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Stomach duct pain

胃脘痛 〔胃脘痛〕wèi wǎn tòng

Also stomach pain; pain below the heart; heart pain. Pain in the region of the stomach duct (epigastrium) and the region below the heart (pit of the stomach). It arises

  • when general vacuity, taxation fatigue, or enduring illness lead to spleen-stomach vacuity and insufficiency of center qì preventing normal movement and transformation,
  • when disease evils invade the stomach (cold evil, raw or cold foods, rich fatty or hot spicy foods) and cause food to stagnate, and
  • when worry and anger impair liver free coursing so that liver qì invades the stomach and obstructs normal qì dynamic.

    • A broad distinction is made between external contraction stomach duct pain, which is caused by externally contracted evils, and internal damage stomach duct pain, which is a general term for stomach duct pain due other causes (vacuity, evils arising within the body, and dietary irregularities).

    Biomedical correspondence: epigastric pain.

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