HEART PALPITATIONS

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
  • With sweating and/or night sweats: Mu Li San
  • Due to inappropriate sweating: Fu Ling Gan Cao Tang
  • If, after diaphoresis, there is profuse perspiration and rapid Heart palpitations causing the patient to clasp his hands over his heart and press firmly: Gui Zhi Gan Cao Tang
  • For late-stage or in the aftermath of Ying or Xue Stage Heat: Bai He Di Huang Tang
  • For late-stage or in the aftermath of Ying or Xue Stage Heat with improper purging damaging Stomach Qi: Bai He Zhi Mu Tang
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Chills
  • Headache
  • Joint pains
  • Severe diarrhea
  • Epigastric distention
  • Perspiration
  • Cold body and extremities
  • Weakness of the extremities
  • Upper abdominal palpitations
  • Cold feet
  • Dysuria
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Warm the Interior
  • Tonify Qi
  • Relieve distention
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Anorexia
  • Sometimes fatigue
  • Palpitations
  • Chest and flank oppression and fullness
  • Nausea
  • Occasional vomiting
  • Frequent retching
  • Dry throat
  • Vertigo
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Headaches (side of head)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Rib pain
  • Achiness
  • Ear infection
  • Hearing difficulty
  • Red eyes
  • Stiff shoulders
  • Throat pain
  • Hip pain
  • T: Normal with bumps or dots on side
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Liver and Gall Bladder
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Pronounced chills with light fever or
  • Chills without fever
  • Cold extremities
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Headache
  • Thirst
  • Sweating on the head
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Dry cough
  • Tuberculosis
  • Diarrhea
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Loose stools
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • A feeling of fullness and clumping in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Rapid Heart palpitations
  • Dysuria
  • Night sweats
  • Gastric distention
  • T: Moist
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Wiry and tight on the left or Wiry and slow on the right or Thin and rapid or Irregular
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize and release the Shao Yang
  • Disperse clumping
  • Warm the Interior
  • Dispel Cold
  • Dispel water accumulation
  • Clear Heat
  • Moisten the Lungs
  • Astringe sweating
  • Relieve flushing up
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry throat and/or mouth
  • Chronic sore throat (not acute)
  • Restlessness
  • Malar flush
  • Insomnia
  • Disturbed speech
  • Low grade fever, worse in afternoon
  • Yellow urine
  • Irritability with a sensation of Heat in the chest
  • Palpitations with anxiety
  • Sores in the mouth or on the tongue
  • More Heat than in Yin Deficiency (chronic low grade fever)
  • T: Red, deep red
  • C: None
  • P: Deep, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reduce Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Curls up a lot
  • Doesn't like to talk
  • Tired
  • No spirit
  • Dull Shen
  • Severe edema in the chest
  • Cold extremities
  • Diarrhea with loose stools
  • No thirst
  • Likes warm drinks
  • Sluggish urination
  • Vertigo
  • Palpitations
  • More water metabolism disturbance with excess fluid in the body
    Abdomen: pain and cold
    Lower Jiao: pain with difficult urination
    Intestines: watery stools
    Stomach: clear vomit
    Lungs: cough, dyspnea, Phlegm and asthma
    Extremities: edema and heaviness
  • T: Pale with scallops
  • C:White or greasy white
  • P: Sinking, weak and may be soft or thready
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yang
  • Strengthen water circulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Anxiety
  • Disturbing dreams
  • Dysuria
  • Insomnia
  • Painful urinary calculus
  • Scanty dark urine
  • Thirst
  • Palpitations
  • Restless sleep
  • T: Red
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Calm the Mind
  • Promote urination
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Numbness
  • Bones and joints sore and painful
  • Worse with movement
  • Face is dull yellow
  • Spasms or contractures of muscles and sinews
  • Asthenia
  • Shortness of breath
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Weight loss
  • Poor appetite
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Pale
  • C: None or White
  • P: Soggy and Weak or Thin and Faint
Treatment Principle
  • Activate the functions of the Liver and Kidneys
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Expel Wind and Dampness
  • Stop numbness and pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with copious, thin, white, frothy sputum
  • Chest congestion with full feeling
  • Dyspnea which is worse when lying down
  • Sometimes asthma
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, white and greasy or sticky
  • P: Slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Activate the Spleen
  • Dry Dampness
  • Expel Phlegm
  • Purge the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic cough with sparse sputum
  • Sputum difficult to expectorate
  • Shortness of breath
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Dry mouth and tongue
  • Palpitations with a stifling sensation in chest
  • Fatigue
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • Insomnia
  • Listless speech
  • T: Red and dry or Pink and dry
  • C: Thin and dry
  • P: Deficient and rapid or Irregular and slow or Thready and deficient or Consistently irregular
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Generate Fluids
  • Clear Heat
  • Preserve Yin
  • Stop excess perspiration
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Headache
  • Fever (maybe chills)
  • Strong thirst with a desire to drink.
