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| Pattern Names |
| Stomach Blood Stasis • 血瘀胃脘证 • Xuè Yū Wèi Wǎn Zhèng |
| Classification |
| Category: Zang Fu |
Syndrome: Stomach |
| Symptoms |
| Tongue: purple, purple dots |
Pulse: choppy, wiry |
| Indications: Fixed stabbing stomach pain worse with pressure or at night, poor appetite, vomiting - like coffee grounds, black stool, loss of weight, bloody vomit, pale complexion [34] • Severe, stabbing epigastric pain that may be worse at night, or after eat, dislike of pressure, nausea, vomiting, possibly vomiting of blood, black (tar-like) stool, a purple tongue, a wiry or choppy pulse [32] |
| Keywords |
| coffee ground vomit, black stool, sever stomach pain worse with pressure or at night Maciocia] • Sever, stabbing epigastric pain, worse at night, or after eat. Vomiting of blood, or black stools [32]
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| Treatment |
| clear food stagnation, harmonize Stomach, descend ST Qi |
| Acupuncture |
| REN 12, ST34, ST21, ST 36, KD21, SJ6, SP4, GB34, LI4, PC 6, SP 10, BL17, REN11[32] |
| Herb |
| Shi Xiao San, Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang, Dan Shen Yin, Tong You Tang [32] |
| Etiology |
| Due to blood stagnation inside stomach which is marked by stabbing pain [32] |
| Notes |
| The 3 types of Blood Stasis are LV, HT, and ST. They can be differentiated by location of the stabbing pain. [35] |
