COMMON COLD

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Headache due to Wind attack
  • Headache in any part of the head
  • Fever and chills
  • Dizziness
  • Nasal congestion
  • Stuffy nose
  • Clear or white nasal discharge
  • Sneezing
  • Body aches
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Vertigo
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Copious sputum
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
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
  • Cough with a heavy sound
  • Choking cough
  • Stuffy and runny nose
  • Thin white sputum
  • Chills and fever with more chills than fever
  • Occipital or frontal headache
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Rhinitis
  • Dyspnea
  • Wheezing
  • Sneezing
  • Rhinitis
  • Itching larynx
  • Aching of limbs
  • Aching joints
  • Muscle soreness
  • Neck stiffness
  • Chilliness
  • Anhidrosis
  • T: Normal
  • C:Thin and white
  • P: Floating or Floating and tense
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind and Cold
  • Release Lung Qi
  • Relieve cough
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills and fever with chills predominant or
  • Fever with no thirst
  • Copious, clear watery mucus from the nose and Lungs
  • Fullness in the chest
  • Achiness
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Anhidrosis
  • Occipital headache
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Sneezing
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • Dyspnea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Mild or severe gasping
  • Hiccups
  • Fullness in chest
  • Vomiting
  • Heaviness of body
  • Edema
  • Dysuria
  • Maybe thirst
  • Maybe diarrhea
  • Maybe scanty urine
  • Maybe lower abdominal fullness
  • Maybe orthopedic
  • T:  Normal or Moist
  • C:  Greasy, white
  • P:  Floating and slippery or Floating and 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
  • High fever and severe chills
  • Maybe fever only
  • Achiness
  • Anhidrosis
  • Severe occipital headache
  • Loud cough
  • Sticky, yellow mucus
  • Sore throat
  • Generalized muscle aches
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Edema
  • Thirst with a desire for cold liquids
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Fidgeting
  • Constipation or
  • Dry stools
  • Sometimes dry achy eyes
  • T:  Normal or Red or Red tip
  • C:  Yellow or White
  • P:  Floating and tight or Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Wind
  • Disperse Cold
  • Cool Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Fever
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Anorexia
  • Belching
  • Aching shoulders
  • Tinnitus
  • Focal distention in the chest and epigastrium
  • A stifling sensation in the chest and epigastrium
  • Vertigo
  • Nausea
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Floating
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Qi
  • Release the Exterior
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills and fever
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Chest and/or gastric distension
  • Gastric pain
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea (acute)
  • Abdominal pain
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Floating and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Tonify the Spleen and Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Slight fever
  • Strong chills
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Cold extremities
  • Fatigue with a constant desire to lie down
  • Drowsiness
  • Pale face
  • Lassitude
  • Low voice
  • Weak voice
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Floating, big and forceless or Deep and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yang
  • Augment Qi
  • Release the Exterior
  • Induce sweating
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
  • Chills and fever
  • Achiness
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • The Tai Yang symptoms remain for 2-3 days
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • May have vomiting immediately after drinking
  • Difficult urination
  • May have upper body edema
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P:  Floating and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Promote urination
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Expel Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills with fever increasing and chills decreasing
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Stiffness of the extremities
  • Orbital pain
  • Eye pain
  • Dry nasal passages
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and slightly flooding
Treatment Principle
  • 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
  • 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
  • Abdominal pain aggravated by Cold
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Deep, aching heaviness in the extremities
  • Generalized edema
  • Loose stools
  • Dizziness
  • Heavy sensation in the head
  • Palpitations
  • Cough
  • Epigastric palpitations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Watery diarrhea
  • No thirst
  • Leukorrhea
  • Hiccup
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Cold limbs
  • Headaches
  • A husky voice
  • Hair loss
  • Asthma
  • Generalized twitching
  • Tidal flushing of the genitals by Dampness
  • Water buildup leading to hernia
  • Impotence
  • Prone to infections
  • Prone to allergies
  • Prone to Wind erysipelas
  • Diarrhea
  • Constipation
  • Chest pain
  • Mental and emotional disorders
  • Lightheadedness
  • Nasal obstruction with clear mucus
  • Impaired visual acuity
  • Prone to dormant papules
  • A sensation of something being stuck in the throat
  • Incessant sneezing
  • Swelling and pain of the teeth or gums
  • Feeling of unsteadiness as if one were about to fall
  • Distended or heavy sensation of the head
  • Palpitations
  • Gradual weight gain
  • Dyspnea