  • Vomits immediately after drinking
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Edema
  • General sensation of heaviness
  • Diarrhea
  • Irritability
  • Simultaneous vomiting and diarrhea
  • Throbbing sensations below umbilicus
  • Vomits frothy saliva
  • Vertigo
  • Abdominal pain and/or distention
  • Dark urine
  • Scanty urine
  • Anxiety
  • Jaundice
  • Shortness of breath
  • Cough
  • Urinary retention
  • Lower abdominal fullness
  • Extreme thirst
  • Palpitations
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Lower abdominal palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Abdominal pain
  • Restlessness
  • Slightly pale skin tone
  • T: Normal
  • C:Thick, yellow and greasy
  • P: Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Promote urination
  • Drain Dampness
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Warm Yang
  • Promote the transforming functions of Qi
  • Clear Damp-Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Head feels heavy as if wrapped up
  • Four limbs tired
  • Lethargic
  • Sensations of stuffiness and fullness in chest and epigastrium
  • Decreased food intake or vomits immediately after eating
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Abundant white watery phlegm, easily expectorated
  • Cannot lie flat (due to breathing difficulties)
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick and slimy
  • P: Slippery and even
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce the Spleen and Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sallow or pale complexion
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Physical and mental exhaustion
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose or unformed stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Functional Uterine Bleeding
  • Purpura
  • Epistaxis
  • Hemafecia
  • Hematuria
  • Menorrhagia
  • Metrorrhagia
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Benefit Qi
  • Conserve Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mild constant epigastric pain; relieved by warmth and pressure
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal pain and fullness after meals
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Loose, unformed stools
  • Excessive salivation
  • Cold limbs
  • Lassitude
  • Weakness
  • Sallow or pale, dull complexion
  • Maybe edema
  • Maybe scanty urination
  • Maybe clear, watery, copious vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Warm Yang
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations, usually worse at night
  • Insomnia with difficulty falling asleep
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Poor memory
  • Poor concentration
  • Phobias
  • Panic attacks
  • Anxiety
  • Nervousness
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Low spirits
  • Positional dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Floaters
  • Four limbs tired and lethargic
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Sallow or pale, lusterless complexion
  • Copious, pale menses
  • Uterine bleeding or
  • Light menstrual flow or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Inability to get or maintain an erection
  • Impotence, worse with fatigue
  • Clammy palms
  • Bruises easily
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit the Heart and Spleen
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Nausea
  • Sudden vomiting of Thin Mucus or clear Fluids
  • Absence of thirst
  • May feel thirsty
  • Palpitations
  • Vertigo
  • Dizziness
  • Dysuria
  • Focal distention of the epigastrium
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and Slippery
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Stop vomiting
  • Dispel Phlegm
  • Regulate water circulation
  • Disperse Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Anorexia or
  • Reduced appetite
  • Loss of the sense of taste
  • Epigastric and abdominal distention and fullness
  • Nausea/Vomiting often in the morning
  • Acid reflux
  • Belching
  • Loose stools or
  • Diarrhea
  • Fatigue
  • Lethargy
  • Sluggishness
  • A heavy body and limbs
  • A frequent desire to sleep, after which the patient feels worse or more sluggish
  • Poor concentration
  • Heavy or foggy-headedness
  • Stuffiness in the chest
  • Maybe chronic mucus production fro the sinuses and Lungs
  • Copious salivation
  • Greasy skin
  • A musky body odor
  • Tendency toward obesity
  • A pear shape
  • T: Swollen or flabby
  • C: Thick, greasy and white
  • Slippery, wiry and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Dry and transform Phlegm-Damp
  • Stimulate digestion
  • Circulate Qi and Fluids
  • Harmonize the Stomach
Herb Formulas
  • Ping Wei San
  • With Qi Stagnation: Xiang Sha Yang Wei Tang
  • With obesity and Yang Deficiency: Shi Pi Yin
  • With less Dampness: Dao Tan Tang
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Ping Wei San
    With Spleen Deficiency: Xiang Sha Liu Jun Zi Wan
    With Qi Stagnation: Xiang Sha Yang Wei Wan
    With Spleen Yang Deficiency: Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan
    With Food Stagnation: Bao Yang Dan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Tachycardia
  • Severe, stabbing, fixed, pain in the anterior region over the Heart
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Maybe drawing pain down the internal aspect of arm (especially the left arm)
  • Pain (in chest and/or arm) tends to be severe and intermittent
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Flank pain
  • A dull, purple face and lips
  • Severe cases:
    Sudden attack
    Lassitude after the attack
    Cold limbs
    Cyanosis of lips and nails
