Friday, May 8, 2009

food stagnation for 4 wks

30 yr old male patient came due to indigestion since he had 3 slices of greasy pizza 4 wk ago.

s/s: stomache distention, nausea, no appetite, passing gas, belching, loose stool, abdominal pain when st is bloated. tenderness around ren 14 and 12. slightly worse with stress

Herbs: banxia 8 g, fu ling 4 g, chen pi 6g, ginger. gan cao 3 g (er chen tang) + chuan xiong 6 g, cang zhu 4 g, mai ya 2 g, shen qu 2 g, shan zha 3 g, bai zhu 4 g

patient says he feels hungry after 3 doses.

(i was going to needle SP 4 but patient was afraid of needles. )

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