ, obstruction. The character 恶 read as wù means to hate, whereas read as ě it means nausea, disgust. The compound term is often explained as nausea or aversion to food causing an obstruction, the 恶 is pronounced è.