    Rashness
    Impatience
    Irritability
  • T: Dark red with purple spots or Purple body or Blueish purple with purple spots
  • C: Little
  • P: Minute (scarcely perceptible) and thready or Knotted
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Transform Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Intermittent palpitations with anxiety and nervousness
  • Mental agitation
  • Confused thinking
  • Susceptibility to fright
  • Restlessness
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Insomnia with waking in the early hours with inability to fall back asleep
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Epistaxis
  • Bleeding gums
  • Mouth ulcers and pain
  • Mania
  • Irritability
  • Fullness of the chest
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • A dry throat
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Maybe hematemesis
  • Indeterminate, gnawing hunger
  • Anorexia
  • Belching
  • Acid reflux
  • Abdominal distention
  • Dark urine
  • T: Red or Red tip
  • C: Yellow or Greasy and yellow
  • P: Slippery, rapid and full and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Heart
  • Break through Phlegm
  • Clear Heat
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations, easily brought on by fright
  • Startles easily
  • Arrhythmia
  • Restlessness
  • Vexation
  • Agitation
  • Malar flush
  • Insomnia
  • Profuse dreaming
  • Waking with palpitations or panic attacks and anxiety
  • Tidal fever
  • Poor memory
  • Poor concentration
  • Tinnitus
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Night sweats
  • A dry mouth and throat
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back pain
  • Dry stools or
  • Constipation
  • Possible mouth or tongue ulcers
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None and often Dry
  • P: Thin and hard and may be Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Sedate Fire
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations, initiated or aggravated by exertion
  • Symptoms relieved by rest
  • May be arrhythmia
  • Chest pain or congestion
  • Prefers warmth
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold extremities
  • Cold body
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Shortness of breath
  • Severe:
    Dyspnea
    Orthopnea
  • Diminished vocal power
  • Copious, clear urine or
  • Nocturia or
  • Pitting edema with scanty urination
  • Listlessness
  • Fatigue
  • A waxy, pale complexion
  • Dark circles under the eyes
  • Purple lips
  • Cyanosis
  • T: Pale and moist maybe clear bubbles on the surface or Light purple or Pale bluish or Pale, purple and swollen
  • C: Smooth and white or Greasy and white
  • P: Deep and feeble with a possible cotton-like sensation between the skin and wall of the vessel or Irregular missed beat or Deep, thready and forceless or Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Warn and tonify Yang
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Excessive perspiration (daytime)
  • Above symptoms worse after exertion or when tired
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Maybe chills
  • Cyanosis
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Depression
  • Facial pallor
  • All four limbs cold
  • Watery stools with undigested food
  • Maybe loss of consciousness
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak or Knotted or Intermittent
Treatment Principle
  • Return Yang
  • Relieve contravection
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Chest pain
  • Chest oppression
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Shortness of breath
  • Drenched with perspiration
  • Above symptoms worse on exertion or when tired
  • Four limbs cold
  • Cyanosis of mouth and lips
  • Faint, weak respiration
  • T: Swollen with teethmarks
  • P: Minute (on the point of collapse) or Deep and slow or Tight and irregularly interrupted
Treatment Principle
  • Return Yang
  • Consolidate Exhaustion
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Arrhythmia
  • Symptoms are worse during menstruation
  • T: Pale, dry and possibly dusky
  • C: Normal
  • P: Thready
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Lassitude
  • Fullness of the chest
  • Epigastric fullness and contravection
  • Nausea
  • Borborygmus
  • Reflux vomiting
  • Vomiting of clear, thin Phlegm and saliva
  • Sensation of Qi rushing upward to the chest (Running Piglet)
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Weak cough
  • Expectorating watery white Phlegm
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Reduced food intake
  • Cold body and limbs
  • Scanty urination
  • Loose stools
  • T: Pale or Pale and moist
  • C: White and smooth or Glossy
  • P: Deep or Deep and wiry or Slippery and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Transform Harmful Fluid
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Dysuria
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Dizziness
  • Lassitude
  • Cyanotic lips
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Muscular twitching
  • Whole body edema
  • Cold body
  • Icy limbs
  • Cold abdomen with watery stools
  • Edema of limbs
  • Scanty urination
  • Cough
  • Pale complexion
  • Lips and nails cyanosed
  • Soreness and aching of the shoulders and back
  • Abdominal pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Occasional coughing or panting
  • T: Pale or Purple (Lavender)
  • C: White and greasy or Glossy
  • P: Deep or Deep and minute or Wiry and slippery or Deep, thready and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Support Yang
  • Expel Cold
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations, initiated by exercise
