EDEMA

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
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
  • Chills and fever or
  • Fever with no thirst
  • Swollen eyes, limbs abdomen or genitals
  • Achiness
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • Dyspnea
  • Vomiting, if the condition is tonified before the Wind is expelled
  • Urinary retention if the condition is reduced before the Wind is expelled
  • 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
  • Fever and chills
  • Maybe fever only
  • Achiness
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Edema
  • Thirst
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Fidgeting
  • 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
  • Sensation of extreme Cold
  • Severe chills
  • Chills are not relieved by clothing or covers
  • Slight fever
  • Anhidrosis
  • Exhaustion
  • Almost constant desire to sleep
  • Pale face
  • Cold extremities
  • Cold feet
  • Severe aversion to Cold
  • Headache
  • Shortness of breath
  • Fatigue
  • Joint pain
  • Edema
  • Cough
  • Pain penetrating to the back
  • Toothache
  • Sore throat
  • Raspy voice
  • Edema due to Wei Qi Stagnation
  • Weak extremities
  • Chronic wheezing
  • Severe pain and obstructed feeling over the throat
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind-Cold
  • Replenish Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Thirst
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Anorexia
  • Edema
  • Vomiting and diarrhea with water intake
  • Dysuria
  • Fullness and oppression in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Pink
  • C: White
  • P: Superficial and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Exterior and the Interior
  • Relieve the Shao Yang
  • Dispel Water Accumulation
  • Resolve Phlegm Accumulation
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
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Curls up a lot
  • Doesn't like to talk
  • Tired
  • No spirit
  • Dull Shen
  • Severe edema in the chest
  • Cold extremities
  • Diarrhea with loose stools
  • No thirst
  • Edema
  • Likes warm drinks
  • Sluggish urination
  • Vertigo
  • Palpitations
  • More water metabolism disturbance with excess fluid in the body
    Abdomen: pain and cold
    Lower Jiao: pain with difficult urination
    Intestines: watery stools
    Stomach: clear vomit
    Lungs: cough, dyspnea, Phlegm and asthma
    Extremities: edema and heaviness
  • T: Pale with scallops
  • C:White or greasy white
  • P: Sinking, weak and may be soft or thready
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yang
  • Strengthen water circulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Delirium
  • Heat in upper body
  • Cold in lower body
  • Sensation of Qi rushing to the chest
  • Vomits worms
  • Persistent thirst
  • Feverishness
  • Anorexia (hungry but can't eat)
  • Chronic diarrhea
  • Cold extremities
  • Maybe edema
  • Vertex headache
  • Vomits food
  • Cardiac Heat with pain
  • T: Red or pink or pale and flabby
  • C: Thick and greasy or thin
  • P: Deep, thready and weak or wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear worms
  • Clear Heat (Do not purge, create diaphoresis, or create emesis)
  • Revive Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind and Cold
  • Facial edema moving to generalized edema
  • Slight fever or fever and chills
  • Thirst
  • Slight but continuous perspiration
  • Sore, heavy limbs
  • Decreased urination
  • Headache
  • Edematous orbits
  • A red, swollen sore throat
  • Weak abdomen
  • Belching
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Dyspnea
  • Bulging eyes
  • Severe cough
  • Weak, aching feet
  • Skin problems
  • T: Normal
  • C: White or Thin white
  • P: Floating or Floating and big
Treatment Principle
  • Promote perspiration
  • Disseminate Lung Qi
  • Clear Heat
  • Move water
  • Suppress asthma
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abrupt onset
  • Attacks the head first, then the face, then the lower extremities
  • Lustrous skin
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Chest fullness and discomfort
  • Rapid respiration
  • Inability to stretch
  • Chills and fever
  • Thirst
  • Scanty urine
  • Low back pain
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Floating, rolling and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind-Cold
  • Dispel Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pulmonary edema
  • Numbness and pain of the extremities
  • Joint swelling and pain, especially hands and feet
  • Heaviness of joints
  • Numbness of the joints
  • Stiffness of the joints
  • Fever
  • Heaviness of the body
  • Coldness of the body
  • Dizziness
  • Likes pressure
  • Fatigue
  • Pale complexion
  • Preference for warmth
  • Swelling, pain, numbness and stiffness of the joints
  • Skin cornification
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thick, white or Greasy white
  • P: Thready and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind and Dampness
  • Benefit Qi
  • Invigorate Blood circulation
  • Reduce swelling
  • Moisten dry Blood
  • Tonify the Blood
  • Warm the Channels
  • Relieve spasms
  • Relieve muscular tension
