BRONCHITIS

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Acute, hacking dry cough
  • Cough with scant, sticky white or yellowish, difficult-to-expectorate sputum
  • Acute fever and chills
  • Dry mouth, throat, nose and lips
  • Chest pain which is worse when coughing
  • Painful or wheezing respiration
  • Lethargy
  • Malaise
  • Weakness
  • Anorexia
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and rapid or Slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Lung Heat
  • Disperse Wind-Heat
  • Eliminate Phlegm
  • Stop cough
Herb Formulas
  • Yin Qiao San
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Qing Fei Yi Huo Pian
    Ma Xing Zhi Ke Pian
    Niu Huang Jie Du Pian
    Chuan Ke Ling
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Mild, or severe chills
  • Fever which may be persistent
  • Uneasiness from fever
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Headache
  • Nausea
  • Nasal irritation
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Tendency to snore
  • Itchy throat
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial and slow or Moderate and maybe weak
Treatment Principle
  • Create sweat to relieve the Exterior and expel Wind
  • Harmonize Ying and Wei to protect digestion and nourish Wei Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Chills and fever
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Headache
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough with expectoration of clear, or white sputum.
  • Asthma
  • Shortness of breath
  • Sore throat with phlegm
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thick and greasy or Sticky white
  • P: Floating and weak or Floating and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Stop cough
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • Relieve the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe chills
  • Mild or no fever
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Watery sputum
  • The sputum rattles in the bronchi
  • Dyspnea
  • Headache
  • Generalized discomfort
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Body aches
  • Joint ache
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Hiccups
  • Anhidrosis
  • Gasping
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Aversion to Wind and Cold
  • Maybe low back pain
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • Maybe dyspnea
  • Maybe epistaxis (severe)
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Floating and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Expel Cold
  • Disperse the Lungs
  • Stop asthma
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills and fever or
  • Fever with no thirst
  • Achiness
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • Dyspnea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Mild or severe gasping
  • Hiccups
  • Fullness in chest
  • Vomiting
  • Heaviness of the body
  • Edema
  • Dysuria
  • Maybe thirst
  • Maybe diarrhea
  • Maybe scanty urine
  • Maybe lower abdominal fullness
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Floating and slippery or tight
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Expel Cold
  • Disperse the Lungs
  • Stop asthma
  • Expel water or Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with a heavy sound
  • Choking cough
  • Stuffy and runny nose
  • Copious thin, watery nasal discharge
  • Excessive lacrimation
  • Wheezing with expectoration of copious thin watery or string mucus
  • Orthopnea
  • Thin white sputum
  • Chills and fever
  • Headache
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Itching larynx
  • Aching of limbs
  • Muscle soreness
  • Chilliness
  • Anhidrosis
  • T: Normal
  • C:Thin and white
  • P: Floating or Floating and tense
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind and Cold
  • Warm the Lungs
  • Warm and transform Phlegm Fluids
  • Stop wheezing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills
  • Maybe fever only
  • Maybe a high fever with chills
  • Achiness
  • Anhidrosis
  • Severe occipital headache
  • Loud cough
  • Sticky, yellow Phlegm
  • Asthma
  • Sore throat
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Muscle aches
  • Edema
  • Strong thirst with a desire for cold drinks
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Fidgeting
  • Dry stools
  • Constipation
  • Sometimes dry achy eyes
  • T: Normal or red
  • C: Yellow or white
  • P: Floating and tight or rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Wind
  • Disperse Cold
  • Cool Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Coughing and wheezing
  • Cough with expectoration of copious thick, purulent, yellow-green sputum or blood-flecked, foul-smelling pus (as in Lung abscess)
  • Dyspnea
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Fever or fever and chills
  • Spontaneous sweat
  • Headache
  • Rapid breathing
  • Dark, yellow urine
  • Thirst with a preference for cold beverages
  • Fidgeting
  • Restlessness
  • Pain in the ribs
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy, yellow
  • P: Slippery, rapid - slightly floating
Treatment Principle
  • Disseminate and descend Lung Qi
