Twenty-seven Cases of Spleen-Q/Deficiency Syndrome Treated by Heat-Producing Needling at Zusanli

The spleen-qi deficiency syndrome can beinduced by many factors.It is generally characterizedby a decreased food-intake,abdominal distention,watery or loose stool,general lassitude,pale tongueproper,and weak pulse.In recent years when workingin the Mediterranean TCM Center in Malta,the authorhad treated 27 such cases by applying the heat-