Causes

• Inadequate diet
• Liver invading Stomach
• Therapeutic error (overuse of medicines)
• Emotional

Symptoms

• Dull gastric pain that improves with pressure/palpation
• Anorexia, poor appetite
• Slow digestion
• Post-prandial vomiting
• Asthenia, fatigue
• Reluctant to speak
• Weak voice
• Dull yellow face
• Pale tongue with white coating
• Weak and empty pulse

Can occur in women during pregnancy.

Treatment

Tonify Stomach Qi:

• ST-36
• CV-12
• BL-21, BL-20
• LI-4 avoid this point in pregnant women.

In pregnant women: 1) There is Heat in Chong Mai 2) Stomach-Qi does not descend

Treatment: ST-36, CV-12. BL-21, BL-20: Moxibustion, 10 ancient needles, ST-30: crossing with Chong Mai and Sea of Food; PC-6+ SP-4: Stomach reflux