  • Stop asthma (wheezing)
  • Stop cough
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe chills
  • May have mild fever
  • No sweat
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold extremities
  • Cold sensation on back
  • Pale face
  • Extreme fatigue
  • Muscle aching
  • T: Pale with scallop
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, weak and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Expel Cold from the Exterior
  • Dispel Cold from the Interior
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Itching or tickling in the throat
  • Blocked or stuffy nose
  • Sneezing
  • General body aches
  • Cough with little or no mucus or
  • Cough with expectoration of thin, watery or frothy white sputum
  • Dry nasal passages
  • Dry lips
  • Mild headache
  • Chills with low grade fever
  • Slight headache
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Dry throat
  • No thirst
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Anhidrosis
  • Maybe asthma
  • Nasal congestion
  • Cough
  • Sore throat
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin, white and dry
  • P: Superficial and wiry or Tight or Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Mildly Disperse Cool Dryness
  • Disperse and descend Lung Qi
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • Transform thin mucus
  • Soothe the Lungs
Herb Formulas
  • Xing Su San
  • Chinese patent medicines:
    Chuan Bei Pi Pa Gao

Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lung-distension
  • Wheezing with a productive cough
  • Dyspnea
  • Panting
  • Yellow or white mucus which is difficult to expectorate
  • Thick phlegm
  • A dry mouth with a desire to drink
  • Maybe no thirst A choking sensation in the chest
  • A sense of fullness in the chest and diaphragm
  • The eyes look like they are popping out of their sockets
  • Facial edema
  • Chills
  • Oliguria
  • A mild to moderate fever
  • Dry stools
  • Maybe headache
  • Maybe the sound of sputum rattling in the throat
  • Maybe nervousness
  • Maybe anxiety
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and may be greasy
  • P: Floating, large and slippery or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Disseminate Lung Qi
  • Calm wheezing
  • Dispel Thin Mucus
  • Clear Heat
  • Relieve cough and dyspnea
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills with fever increasing and chills decreasing
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Stiffness and pain of the extremities
  • Orbital pain
  • Eye pain
  • Shoulder and neck tension
  • Dry nasal passages
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Thirst
  • Epistaxis
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and slightly flooding
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Release the muscle layer
  • Clear Interior Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Joint pain with a crackling sensation
  • Epigastric pain
  • Fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Headache
  • Heaviness in the head
  • Fever
  • Moderately severe chills
  • Distension beneath the Heart
  • Periumbilical or lower abdominal pain
  • Tenseness around the pubic bone
  • Subcostal pain
  • Epigastric fullness
  • Nausea
  • Mild vomiting
  • Mild thoraco-costal discomfort
  • Costal distress
  • Tension in the rectus abdominus
  • Chest distension
  • Abdominal pain
  • Abdominal distension
  • Constipation
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Repeated loss of spinal alignment due to muscular tension
  • P: Floating and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior and muscle layer
  • Harmonize and release the Shao-Yang
  • Harmonize the Liver, Spleen and Intestines
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever (not so likely)
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Continuous vomiting
  • Headache (side of head)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Epigastric pain
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Digestive disruption
  • Anorexia
  • Nausea
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Burning diarrhea or
  • Constipation
  • Menstrual problems
  • Dry throat
  • Heart pain with vomiting
  • Throat pain
  • Hip pain
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin yellow
  • P: Wiry, forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Liver and Gall Bladder
  • Purge Internal Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever (chills predominate) or
  • Chills without fever
  • Sensation of irritability in the chest
  • Sweating from the head
  • Fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Heavy head
  • Neuralgia
  • Epigastric distension
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Tension around pubic bone
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Urinary difficulty
  • T: Moist
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Superficial and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Clumping
  • Harmonize the Shao Yang
  • Warm the Interior
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Fullness and focal distention in the chest and diaphragm
