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Diarrhea due to habitual spleen qì vacuity or to damage to the spleen and stomach by excessive consumption of cold things after illness or by dietary irregularities. Thin diarrhea is a associated with weak health, fear of cold, withered-yellow facial complexion, cold extremities, fatigued limbs, no thought of food and drink, faint weak or slow to moderate pulse.

Medicinal therapy: Fortify and warm splenic movement. Center-Rectifying Decoction (理中汤 lǐ zhōng tāng), Four Gentlemen Decoction (四君子汤 sì jūn zǐ tāng), and Ginseng, Poria, and White Atractylodes Powder (参苓白朮散 shēn líng bái zhú sǎn)

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on the back transport and alarm points of the SP and ST. 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), LR-13 (Camphorwood Gate, 章门 zhāng mén), ST-25 (Celestial Pivot, 天枢 tiān shū), SP-4 (Yellow Emperor, 公孙 gōng sūn), and ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ); needle with supplementation and add moxa. Five Pillar Points (五柱穴 wǔ zhù xué), can also be moxaed. See spleen diarrhea; qì fall diarrhea.

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