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MENTAL MODEL · M2745

Regurgitation / Fan Wei

Regurgitation / Fan Wei
BehaviorHigh supportOrganizational Behavior
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Vomiting in the morning what was eaten in the evening, and vomiting in the evening what was eaten in the morning. Food stays in the stomach and is vomited out unchanged after a whole day.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

psychology

Reduce cognitive load

A boiler with dead fire. The stomach lacks fire (decline of the gate of life fire), so food is not cooked and does not move downward. The stomach becomes a cold bag. Must warm and supplement the gate of life fire (aconite) to restart the boiler.

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Anchor fast decisions

This term mostly refers to physiological nausea; as a thinking model, it can be understood as a signal of 'instinctive disgust/resistance' towards something—worth questioning its source rather than directly suppressing or obeying it.

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