4 Taiyin syndrome
Taiyin syndrome refers to the syndrome due to decline of spleen yang and internal superabundance of cold-dampness. This syndrome is caused by delayed and wrong treatment of three yang meridian diseases which impairs spleen yang; or by insufficiency of spleen yang and direct attack of pathogenic cold on the spleen.
Clinical manifestations: Abdominal fullness and vomiting, poor appetite, diarrhea, frequent abdominal pain, preference for warmth and pressure, no thirst, light-coloured tongue with white fur and slow and weak pulse.
Analysis of the symptoms: Abdominal fullness, frequent abdominal pain, preference for warmth and pressure and poor appetite are caused by decline of spleen yang, internal exuberance of cold-dampness and stagnation of qi, diarrhea is caused by failure of spleen qi to rise and downward migration of cold-dampness; vomiting is caused by failure of gastric qi to descend; no thirst, lightcoloured tongue with white fur and slow and weak pulse are signs of asthenia-cold syndrome.
