What are the types of epigastric pain symptoms?

The stomach is a very important digestive organ in the human body. The main function of the stomach is to initially digest some protein foods and prepare for the absorption of nutrients therein. The stomach can cause great harm to the body under the influence of disease. For example, epigastric pain is a common symptom that causes great pain to people. Let’s take a look at the types of epigastric pain symptoms.

Epigastric pain refers to the symptom of pain mainly in the epigastric area of ​​the upper abdomen, commonly known as "stomach pain". Doctors of all dynasties have also described "heart and abdominal pain", "heart pain", "pain under the heart", etc.

Evil cold invades the stomach: epigastric pain is more severe, with a sharp contracting pain, which comes on quickly and can be relieved by warmth. The pain is often accompanied by aversion to cold, or vomiting of white foam, no thirst or preference for hot drinks, white tongue coating, and tight pulse.

Deficiency of spleen and stomach: dull pain in the stomach, which is continuous, poor appetite, likes warmth and pressure, and becomes more severe when exposed to cold, is afraid of cold and has cold limbs, loose stools, clear and long urine, the pain is sometimes light and sometimes severe, and does not heal for several years, the tongue is pale and tender, the tongue coating is thin, white and slippery, the pulse is deep, slow, weak, or weak.

Deficiency of spleen and stomach Qi: dull stomach pain, abdominal distension, especially after eating, likes warmth and pressure, poor appetite, sallow complexion, emaciation, fatigue, lethargy, low voice, or rectal prolapse, pale tongue with white coating or with teeth marks, and weak pulse.

Stomach heat: burning pain in the stomach, urgent pain, fear of heat and preference for cold, thirst and preference for cold drinks, or rapid digestion and hunger, constipation, short and dark urine, red tongue with yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Stomach Yin deficiency: dull burning pain in the epigastric area, which lasts for a long time, dark urine at night, hot hands and feet, or dry retching and hiccups, bright red tongue with little coating, and a thin and rapid pulse.

Liver Qi attacks the stomach: chest, flanks and stomach are bloated and painful, the pain moves around and increases or decreases with the mood. There is sighing, poor appetite, hiccups, belching and acid reflux, or constipation, yellow-white tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.

Stagnation of blood: stabbing or knife-like pain in the epigastric area, pain in a fixed location, resistance to pressure, worse pain after eating, or black stools or even vomiting blood, dark tongue, or petechiae and ecchymosis, and sluggish pulse.

Stagnant food: distension in the stomach, pain that is resistant to pressure, belching and acid regurgitation, or vomiting of undigested food, pain relieved after vomiting, loss of appetite or aversion to food, foul-smelling and unpleasant stools, thick and greasy tongue coating, or a mixture of yellow and white, and a strong or slippery pulse.