HYPERGLYCEMIA

Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse sweat
  • Generalized weakness
  • Severe chills
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Red face
  • Severe thirst
  • Thirst may be unquenchable
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Pruritis
  • Headache
  • Toothache
  • Gum bleeding
  • Epistaxis
  • Dry lips
  • Dry tongue
  • Dry mouth
  • May be sensitive to Cold in the upper back
  • Polyuria
  • Delusions
  • Eye congestion
  • Burning sensation on the skin
  • Itching skin
  • Abdominal fullness without resistance
  • Dry, course skin
  • Listlessness
  • May be heavy labored breathing.
  • Delirious speech (serious cases)
  • Mania (serious cases)
  • T: Red tip and sides
  • C: Yellow, dry or white
  • P: Large and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Stomach Fire
  • Generate Fluids
  • Alleviate thirst
  • Nourish Qi
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Excessive thirst that is not quenched by substantial intake of fluids
  • Frequent, copious urination
  • Turbid urination
  • Lassitude
  • Shortness of breath
  • Epigastric pain
  • T: Pink, Pale or Red
  • C: White or Little or None
  • P: Deficient, weak and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Nourish Yin
  • Generate Fluids
  • Moisten Dryness
  • Alleviate thirst
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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
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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
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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
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Lack of spirit
  • Fatigue
  • Low back pain
  • Tinnitus
  • Dysuria
  • Depression
  • Turbid urine
  • Abnormal uterine bleeding
  • Polyuria
  • Enuresis
  • Seminal emission
  • Leukorrhea
  • Blood tinged leukorrhea
  • Anorexia
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry Tongue
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Fever
  • Physical and mental overexertion
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Deep and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heart Fire
  • Disperse Damp-Heat
  • Benefit Qi and Yin
  • Promote urination
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Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever (sometimes rises and falls)
  • Great thirst
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Abdominal pain (worse with pressure)
  • Abdominal distension
  • Dryness
  • Constipation (hard dry knots)
  • Dislikes pressure
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Mental disturbance:
    Mentally unclear
    Delirious speech
  • Sharp, stabbing epigastric pain with fixed location
  • Pain is severe after eating
  • Dislike of pressure and heat on epigastrium
  • Pain predominates over distention or
  • Pain but no distention
  • Epigastric rumbling
  • Vomiting purple/black blood
  • Stools with blood like tar (melaena)
  • May be abdominal or epigastric lumps or masses
  • T: Red and dry, or black and moist or Dark purple with purple spots or dots
  • C: Thick yellow or dry yellow
  • P: Wiry and choppy or Deep, strong and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Drains Heat
  • Breaks up Blood Stasis
  • Purge
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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
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Toothache
  • Loose teeth
  • Bleeding gums
  • Frontal headache
  • Irritability
  • Fever
  • Thirst with a desire to drink cold beverages
  • Epistaxis
  • Dysphoria
  • Excess hunger
  • Hemoptysis
  • Dry throat
  • Hematemesis
  • Restlessness
  • Warm sensations
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: White or Yellow and dry
  • P: Superficial, full, slippery, deficient and large or Gigantic and rapid or Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Heat from the Stomach
  • Replenish Yin
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Unproductive cough or
  • Scanty, sticky phlegm or
  • Sometimes blood-streaked sputum
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Low back and knees sore and weak
  • "Steaming Bone" tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush
  • 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
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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
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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
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Excessive thirst that is not quenched by substantial intake of fluids
  • Frequent, copious urination
  • Turbid urination
  • Lassitude
  • Shortness of breath
  • Epigastric pain
  • Irritability with thirst
  • Dry mouth
  • Increased appetite
  • Weight loss
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: None
  • P: Large and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Nourish Yin
  • Generate Fluids
  • Moisten Dryness
  • Clear Heat
  • Alleviate thirst
Herb Formulas
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Early-Stage: Food Stagnation + Qi and Blood Stagnation with Heat
    Alternating fever and chills
    Fullness in the chest and hypochondrium (with or without pain)
    Bitter taste in mouth
    Nausea
    Continuous vomiting
    Hard focal distension in the epigastrium
    Fullness and pain in the epigastrium
    Burning diarrhea or no bowel movement
    Despondency
    Slight fidgeting
    Slight irritability
    Headache
    Constipation or discharge of fluids rectally
    Tinnitus
    Diminished hearing
    Diminished vision
    Red eyes
    Manic behavior
    Asthma
    Mental instability
    T: Normal or red
    C: Yellow or Thick and yellow
    P: Wiry and forceful or Wiry tight and forceful
  • Middle-Stage: Both Excess and Deficiency + Qi and Blood or Qi and Yin Deficiency of multiple organs + External Excess or Phlegm Stagnation or Blood stagnation
    Lassitude
    Fatigue
    Shortness of breath
    Dizziness
    Tinnitus
    Palpitations
    Emaciation
    Lack of strength
    Dry, rough eyes
    Possible distended feeling in eyes
    A pale, lusterless face
    Possible malar flush
    Restless
    Insomnia
    Poor memory
    Dry, parched throat
    Tasteless feeling in the mouth
    Low back and knee soreness and
    weakness
    Low grade fever
    Five sole heat
    Possible sweating
    Possible tremors of the hands and tongue
    Scanty intake
    Abdominal distention after meal
    Loose stools
    T: Red
    C: Thin or Peeled
    P: Empty and rapid or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Early-Stage:
    Relive Stagnation
    Clear Heat
  • Middle-Stage:
    Reduce Excess
    Tonify Deficiency
    Resolve Phlegm
    Invigorate the Blood
    Dispel Stasis
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