  • Pain in the chest and diaphragm with pressure
  • Thick, sticky, difficult-to-expectorate Phlegm
  • Panting
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chest pain with coughing or on deep inhalation
  • Anorexia
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Expand the chest
  • Release the Shao Yang
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Curls up a lot
  • Doesn't like to talk
  • Tired (disoriented)
  • Fatigue
  • Constant somnolence
  • Sleeping with the knees drawn up to the chest
  • Generalized edema
  • No spirit
  • Dull Shen
  • Cold extremities
  • Aching and heaviness in the extremities
  • Diarrhea or loose stools or undigested food
  • Clear, frequent urine
  • Nocturia
  • Oliguria
  • Lower back pain
  • Maybe nausea (wants to vomit but can't)
  • Abdominal pain which is relieved by warmth and pressure
  • No thirst
  • Cough with thin, watery mucus
  • Likes warm drinks
  • Severe edema in chest
  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • T: Pale, swollen and moist
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep and weak or Slow, deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Restore Yang
  • Reverse inward energy
  • Expel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with thick, sticky, yellow sputum
  • Sore, red, swollen throat
  • Thirst with a desire to drink cold liquids
  • Runny or blocked nose with thick, yellow discharge
  • Fever with perspiration
  • Slight chills
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Headache
  • Maybe dyspnea with flared nostrils
  • Maybe chest pain
  • Red face and lips
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Superficial and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Ventilate the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry cough with little or no sputum
  • Sputum is difficult to expectorate
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • Cough may cause chest pain
  • Dry or sore throat
  • Hoarse voice
  • Dry lips and mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dryness in nose
  • Epistaxis
  • Chills and fever
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Dry skin and hair
  • Constipation
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin, yellow and dry
  • P: Superficial, maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Lungs
  • Moisten Dryness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills, fever more pronounced or
  • Tidal fever
  • Abdominal distention
  • Thirst
  • Sweat
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Restlessness
  • Gastric disturbances:
    Heaviness
    Nausea
    Severe diarrhea
  • Scanty urine
  • T: Red tip and edges
  • C: Greasy white or yellow
  • P: Rapid and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Damp
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Headache (wrapping)
  • Fever and chills, fever more pronounced or
  • Chills with afternoon fever
  • Heavy extremities
  • Heavy sensations in the body
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness
  • Gastric and abdominal distension
  • Sticky mouth
  • No thirst
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy, white or Greasy, yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid or Soft and slow or Wiry thin and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Damp-Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sticky yellow or blood tinged sputum Steaming bones sensation
  • Night sweats
  • Tidal fever
  • Warm sensation in the afternoon
  • Red lips
  • Red cheeks
  • Lethargy
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Five-sole-Heat
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Emaciation
  • Weak limbs
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Faint and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin and Blood
  • Clear Deficiency Heat
  • Reduce steaming bones sensation
  • Dispel Wind-Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with much bright red Blood and no sputum
  • Fever with or without sweating
  • Dry nostrils
  • Red swelling or erosion in the nostrils
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Thirst
  • Burning pain in the nose
  • Slight itching in the nose
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea or
  • Wheezing
  • Chest tightness and pain
  • High fever
  • Sore throat
  • No chills
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Asthma
  • Headache
  • General malaise
  • Restlessness
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Shortness of breath
  • Thick yellow Phlegm
  • Constipation
  • Dry stools
  • Dark-colored, scanty urine
  • T: Red or Red tip
  • C: Thin and yellow or Thick and yellow, maybe dry and sticky
  • P:  Rapid, maybe slippery, maybe forceful or Wiry or Rapid or Flooding and rapid or Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in Lungs
  • Strengthen when weak or elderly
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • No chills
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Profuse sweat
  • Great thirst with desire to drink
  • No chill
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst
  • Irritability