  • Symptoms worse after exertion or when tired
  • Symptoms relieved by rest
  • Restless sleep
  • Low voice
  • Insomnia
  • May be arrhythmia
  • Dizziness
  • Shortness of breath
  • Diminished vocal power
  • No desire to speak
  • Physical and mental fatigue worse after exertion
  • Excessive perspiration (in daytime), worse after exertion
  • Facial pallor
  • Pale, white lips
  • Weakness
  • Dull chest pain
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Cold extremities
  • Yawning or sighing
  • T: Pale, tender and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Weak or Big and weak or Intermittent or Thready, empty and large
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Strengthen Heart Qi
Herb Formulas

 

Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath (especially on exertion)
  • Excessive perspiration (in daytime)
  • Symptoms worse after exertion or when tired
  • Facial pallor
  • Fatigue, weakness
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Irregular Heart beat
  • Cold limbs
  • Maybe chills
  • Cyanosis
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Depression
  • Facial pallor
  • Maybe stabbing pain in the anterior region over heart
  • Maybe drawing pain down internal aspect of arm (especially left arm)
  • Maybe pain (in chest and/or arm)
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Weak or Big and weak or Intermittent or Thready and weak or Knotted
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify the Lungs,
  • Assist the Heart Yang
  • Warm and facilitate the flow of Yang Qi in the chest
  • Tonify the Kidneys
  • Strengthen Yang
  • Invigorate the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Maybe arrhythmia
  • A racing Heart
  • Facial pallor
  • Pale nails
  • Pale lips
  • Pale inner surface of the eyelids
  • Lassitude
  • Restlessness
  • Heart vexation
  • Insomnia
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Numbness
  • Weakness of the hands and feet
  • T: Pale and dry and maybe thin
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thin or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Poor memory
  • Four limbs tired and lethargic
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Sallow complexion
  • Copious, pale menses
  • Uterine bleeding or
  • Light menstrual flow or
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Pale
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit the Heart and Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Asthma
  • Soft weak cough
  • Prolonged bouts of coughing with dyspnea
  • Expectoration of clear, watery Phlegm
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Spontaneous, weak perspiration
  • All of the above manifestations are exacerbated by exertion
  • Shiny white complexion
  • Weak voice
  • Catches colds easily
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit Heart and Lung Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Restless sleep
  • Occasional palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Dizziness
  • Fright
  • Insomnia
  • Vertigo
  • T: Red or Pale or Pink
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich Yin
  • Nourish the blood
  • Sedate the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Calm the Liver
  • Anchor Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Impaired memory
  • Insomnia
  • Profuse dreaming
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Eye dizziness
  • Both eyes dry and rough
  • Twitching of the eyes
  • Pain in the ribs and flanks
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Stiffness and spasms of the tendons
  • A white, lusterless facial complexion
  • Lusterless nails
  • Blurred vision
  • Low grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Irregular, scanty menses
  • T: Pale and thin
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready, choppy and forceless or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reinforce the Blood
  • Conceal Yang
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations which tend to be initiated by anxiety or fright
  • Insomnia or frequent waking, often early in the morning
  • Waking feeling anxious
  • Unable to fall back to sleep
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Easily frightened or startled
  • Tends to wake up in fright
  • Easily unsettled by seeming trivial events
  • Fidgeting
  • Apprehension
  • Anxiety
  • Indecisiveness
  • Timidity
  • Shortness of breath
  • Lethargy
  • Fatigue
  • Depression
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • T: Normal or Pale (chronic or congenital cases may show a deep narrow crack to the tip
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry and thready or Empty and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Calm the Shen
  • Nourish and tranquilize the Heart
  • Alleviate fearfulness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Shallow, rapid respiration
  • Palpitations
  • Cold limbs and body
  • Facial and ankle edema
  • Scanty urine
  • Sometimes cyanosis
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and minute
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Stabilize the exterior
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Amenorrhea
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Irritability
  • Easily startled
  • Restlessness
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back soreness
  • Legs weak
  • Tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Red cheeks
  • Urine short and red
  • Seminal emissions
  • Five Sole Heat
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reduce Fire
  • Make the Hear and Kidneys communicate.
