Clinical Manifestations
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- Goiter
- Possible nodulations
- Possible exophthalmos
- Tension around the eyes
- Severe, splitting headaches
- Aversion to heat
- Restlessness
- Hot flashes
- Both cheeks slightly red
- Dizziness
- Dry eyes
- Blurred vision
- Spots before the eyes
- Numbness of limbs
- Flaccid paralysis (Wei syndrome),
- Weakness
- Forgetfulness
- Low back and knees sore and painful
- Throat dry and painful
- Five sole heat
- Low-grade fever
- Night sweats
- Irritability
- Insomnia
- Palpitations
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- Excess dreams
- Stools difficult to pass
- Sudden tinnitus or deafness
- Flushed face
- Red, swollen, painful eyes
- Irascibility with violent angry outbursts
- Dry mouth
- Bitter taste in mouth
- Thirst
- Vomiting sour or bitter liquid
- Increased food intake
- Emaciation
- Constipation or dry stools
- Maybe rib pain
- Spermatorrhea
- Irregular menses or
- Scanty menses or
- Amenorrhea
- Vaginal discharge
- T: Red or Red tip and edges
- C: None or Thick, yellow, dry and rough
- P: Thready and rapid or Wiry, Shi and Rapid
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Points |
- GB-20, GB-34, GB-43, DU-20, LIV-2, LIV-3, UB-18, UB-23, KI-3
- LIV-3, HT-7, KI-7, SJ-13, SI-16, SI-17, LI-17, ST-9
With dizziness: GB-20
With rough eyes and blurred vision: GB-37
With hot flashes: HT-6, DU-14
With tinnitus: GB-2
With low back pain and sore and weak knees: UB-23
With exophthalmos and distention in the eyes: UB-1, GB-20, Taiyang
With marked heart palpitations: PC-6
With lack of strength and loose stools due to Spleen Deficiency: ST-36
With constipation: SJ-6
With aversion to heat with sweating: LI-4, ST-44
With tremors of the hands and fingers: LI-4
With a sensation of throat obstruction: REN-23, HT-5
With profuse sweating: LI-4
- PC-5, SP-6, Qiying (Do not retain)
With Excess sweat: HT-6, KI-7
With palpitations and insomnia: HT-7, Anmian
With sexual irritability and flushed face: LIV-3, GB-20
With protruding eyes: UB-20, ST-2, Shangtianzhu
With tachycardia: PC-6
- Ear: Shenmen, Subcortex, Endocrine, Stop wheezing, Heart, Lung
- Moxa: 50 cones @ LIV-3 and Ahshi points around goiter
- Cutaneous: tap from T-5-T-10, UB-18, LIV-3, SP-3, REN-22, ST-36, LI-11, LI-4, SJ-17, LI-18, LI-4, REN-17, REN-22, SI-16, ST-12, KI-27, LU-1, LU-7, bleed Shixuan
- With goiter and swollen throat: LU-3, SJ-13, ST-11
- Alternate between:
a. GB-20, DU-4, DU-14, UB-11, REN-22, ST-10, SJ-3
b. UB-10, UB-12, DU-3, DU-12, REN-23, ST-9, GB-22
- ST-9 through goiter, REN-22, LI-4, ST-36, Zeqian, KI-3, SP-6, PC-6
With insomnia: Anmian, Taiyang, GB-20
- DU-14, UB-13, UB-15, UB-23, GB-21, LI-11, ST-36, SP-6, REN-22, SI-14, HT-7 + indirect moxa for 5 min.
- PC-4, Qiying, SP-6
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