  • Abdominal pain
  • Dryness
  • Red face
  • Dry stools
  • Rough breathing
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Shortness of breath
  • Thick yellow Phlegm
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick and yellow, maybe dry and sticky
  • P:  Rapid, maybe slippery, maybe forceful or Rolling, gigantic and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in Lungs and Stomach
  • Reduce fever
  • Moisten and replenish Body Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Heavy, painful head
  • Generalized sensation of heaviness
  • Back pain
  • Generalized pain or muscle ache
  • Difficulty bending or rotating trunk
  • Mild fever
  • Slight aversion to Wind and Cold
  • Dizziness
  • Anorexia
  • Anhidrosis
  • Stiffness of the neck
  • Chest oppression
  • Chills
  • No perspiration
  • No thirst
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Lassitude
  • Swollen, painful joints
  • Back pain
  • T: Pink
  • C:White or Greasy and white
  • P: Superficial or Superficial and slow or Superficial and soft or Superficial and tight or Superficial and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Eliminate Dampness
  • Relieve the exterior
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever with or without chills
  • A hacking, painful cough with copious, purulent, malodorous mucus
  • The mucus may be Blood-streaked
  • Restricted movement of the chest
  • Labored breathing
  • Sweating
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Lethargy
  • Malaise
  • T: Red
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Flooding and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat and toxins
  • Disperse pus accumulation
  • Disperse Blood Stasis
Herb Formulas
  • Wei Jing Tang modified
  • Chinese patent medicines:
    Niu Huang Xiao Yan Wan
    Wan Shi Niu Huang Qing Xin Wan
    Xi Ling Jie Du Pian

    Chuan Ke Ling
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Shortness of Breath
  • Cough with copious, thin, white, frothy sputum
  • Chest congestion with full feeling
  • Dyspnea which is worse when lying down
  • Sometimes asthma
  • Sputum rattling in the throat
  • Dyspnea
  • Anorexia
  • Edema
  • Abdominal distention
  • Chest and hypochondriac distention
  • Dizziness
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Vertigo
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Maybe no thirst
  • Palpitations
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, white and greasy or sticky
  • P: Slippery or Slippery, full and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Activate the Spleen
  • Dry Dampness
  • Expel Phlegm
  • Purge the Lungs
  • Warm and Dissolve Tan Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with copious, thin, white, frothy sputum
  • Chest and diaphragm congestion with full feeling
  • Dyspnea which is worse when lying down
  • Panting with rales in the throat which usually occurs when exposed to Cold
  • Sometimes asthma
  • Maybe cold upper back
  • A greenish-blue, stagnant facial complexion
  • No thirst or
  • A preference for warm drinks
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Maybe a slight fever
  • Headache
  • Itchy throat
  • Sneezing
  • Runny nose
  • Body aches
  • Maybe itchy skin at the beginning of the acute stage
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, white and greasy or sticky
  • P: Slippery or Floating and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Activate the Spleen
  • Dry Dampness
  • Expel Phlegm
  • Purge the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with expectoration of copious thick, purulent, yellow-green sputum or blood-flecked, foul-smelling pus (as in Lung abscess)
  • Dyspnea
  • Sputum rattles in the throat
  • Wheezing
  • Chest and diaphragm blocked
  • Pain in the ribs
  • Maybe chills and fever
  • T: Scarlet
  • C: Yellow and smooth or Greasy and yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Large and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Counteract Toxin
  • Transform Stasis
  • Drain Pus
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • (The use of Clear Heat / Counteract Toxin herbs and the principle of "Draining Pus" are only relevant when foul-smelling pus is being expectorated such as in pulmonary abscess)
  • Soothe asthma in case of asthma
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sticky phlegm
  • Maybe bloody
  • Dry, hacking cough with little or no sputum
  • Flushed face
  • Sputum is difficult to expectorate
  • Restlessness
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • Hiccups
  • Cough may cause chest pain
  • Dyspnea
  • Dry or sore throat
  • Upper respiratory tract infection
  • Hoarse voice
  • Asthma
  • Dry lips and mouth
  • Fever
  • Shortness of breath
  • Hemoptysis
  • Constipation
  • Thirst
  • Dry skin and hair
  • Dryness in nose
  • Sensation of fullness in chest
  • Epistaxis
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Irritability
  • Itching
  • T: Red tip, dry
  • C: Thin, yellow, or White and dry, or None
  • P: Big and weak or Deficient, big and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Moisten Dryness