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Facial edema
  • Cough with thick sticky, yellow sputum
  • Sore, red, swollen throat
  • Thirst, with desire to drink cold liquids
  • Runny or blocked nose with thick yellow discharge
  • Vertigo
  • Dry throat
  • Dizziness
  • Fever with or without perspiration
  • Slight chills
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Headache
  • Dyspnea with flared nostrils and pain
  • Fidgeting
  • Labored breathing
  • Asthma
  • Shortness of breath
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Flushed face
  • Wheezing
  • Chest pain
  • Restlessness
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow or White
  • P: Superficial and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind-Heat
  • Stop Asthma
  • Clear the Lungs
  • Descend Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Generalized pains
  • Convulsions
  • Edema
  • Flaccid hemiplegia
  • The patient is unable to recognize friends or identify the source of pain
  • Stiffness with inability to rotate the trunk
  • Confusion
  • Muscular numbness and pain
  • Cough
  • Flushed face
  • Fever
  • Aphasia
  • Dry stools
  • Low-grade fever
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and yellow or Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Support the Normal Qi
  • Clear Heat
  • Relax muscle tension
  • Nourish Blood
  • Disperse Wind
  • Dispel Wind-Damp
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
  • T: Swollen
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Drain the Lungs
  • Move Fluids
  • Drive out Phlegm
  • Stop cough
  • Calm wheezing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Facial edema
  • 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
  • Coughing and wheezing with copious, dilute, white, frothy or lumpy sputum
  • Chest and epigastric congestion
  • Cold legs
  • Pain and full feeling in the chest
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Palpitations
  • Dyspnea - worse lying down
  • Sometimes asthma
  • Throat rattle
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Shortness of breath with labored inhalation and smooth exhalation
  • Acute attack of panting with a high pitched wheezing sound and rapid exhalation
  • Leg Qi
  • Acute cramping
  • Muscle wasting
  • Diarrhea in response to cold or hot weather
  • Maybe anorexia
  • Insensitivity in the lower abdomen
  • Headache
  • Facial edema
  • Lumbar pain
  • Weakness in the body and feet
  • Numbness, weakness and aching of the feet and legs
  • Edema of the extremities
  • Fever
  • Dysuria
  • Weakness below the umbilicus
  • Fatigue with a desire to curl up
  • Epigastric distention
  • Disorientation
  • Disordered speech
  • Tinnitus
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thick, white and greasy or sticky
  • P: Slippery or Soft
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse and Descend Lung Qi
  • Stop wheezing
  • Stop coughing
  • Warm and transform Phlegm-Cold
  • Strengthen the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic cough
  • Wheezing
  • Thick, yellow sputum
  • Sensation of Heat and irritability in the chest
  • Gradual emaciation
  • Facial edema
  • Chronic Lung atrophy
  • Coughing of pus and Blood
  • Dyspnea
  • T: Purple
  • C: Thin and white or Thin, yellow and greasy
  • P: Superficial and Deficient especially in the first position
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Replenish Jing
  • Strengthen the Kidneys
  • Clear the Lungs
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Stop cough
  • Arrest wheezing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low energy
  • 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
  • Shortness of breath (difficult to inhale)
  • Dyspnea exacerbated by exertion
  • Asthma (inhalation difficult)
  • Soft, weak voice
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Emaciated body
  • Exhausted Shen
  • Dispirited
  • Limbs cold
  • Face blue-green-colored
  • Maybe superficial edema of limbs and body
  • Maybe dysuria
  • Maybe stress incontinence on coughing
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and thready or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Lungs
  • Soothe asthma
  • Reinforce the Kidneys to Grasp Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Distention and fullness of epigastrium and abdomen
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Anorexia
  • Loose stools
  • Diarrhea
  • Reduced sensation of taste
  • No thirst or preference for hot drinks
  • Sticky sensation in mouth
  • Borborygmus
  • Lassitude
  • Yin jaundice
  • Heavy head
  • Maybe edema
  • Maybe copious white vaginal discharge
  • Maybe cold limbs, fear of Cold or feeling chilled
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, white and greasy or sticky
  • P: Deep and slow
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
  • 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
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema in limbs, especially lower limbs
  • Maybe anasarca
  • Maybe abdominal distention
  • Loose stools
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and moist
  • P: Soft and even
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Move water
