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OMD Types of Pain
OMD Interrogation: Pain (Types)
| Types of Pain | Answer |
|---|---|
| Soreness, dull ache | Deficiency (four limbs or trunk) or Dampness |
| Heaviness | Dampness or Phlegm (limbs, head or whole body), Qi Deficiency |
| Distending | Qi Stagnation (Hypochondrium, epigastrium, lower abdomen, chest, head) |
| Fullness | Retention of food (epigastrium, lower abdomen) |
| Emptiness | Qi and Blood Deficiency or Kidney Deficiency (head) |
| Feeling of Cold | Cold or Yang Deficiency (abdomen or limbs) |
| Burning | Heat or Empty-Heat (epigastrium or limbs) |
| Sharp, cramping | Cold or Blood stasis (epigastrium, lower abdomen) |
| Spastic | Liver Blood Deficiency with Liver Qi stagnation (limbs, abdomen), Liver Yang Rising (head) |
| Stuffiness | Spleen Deficiency with Heat or Phlegm (chest, epigastrium) |
| Pushing | Qi Stagnation (hypochondrium, epigastrium) |
| Pulling | Liver Wind (head) |
| Cutting | blood Stasis (lower abdomen) |
| Throbbing | Liver Yang Rising (head) |
| Boring | Blood Stasis (head, chest, hypochondrium, epigastrim, lower abdomen) |
| Lurking (latent, hidden pain) | Qi and Blood Deficiency or Empty-cold (abdomen, lower back) |
| Pain in daytime | Dysfunction of Qi or Blood |
| Pain in Night-time | Yin Deficiency or Blood stagnation |
| Intermittent pain | Qi Deficiency or Qi Stagnation |
| Constant pain | Blood stasis |