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chest pain
  • Epigastric and abdominal distention and pain
  • Closed type coma (lockjaw and clenched fists)
  • Cold extremities
  • Wandering pain
  • Asthma
  • Irritability in the throat
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Promote the movement of Qi
  • Descend Rebellious Qi
  • Relieve Stagnant Liver Qi in the Lung and chest
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Short temper
  • Restlessness
  • Fever or tidal fever
  • Red eyes
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Palpitations
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Difficult urination
  • Painful urination
  • Increased menstrual flow
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Early menstruation
  • Aching in limbs
  • Dizziness
  • Mental instability
  • Red face
  • Thirst
  • Turbid urine
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Red cheeks
  • Wheezing
  • Nervousness
  • Headache
  • Red eyes
  • Dry mouth
  • Anorexia
  • Infertility
  • Abdominal pain
  • Spontaneous sweating or night sweats with fever
  • Anxiety
  • Dry eyes
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Somnolence
  • Insomnia
  • Aching shoulders
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Earache
  • Premenstrual tension
  • Hot flashes
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Depression
  • Restlessness
  • Constipation with flushing up
  • Pale complexion
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Vertigo
  • Abdominal distention near the umbilicus
  • Epistaxis
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Heaviness in the lower abdomen
  • T:Red or Red edges
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Thready, rapid and wiry or Wiry and tight and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Spread Liver Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Nourish the Blood and Yin
  • Regulate menstruation
  • Sedate the Heart
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A feeling of obstruction in throat as if a slice of roast meat were stuck there which cannot be coughed up nor swallowed down. This sensation becomes more prominent during emotional upset and subsides when relaxed.
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Women:
    Irregular menses
    Dysmenorrhea
    Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Slippery and wiry (slippery due to Phlegm)
Treatment Principle
  • Spread Qi
  • Resolve Phlegm.
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal distention and pain
  • Gas
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Women:
    Irregular menses
    Dysmenorrhea
    Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Slippery and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Invigorate the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Restlessness
  • Anxiety
  • Anger
  • Dark, rough urine
  • Red or yellow urine
  • Excruciating headache
  • Constipation
  • Rashness
  • Impatience
  • Irascibility
  • Tinnitus
  • Abdominal fullness
  • Fright palpitations
  • Hypertension
  • Throat blockage with difficulty swallowing
  • Sore throat
  • Semi-unconsciousness
  • Dry throat
  • Vertigo
  • Delirium
  • Mania
  • Dizziness
  • Red face
  • Red eyes
  • Irritability
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Abdominal pain
  • Clonic spasm
  • Fright Wind in children
  • Dysuria
  • Pain with swelling and inflammation
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry or Taut and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Purge Liver and Gall Bladder Fire
  • Clear the bowels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Chest pain and oppression
  • A racing Heart
  • Irascibility
  • Insomnia
  • Profuse dreaming
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Dry throat
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Liver
  • Drain Fire
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pale complexion
  • Pale lips
  • Blurred or failing vision
  • Spots before eyes
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Pale nail beds
  • Irritability
  • Frightens easily
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Tinnitus
  • Numbness of limbs
  • Tremor, spasms or involuntary movements (chorea)
  • Involuntary shaking of head
  • Light menses or amenorrhea
  • Late menses
  • Tic or tremor of hands and feet
  • Maybe trismus
  • T: Pale
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Subdue Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Impaired vision
  • Night blindness
  • Tinnitus
  • Irascibility
  • Throbbing headache with distended feeling
  • Flushed face
  • Blurred vision
  • Red, dry eyes with feeling of grit in eye
  • Dry mouth and throat with bitter taste in mouth
  • Palpitations
  • Headache
  • Nervousness
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Dry throat
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Five sole Heat (palms, soles and center of chest)
  • Night sweats
  • Light or late menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • With Stomach Fire: Constipation
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and wiry or Wiry and rapid (when Yang is Rising and Excess, pulse is forceful) or Thready and rapid when Yang is not prominent
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Subdue Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
  • Depression
  • 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
  • Sedate and calm the Spirit
  • Relieve the chest and subcardiac regions
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pale complexion
  • Pale lips
  • Blurred or failing vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Pale nail beds
  • Irritability
  • Frightens easily
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Tinnitus
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Light menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Late menses
  • T: Pale
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Liver
  • Reinforce the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Agitation
