INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, STOMACHACHE

Clinical Manifestations
  • A persistent or recurrent pain or discomfort in the upper abdomen.
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills
  • Headache
  • Chest and gastric fullness and oppression
  • Pain in the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Loss of taste
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cough
  • Indigestion
  • No perspiration
  • Chest discomfort
  • Sore throat
  • Disorientation
  • Madness
  • General lassitude
  • Anorexia
  • Delirious speech
  • Maybe loss of voice
  • Intermittent chills and fever
  • Afternoon fever and tight
  • Sudden turmoil disorder
  • Malarial disorders
  • Loose stools
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Moderate and soggy or floating and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Transform Dampness
  • Regulate Qi
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
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
  • 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
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Anorexia
  • Sometimes fatigue
  • Nausea
  • Occasional vomiting
  • Headaches (side of head)
  • Hypochondriac pain and fullness
  • Dry throat
  • Rib pain
  • Achiness
  • Ear infection
  • Hearing difficulty
  • Red eyes
  • Blurred vision
  • Stiff shoulders
  • Throat pain
  • Hip pain
  • T: Normal with bumps or dots on side
  • C: Thin white or White and slippery on one side only
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lingering fever from a febrile disease
  • Vomiting
  • Irritability
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Parched mouth, lips and throat
  • Choking cough
  • Restlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Nausea
  • Anorexia
  • Profuse perspiration
  • A dry mouth
  • Indigestion
  • Listlessness
  • Chest oppression
  • Ulcerations of the mouth
  • Coarse skin
  • Cough
  • Night sweats
  • Stifling sensation in the chest or epigastrium
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Rapid and Deficient or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Generate fluids
  • Tonify Qi
  • Harmonize the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • Rib pain (doesn't like touch)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Hypogastric pain and distension
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve Gallbladder Heat
  • Pacify the Liver and Gallbladder
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Distention of the abdomen
  • Distention of the epigastrium
  • Fever
  • Fullness of the abdomen
  • Fullness of the epigastrium
  • Indigestion
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Resurgence of Heat signs
  • Thirst
  • T: Red
  • C: Greasy-dirty-yellow
  • P: Floating, slippery and rapid especially on the right position or Floating, full and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Calm restlessness and irritability
  • Clear Heat
  • Disperse Stagnation
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
  • 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
  • Infantile indigestion
  • 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
  • Chronic indigestion
  • Easily sated
  • Loss of the sense of taste
  • Sallow complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • A waxy, pale, lusterless complexion
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Soft voice
  • Nervous indigestion
    Puffiness around the eyes or in the fingers
  • Rapid weight fluctuations
  • With Cold:
    Cold intolerance
    Cold extremities
    Undigested food in the stools
    Dull abdominal pain
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even, forceless and deficient or Weak and thready or Deficient or Big and weak
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
  • 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
  • Indigestion
  • Chest and abdominal distention
  • A stifling sensation in the chest and abdomen
  • Fixed pain in the hypochondria
  • Belching with a fetid odor
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Epigastric and abdominal fullness and pain
  • Acid reflux
  • Mild coughing with copious sputum
  • Reduced appetite
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white or Greasy or Slippery,
  • P: Wiry and taut or Running
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Qi
  • Release Stagnation
Herb Formulas
  • Yue Ju Wan
  • With Phlegm: Jie Gan Jian
  • With Stagnant Heat: Jia Wei Xiao Yao San
  • With Qi Deficiency: Si Mo Tang
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Chai Hu Shu Gan Wan
    Xiao Yao Wan
    With sluggish stools: Mu Xiang Sun Qi Wan
    With Stagnant Heat: Jia Wei Xiao Yao Wan
    With constipation: Chen Xiang Hua Qi Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Indigestion
  • Vomiting
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention, discomfort and fullness
  • Belching
  • Acid reflux
  • Nausea
  • Poor appetite
  • Los of the sense of taste
  • Poor concentration
  • Heavy or foggy headedness
  • Fatigue
  • Lethargy
  • