Epigastric Pain

Question 1

Where is this pain located?

Answer 1

Pain starts over the stomach

Question 2

What causes severe and acute epigastric pain with vomiting with a thick and white coating and a tight pulse?

Answer 2

External Pathogenic Cold

Question 3

What obstructs stomach qi descent, causes dull pain and nausea, oppression and heaviness and has a sticky coating and slippery pulse?

Answer 3

External Pathogenic Damp

Question 4

What are the four natures of food?

Answer 4

Cold, spicy, sweet, and damp

Question 5

Eating too fast/while working/while driving causes what condition?

Answer 5

Stomach qi stagnation or retention of food

Question 6

True or False: Eating late at night consumes yang not qi?

Answer 6

False: consumes Yin as it is the Yin time

Question 7

What happens when someone avoids breakfast?

Answer 7

Stomach qi xu and blood xu in women

Question 8

What happens when someone is constantly snacking?

Answer 8

Retention of food

Question 9

When is fasting beneficial?

Answer 9

For excess stomach patterns so heat or food retention

Question 10

_________________ sensation is qi stagnation.

Answer 10

Distension

Question 11

________________ sensation is damp, phlegm, and severe qi stagnation that is both distressing physically and mentally.

Answer 11

Oppression

Question 12

_________________ sensation is stomach qi xu; stomach heat with stomach soft to palpate.

Answer 12

Stuffiness

Question 13

_________________ sensation is retention of food/fluid/damp.

Answer 13

Fullness

Question 14

Acute, severe pain with sudden onset, desire for warmth on stomach, no thirst but desire for warm drinks, pain not helped by pressure, nausea and vomiting, c: thick white, p: full and tight is what syndrome?

Answer 14

Cold Invading the Stomach

Question 15

Dull pain worse for pressure, feeling of distension and fullness, belching, sour regurgitation, foul breath, vomiting undigested food, epigastric pain better after vomiting, loose stools or constipation, c: thick sticky in centre and root, p: slippery is what syndrome?

Answer 15

Retention of Food

Question 16

Epigastric distension, significantly worse at times of emotional tension, pain radiating along hypochondrium, belching, sighing, irritability uncomfortable hunger, p: wiry is what syndrome?

Answer 16

Liver Invading Stomach

Question 17

Burning epigastric pain, thirst, irritability, sour regurgitation, t: red if heat is pronounced, c: dry yellow, p: slightly rapid and overflowing in middle right is what syndrome?

Answer 17

Stomach Heat

Question 18

Burning epigastric pain, thirst for cold drinks, dry mouth, severe irritability, bleeding gums, vomiting blood, red face, constipation; t: dark red, c: yellow, p: rapid and overflowing is what syndrome?

Answer 18

Stomach Fire

Question 19

Epigastric oppression, dry mouth with no thirst, mucus in stools, nausea and vomiting, mental restlessness, potentially manic behavior, t: wide crack on stomach, c: rough and bristly in centre and may be yellow and sticky, p: slippery, rapid and overflowing is what syndrome?

Answer 19

Stomach Phlegm Fire

Question 20

Chest oppression, dull epigastric pain, dry mouth with no desire to drink, bitter and sticky taste, nausea and vomiting, forehead headache, t: red, c: sticky yellow, p: slippery and rapid is what syndrome?

Answer 20

Damp Heat in Stomach

Question 21

Burning epigastric pain, irritability and prone to outburst of anger, sour regurgitation, dry mouth, thirst, bitter taste, t: red with redder sides, c: yellow, p: wiry and rapid is what syndrome?

Answer 21

Stomach and Liver Heat

Question 22

Stabbing epigastric pain, worse for pressure and eating that is worse at night, palpable masses in epigastrium, vomiting dark blood specks, dark complexion, blood in stools, t: purple centre, p: choppy, wiry or firm is what syndrome?

Answer 22

Blood Stasis in Stomach

Question 23

Epigastric fullness and distension, nausea, vomiting of watery frothy fluids, dry tongue and mouth with no thirst, splashing sound in stomach, chest fullness, loose stool, weight loss, lethargy, dizziness, dull frontal headache, t: swollen, c: sticky, p: deep and slippery is what syndrome?

Answer 23

Phlegm Fluids in Stomach

Question 24

Dull epigastric pain better for pressure, eating and heat, vomiting fluids, tiredness, poor appetite, chilliness, loose stools, pale complexion, t: pale, c: white, p: deep and weak is what syndrome?

Answer 24

Stomach and Spleen Xu with Cold

Question 25

Dull epigastric pain, dry mouth, desire to sip liquids, dry throat, dry stool, slight nausea, t: dry, normal color with scattered cracks or central wide stomach crack, c: peeled, p: floating/empty is what syndrome?

Answer 25

Stomach Yin Xu