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Damage to the small intestine by cold evil affecting the separation of the clear and turbid. Small intestine vacuity cold is usually seen in spleen vacuity and is characterized by dull pain in the smaller abdomen that likes pressure, rumbling intestines, frequent inhibited urination, pale tongue with white fur, and a weak moderate pulse.

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, SI, and CV. Select BL-27 (Small Intestine Transport, 小肠俞 xiǎo cháng shù), BL-28 (Bladder Transport, 膀胱俞 páng guāng shù), BL-23 (Kidney Transport, 肾俞 shèn shù), SI-3 (Back Ravine, 后溪 hòu xī), CV-4 (Pass Head, 关元 guān yuán), and CV-6 (Sea of Qì, 气海 qì hǎi); needle with supplementation and moxa.

Comparison: Small intestine vacuity cold is closely related to spleen yáng vacuity. Both may manifest in white face and lassitude of the spirit, fear of cold and cold limbs, abdominal pain and sloppy stool, a pale tongue, and sunken slow fine weak pulse. However, small intestine vacuity cold centers around failure to separate the clear and turbid so that the main clinical signs are rumbling intestines, diarrhea, frequent ungratifying urination, accompanied by continuous smaller abdominal pain that likes warmth and pressure. Spleen yáng vacuity is characterized by a wider range of signs, Apart from the signs common to both patterns (white face and lassitude of the spirit, fear of cold and cold limbs, etc.), there may also be reduced eating and abdominal distension especially after eating, and signs of exuberant internal cold-damp such as heavy cumbersome limbs, puffy swelling, reduced urination, and in women copious thin white vaginal discharge. Furthermore, abdominal pain tends to be in the larger abdomen (above the umbilicus) rather than smaller abdomen (below the umbilicus).

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