  • Abdominal distention and fullness
  • Pitting edema
  • Scanty urination
  • Chills
  • Weak knees
  • Seminal emissions
  • Flaccid abdomen
  • Muscular aching
  • Chronic lower back pain
  • Nausea
  • Cyclic vomiting
  • Fever, perspiration does not reduce fever
  • Vertigo
  • Impaired memory
  • Shivering and trembling
  • Catches cold easily
  • Severe fatigue
  • Aches and pains in the body or extremities
  • Flank pain
  • Wheezing
  • T: Pale or Dark purple and swollen with teeth marks
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Deep, thready and forceless or Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Promote urination
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Red, sore eyes
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Nasal congestion and infection
  • Thick, sticky nasal discharge and saliva
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Dry mouth
  • Focal distention in the chest and diaphragm
  • Stifling sensation in the chest and diaphragm
  • Manic behavior
  • Carbuncles
  • Heat rash
  • Headache
  • Acne
  • Chills
  • High fever
  • Restlessness
  • Urticaria
  • Sore throat
  • Swelling of the throat
  • Coughing
  • Reddish urine
  • Dyspnea
  • Vertigo
  • Severe aversion to Cold
  • Skin rashes
  • Skin ruptures or ulcers
  • Tense abdomen
  • Shoulder stiffness
  • Numb extremities
  • Fatigue
  • Constipation
  • Dysuria with reddish urine
  • Dark, rough urination
  • Obesity
  • Fullness of the abdomen
  • Fullness of the epigastrium
  • Heaviness in the head
  • T: Red
  • C: White or Yellow and greasy
  • P: Flooding and rapid or Wiry and slippery or Floating, smooth and rapid or Floating, slippery, rapid and wiry or Floating, slippery, rapid and overflowing
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Release the Exterior
  • Drain Heat
  • Unblock the bowels
Herb Formulas
Points
  • General points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Fever
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Anorexia
  • Belching
  • Aching shoulders
  • Tinnitus
  • Focal distention in the chest and epigastrium
  • A stifling sensation in the chest and epigastrium
  • Vertigo
  • Nausea
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Floating
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Qi
  • Release the Exterior
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
  • Fever
  • Chills
  • Anhidrosis
  • Pain and stiffness of the head and neck
  • Stuffy nose
  • Blood shot eyes
  • Sores that are red, swollen and painful
  • Generalized body aches and pain
  • Headache
  • Swollen eyes
  • Thirst or no thirst
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Floating or Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Induce sweat
  • Release the Exterior
  • Dispel Wind
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Great thirst with a desire to drink
  • Epistaxis
  • Abdominal pain
  • Dryness
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Feverish body parts
  • Red face
  • Dry stools
  • No constipation
  • No aversion to Cold
  • T:  Red, dry
  • C:  Dry yellow
  • P:  Rolling and rapid (gigantic)
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Reduce fever
  • Moisten and replenish fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • History of Yang Ming Jing or Fu
  • No appetite
  • Perspiration on extremities (cold center)
  • Sluggish or difficult urination
  • Constipation moving to long stringy stools moving to diarrhea
  • T: Normal
  • C: Slightly yellow and moist
  • P: Deep and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Restore Yang
  • Warm the center
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Anorexia
  • Sometimes fatigue
  • Nausea
  • Occasional vomiting
  • 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 (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
  • 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
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Curls up a lot
  • Doesn't like to talk
  • Tired
  • Disoriented
  • No spirit
  • Dull Shen
  • Cold extremities
  • Diarrhea or loose stools or undigested food
  • Clear, frequent urine
  • Maybe nausea
  • Wants to vomit but can't
  • No thirst
  • Likes warm drinks
  • Severe edema in chest
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Sinking and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Restore Yang
  • Reverse inward energy
  • Expel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Inflammation of throat and/or tongue
  • Fever and chills with more fever than chills
  • Sweating or
  • Absence of sweating
  • Hacking cough with sticky yellow sputum
  • Aversion to Wind and Heat
  • Yellow nasal discharge
  • Thirst with desire for cold drinks
  • Distending sensation in the head
  • Headache
  • General bodily soreness and malaise
  • Throat is red, dry and congested
  • The tonsils are swollen and engorged but without any particular pus spots
  • Red bumps around mouth and lips (herpes simplex)
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Sore, swollen throat
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Dry mouth
  • Red eyes
  • Rapid breathing
  • Maybe constipation
  • Maybe scanty urine
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Clear Heat
  • Regulate the throat
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
  • Irritability
  • Mild fever
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Dryness in nose
  • Epistaxis
  • Chills and fever
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Dry skin and hair
  • Constipation
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin, yellow and dry or Thin, white and dry
  • P: Floating and maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Cleanse the Lungs
  • Moisten Dryness
  • Stop cough
  • Stop bleeding
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry choking cough with a husky sound and thick or blood-tinged sputum
  • Cough with thick, sticky, hard to expectorate sputum
