ABDOMINAL SPASMS-ABDOMINAL CRAMPS

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe abdominal and epigastric pain
  • Prefers warmth and pressure
  • Abdominal distension
  • Cold body
  • Diarrhea with undigested food
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold and stiff or rigid extremities
  • Reduced appetite
  • Fullness in the epigastrium and abdomen (likes pressure)
  • Lack of thirst
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting clear fluid
  • Loose stools
  • Anorexia
  • Trismus
  • Constipation (Cold type)
  • Gastric spasms
  • Clear, frequent urination
  • Mild perspiration
  • Maybe syncope
  • T: Pale and maybe moist
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, minute and slow or P:  Slow, sinking or soft and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Dispel Cold
  • TonifY Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
  • For pain and Cold: Moxa the abdomen.
    To strengthen the Spleen and Stomach: ST-36, UB-20, UB-21 (moxa if severe)
    For abdominal pain and nausea: PC-6, SP-4
    For frequent, clear urination:  Moxa REN-4, REN-6 UB-23
    For diarrhea: Moxa REN-8
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal fullness and pain
  • Abdominal spasms
  • Diarrhea
  • No thirst
  • Nausea
  • Clear frequent urination
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Perspiration
  • Fever
  • Anorexia
  • Vomiting clear fluid
  • Prefers warmth
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Pale or Pink
  • C: White.
  • P: Slow and tight or Soft
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate the middle
  • Warm the Middle Jiao
  • Disperse Cold
  • Relieve pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cold extremities
  • Cold fingers and toes with Heat in the Interior
  • Body hot and feverish due to lack of harmony of Liver Qi
  • Thirst
  • Abdominal distention
  • Fever
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Irregular fever
  • Hypochondriac fullness and distention
  • Abdominal pain
  • Severe diarrhea
  • Dysentery
  • Costal pain
  • Menstrual complaints
  • Depression
  • Cough
  • A slight sensation of warmth in the body
  • A sense of irritability and fullness in the chest and epigastrium
  • Mild obstruction and hardening beneath the Heart
  • A visible white line running from the navel to the tip of the breastbone
  • Mild abdominal distention
  • Abdominal spasms
  • Tenesmus
  • Dysuria
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Red or pale
  • C: Yellow or white
  • P: Wiry or wiry and tight or Rapid and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Reverse reversals
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe constipation (dry knots)
  • Flatulence
  • Focal distention
  • Abdominal fullness
  • Abdominal pain - worse with pressure
  • Tense firm abdomen
  • Tidal fevers
  • Delirious speech
  • Profuse perspiration from the palms and soles
  • Trembling extremities
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Mania
  • Convulsions
  • Abdominal masses
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Cracked lips
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Irritability
  • Heavy body
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Fever
  • Cold extremities
  • Perspiration from the head
  • A hot sensation in the sternum and epigastrium
  • Scanty, dark urination
  • Green, watery and foul-smelling diarrhea
  • Abdominal spasms
  • T: Pink with prickles or Red
  • C: Yellow and dry or Black and dry
  • P: Deep, Excess and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Excess Heat with bitter, cold, strong purgative herbs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe abdominal and epigastric pain (likes pressure)
  • Cold body
  • Sallow complexion
  • Cold limbs
  • Feeling chilled
  • Mental fatigue
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Diarrhea with undigested food
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold and stiff or rigid extremities
  • Reduced appetite
  • Fullness in the epigastrium and abdomen (likes pressure)
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Anorexia (maybe with vomiting)
  • Lack of thirst
  • Shortness of breath
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Maybe acid regurgitation
  • Loose stools
  • Trismus
  • Constipation (Cold type)
  • Gastric spasms
  • Mild perspiration
  • Maybe syncope
  • Maybe scanty urine with edema
  • Maybe clear, watery vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale and maybe moist
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, minute and slow or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Dispel Cold
  • TonifY Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Shortness of breath
  • Occasional fevers
  • Dyspnea
  • Abdominal pain and spasms due to Cold
  • Pain is better with warmth and pressure
  • Pale face or a sallow, dull complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Fidgeting
  • Lethargy
  • Dry mouth
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Frequent, clear urination
  • Constipation
  • Cold extremities
  • Dry throat
  • Hematemesis
  • Irritability
  • Carbuncles
  • Palpitations
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Fever with a preference for hot drinks
  • Dry skin
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Minute, thready and weak or Deep and slow or Floating, large and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonify the Spleen and Stomach
  • Replenish Qi
  • Harmonize the Interior
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe abdominal and epigastric pain (likes pressure)
  • Cold body
  • Limbs icy
  • Complexion white and shiny
  • “Cock-crow” diarrhea (occurs at about 5 am)
  • Diarrhea with undigested food
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold and stiff or rigid extremities
  • Reduced appetite
  • Fullness in the epigastrium and abdomen (likes pressure)
  • Lack of thirst
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Low back, knees and abdomen feel cold and painful
  • Lower abdomen feels cold and painful
  • Trismus
  • Constipation (Cold type)
  • Gastric spasms
  • Edema of face and limbs
  • Dysuria
  • Mild perspiration
  • Maybe syncope
  • T: Pale and maybe moist or Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: Thin and white or White and greasy
  • P: Deep, minute and slow or Deep, thready, weak and maybe slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Dispel Cold
  • TonifY Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Stomach cramps
  • No appetite or
  • Famished but with no desire to eat
  • Abdominal distention after meals
  • Dry stools
  • Irritability with low grade fever
  • Maybe dry retching or
  • Hiccups
  • Dry mouth