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Indecision
  • Suspiciousness
  • Palpitations with anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Frequent sighing
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • T: Pink
  • C: Yellow and greasy or Thin and white
  • P: Slippery and wiry or Thready and wiry- maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Descend Contravecting Qi
  • Harmonize the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pericardial pain
  • Arrhythmia
  • Palpitations
  • Paroxysmal chest pain that may refer to the hypochondrium, back and shoulder
  • Epigastric fullness
  • Restlessness
  • Impaired appetite
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Symptoms are aggravated by anger or emotional upset
  • Slight relief after belching
  • T: Reddish
  • C: Greasy white or yellowish
  • P:Taut-tense, pounding and slippery in the Gall Bladder position
Treatment Principle
  • Spread Liver Qi
  • Relieve Stagnation
  • Activate the Blood
  • Circulates Qi
  • Removes Blood Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low back and knees aching and weak
  • Hearing deficit
  • Palpitations
  • Jing Gate Not Consolidated:
    Spermatorrhea
    Premature ejaculation
    Vaginal discharge
    Infertility
  • Urinary disorder:
    Frequent, clear, abundant urination
    Dribbling after urination
    Incontinence of urine
  • T: Pale and swollen with teethmarks
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Consolidate the Kidneys
  • Conserve Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema of whole body particularly at and below the waist
  • Pitting edema
  • Low back pain, aching and heaviness
  • Abdominal distention with full sensations
  • Oliguria
  • Cold limbs
  • Face gray and congested or pale
  • Feeling nervous and cold with mental weariness
  • In severe cases:
    Ascites
    Edema of scrotum
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin, white or Thick, white and sticky
  • P: Deep and thready
  • With Water Flooding the Lungs:
    Cough with copious, thin watery phlegm
    Asthma with phlegmy sound (wheezing)
    Dyspnea
    Facial edema
    Edema of limbs
    Dysuria
    T: Pale and swollen
    C: White and moist or White and greasy
    P: Superficial and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Kidneys
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Amenorrhea
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Hot flashes
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Night sweats
  • Perspiration
  • Nervousness
  • Muscular flaccidity
  • Fatigue
  • Mood swings
  • Cold feet
  • Lassitude
  • Frequent, clear urine
  • Irritability
  • Headache
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Replenish Kidney Yin and Yang
  • Tonify Kidney Jing
  • Purge Deficiency Fire
  • Regulate the Chong and Ren
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Continuous discomfort, both awake and asleep
  • Dizziness
  • Chest pain and oppression
  • Reduced food intake
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of the low back
  • Spermatorrhea or
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Aching in the bones
  • Aching in the leg and heel
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Thirst
  • Night sweats
  • Irritability
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Emaciation
  • Low grade fever in the afternoon
  • Dry throat, maybe recurrent sore throat
  • Dry stools and/or
  • Constipation
  • Urine short and red
  • Heightened libido
  • Insomnia
  • Frequent dreams
  • Seminal emission
  • Irregular menstruation
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Subdue Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Spermatorrhea with erotic dreams
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Irritability
  • Easily startled
  • Restlessness
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back soreness
  • Legs weak
  • Tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Red cheeks
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Urine short and red
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Kidney and Heart Yin
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Weak and sore lower back and knees
  • Weakness and atrophy of the legs
  • Dry, parched mouth and throat
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Prematurely gray hair
  • Premature hair loss
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Hypermenorrhea
  • T: Red and dry
Treatment Principle
  • Nourishes Kidney and Liver Yin and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills
  • Diarrhea
  • Vomiting
  • Abdominal distention
  • Cold limbs
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety due to stress
  • Edema
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White or White and moist
  • P: Soft and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Warm Yang
  • Restore Yang from collapse
  • Relieve restlessness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A somber, white facial complexion
  • Dizziness
  • Lack of strength
  • Low back and lower leg soreness and weakness
  • Seminal emission
  • Decreased sexual desire
  • Sometimes hot, sometimes cold
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Night sweats
  • Tinnitus
  • Heart palpitations
  • T: Pale
  • C: White or Little
  • P:Deep, thready and forceless or Deep, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Strengthen Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Fatigue
  • Spontaneous sweat
  • Weakness
  • Blurred vision
  • Pale face
  • Malar flush
  • Night sweats
  • Low back pain
  • Weak low back and knees
  • Cold extremities
  • Chest pain
  • T: Variable
  • C: Little or None or White
  • P: Weak or Weak and thready or Weak and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Break up Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • A racing Heart
  • Fatigue
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • A dry mouth with a desire to drink
  • Lassitude
  • Chest oppression
