Nausea

The desire to vomit. Nausea normally portends vomiting; like vomiting, it is a sign of stomach qì ascending counterflow, which can arise in a variety of stomach disorders including stomach vacuity and cold, heat, dampness, phlegm or food stagnation in the stomach.

Medicinal therapy: Use the method of harmonizing the stomach and rectifying qì. Combine it with warming the center for stomach cold, with draining fire for stomach heat, with drying dampness and transforming phlegm for phlegm-damp, and with abducting dispersion for food stagnation. See vomiting (and retching). Compare upflow nausea.

Etymology

Chin 恶 ě, sickening, in other contexts read as wù, aversion, from the xīn, heart (or heart region). NB: In modern Chinese, the character 恶 has been replaced by 噁 in the sense of sickening and nausea; thus, biomedical literature in Chinese uses the same term for nausea, written as 噁心 ě xīn.