ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

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
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Memory loss
  • Sallow complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even, forceless and Deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • Induce resuscitation
Herb Formulas
Points
  • Group 1: DU-15, PC-8, ST-36, UB-23
  • Group 2: DU-14, REN-15, SP-6, KI-1
  • Group 3: DU-15,, Shixuan, LI-10, KI-3
    Use the three groups alternately day for 1 minutes for three days. Rest 5-7 days. Repeat
    Use ginger and 3-5 moxa cones every other day on the above points for ten treatments. Rest 5 days and repeat as needed.
  • Moxibustion: Use ginger and 3-5 moxa cones every other day on the above points for ten treatments. Rest 5 days and repeat as needed.
Clinical Manifestations
  • Memory loss
  • Body cold
  • Limbs icy
  • Complexion white and shiny
  • Low back, knees and abdomen feel cold and painful
  • Lower abdomen feels cold and painful
  • Loose stools containing undigested food
  • Cock-crow diarrhea (occurs at about 5 am)
  • Edema of face and limbs
  • Dysuria
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: Thin and white or White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready, weak and maybe slow
  • Extreme cases: Abdominal ascites
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Spleen and Kidney
  • Nourish the Brain and Marrow
Herb Formulas
Points
  • Group 1: DU-15, PC-8, ST-36, UB-23
  • Group 2: DU-14, REN-15, SP-6, KI-1
  • Group 3: DU-15,, Shixuan, LI-10, KI-3
    Use the three groups alternately day for 1 minutes for three days. Rest 5-7 days. Repeat
    Use ginger and 3-5 moxa cones every other day on the above points for ten treatments. Rest 5 days and repeat as needed.
  • Moxibustion: Use ginger and 3-5 moxa cones every other day on the above points for ten treatments. Rest 5 days and repeat as needed.
Clinical Manifestations
  • Slow movement
  • A torpid, dull affect
  • Relatively scanty speech
  • Severe: aphasia
  • Difficulty thinking
  • Chaotic speech
  • Decreased memory
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Loss of mental and physical sharpness and coordination
  • T: Pale and dark maybe with Stasis maculae
  • C: White and slimy
  • P: Slippery or Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Kidneys
  • Tonify the Spleen
  • Dispel Phlegm
  • Transform Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A predilection toward rash behavior
  • Ulceration, erosion, and pain of mouth and tongue
  • Thirst with a desire for cold drinks
  • Headache
  • Irritability
  • Irascibility
  • Insomnia
  • Profuse dreams
  • Anxiety
  • Chaotic, confused speech
  • Inconsistently laughing and crying
  • Feeling of Heat and disturbance in the Heart
  • Insomnia
  • Flushed face
  • Red lips
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Frequent reddish urination
  • Dry stools
  • T: Red tip with ulcers especially on the tip
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Excess and rapid or Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Purge Fire
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mental confusion
  • Heavy headedness
  • A yellow, stagnant facial complexion
  • Superficial edema
  • Fatigue
  • Lack of strength
  • Hypersomnia
  • Sound of phlegm in throat with gurgling
  • Scanty or confused speech
  • Alternating sorrow and joy for no reason
  • Lack of discrimination between good and bad
  • No care for appearance
  • Profuse Phlegm-drool from the mouth
  • Ductal oppression
  • abdominal distention
  • Severe:
    Lack of sensitivity
    Inability to manage ones activities
  • T: Pale and fat
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Soggy and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Clear Phlegm
  • Arouse the brain
  • Open the Orifices
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Confused, chaotic thinking
  • A predilection to sorrow
  • A desire to cry
  • Excessive stillness
  • Scanty speech
  • Slow movements
  • A lack of involvement in the outside world
  • Lassitude
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Lack of strength'
  • Emaciation
  • Palpitations
  • Susceptibility to fright
  • Shortness of breath on light exertion
  • Torpid intake
  • Lack of taste
  • T: Pale and enlarged
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Heart and Spleen
  • Quiet the Spirit
  • Stabilize the mind
Herb Formulas
Points
  • DU-20, Sishencong, UB-15, UB-17, UB-20, UB-52
    For marked palpitations, confused thinking and insomnia: + HT-7
    For Blood Stasis: + SP-6
    For severe Blood Deficiency: + SP-6
    For Phlegm: + ST-40
    For marked digestive symptoms or weakness and fatigue: + ST-36
