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Vacuity glomus

虚痞 〔虛痞〕 xū pǐ

Glomus (a localized subjective feeling of fullness and blockage in the chest or upper abdomen) attributed to debilitation of the spleen, stomach, heart, and kidney and depletion of yīn, yáng, qì, and blood, and traceable to irregular eating, excessive taxation fatigue, spleen-stomach vacuity cold with poor movement and transformation, and in some cases insufficiency of heart provisioning or debilitation of the life gate fire. Vacuity glomus is characterized by glomus and oppression when the stomach is empty and is accompanied by poor appetite, sloppy diarrhea, fear of cold and desire for warmth in the chest and abdomen, nontransformation of ingested food, belching of putrid gas, acid swallowing, and, in severe cases, abdominal distension.

Medicinal therapy: Warm and supplement with formulas such as Center-Ordering Decoction (治中汤 zhì zhōng tāng), Special Achievement Powder (异功散 yì gōng sǎn), Spleen-Returning Decoction (归脾汤 guī pí tāng), Stomach-Warming Beverage (温胃饮 wēn wèi yǐn), or Six-Ingredient Yáng-Returning Beverage (六味回阳饮 liù wèi huí yáng yǐn).

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