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Repletion
Vacuity
Repletion
Vacuity
Additional
100
  • Wind-cold (aversion to cold, fever and chills, pain, headache, sweating, floating pulse, ect.
  • Feeling of fullness, oppression in chest and stomach, dampness encumbering heaviness of body and limbs

Vomiting from External attack

100
  • Vomiting and retching that recovers and returns and sometimes with dry retching
  • Accompanied by hiccoughs, hunger with no desire for food
  • Glomus oppression of stomach duct
  • Dry mouth and tongue
  • Dry stools
  • Scanty urine
  • Tongue – red with little fluid/dry
  • Pulse – Fine and rapid

Vomiting due to Stomach Yin Vacuity Patterns

100
  • Vomiting with sour, putrid odor
  • Accompanied by signs of food not transforming (undigested food)
  • Aversion to food, belching, distention and pain in stomach
  • Irregular bowels
  • Occurs after voracious eating or drinking

Vomiting due to Food stagnation in Stomach Duct Pattern

100

Frequent dreaming and restless sleep ★Must be accompanied by images of blood vacuity insufficiency such as heart palpitations, forgetfulness, dizziness, a pale, thin & tender tongue and a fine, weak pulse

Insomnia due to Heart Blood Vacuity

100

sudden, violent and acute; vomiting above, diarrhea below

Cholera

200
  • Sudden vomiting and retching accompanied by abdominal pain
  • Pain that is worse with pressure and diarrhea
  • Bland taste in mouth, lack of thirst, aversion to cold and cold limbs
  • Tongue – white coat
  • History of exposure to abdominal area to cold

Vomiting from Direct Strike - Greater Yin Pattern

200
  • After heat disease; vomiting that is quiet and weak
  • Accompanied by signs of damaged yang qi
  • No desire for food
  • Scanty qi and fatigue
  • Similar symptoms to detriment of yin fluids; vexation and fever
  • Dry mouth, dry throat
  • Tongue – red with scanty fluids
  • Pulse – Fine and rapid

Vomiting due to Dual Damage of Qi and Yin pattern

200
  • Frequent vomiting of sour, bitter matter
  • Binding depression of Liver qi; belching, and acid reflux
  • Pain in the stomach, radiating to chest and rib-side
  • Occurs or becomes worse with emotional depression, vexation, agitation
  • Tendency/easily angered
  • Excessive sighing

Pulse – string-like

Vomiting due to Liver Qi Invading the Stomach Pattern

200

★Frequent dreaming and easily waking with fright ★Must be accompanied by signs of the sinews and eyes lacking blood nourishment such as dry and rough eye sockets, blurred vision and pale nails ★May be blood vacuity insufficiency signs such as pale complexion without luster, dizziness, pale lips and tongue and a fine and forceless pulse

Insomnia due to Liver Blood Vacuity

200
  • – Incessant with retching, simultaneous urinary and stool stoppage

Block and repulsion

300
  • Nausea and vomiting, complicated by torpid intake
  • Sloppy stools
  • Tongue – white coat
  • Abdominal distention, fullness of stomach duct
  • Heaviness, fatigue in head and body
  • Bland taste in mouth, pain, cold intestinal rumbling limbs and

Vomiting due to Cold-damp encumbering spleen (Greater Yin pattern)

300
  • Vomiting and retching sound is low and faint; occur easily when diet is unsettled
  • Thin, clear fluid, mixed with untransformed food, has animal odor
  • Vomiting comes and goes, often accompanied by signs of center yang not transforming; cold pain in duct
  • Preference for warmth and pressure
  • Spitting up clear drool, torpid intake, sloppy stools
  • Internally generated vacuity cold, such as fear of cold, cold limbs
  • Complexion bright white/dusky, withered shen/essence or spirit

Vomiting due to Spleen and Stomach Vacuity cold Pattern

300
  • Vomiting is thin, clear phlegm and drool
  • Rheum collecting as glomus oppression of stomach duct
  • Reduced intake
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Abdominal Rumbling
  • Tongue – slimy coat
  • Pulse – string-like, slippery

Vomiting due to Phlegm-Rheum Collecting Internally Pattern

300

Sx: *The 3 excesses(drinking, eating, urinating)*, atrophy of the muscles and sweet urine. Upper Wasting: Thirst is the strongest excess. Middle Wasting: Eating is the strongest excess. Lower Wasting: Urination is the strongest excess

Thirst due to Wasting and Thirsting Pattern

300
  • – nausea at the smell of food and vomits after eating

Malign obstruction of pregnancy

400
  • Dry retching/heaving as well as vomiting
  • Accompanied by images of cold stagnation in the liver channel
  • Vomiting is clear, thin, foamy drool, vertex headache
  • Bland taste in mouth, lack of thirst, cold limbs, pain
  • Tension in lower abdomen
  • Pulse – stringlike/wiry and slow

Vomiting due to Counterflow Rising of Liver Cold Pattern (Reverting Yin pattern)

400

o Relatively mild and pain is dull à Pale complexion, palpitations, insomnia, numbness

Headache from Blood Vacuity

400
  • Vomiting and retching at time with dark purple blood clots
  • Dry retching or hiccoughs
  • Blood Stasis patterns ie. Black complexion, dark purple skin, nails, dark purple lips and tongue, macules on tongue
  • Desire to gargle water but not swallow
  • Lumps in stomach duct

Vomiting due to Blood Stasis Pattern

400

Sx: Thirst for warm drinks or thirst with no desire to drink, *fear of cold, cold limbs*, bright white/dusky complexion, palpitations, heart & chest pain, cold pain of the abdomen and sloppy stools, cold soreness of lower back & knees. Tongue: Pale purple, dry, withered and lacking fluid. Pulse: Deep, slow or fine and leisurely.

Thirst due to Yang Deficiency Pattern

400

Difficulty swallowing, vomiting immediately after eating

Dysphagia Occlusion

500
  • Vomit is clear matter mixed with rheum and food, no sour or food odor
  • Course of disease is relatively long; comes and goes
  • Accompanied by cold accumulation in stomach; spitting of clear drool
  • Pain in stomach; worse with pressure
  • Severe cold, relieved by warmth
  • Stomach rumbling
  • Tongue – Glossy white coat
  • Pulse- String-like/wiry and slow

Vomiting due to Stomach Cold Pattern

500

Generally dull pain with emptiness and pain, sometimes distending pain but it is mild à Signs of not linking with yang and internally generated vacuity heat

Headache due to Yin (Internal Vacuity Heat) Vacuity 

500
  • Sudden Vomiting – contents of stomach then yellow, turbid, bitter water, possibly with worms
  • Severe gripping pain around umbilicus or in right, rib side
  • Complexion is green-blue. Underlying yellowish complexion
  • Limb reversal
  • Pain relieved by vomiting and followed by normal eating and activities
  • Emaciated muscles
  • Worms in stools

Vomiting due to Roundworm Reversal Pattern

500

retching of blood

Spontaneous gum bleeding

bloody stools

no desire for food 

dry throat 

hiccoughs

Bleeding due to STOMACH YIN VACUITY Pattern

500
  • Vomiting and retching with loud, hyperactive sound, content of stomach; foul odor
  • Heat manifesting as red face, and eyes, bound stools, reddish urine
  • Tongue – red with yellow coat
  • Pulse – rapid and forceful
  • Primary interior repletion heat patterns include any type of fever patterns due to externally contracted heat striking interior – any type of heat pattern due to misc. disease as well as heart fire flaming up, liver fire flaming up, or 6 bowel repletion heat patterns etc.

Vomiting due to Internal Repletion Heat Pattern