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema in limbs, especially lower limbs
  • Maybe anasarca
  • Maybe abdominal distention
  • Loose stools
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and moist
  • P: Soft and even
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Move water
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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)
  • 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
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mild constant epigastric pain; relieved by warmth and pressure
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal pain and fullness after meals
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Loose, unformed stools
  • Excessive salivation
  • Cold limbs
  • Lassitude
  • Weakness
  • Sallow or pale, dull complexion
  • Maybe edema
  • Maybe scanty urination
  • Maybe clear, watery, copious vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Warm Yang
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
  • Severe:
    Abdominal ascites
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: Thin and white or White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready, weak and maybe slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce the Spleen and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Diarrhea with watery stools
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • No thirst
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal and/or epigastric fullness (likes pressure)
  • Abdominal pain
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Pale face
  • Frequent urination
  • Tends toward fatigue
  • May have cold limbs
  • May have headache with fever
  • Body aches
  • Epistaxis
  • Hematemesis
  • Shortness of breath
  • Lassitude
  • Epigastric pain
  • All Blood from bleeding is pale
  • Maybe scanty urine with edema
  • Edema
  • Insomnia
  • Hemoptysis
  • Intestinal bleeding
  • Chronic bleeding
  • Hemafecia
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Rectal bleeding
  • Profuse menstrual flow
  • Chest fullness and pain
  • Hypochondriac pain that shoots toward the Heart
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Rigid focal distention in the Heart region
  • Excessive production or drooling of foamy saliva
  • Emaciation
  • T: Pale, may be moist
  • C: White or None
  • P: Deep, weak and slow or Deep and thready or Big and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Middle Jiao
  • Dispel Cold
  • Strengthen the Spleen and Stomach
  • Tonify Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema during pregnancy
  • Generalized edema
  • Edema of the limbs
  • Sensation of heaviness, distention and fullness in the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Labored, heavy breathing
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Asthma
  • Chest distention
  • General edema in summer
  • Gasping
  • Rapid breathing
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Thready and moderate or slipper
Treatment Principle
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Reduce edema
  • Regulate Qi
  • Strengthen the Kidneys
  • Reduce swelling
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Facial and ankle edema
  • Shallow, rapid respiration
  • Palpitations
  • Cold limbs and body
  • Scanty urine
  • Sometimes cyanosis
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and minute
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Heart, Kidney and Lungs
  • Warm Yang
  • Dispel Dampness
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
  • Edema
  • 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
  • Continuous cramping pain in the abdomen
  • Pain is not severe
  • Pain is relieved by pressure
  • Edema of the feet
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Slight edema (primarily of the lower limbs)
  • Symptoms generally occur during pregnancy
  • Pale face
  • Fatigue
  • Heaviness of head
  • Lassitude
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Lumbago
  • Edema
  • Abdominal pain with edema during pregnancy due to Blood Deficiency and abnormal water circulation
  • Oliguria
  • Palpitations
  • Cold feet
  • Extreme coldness of the hands and feet
  • Vertigo
  • Weakness and numbness of lower back and legs during pregnancy or postpartum
  • Mal position of the fetus
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Right upper quadrant pain
  • Hepatomegaly
  • Anemia
  • Lack of energy
  • Sore back
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • T: Pale or pink maybe petechiae on margin
  • C: Thin or Greasy white
  • P: Deep and weak or Soft, floating, small and slow or Wiry and small or Wiry and rough
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Liver Blood
  • Soften the Liver
  • Spread Liver Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Reinforce the Spleen and Kidney
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Yang jaundice (sclera and skin bright yellow)
  • Pain and fullness in ribs on both sides
  • Maybe pain in the right hypochondrium
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting sour and bitter fluids
  • Anorexia
  • Maybe alternating chills and fever
  • Concentrated, dark urine
  • Abdominal distention
  • Women:
    Yellow vaginal discharge with foul smell
    Pruritis vulvae
  • Men:
    Pain, swelling and burning sensations of testicles
  • T: Pink
  • C: Yellow and greasy or sticky
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Dampness
  • Purge Heat from Liver and Gall Bladder
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
  • Facial edema of Deficiency type
  • Dyspnea which is worse on exertion
  • Difficult to inhale but not to exhale
  • Shortness of breath, shallow breathing
  • Soft voice
  • Perspiration
  • In chronic cases:
    Thin physique
    Mental weariness
    Urinary incontinence on coughing
    Cold limbs
  • 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
  • Variable and intermittent nasal congestion
  • Variable and transient sense of smell or permanent loss of sense of smell
  • Dull or thick headache with dizziness
  • Chronic nasal discharge which is worse with exposure to Cold
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Poor memory
  • Muddle headedness
  • Slow to learn
  • Soreness and weakness of the back and spine
  • Graying, lifeless hair
  • Pale, lusterless complexion
  • Edema of the lower extremities
  • In adults:
      Hair loss
      Graying or whitening of hair
      Weak sexual function
      Atrophy and weakness of feet with   difficulty   walking
      Poor memory
      Senility (premature or mature)
      Brittle bones
      Gradual deterioration of hearing
  • In children:
      Retardation in mental and / or physical   development
      Failure to thrive
      Late or incomplete closing of fontanel
      Poor bone development, brittle bones
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Kidneys
  • Astringe Jing
  • Tonify Qi
  • Astringe Lung Qi
  • Stop cough
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
  • Pitting edema
  • Numbness
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness in the legs
  • Palpitations
  • Distention beneath the Heart
  • Constipation
  • Dyspnea
  • T: Blue purple maybe with purple or red spots
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel water accumulation
  • Disperse Qi and Blood Stagnation
  • Relieve constipation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Scanty periods
  • Chills
  • Cold limbs
  • Inability to get warm
  • Loose stools
  • Profuse clear urine
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Lassitude
  • T: Pale
  • C: White or Thin, white and dry
  • P: Slow, deep and weak or Empty or Thready and rapid or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pitting edema, worse in the extremities
  • A sensation of heaviness in the body and extremities
  • Fibrillations in the skin and muscles of the extremities
  • Dysuria
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Floating
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Unblock Yang
  • Promote urination
  • Reduce edema
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills
  • Diarrhea
  • Vomiting
  • Abdominal distention
  • Cold limbs
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety due to stress
  • Edema
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White or White and moist
  • P: Soft and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Warm Yang
  • Restore Yang from collapse
  • Relieve restlessness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Heavy and painful lower back
  • Dream-disturbed sleep
  • General weakness
  • Lack of interest in food or drink
  • Fever
  • Night sweats
  • Seminal emission
  • Forgetfulness
  • Toothache
  • Dizziness
  • Gum swelling
  • General pitted edema which is worse in the lower body
  • Vaginal discharge
  • Discharge of rice-water like urination without dysuria
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Impotence
  • Decreased libido
  • Emaciation
  • Loose teeth
  • Signs of premature aging
  • Abdominal Cold
  • Easily frightened
  • T: Pale or Pale and thick
  • C: Smooth and white
  • P: Moderate and weak or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Spleen and Kidneys
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Enrich Yin
  • Nourish the Blood and Yang
  • Augment Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • General edema of the body and extremities
  • Dysuria
  • Oliguria
  • Orthopnea
  • Pitting edema
  • Dyspnea
  • Gasping
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal fullness and pain
  • T: Thick
  • C: White and thick
  • P: Slow or Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Stagnant Water
  • Dry Dampness
  • Eliminate water from the Lungs
  • Harmonizes the Spleen
  • Relieve edema
  • Move Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Increased dyspnea when lying down
  • Asthma
  • Abdominal pain
  • Chest and epigastric fullness and distention
  • A dark facial complexion
  • Scanty urination
  • Edema
  • P: Deep and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Activate Water circulation to eliminate Stagnation
  • Descend Qi
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
  • Swelling of the feet and calves
  • Heavy, weak feet and calves
  • Difficulty walking
  • Numbness, cold and/or pain in the the feet and calves
  • Spasms and up-rushing that reaches the chest (running piglet)
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Severe:
    A stifling sensation in the chest
    An overwhelming sense of nausea
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep and slow or Floating
Treatment Principle
  • Promote the movement of Qi
  • Descend turbidity
  • Disseminate Cold
  • Transform Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Painful urination
  • Difficult, scanty urination
  • Heavy headache
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Oliguria
  • Maybe constipation
  • Lower abdominal fullness and distention
  • Dizziness
  • Maybe urolithiasis
  • T: Normal or Red
  • C: White or Yellow
  • P: Soft and maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Paralysis
  • Numbness
  • Slurred speech
  • Deviated eyes
  • Deviated mouth (wry mouth)
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Sputum in the throat
  • Chest fullness and distention
  • Epigastric fullness and distention
  • Hypertension
  • Stroke
  • T: Deviated and trembling
  • C: Thick
  • P: Slippery and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • Subdue Wind
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
  • Anorexia
  • Edema
  • Abdominal distention
  • Chest and hypochondriac distention
  • Dizziness
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Vertigo
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Maybe no thirst
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of Breath
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thick and slippery
  • P: Slippery, full and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Dissolve Tan Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Heaviness
  • Swollen extremities
  • Pain in the extremities
  • Pitting edema
  • Chest edema
  • Hypochondriac edema
  • Sluggish urination
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Fever
  • Anhidrosis
  • Cough
  • Asthma with Phlegm
  • T: Swollen
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Tight and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Benefit water
  • Dispel exogenous pathogens
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sharp pain in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Hypochondriac distention and pain
  • Hard focal distention in the epigastrium
  • Dry heaves
  • Shortness of breath
  • Headache
  • Abdominal distention
  • Wheezing
  • Fullness in the chest
  • Dyspnea caused by extreme chest and back pain
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Asthma
  • Rapid breathing
  • Generalized edema which is worse in the lower body
  • Difficult urination and defecation
  • T: Normal or Dark
  • C: Thick, greasy and white
  • P: Deep and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Attack and Dispel water
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Shortness of breath which is worse when lying down
  • Abdominal distention with water retention
  • Edema in the lower extremities
  • Facial edema
  • T: White bubbles
  • C: Thick, greasy and white
  • P: Thready
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate the Lungs
  • Purge Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Generalized edema
  • Wheezing
  • Dyspnea
  • Restlessness
  • Anuria
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Constipation
  • Urinary obstruction
Treatment Principle
  • Drain downward
  • Drive out water
  • Expel Wind
  • Release the Exterior
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema
  • Generalized swelling
  • Heaviness or sluggishness of the body
  • Fatigue on the slightest exertion
  • Puffy face
  • Hypersomnia
  • Pressure headache
  • Dizziness
  • Depression
  • Hopelessness
  • Poor sleep
  • Not rested after sleep
  • Pale skin
  • Stiff fingers
  • Increased sensitivity to pain
  • Marked oliguria
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Soft, slippery and very rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Promote urination
  • Reduce edema
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden, excruciating and migrating pain in the thorax, neck, lower back and inguinal region
  • A tightening sensation in the sinews and bones that evolves into a burning, piercing pain
  • Cold and painful extremities
  • Unrelenting, severe headache
  • Lethargy with a desire to sleep
  • Anorexia
  • A temporary loss of taste in the mouth
  • Coughing up thick, greasy sputum
  • A rattling sound in the throat at night
  • Excessive salivation
  • Abdominal distention
  • Edema
  • T: Normal
  • C: Sticky and greasy
  • P: Wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Phlegm and thin mucus
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Ascites in a robust person
  • Thirst
  • Labored breathing
  • A hard, distended abdomen
  • Anuria
  • Dysuria
  • Constipation
  • Edema
  • Scanty urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Slippery
  • P: Deep, rapid and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Move Qi
  • Harshly drive out water and Heat Accumulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A sallow facial complexion
  • Edema
  • Palpitations
  • Hurried respiration
  • Fatigue
  • A lack of energy
Treatment Principle
  • Reduce accumulation
  • Dry Dampness
  • Drain the Liver
  • Expel parasites
Herb Formulas
Points