BAD BREATH, HALITOSIS, OZOSTOMIA

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse sweat
  • Generalized weakness
  • Severe chills
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Red face
  • Severe thirst
  • Thirst may be unquenchable
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Pruritis
  • Headache
  • Toothache
  • Gum bleeding
  • Epistaxis
  • Dry lips
  • Dry tongue
  • Dry mouth
  • May be sensitive to Cold in the upper back
  • Polyuria
  • Delusions
  • Eye congestion
  • Burning sensation on the skin
  • Itching skin
  • Abdominal fullness without resistance
  • Dry, course skin
  • Listlessness
  • May be heavy labored breathing
  • Delirious speech (serious cases)
  • Mania (serious cases)
  • T: Red tip and sides
  • C: Yellow, dry or white
  • P: Large and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Promote Body Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Bad breath
  • Lingering fever from a febrile disease
  • Vomiting
  • Irritability
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Parched mouth, lips and throat
  • Choking cough
  • Restlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Nausea
  • Anorexia
  • Profuse perspiration
  • A dry mouth
  • Indigestion
  • Listlessness
  • Chest oppression
  • Ulcerations of the mouth
  • Coarse skin
  • Cough
  • Night sweats
  • Stifling sensation in the chest or epigastrium
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Rapid and Deficient or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Generate fluids
  • Tonify Qi
  • Harmonize the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Coughing (high and clear sounding)
  • Wheezing
  • Fever
  • Skin that feels hot to the touch
  • Symptoms worse in the late afternoon
  • Dry mouth
  • Bad breath
  • Little or difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Burning pain in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Yellow sputum
  • Hemoptysis
  • A warm steaming sensation from the skin that is most prominent in the late afternoon
  • Maybe constipation
  • Impatience
  • Dry throat
  • Hurried respiration leading to dyspnea
  • Irritability
  • Dyspnea
  • Afternoon fever
  • Anhidrosis
  • Dizziness
  • Conjunctival congestion
  • Dry, bitter taste in the mouth
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Thready and rapid - maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Heat from the Lungs
  • Calm wheezing (asthma)
  • Stop coughing
  • Relieve dyspnea
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry stools
  • Knotted constipation or bowel movements once a day
  • Difficulty passing stools
  • Dizziness
  • Bad breath
  • Mouth and throat dry
  • T: Red
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Lubricate the Intestines
  • Relieve constipation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Distention and fullness in epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loss of taste and appetite
  • Heavy sensation in the limbs and body
  • Loose stools or diarrhea after eating
  • Easily fatigued
  • Increased desire to sleep
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Belching
  • Feeling lazy with a preference for inactivity
  • Lethargy
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Cough with sputum
  • Borborygmus
  • Shortness of breath
  • Fullness in the chest
  • Persistent bitter taste in mouth
  • Headache triggered by strong smells
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thick, white and greasy
  • P: Slippery and even or Slow or Moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Cold
  • Transform Dampness
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Strengthen the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal distention and discomfort
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Epigastric mass
  • Maybe abdominal pain on palpation
  • Yang jaundice (sclera and skin are bright yellow)
  • Dislike of oily foods
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Lassitude
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • Maybe thirst or thirst with no desire to drink
  • Diarrhea with foul smell or
  • Constipation
  • Fever
  • Sweet sticky taste or bitter taste in mouth
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, yellow and greasy (maybe sticky)
  • P: Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Benefit Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mouth ulcers
  • Bad breath
  • Thirst
  • Frequent hunger
  • Dry mouth and lips
  • Epistaxis
  • Tongue thrusting in children
  • Irritability
  • T: Red
  • C: Normal or Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Latent Fire from the Spleen and Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Obesity
  • Hungers easily after eating
  • Fatigue
  • Lack of strength
  • Tends toward alternating
  • loose stools and constipation
  • Red facial complexion
  • Dry mouth with a desire to drink
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Bad breath
  • T: Enlarged
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Slippery and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Qi
  • Clear Heat
  • Eliminate Dampness
  • Unblock the stool
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Obesity with a long history of a bad diet
  • Dislike of speaking
  • Sweating on exertion
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Puffy face
  • Poor appetite
  • Abdominal fullness after eating
  • Fatigued spirit
  • Weakness of the extremities
  • Somnolence
  • Clear, thin vaginal discharge
  • Bland taste in the mouth
  • Hungers easily after eating
  • Fatigue
  • Lack of strength
  • Tends toward alternating Loose stools and constipation
  • Red facial complexion
  • Dry mouth with a desire to drink
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Bad breath
  • Emotional problems
  • Chest oppression
  • Flank pain
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • T: Normal or Pale with teethmarks or Enlarged
  • C: White or Yellow
  • P: Wiry or Slippery and wiry or Fine and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate Blood circulation
  • Tonify Qi
  • Drain Heat
  • Reduce Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Obesity with a long history of a bad diet
  • Dislike of speaking
  • Sweating on exertion
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Puffy face
  • Poor appetite