  • Emaciation
  • Lack of strength
  • Dry, rough eyes
  • Possible distended feeling in eyes
  • A pale, lusterless face
  • Possible malar flush
  • Restless
  • Insomnia
  • Poor memory
  • Scanty, yellow urination or
  • Profuse, clear urination
  • Dry, parched throat
  • Possible coughing of bloody Phlegm
  • Tasteless feeling in the mouth
  • Low back and knee soreness and
  • Weakness
  • Low grade fever
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Possible sweating
  • Night sweats
  • Possible tremors of the hands and tongue
  • Scanty intake
  • Abdominal distention after meal
  • Loose stools
  • T: Red or Pale red
  • C: Thin or Peeled
  • P: Empty and rapid or Thready and rapid or Thready
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Spleen
  • Augment Qi
  • Supplement the Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Numbness and pain that is fixed, stabbing and /or severe or
  • Pains that move around
  • Maybe swelling
  • Distention
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Pan is worse with pressure
  • Dark complexion
  • Fixed, palpable masses
  • Bleeding with clots
  • Purple lips
  • Purple nails
  • Palpitations
  • Dry skin
  • Blue, dark or purplish discoloration of skin in small or large areas,
  • Varicose and spider veins
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Tendency to hemorrhage dark blood or clots
  • T: Purple, possible purple or red spots
    Red purple if there is Heat
    Blue purple if there is Cold
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Activate the Blood
  • Break up Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Dull, continuous chest pain of varying intensity
  • Loose stools
  • Poor appetite
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Low-grade fever
  • Pale face
  • Shortness of breath
  • Possible panting, worse on exertion
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Palpitations
  • Disquieted Spirit
  • Insomnia
  • Profuse dreaming
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Scanty periods
  • Yellowish, red urination
  • T: Pale or Pale, thin and dry or Pale and flabby with teethmarks
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak or Thin and choppy or Thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Anemia
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Cold extremities
  • Pale or sallow face
  • Dizziness
  • General fatigue
  • Coarse skin
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Weak knees
  • Fatigue
  • Dyspnea
  • Night sweats
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Insomnia
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Decreased eyesight after a prolonged illness
  • Anxiety
  • Intermittent fever
  • Jaundice
  • Deficient cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • Palpitations
  • Anorexia
  • Listlessness
  • Lassitude
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Continuous spotting
  • Leukorrhea
  • Weak legs and knees
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Replenish Yang
  • Warm and tonify Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lassitude
  • Fatigue
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Palpitations
  • Emaciation
  • Lack of strength
  • Dry, rough eyes
  • Possible distended feeling in eyes
  • A pale, lusterless face
  • Possible malar flush
  • Restless
  • Insomnia
  • Poor memory
  • Dry, parched throat
  • Tasteless feeling in the mouth
  • Low back and knee soreness and weakness
  • Low grade fever
  • Five Sole heat
  • Possible sweating
  • Possible tremors of the hands and tongue
  • Scanty intake
  • Abdominal distention after meal
  • Loose stools
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin or Peeled
  • P: Empty and rapid or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Promote urination
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Dispel Blood Stasis
  • Nourish Yin
  • Generate fluids
  • Clear Heat
  • Drain Kidney Fire
  • Cool the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Poor memory
  • Palpitations worse at night
  • Occasional chest pain, worse at night
  • Dizziness
  • Chronic, prolonged vertex headache
  • Heaviness or tightness in the chest
  • Boring pain under the ribs
  • Pain that is fixed, stabbing and /or severe
  • Pan is worse with pressure
  • Dark complexion
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Easily angered
  • Depression
  • Fixed, palpable masses
  • Bleeding with clots
  • Purple lips
  • Purple nails
  • Purple sclera
  • Purple conjunctiva
  • Dry skin
  • Blue, dark or purplish discoloration of skin in small or large areas
  • Varicose and spider veins
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Tendency to hemorrhage dark blood or clots
  • T: Purple, possible purple or red spots
    Red purple if there is Heat
    Blue purple if there is Cold
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorates the Blood
  • Breaks up Stagnation
  • Nourishes the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Prolonged lochia
  • Excessive postpartum bleeding
  • Profuse bleeding
  • Puerperal fever
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Dry mouth
  • Heart irritability
  • Light headedness
  • Delirium
  • Irritability
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Nervousness
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal pain
  • Flank distention and fullness
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Tinnitus
  • Excessive loss of Blood
  • Emotional instability
  • Fullness and distention of the hypochondrium
  • Epigastric pain
  • Aversion to Cold
  • T: Pale
  • C: Slippery
  • P: Weak and Deep
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Regulate Qi
  • Transform Stasis
  • Harmonize the Liver and Spleen
  • Regulate menstruation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Copious bleeding of dark purple blood
  • The blood is sticky during menstruation
  • May or may not have clots
  • Menstrual cycle is shortened (early menstruation)
  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Pale, lusterless complexion