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough
  • Yellow Phlegm
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Constipation
  • Sore throat
  • Hematemesis
  • Hemoptysis
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear and purge Lung Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Stop cough and asthma
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Soft, weak cough with clear thin sputum
  • Physical and mental exhaustion
  • Soft, weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Unable to rest
  • Pale face
  • With Wei Qi Deficiency:
    Spontaneous perspiration (daytime)
    Low resistance to common cold
    Tendency to a blocked nose
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Lungs
  • Strengthen Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe, dry hacking cough
  • No sputum expectorated
  • Small amounts of difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Blood tinged sputum (when Yin Deficiency Fire is present)
  • Afternoon fever
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush (especially in afternoon)
  • Five sole Heat
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Itching in throat
  • Hoarse voice, low voice or loss of voice
  • Emaciation
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moisten the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Wheezing
  • Panting
  • Shortness of breath
  • Above symptoms are worse with exertion
  • Weak cough
  • Little or no mucus
  • Soft voice with little desire to talk
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Frequent cols and flu
  • Occasional dry, sore throat
  • T: Pale red, dry, swollen often with extensive cracks
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Weak and soft, possibly extending up the thenar eminence
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify and nourish Lung Qi and Yin
  • Descend Lung Qi
  • Stop wheezing
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
  • Protracted, incessant cough
  • Expectoration of copious, clear, watery or white Phlegm
  • Short, weak, breathing
  • Asthma
  • Four limbs tired
  • Anorexia
  • General lassitude
  • Distention and pain of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Severe cases:
    Frightens easily
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Spleen
  • Benefit the Lungs
  • Warm and transform Phlegm-Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with little yellow sputum
  • Spitting saliva
  • Wheezing
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dry, uncomfortable sensation in throat
  • Hiccups
  • Dry mouth
  • Coughing up difficult-to-extectorate Phlegm
  • Nausea
  • Scanty urination
  • Hoarseness
  • Thirst
  • Asthma
  • Flushed face
  • Five sole Heat
  • Vomiting
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid or Deficient and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Benefit the Stomach and Lungs
  • Generate Fluids
  • Descend Qi
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Unproductive cough or
  • Scanty, sticky phlegm or
  • Sometimes blood-streaked sputum
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Low back and knees sore and weak
  • "Steaming Bone" tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush
  • Insomnia
  • Frequent, burning urination
  • Dark, yellow urine
  • Maybe hoarse voice
  • Maybe pain in shin, foot, and heel
  • Sterility
  • Spermatorrhea
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moisten the Lungs
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry, weak, chronic cough with blood streaked sputum
  • Wheezing
  • Chest oppression and pain
  • Expectoration of small amounts of thick, sticky sputum
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry, sore throat
  • Dry, burning sensation on the skin
  • Five sole Heat
  • Afternoon fever
  • Low grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Shortness of breath
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Steaming bones
  • Vivid dreaming
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Tinnitus
  • Dizziness
  • Dyspnea
  • Dysphoria
  • Hoarseness
  • Restlessness
  • Emaciation
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Dry stools
  • Low back pain
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moisten the Lungs
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Stop Cough
  • Clear Heat
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Stop bleeding
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Emaciation
  • Sallow complexion
  • Anorexia with a full feeling after very little food
  • Weak abdomen
  • Belching
  • Abdominal distention or pain (subtle)
  • Rolled lips
  • Pale lips
  • Stiff tongue
  • Tired limbs
  • Heavy limbs
  • Chest fullness
  • Epigastric distention or pain
  • Muscle weakness in arms and legs
  • Loose stools or diarrhea
  • Maybe bleeding
  • Thin muscles.
  • Lethargy-fatigue
  • Does not like to speak
  • Weak, soft voice
  • Maybe enuresis
  • Maybe abundant clear urine
  • Maybe cold extremities
  • Maybe borborygmus
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teeth marks
  • C: Thin and white.
