Cold congeals, does not move. Lack of Yang to move stools.

Causes

1. Spleen- and Kidney-Yang deficiency
2. Aging.
3. Inadequate diet. Excess of cold and raw foods.

Symptoms

• Dull abdominal pain with desire for warmth and pressure
• Cold limbs
• Bowel sounds (intestinal borborigmus)
• Clear diarrhea or constipation (two possible manifestations of the same cause)
• Pale tongue with white, slippery coating
• Deep and slow pulse

Treatment

Warm and move Large Intestine-Qi. Moxibustion:

• BL-20, BL-25, CV-4, ST-37 and ST-36
• CV-8, San Jiao Jiu (diarrhea)