Vacuity cold

A pattern of vacuity of right qì with cold (usually internal cold). The main manifestations are yellow face with little luster, poor appetite, upflow of clear drool into the mouth, physical cold and fear of cold, distension and pain in the stomach duct and abdomen that is relieved by warmth, heavy aching lumbus and back, long voidings of clear urine, thin stool, pale tongue with white fur, and a weak slow or moderate sunken pulse. In women, there may be thin clear vaginal discharge. Vacuity cold is treated by warming yáng and supplementing vacuity.