Abdominal pain is often clinically divided into four syndromes of attack on abdomen by cold, infantile food retention, blood stasis due to qi stagnation, and abdominal pare due to asthenic cold according to the disease and symptoms in syndrome differentiation. The commonly-seen symptoms of attack on abdomen by cold are frequent abdominal pain after catching cold or drinking cold liquid, but relieved by warmth, pale complexion, cold limbs, or vomiting, diarrhea, deep-wiry-tight pulse; the commonly-encountered symptoms of infantile dyspepsia include epigastric and abdominal distension and pain after excessive feeding, worsened under pressure, eructation with fetid odour, acid regurgitation, anorexia, foul stool, or abdominal pain with the desire for defecation, relieved by defecation, vomiting of sour and spoiled food, thick and greasy fur, deep and slippery pulse.

The commonly-seen symptoms of blood stasis due to qi stagnation are abdominal pain worsened under pressure, stabbing pain with fixed site or with palpable mass, dark purplish tongue or with petechiae, and unsrnooth pulse; the commonly-encountered symptoms of abdominal pain due to asthenic cold include history of repeated onset, dull abdominal pain relieved by warmth and pressure, intercurrent attack, pale complexion, listlessness, poor appetite, cold limbs, loose stools, deep and slow pulse.