ANGINA PECTORIS

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Continuous cramping pain in the abdomen
  • Pain is not severe
  • Pain is relieved by pressure
  • Edema of the feet
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Slight edema (primarily of the lower limbs)
  • Symptoms generally occur during pregnancy
  • Pale face
  • Fatigue
  • Heaviness of head
  • Lassitude
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Lumbago
  • Edema
  • Abdominal pain with edema during pregnancy due to Blood Deficiency and abnormal water circulation
  • Oliguria
  • Palpitations
  • Cold feet
  • Extreme coldness of the hands and feet
  • Vertigo
  • Weakness and numbness of lower back and legs during pregnancy or postpartum
  • Mal position of the fetus
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Right upper quadrant pain
  • Hepatomegaly
  • Anemia
  • Lack of energy
  • Sore back
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • T: Pale or pink maybe petechiae on margin
  • C: Thin or Greasy white
  • P: Deep and weak or Soft, floating, small and slow or Wiry and small or Wiry and rough
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen and Kidneys
  • Resolve Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal or epigastric pain which may radiate upwards to the back or scapula
  • Poor appetite
  • Shortness of breath
  • Nausea
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Heart pain
  • Stomach pain
  • Hiccups
  • Stuffiness in chest
  • Constipation
  • Epigastric pain
  • Anorexia
  • T: Purple with purple spots
  • C: Normal
  • P: Choppy or Wiry and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Relieve Stasis
  • Stop pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Emaciation
  • Shortness of breath
  • Constipation
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Numbness
  • Dry cough
  • Cough with little or no sputum
  • Cough with blood streaked sputum
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Night sweats
  • Five sole Heat due to stress
  • Early menses
  • Restlessness
  • Dry tongue
  • Pale copious menstrual flow
  • Weakness
  • Memory loss
  • Excess dreams
  • Fright
  • Tired body
  • Dry, hard stool
  • Coarse skin
  • Dry throat
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • A skinny appearance
  • T: Pale and shiny or Red
  • C: Thin and white or None
  • P: Knotted or Intermittent or Minute, forceless and Deficient or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Augments Qi
  • Nourishes Blood
  • Enriches Yin
  • Restores the Pulse
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe chest pain
  • The pain radiates to the shoulder and back
  • Palpitations
  • Headache
  • Dizziness
  • Five sole Heat
  • Dry mouth
  • A Red face
  • T: Red or Dark purple
  • C: Thin and white or None
  • P: Thready and wiry or Thready and rapid - sometimes misses beats
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yin
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Remove Stagnation
  • Invigorate the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Stabbing pain in the anterior region over the Heart
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Maybe a drawing pain down internal aspect of arm (especially the left arm)
  • Pain in the chest and/or arm which tends to be severe and intermittent
  • Cold limbs
  • Cyanosis of lips and nails
  • T: Dark red with purple spots or Purple body
  • C: Little
  • P: Minute (scarcely perceptible) and thready or Knotted
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Transform Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chest pain
  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Shortness of breath
  • Copious sputum
  • Poor appetite
  • Fatigue
  • Loose stools
  • Poor memory
  • Insomnia
  • T: Pink
  • C: Sticky and white
  • P: Soft or Deep and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Heart and Spleen
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Eliminate Phlegm
  • Invigorate the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mental confusion
  • Clouding of consciousness
  • Talking to oneself
  • Acting as if no one else is present
  • Dull expression with blank stare
  • Odd behavior
  • Maybe falling to the ground
  • Sound of phlegm in throat with gurgling
  • Sudden collapse
  • Clenched jaws
  • Fullness, extreme pain, and a cold sensation in the chest and abdomen
  • Purple or blue lips
  • Sudden loss of consciousness
  • Coma
  • An urge to vomit and defecate without doing either
  • Abdominal pain with chest distention
  • Mental upset
  • Paraphasia
  • Diarrhea
  • Vomiting
  • Excessive mucus and saliva
  • Breath cold
  • Pale complexion
  • Cold extremities
  • Staring eyes
  • T Pale or Pink
  • C: White and slippery or greasy
  • P: Deep and slippery or Deep, excess and slow or Wiry, tight and Excess
Treatment Principle
  • Warms and Aromatically Opens the Orifices
  • Moves Qi
  • Expels dirt
  • Transforms turbidity
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Spasms
  • Tics
  • Fullness and distention in the chest
  • Irritability
  • Occasional fright palpitations
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Constipation
  • Delirious speech
  • Insomnia
  • Subcardiac distention
  • Palpitations at the abdomen
  • Melancholia
  • Fear
  • Agitation
  • Unsteadiness
  • Tends toward mania and convulsions
  • Tends toward fatigue and clumsiness of limbs
  • Dysuria
  • Excitability
  • Dizziness
  • Anxiety
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Profuse expectoration of Phlegm
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Palpitations
  • Pale face
  • Oliguria
  • A sensation of extreme heaviness of the body
  • Fatigue
  • Inability to rotate the trunk
  • Difficulty moving the body
  • T: Red
  • C: Slippery
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Shao Yang
  • Unblock the three Yang Stages
  • Calm the Liver
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Sedate and calm the Spirit
  • Alleviate spasms
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Insomnia
  • Dream-disturbed sleep with unusual dreams
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Profuse white foamy sputum
  • Restlessness
  • Timidity
  • Indecisiveness
  • Indeterminate gnawing hunger
  • Seizures accompanied by copious sputum
  • Chest distention
  • Expectoration of yellow Phlegm
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chills and fever
  • Abdominal distention
  • Frequent dark, scanty urine
  • Irritability
  • Depression
  • Slight thirst
  • Anorexia after serious illness
  • T: Pink or Red tip
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Qi
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Clear the Gallbladder
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Violent nausea and vomiting
  • Severe vomiting of Phlegm and/or thin fluids
  • Severe pain
  • Migrating and shooting pain throughout the upper and lower back
  • Chest pain
  • Precordial pain
  • T: Pale
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Deep and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Dry Dampness
  • Dissolve Phlegm
  • Regulate Qi
  • Subdue Rebellious Qi
  • Relieve pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Diarrhea with watery stools
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • No thirst
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal and/or epigastric fullness (likes pressure)
  • Abdominal pain
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Pale face
  • Frequent urination
  • Tends toward fatigue
  • May have cold limbs
  • May have headache with fever
  • Body aches
  • Epistaxis
  • Hematemesis
  • Shortness of breath
  • Lassitude
  • Epigastric pain
  • All Blood from bleeding is pale
  • Maybe scanty urine with edema
  • Edema
  • Insomnia
  • Hemoptysis
  • Intestinal bleeding
  • Chronic bleeding
  • Hemafecia
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Rectal bleeding
  • Profuse menstrual flow
  • Chest fullness and pain
  • Hypochondriac pain that shoots toward the Heart
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Rigid focal distention in the Heart region
  • Excessive production or drooling of foamy saliva
  • Emaciation
  • T: Pale, may be moist
  • C: White or None
  • P: Deep, weak and slow or Deep and thready or Big and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Middle Jiao
  • Dispel Cold
  • Strengthen the Spleen and Stomach
  • Tonify Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fullness and pain in the chest or
  • Stabbing pain that radiates from the chest to the back
  • Wheezing
  • Coughing with sputum
  • Drooling
  • Shortness of breath
  • Focal distention in the chest that feels like a flow of Qi proceeding from the flanks to the area around the Heart
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep and wiry or Deep and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Unblock Yang
  • Dissipate clumps
  • Expel Phlegm
  • Descend Qi
Herb Formulas
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