Below you will find theoretical and clinical applications information related to stomach food stagnation. We have created associations based on clinical experience that lead to possible treatment approaches with acupuncture points, individual herbs, TCM formulas, and more.

Stomach Food Stagnation - Basics

Vomiting, regurgitation, belching, epigastric pain a/or distention, lack of appetite, insomnia.

Tongue Diagnosis

Thick yellow or white coat.

Pulse Diagnosis

Full, slippery.

The following 6 TCM Formulas are empirically related to the treatment of Stomach Food Stagnation

B

• Bao He Wan (Preserve Harmony Pills) Reduce Food Stagnation
• Bao Ji Wan (Protect and Relieve Pills) Clear Heat

J

• Jian Pi Wan (Strengthen Spleen Pills) Reduce Food Stagnation

W

• Wu Mei Wan (Mume Fruit Pill) Expel Parasites

X

• Xiang Sha Yang Wei Wan (Aucklandia Amomi Nurture Stomach Pills) Tonify

Y

• Yue Ju Wan (Escape Restraint Pill) Regulate the Qi

The Chinese Medicine treatment of stomach food stagnation generally involves being certain that this pattern is the proper diagnosis. Each pattern may have multiple conditions and each condition may arise from one or more patterns (see treating the cause and not the symptoms).

The following 8 conditions may arise from stomach food stagnation . Each condition is listed with other possible patterns to expand diagnostic possibilities.

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