    For a predilection to sorrow and a desire to cry: + SP-1
    For susceptibility to fright: + PC-7
Clinical Manifestations
  • Blurred vision
  • A quick temper
  • Depression
  • Oppression
  • Emotional dysphoria
  • No desire to speak
  • Rib and flank distention and pain
  • T: Dark with possible Stasis maculae
  • C: Slimy
  • P: Slippery and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Spread the Liver
  • Regulate Qi
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Dispel Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Impaired vision
  • Night blindness
  • Tinnitus
  • Agitation
  • Restlessness
  • Tends toward frenetic activity
  • 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
  • Thirst
  • Five sole Heat (palms, soles and center of chest)
  • Night sweats
  • Light or late menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • A stiff tongue
  • Slurred speech
  • Numbness and tingling of the limbs
  • Maybe deviation of the mouth and eyes
  • Hemiplegia
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Thin and yellow or Thin and white
  • P: Thready and wiry or Wiry and rapid or Wiry and slippery or Thready, wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Subdue Yang
  • Arouse the Spirit
  • Open the Orifices
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A relatively long disease course
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Numbness and tingling of the hands and feet
  • Loss of intelligence
  • Loss of coordination
  • Decreased memory
  • Lack of Spirit in both eyes
  • A stagnant, torpid facial expression
  • Malar flush
  • Night sweats
  • Possible emaciation
  • Dry, scaly skin
  • A quick temper
  • Trembling
  • Spasms or contractions
  • Severe:
    Difficult, encumbered movement
    Possible hemiplegia
    Aphasia
  • T: Dark red with possible static maculae
  • C: Scanty
  • P: Thready, wiry and maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and tonify the Liver and Kidneys
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Dispel Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Memory loss
  • Lumbago: low back feels cold, weak and aching.
  • Feeling chilled
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold limbs
  • General debility
  • Pale face
  • Urinary frequency with abundant, clear urine or
  • Oliguria with edema
  • Maybe nocturia
  • Lassitude
  • Withdrawn, subdued behavior
  • Knees feel cold and aching
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation
  • Low libido
  • Female infertility (“uterus cold and infertile”)
  • Maybe anorexia
  • Maybe loose stools
  • Maybe chronic diarrhea or “cock crow” diarrhea
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and thready - maybe slow
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify and Warm the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Memory loss
  • Severe cases:
    Loss of recognition of close relations
    Forgetting events instantly
    Dulled sensation
  • Generalized weakness
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back and knees weak and aching
  • Hair loss
  • Graying or whitening of hair
  • Dull, lifeless hair
  • Weak sexual function
  • Impotence
  • Infertility
  • Atrophy and weakness of feet with difficulty walking
  • Senility (premature or mature)
  • Brittle bones
  • Gradual deterioration of hearing
  • Emaciation
  • Frequent urination
  • Nocturia
  • Loss of visual acuity
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourishes Yin
  • Tonifies the Kidneys
  • Nourish Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Forgetfulness
  • Poor memory
  • Absent mindedness
  • Short attention span
  • Inability to concentrate
  • Slow speech
  • Dull senses
  • A blank expression
  • T: Dark or pale purple with echymoses and dark sublingual veins
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Slippery and choppy or Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Eliminate Stasis
Herb Formulas
  • Shou Xing Wan
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Fu Fang Dan Shen Pian
    Sheng Tian Pian

    Jing Gu Du Sheng Wan
    Fu Ke Wu Jiao Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo (possibly severe)
  • Headaches (may be recurrent)
  • A stifling sensation in the chest
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Copious sputum
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Lockjaw
  • Sinus congestion
  • Cold feet
  • Fatigue
  • Abdominal distention
  • Weakness of hands and feet
  • May be edema
  • Sudden loss of consciousness
  • Excess salivation
  • Compulsive sleeping after eating
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Wiry and slippery or Soft and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Extinguish Wind
Herb Formulas
Points