Nature therapy-Acupuncture for Gastric and duodenal ulcer

[lntroduction]
Gastric and duodenal ulcer is clinically marked by periodic and rhythmic attack and abdominal pain, often accompanied by belching, acid regurgitation, nausea and vomiting. This disease usually occurs among youth and people prime in life, especially among the male. It pertains to the conceptions of epigastralgia, acid regurgitation, heartburn, hematemesis and hematochezia in TCM. It is usually caused by improper diet, emotional changes and overstrain due to dysfunction of the liver in dispersion and conveyance and impairment of the spleen and stomach.

[Syndrome differentiation]
1. Disharmony between the liver and stomach
Epigastralgia involving the ribsides, belching and acid regurgitation, even nausea and vomiting, aggravation after emotional changes, yellow and thin tongue fur and taut pulse.

2. Retention of heat in the stomach and intestines
Burning sensation in the stomach, dryness and bitter taste in the mouth, foul breath, yellow urine and retention of dry feces, red tongue with yellow fur and rapid pulse.

3. Qi stagnation and blood stasis
Stabbing and unpressable epigastralgia, aggravation after meal, or hematemesis, hematochezia, purplish tongue with ecchymoses and unsmooth pulse.

4. Asthenia-cold in the spleen and stomach
Dull epigastralgia, preference for warmth and pres-sure, regurgitation of clear fluid, spiritual lassitude, lusterless complexion, loose stool, light-colored tongue with white fur and thin and weak pulse.

Source: Acupuncture- Acupuncture for Gastric and duodenal ulcer
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