  • P: Weak and Deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Prolapse of one or more organs
  • Sallow complexion
  • 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 or Soft and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Reinforce the Center
  • Invigorate Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
  • DU-20, other points are selected according to the type of prolapse
Clinical Manifestations
  • Asthma recurs in cold weather and winter
  • Copious white sputum
  • Sallow complexion
  • Anorexia (maybe with vomiting)
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools or watery stools containing undigested food
  • Shortness of breath
  • Pain in the epigastrium with cold sensations (pain is relieved by warmth)
  • Weakness
  • Fatigue
  • Cold limbs
  • Feeling chilled
  • Frequent, clear urination
  • Mental fatigue
  • Maybe scanty urine with edema
  • Maybe clear, watery vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and weak or Deep and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Spleen
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
  • Excrete Damp
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A chronic, recurrent cough
  • Worse with exertion
  • Thin, watery mucus
  • Wheezing
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest oppression
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Body cold
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Limbs icy and heavy
  • Abdominal distention
  • Anorexia
  • 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
  • Pitting edema
  • Frequent, clear urination
  • Dysuria
  • Nocturia
  • Severe:
    Abdominal ascites
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: Thin and white or White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready, weak and maybe slow or Deep and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce the Spleen and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pain in the chest which often radiates to the upper back
  • Pain may radiate to upper shoulders, neck and epigastrium
  • Asthma
  • Wheezing
  • Cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • Spitting saliva
  • Wheezing cough with copious sputum
  • T: Pale or Pink
  • C: Thick and greasy
  • P: Deep and wiry or Tight
Treatment Principle
  • Unblock Yang
  • Promote movement of Qi
  • Expel Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fainting
  • Vertigo
  • Headache
  • Accumulation of congested Fluids that won't dissipate
  • Vomiting
  • Stifling sensation of chest and diaphragm
  • Distention of chest and diaphragm
  • Distention and fullness of hypochondria and flanks
  • Dizziness
  • Nausea
  • Restlessness when sitting or lying down
  • Coughing and wheezing
  • Copious sputum
  • Thick, gummy nasal discharge and saliva
  • Difficult breathing
  • Reduced appetite
  • T: Pink
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Phlegm
  • Open the Orifices
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
  • Pale face with bluish lips
  • Limbs cold, pale and still
  • Lying peacefully
  • Usual sequelae of C.V.A. such as:
    Hemiplegia
    Aphasia
    Facial paralysis
  • T: Pink
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, slippery and even
Treatment Principle
  • Open the Heart Orifices with Pungent Warming Herbs
  • Eliminate Phlegm
  • Subdue Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Insomnia
  • Dream-disturbed sleep with unusual dreams
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Profuse white foamy sputum
  • Restlessness
  • Indeterminate gnawing hunger
  • Seizures accompanied by copious sputum
  • Flushing up
  • 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
  • Clear the Heart
  • Break through Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Epigastric fullness and contravection (reflux vomiting)
  • Sensation of Qi rushing upward to the chest (Running Piglet)
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Weak cough
  • Expectorating watery white Phlegm
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Transform Harmful Fluid
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
  • 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
  • Coughing fits with hemoptysis
  • Burning pain in chest and sides
  • Dizziness
  • Face and eyes red
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Dry lips
  • Short-tempered
  • Irascibility
  • Restlessness
  • Maybe dark urine
  • Maybe constipation
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin, yellow and dry
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Liver Fire
  • Purge the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Facial complexion pale and sallow
  • Both cheeks slightly red
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Blurred vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Numbness of limbs
  • Flaccid paralysis (Wei syndrome), weakness
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Low back and knees sore and painful
  • Throat dry and painful
  • Five sole Heat
  • Low-grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Stools difficult to pass
  • Constipation
  • Men:
    Spermatorrhea
  • Women:
    Irregular menses or
    Scanty menses or
    Amenorrhea
    Vaginal discharge
  • T: Red
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and Reinforce the Liver and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
  • Warm and Reinforce Kidney Yang
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 Kidneys
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dyspnea which is worse on exertion
  • Difficult to inhale but not to exhale
  • Shortness of breath, shallow breathing
  • Soft voice
  • Dry mouth with no desire to drink
  • Perspiration
  • Clear, frequent urination
  • In chronic cases:
    Thin physique
    A haggard, emaciated appearance
    Mental weariness
    Urinary incontinence on coughing
    Cold limbs
    Facial edema of Deficiency type
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial and Deficient or Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Kidneys to Grasp Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of low back