  • Abdominal fullness after eating
  • Fatigued spirit
  • Weakness of the extremities
  • Somnolence
  • Clear, thin vaginal discharge
  • Bland taste in the mouth
  • Hungers easily after eating
  • Fatigue
  • Lack of strength
  • Tends toward alternating
  • Loose stools and constipation
  • Red facial complexion
  • Dry mouth with a desire to drink
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Bad breath
  • T: Pale with teethmarks or Enlarged
  • C: White or Yellow
  • P: Slippery and wiry or Fine and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reduce and guide out Food Stagnation
  • Transform accumulations
  • Transform Blood Stasis
  • Invigorate Blood circulation
  • Promote the movement of Qi
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Clear Damp-Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cramps and pain in the epigastrium
  • Fullness and distention of the chest and hypochondrium
  • Acid reflux
  • Nausea/Vomiting
  • Mild constant epigastric pain; relieved by warmth and pressure
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal pain and fullness after meals
  • Fatigue
  • Poor muscle tone
  • A flabby abdomen
  • 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 and/or Moist
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready and forceless or Large and faint
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Warm Yang
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Burning Heat and pain in the epigastrium
  • Abdominal pain
  • Irritating thirst: drinks copious fluids and prefers cold drinks
  • Excessive appetite: hungry again quickly after eating (as if food vanishes)
  • Swelling, pain, ulceration and bleeding of gums
  • Foul breath
  • Thiurst
  • Toothache
  • Maybe vomiting right after eating
  • Vomiting acid or undigested food
  • Constipation
  • Maybe scanty, red urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick, yellow and dry
  • P: Slippery, big, Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear and Purge Stomach Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Epigastric fullness, distention and pain with dislike of pressure
  • Belching with rotten food smell
  • Bad breath
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Detests food or
  • Vomits after eating
  • Distention is reduced after vomiting
  • Unformed stools or
  • Knotted constipation
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick and greasy
  • P: Slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Food
  • Conduct Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Ulceration, erosion, and pain of mouth and tongue
  • Thirst with a desire for cold drinks
  • Irritability
  • Iirascibility
  • Feeling of Heat and disturbance in the Heart
  • Insomnia
  • Flushed face
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • T: Red tip with ulcers especially on the tip
  • P: Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Purge Fire
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden collapse with loss of consciousness
  • Lockjaw (trismus)
  • Eyes open
  • Both fists clenched
  • Retention of urine
  • Constipation
  • Stiffness and spasm of limbs
  • Red face
  • Body feels hot
  • Coarse breathing
  • Bad breath
  • Restlessness
  • Involuntary movements
  • Usual sequelae of C.V.A. such as:
    Hemiplegia
    Aphasia
    Facial paralysis
  • T: Pink
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery, wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Phlegm
  • Open the Orifices
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Food stagnation
  • Foul breath
  • Firm epigastric focal distention
  • Dry heaves with a foul odor
  • The sound of Fluids in the hypochondria
  • Diarrhea
  • Very loud borborygmus
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Fullness and oppression in the chest and abdomen
  • Heartburn
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Ascites
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin, yellow and greasy
  • P: Wiry, taut and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Reduce focal distention
  • Disperse clumping
  • Expel water
  • Descend s Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe localized pain or
  • Pain that is spreading to involve the whole abdomen
  • Abdominal rigidity
  • Abdominal guarding
  • Epigastric and abdominal hardness and distention
  • Constipation
  • No passing of gas
  • High fever or Chills and fever
  • Thirst
  • Dry mouth, throat and lips
  • A red complexion
  • Red eyes
  • Malaise
  • A headache
  • Nausea/Vomiting
  • Halitosis
  • Concentrated urine
  • T: Deep red or Scarlet
  • C: Greasy and yellow or Dry and yellow
  • P: Flooding and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Toxic Heat
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Break up Blood Stasis
  • Dissipate accumulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Irritability
  • Fidgeting
  • Dry mouth
  • Bad breath
  • 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 from all three Jiaos
  • Relieve inflammation
  • Stop bleeding
  • Purge Damp-Heat
  • Purge the Gallbladder
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Thirst
  • Restlessness
  • Foul breath
  • A dry throat
  • T: Dry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat from the Upper and Middle Jiaos
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Chills
  • Severe headache
  • Flushed cheeks
  • Bad breath
  • Tinnitus
  • Hearing loss
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Coughing up viscous, thick sputum
  • Dark urine
  • Swollen lymph nodes
  • Abdominal tension and itching
  • Darkened skin
  • Epistaxis
  • Itching
  • Formation of cellulitis
  • T: Red
  • C: Normal or Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Fire
  • Relieve toxicity
  • Spread the Liver Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Disperse Wind-Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Intermittent abdominal pain
  • Indigestion
  • Emaciation
  • Loose stools
  • Feverishness
  • Foul breath
  • A sallow complexion
  • A large, distended abdomen
  • Anorexia
  • Decreased intake of food
  • Weak constitution
  • Constant fatigue
  • Maybe nausea and vomiting
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
Treatment Principle
  • Kill parasites
  • Reduce accumulations
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points