Comparative study on WHO Western Pacific Region and World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies international standard terminologies on traditional medicine: Diseases in Internal Medicine (Part 1)

Abstract

胃脘痛stomach duct pain: a diseased state characterized by pain in the epigastric region, the same as epigastric pain The so-called胃脘in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) usually refers to the cavity of the stomach.In the book Lingshu (Spiritual Pivot), for example,it says that "difficulty in taking food and obstruction of the diaphragm indicate that the pathogenic factors are retained in the stomach cavity". In TCM the stomach cavity is divided into three parts, namely,