  • Nausea
  • Hoarseness
  • Thirst
  • Asthma
  • Flushed face
  • Five sole Heat
  • Vomiting
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little and dry
  • P: Thready and rapid or Deficient and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Benefit the Stomach
  • Generate Fluids
  • Descend Qi
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe abdominal and epigastric pain (likes pressure)
  • Cold body
  • Diarrhea with undigested food
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold and stiff or rigid extremities
  • Reduced appetite
  • Fullness in the epigastrium and abdomen (likes pressure)
  • Lack of thirst
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Trismus
  • Constipation (Cold type)
  • Gastric spasms
  • Mild perspiration
  • Maybe syncope
  • T: Pale and maybe moist
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, minute and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Dispel Cold
  • TonifY Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Absent-mindedness
  • Frequent feelings of extreme sadness with an urge to cry
  • Inability to control one's emotions
  • Depression
  • Restless sleep
  • Gastrointestinal spasms
  • Abnormal speech or behavior
  • Disorientation
  • Frequent yawning
  • T: Red
  • C: Scanty
  • P: Small and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
  • Relax tension
  • Tonify Spleen Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Hypochondriac pain and distention
  • Alternating fever and chills
  • Depression
  • Easily angered
  • Chest fullness
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Fidgeting
  • Abdominal pain and cramps
  • Breast distention and pain
  • Irritability
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry or Tight
Treatment Principle
  • Spread Liver Qi
  • Promote Qi circulation
  • Harmonize the Blood
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Decreased urination or
  • Interrupted urination or
  • Constant urination or
  • Anuria
  • Maybe fixed, stabbing pain on urination
  • Lower abdominal fullness
  • Lower abdominal pain which may radiate to the genitals
  • Maybe hematuria
  • Tumor formation
  • Purple urine with blood clots
  • Abdominal spasms and tension
  • Suprapubic fullness, distention and pain
  • Maybe lower abdominal masses
  • Pain in the iliac fossa on palpation
  • Soider naevi on the abdomen, inner ankle and inner knee
  • Headache
  • Sinus congestion
  • Constipation
  • Lower back ache
  • Nervousness
  • Fatigue
  • Skin eruptions
  • Scaly, dry skin
  • Headache
  • Shoulder stiffness
  • Vertigo
  • Cold low body and feet
  • Flushed face
  • T: Dark purple or with echymoses or petechiae or pale with purplish spots
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry or Tense, deep and slow or Thin or Deep and choppy or Slow and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Blood Stagnation and Obstruction
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Postpartum emaciation and weakness
  • Persistent, tight abdominal pain
  • Abdominal pain with spasms or radiates to back and waist
  • Cannot eat
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Pale face
  • Intermittent spasmodic abdominal pain which is better with Heat and pressure
  • Epigastric pain
  • Lusterless complexion
  • Fidgeting
  • Reduced appetite
  • Maybe low-grade fever
  • Palpitations
  • Irritability
  • Cold and sore extremities
  • Nonspecific discomfort
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Five sole Heat
  • Debilitated constitution in children
  • Enuresis in children
  • Insomnia
  • Fatigue
  • Anemia
  • Bleeding
  • Abdominal weakness
  • Epistaxis
  • Habitual constipation
  • Maybe warm extremities
  • Night sweats
  • Tired limbs
  • Frequent urination
  • Night crying
  • Diarrhea in children
  • Habitual headache in children
  • Hernia pain in children
  • Chronic constipation
  • Purpura
  • Asthma
  • T: Pale
  • C: White.
  • P: Weak and slow or Thready, wiry and even or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonify the Spleen and Stomach
  • Relieve spasmodic pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal pain
  • Constipation
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Chills
  • Low-grade fever
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Pain in the armpits
  • Unilateral pain in the abdomen and hypochondrium
  • Stiffness and spasms beside and below the umbilicus
  • Pain in the waist and legs
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Deep, tight and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Interior
  • Disperse Cold
  • Unblock the bowels
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Abdominal pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Headache
  • Dysentery
  • Abdominal spasms
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid or Flooding
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Alleviate dysenteric disorders
  • Stop diarrhea
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
  • Stop pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mild, persistent uterine bleeding of purple and black blood during pregnancy
  • Abdominal pain that is worse with pressure
  • Abdominal spasms and tension
  • Immobile masses in the lower abdomen with pain and tenderness
  • Amenorrhea with distention and pain
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Headache
  • Sinus congestion
  • Constipation
  • Excess weight in the pelvis
  • Lower back ache
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Nervousness
  • Fatigue
  • Fetal instability
  • Skin eruptions
  • Scanty menstrual flow
  • Scaly, dry skin
  • Retention of lochia
  • Headache
  • Shoulder stiffness
  • Vertigo
  • Cold low body and feet
  • Flushed face
  • Protruding abdomen
  • T: Dark purple or with echymoses or petechiae or pale with purplish spots
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Tense and deep and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate Blood
  • Transform Blood Stasis
  • Soften lumps
  • Reduces fixed abdominal pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Excruciating epigastric and abdominal pain to the point of not being able to to be touched
  • Gastric and Intestinal spasms
  • May be borborygmus.
  • Vomiting to the point of not being able to eat
  • Superficial skin pulsations throughout the abdomen
  • May be cold limbs
  • Strong sensation of Cold in the chest and epigastrium.
  • Severe pain in the head and feet
  • T: Pale or Dark purple
  • C: White and greasy or Slippery
  • P: Thin and tight or slow and wiry or Deep and thready or Hidden
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonify Middle Jiao Yang
  • Descend rebellious Qi
  • Relieve pain
Herb Formulas
Points