  • Spermatorrhea or premature ejaculation
  • Aching in bones
  • Aching in leg and heel
  • * Dry mouth
  • * Thirst
  • * Night sweats
  • * Five sole heat
  • * Malar flush
  • * Low grade fever in the afternoon
  • * Dry throat, maybe recurrent sore throat
  • * Dry stools and / or constipation
  • * Urine short and red
  • * Heightened libido
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
  • *All signs and symptoms marked with an asterisk (*) are due to Deficiency Fire
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • Difficult inhalation
  • 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
  • Warm and Reinforce Kidney Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Feebleness
  • Exhaustion
  • Abdominal pain
  • Lower back pain
  • Low energy
  • Lethargy
  • Impotence
  • Cold and pain of the knees
  • Cold extremities
  • Shortness of breath
  • Fatigue
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Separation of Yang
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thin
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Kidney Yang
  • Replenish Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lower abdominal pain and Cold
  • Abdomen feels chilled
  • Aching bones and joints
  • Muscle ache
  • Whole body pain
  • Aversion to Cold, especially at the back
  • Cold limbs
  • No Thirst
  • Lower abdominal pain and Cold
  • Abdomen feels chilled
  • Maybe fever
  • No thirst
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Deep and faint or Forceless or Choppy and slow or Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Cold
  • Warm the channels
  • Assist Yang
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Relieve pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dyspnea
  • No sputum
  • Chest and ribs swollen and depressed
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and large
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Pale, lusterless complexion
  • Pale nails
  • Abdominal pain
  • Irregular menstruation with little flow
  • Lung abscess
  • Coughing
  • Wheezing
  • Fullness and distention in the chest
  • Profuse Phlegm and saliva
  • Dysuria
  • Edema
  • Nasal congestion
  • Clear, watery rhinorrhea
  • Oliguria
  • Loss of taste and smell
  • Dyspnea
  • Edema of the face and eyes
  • Insomnia
  • Fixed lower abdominal pain
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Pale lips
  • May be amenorrhea
  • Insomnia
  • Menstruation may also be accompanied by distention and pain
  • T: Pale or Swollen
  • C: Normal or White and greasy
  • P: Slippery or Thin and weak or Thin and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Drain the Lungs
  • Move Fluids
  • Drive out Phlegm
  • Stop cough
  • Calm wheezing
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Break up Stagnation
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest withered
  • Rales on both sides
  • Depressed and confused Shen
  • Haggard, fierce appearance
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sticky sputum
  • Face and lips red
  • Mouth parched
  • Heart troubled
  • Epigastric fullness, distention and pain with dislike of pressure
  • Belching with rotten food smell
  • 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
  • Occurs in children and the elderly with chronic wheezing
  • Recurs every winter
  • Repeated attacks of productive cough
  • Thin, watery mucus
  • There may be scanty, tenacious mucus
  • Triggered by a Cold Invasion during winter
  • Wheezing
  • Shortness of breath
  • Tightness in the chest
  • Usually occurs at night or in the early morning
  • Severe cases:
    Orthopnea
    Weakness and pain of the lower back and legs
    Fatigue
    Edema of the extremities
  • T: Pale and swollen with toothmarks
  • C: Moist, greasy and white
  • P: soft and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and transform Clod Phlegm
  • Descend Rebellious Qi
  • Stop cough and wheezing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with profuse sputum
  • Sputum is thin, watery and white
  • Wheezing
  • Discomfort in the chest and diaphragm
  • T: Normal or Pale
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Lungs
  • Transform congested Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Coughing
  • Swelling and pain of the throat
  • Thick, salty sputum with mucus and Blood
  • Chills
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Fullness and congestion in the chest
  • Dry mouth
  • No thirst
  • Foul-smelling sputum
  • P: Slippery and maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Eliminate Phlegm and pus
  • Clear Deficiency Fire
  • Clear Toxins
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • An irritable, stifling sensation in the chest and diaphragm
  • Labored breathing
  • Wheezing
  • Epigastric distention and fullness
  • Belching
  • Constipation
  • Anorexia
  • Hurried breathing
  • Abdominal distention and pain
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Promote the movement of Qi
  • Descend Rebellious Qi
  • Expand the chest
  • Disperse Stagnation
  • Purge accumulations
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pain in both arms
  • Inability to lift the hands
  • Symptoms more pronounced on one side
  • Numbness in both hands
  • Superficial edema in all four extremities
  • Palpitations with vomiting
  • Coughing
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep and thready or Wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Dry Dampness
  • Move Qi
  • Soften hardness
  • Transform Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cold pain in the lower back and body
  • Sciatica
  • Copious urination
  • Extreme heavy sensation in the lower back
  • Absence of thirst
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, thready and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Dispel Cold
  • Eliminate Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Inability to sleep due to a cough
  • Difficult breathing
  • Thick sputum causes the blockage
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick white
  • P: Deep and wiry
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points