  • Pale nails
  • Abdominal pain
  • Irregular menstruation with little flow
  • Fixed lower abdominal pain
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Pale lips
  • May be amenorrhea
  • Insomnia
  • Menstruation may also be accompanied by distention and pain
  • T: Pale
  • C: Normal
  • P: Thin and weak or Thin and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify and invigorate the Blood
  • Regulate Blood circulation
  • Break up Blood Stagnation
  • Regulate menstruation
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Fatigue
  • Scanty periods
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin, white and dry
  • P: Thready and rapid or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Blood
  • Tonify the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Irritability
  • Fidgeting
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Incoherent speech
  • Insomnia
  • Dark urine
  • Deep-rooted boils
  • Maculae
  • Carbuncles
  • Hematemesis
  • Hemoptysis
  • Palpitations
  • Furuncles
  • Tinnitus
  • Purpura
  • Red face
  • Rashes
  • Deep-rooted boils
  • Red eyes
  • Itchy skin
  • Fidgeting
  • Dry lips
  • Delirium
  • Dysentery with fever
  • Jaundice
  • Epistaxis
  • Hematuria
  • Cloudy mind
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Drain Fire
  • Relieve toxicity
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Irritability
  • Fidgeting
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Incoherent speech
  • Insomnia
  • Dark urine
  • Deep-rooted boils
  • Maculae
  • Carbuncles
  • Hematemesis
  • Hemoptysis
  • Palpitations
  • Furuncles
  • Tinnitus
  • Purpura
  • Red face
  • Rashes
  • Deep-rooted boils
  • Red eyes
  • Itchy skin
  • Fidgeting
  • Dry lips
  • Delirium
  • Dysentery with fever
  • Jaundice
  • Epistaxis
  • Hematuria
  • Cloudy mind
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Drain Fire
  • Relieve toxicity
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Sputum in the throat
  • Chest fullness and distention
  • Epigastric fullness and distention
  • Hypertension
  • Marked emotional changes and behavior
  • Irritability
  • A feeling of Qi rushing upward
  • Red eyes
  • Headache - lasts all day
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Hot flushes
  • Anorexia
  • A feeling of distention and oppression below the Heart
  • Abdominal bloating
  • Muscle spasms in the shoulders, neck and back
  • Vertigo
  • T: Red edges
  • C: Greasy
  • P: Soft and wiry and maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat from the Liver channel
  • Descend Liver Yang
  • Extinguish Liver Wind
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Enrich Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sticky, yellow, difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Rapid breathing with a harsh voice
  • Restless fever
  • Sore throat
  • Constipation
  • Dry stools
  • Mania
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Chest and/or epigastric fullness
  • Pain in the ribs
  • T: Scarlet
  • C: Yellow or Yellow and greasy or Yellow and smooth
  • P: Rapid and smooth or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Mental cloudiness
  • Heavy head
  • Heavy sensation in the body
  • Cough with Excess sputum
  • Chest and epigastric distention
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest and epigastrium
  • Nausea
  • Profuse sputum
  • Vomiting
  • Anorexia
  • Fatigue
  • Borborygmus
  • Tinnitus
  • Mouth glutinous
  • No thirst
  • Likes to sleep
  • Maybe palpitations
  • T: Thick
  • C: White and greasy or Sticky and white
  • P: Rolling or Wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Eliminate Dampness
  • Resolve Phlegm
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Palpitations beneath the umbilicus
  • Anorexia
  • Edema
  • Abdominal distention
  • Chest and hypochondriac distention
  • Dizziness
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Vertigo
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Maybe no thirst
  • Shortness of Breath
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thick and slippery
  • P: Slippery, full and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Dissolve Tan Yin
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Expectoration of viscous sputum
  • Fullness of the chest and epigastrium
  • Lassitude
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Wiry and rolling
Treatment Principle
  • Calm the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Acute lower abdominal pain
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Night fevers
  • Delirious speech
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst
  • May be mania (severe)
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Amenorrhea
  • Hard stool
  • Dark red complexion
  • Headache
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Insomnia
  • Palpitations
  • Constipation
  • Frequent urination
  • Emotional instability
  • Chills in the waist and feet
  • Afternoon fever
  • Tremors
  • Excruciating abdominal pain with cold
  • Black stool
  • May be chills and fever
  • Hemoptysis
  • Hematuria
  • Red eyes
  • Pain and distention of the head
  • Toothache
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Lochioschesis
  • Severe wheezing
  • Distention of the chest
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Deep and forceful or Choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Heat
  • Break up Blood Stasis
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations generally affecting women who are experiencing:
  • Sadness
  • Depression
  • Headaches
  • Chest oppression
  • P: Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
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Clinical Manifestations
  • A sallow facial complexion
  • Edema
  • Palpitations
  • Hurried respiration
  • Fatigue
  • A lack of energy
Treatment Principle
  • Reduce accumulation
  • Dry Dampness
  • Drain the Liver
  • Expel parasites
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