The Nature of Pains in Chinese Traditional Medicinal opinion1

The Nature of Pains in Chinese Traditional Medicinal opinion

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The common clinical types of pains are as follows:

Distending Pain: that is pain accompanied with distension. Distending pain in the chest and hypochondria is due to stagnation of functional activities of pain in qi; the distending pain in the head eyes, duo to flaming-up of liver-fire or hyperactivity of the liver-yang.

Stabbing Pain: that is pain being prickled. It indicates blood stasis.

Unfixed Pain: that is migrating pain which moves about without definite location. If it occurs to the joints of the chest and hypochondria, it is the syndrome of qi stagnation.

Fixed Pain: it refers to localized pain. Fixed pain in the joints of the four limbs pertains to arthralgia due to cold; fixed pain in the body suggests blood stasis.

Cold Pain: it is pain accompanied with cold sensation able to be relieved by warmth. It is often caused by pathogenic cold in the collateral branch of the large channel, or by insufficiency of yang-qi that leads to the loss of warmth in the body.

Burning Pain: it is pain with a burning sensation and a preference for coldness. It is found in the syndrome of excessive yang-heat, or in the interior heat syndrome due to deficiency of yin.

Colic pain: it is pain that the pain is so sharp and violent as if a knife were being twisted in the body. Owing to blockage of channel by pathogenic factors of excess type, it pertains to excess syndrome.