Vomiting attributed to stomach vacuity cold or stomach repletion cold (including excessive consumption of cold, raw foods or external evil invading the stomach). It is characterized by vomiting long after eating, or vomiting on exposure to coldand is associated with green-blue facial complexion, cold extremities, and a sunken fine slow, sometimes stringlike pulse.
Medicinal therapy: Warm the stomach and disperse cold with Evodia Decoction (吴茱萸汤wú zhū yú tāng), Center-Rectifying Decoction (理中汤lǐ zhōng tāng), or Counterflow Cold Decoction (四逆汤sì nì tāng).
Acumoxatherapy: For vacuity cold, base treatment on alarm and lower uniting points of ST, and on PC, CV, SP, and back transport points. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), PC-6 (Inner Pass, 内关 nèi guān), BL-21 (Stomach Transport, 胃俞 wèi shù), CV-13 (Upper Stomach Duct, 上脘 shàng wǎn), SP-4 (Yellow Emperor, 公孙 gōng sūn), and CV-4 (Pass Head, 关元 guān yuán)mx; needle with supplementation and add moxa. For repletion cold, base treatment mainly on ST points. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), ST-44 (Inner Court, 内庭 nèi tíng), ST-21 (Beam Gate, 梁门 liáng mén), and PC-6 (Inner Pass, 内关 nèi guān). Needle with drainage and large amounts of moxa. For external cold invading the stomach, add GB-20 (Wind Pool, 风池 fēng chí), TB-5 (Outer Pass, 外关 wài guān), LI-4 (Union Valley, 合谷 hé gǔ), and LU-7 (Broken Sequence, 列缺 liè quē); needle with drainage and large amounts of moxa.