  • Cough may cause chest pain
  • Dry skin
  • Dryness of nose, mouth and lips
  • Dry, painful throat
  • Thirst
  • Little or no sweat
  • Itching and dryness of throat
  • Sore throat
  • Headache
  • Stuffy nose
  • Fever and chills with more fever than chills
  • Aversion to Wind
  • T: Red tip and Dry or Red and dry
  • C: Thin and yellow or White or Thin, yellow and dry
  • P: Floating and rapid or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Moisten Dryness
  • Descend Lung Qi
  • Relieve cough
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Strong fever and chills
  • Redness of the head and face
  • Swelling and burning pain of the head and face
  • Throat dysfunction
  • Swelling and pain of the throat
  • Thirst
  • Red and swollen eyes
  • Difficulty opening the eyes
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Throat Dryness
  • Facial edema
  • Restlessness
  • T: Red or Dry and red
  • C: Powdery white or Yellow
  • P: Floating, rapid and forceful or Rapid and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Eliminate Fire Toxin
  • Disperse Wind-Heat
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
  • Fever and chills
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Thirst
  • Flushed face
  • Tightness in the chest
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Fatigue
  • Aching body
  • Nausea
  • Reduced, dark urination
  • T: Red or Slightly red
  • C: White and greasy or Yellow
  • P: Floating and rapid or Flooding on the right and Small on the left or Floating and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Release Exterior Summerheat
  • Release External Cold
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills
  • Skin that is warm to the touch
  • Anhidrosis
  • A heavy sensation in the head and body
  • Headache
  • Abdominal pain
  • A stifling sensation in the chest
  • Fatigued extremities
  • Anorexia
  • Lethargy
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Pink
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Floating
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Scatter Cold
  • Transform Dampness
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Anhidrosis
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Headache
  • Muscle aches
  • Nasal congestion
  • Cough with sputum
  • Suppurative infection
  • Carbuncles
  • Stiffness of the muscles
  • T: Red
  • White and greasy or Yellow and greasy
  • P: Floating and feeble or Floating and rapid or Deep and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel External Wind Heat and Dampness
  • Relieve toxicity
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever or
  • Fever
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness (neither activity nor resting brings relief)
  • Heat sensation in the chest
  • Thirst
  • Has urge to vomit but cannot
  • May have dark yellow urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid or Forceful and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Remove Obstructions
Herb Formulas
  • Zhi Zi Chi Tang
  • If after 2-3 days the patient displays restlessness with accumulation of Phlegm and sputum, chest distension and nausea, but no other Middle Jiao symptoms: Gua Di San
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
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Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
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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
  • Soft, weak cough with clear thin sputum
  • Physical and mental exhaustion
  • Soft, weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Shortness of breath
  • 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
  • Protracted, incessant cough
  • Expectoration of copious, clear, watery or white Phlegm
  • Short, weak, breathing
  • Asthma
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • A general air of sadness or melancholy
  • A waxy, pale complexion
  • Rounded or hunched shoulders
  • Four limbs tired
  • Anorexia
  • General lassitude
  • Distention and pain of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Severe cases:
    Frightens easily
  • T: Pale with a thin crack
  • C: White or White and greasy
  • P: Thready and weak or Floating and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Spleen
  • Benefit the Lungs
  • Descend Lung Qi
  • Disperse accumulation
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Strong chills or shivering
  • Possible mild fever
  • Chronic aversion to Cold
  • A desire to curl up
  • Exhaustion
  • Headaches
  • General muscle pain
  • Aching in the bones
  • Anhidrosis or
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • When there is sweating, the aversion to Cold is more pronounced
  • A low, soft voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Waxy, pale complexion
  • Cold body and limbs
  • There may be an exposure to Wind or Cold prior to the aggravation of the symptoms
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Support Yang
  • Clear the Exterior
Herb Formulas
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Abdominal pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Headache
  • Dysentery
  • Abdominal spasms
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid or Flooding
Treatment Principle
  • Clears Heat
  • Alleviates dysenteric disorders
  • Stops diarrhea
  • Harmonizes the Middle Jiao
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden high fever
  • Pain in the head and nape of the neck
  • Painful body
  • Harsh breathing
  • Coughing up thick sputum
  • Sore throat
  • Red eyes
  • Flushed face
  • Chest oppression
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Seasonal Evil
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Headache
  • Heart vexation
  • Weary Shen
  • Troubled sleep
  • Red urine
  • Dry mouth
  • No desire to drink
  • Delirious speech
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Dormant Evil
Herb Formulas
Points