Dear Patient, Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the US, so today is a good day to talk about food stagnation and the Four Doors. Food stagnation is one of the Five Stagnations in Traditional Chinese Medicine (the others being Qi, Blood, Damp and Cold—but we’ll get to those another day), and it describes a set of symptoms that we typically think of as “indigestion”—bloating, fullness, abdominal pain, belching, and the like. There are numerous causes of food stagnation, but it’s most often a self-inflicted condition, the result of overeating.
Four Doors
Four Doors
Four Doors
Dear Patient, Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the US, so today is a good day to talk about food stagnation and the Four Doors. Food stagnation is one of the Five Stagnations in Traditional Chinese Medicine (the others being Qi, Blood, Damp and Cold—but we’ll get to those another day), and it describes a set of symptoms that we typically think of as “indigestion”—bloating, fullness, abdominal pain, belching, and the like. There are numerous causes of food stagnation, but it’s most often a self-inflicted condition, the result of overeating.