Acupuncture for Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea and vomiting are among the most common symptoms in the clinic. Nausea is a special subjective feeling, manifested as stomach discomfort and fullness, often a prelude to vomiting, often accompanied by salivation and repeated swallowing movements; vomiting is a kind of reflexive strong contraction of the stomach, through the stomach, esophagus Synergistic effects of the oral cavity, diaphragm and abdominal muscles can force the contents of the stomach to be rapidly excreted from the stomach and esophagus through the oral cavity. Nausea and vomiting can be caused by a variety of distinct diseases and pathophysiological mechanisms. Both may or may not be accompanied by each other.

The causes of nausea and vomiting are extensive, including many factors, and involve almost every system.

1. Infection Viral acute gastroenteritis, bacterial acute gastroenteritis, acute viral hepatitis, appendicitis, cholecystitis, peritonitis, acute fallopian tube, pelvic inflammatory disease, etc.

2. Abdominal other organ diseases

(1) organ pain: pancreatitis, cholelithiasis, kidney stones, intestinal ischemia, ovarian cyst pedicle torsion.

(2) gastrointestinal obstruction: pyloric obstruction, duodenal obstruction, intestinal adhesion, intussusception, strangulated sputum, Crohn's disease, intestinal tuberculosis, intestinal tumor, intestinal aphid, intestinal torsion, superior mesenteric artery compression Syndrome, output sputum syndrome, gastrointestinal motility disorder, pseudo-intestinal obstruction.

3. Endocrine and metabolic diseases, hyponatremia, metabolic acidosis, malnutrition, vitamin deficiency, diabetic acidosis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, hypopituitarism, adrenal insufficiency, Various endocrine crisis, uremia and so on.

4. Nervous system diseases Central nervous system infection, brain tumor, cerebral insufficiency, cerebral hemorrhage, craniocerebral trauma, brain parasitic diseases.

5. Psychotic vomiting, nervous polyphagia, anorexia nervosa.

6. Vestibular disease Syndrome, Meniere's disease, inner ear labyrinthitis.

7. Pregnancy vomiting Pregnancy vomiting, acute fatty liver during pregnancy.

8. Other cardiopulmonary disorders, urinary disorders, periodic vomiting, postoperative nausea and vomiting, glaucoma, etc.

Chinese medicine believes that vomiting is caused by stomach loss and depression, and the stomach is caused by the ups and downs of the stomach, such as diet, phlegm and other stomachs.

According to the basic pathogenesis of vomiting stomach Qi loss and lowering, stomach Qi ups and downs, the principle of treatment is to reduce vomiting with stomach. However, it should be divided into weak and real syndromes, and the real ones focus on evil spirits. They apply the methods of solving the external, digestion, phlegm, and Qi, supplemented by the products of the stomach and the stomach to seek evil and vomit. In the righting up, respectively, the method of benefiting Qi, warming Yang and nourishing Yin is supplemented with the medicine to reduce the nausea and vomiting, in order to seek the function of regaining the stomach.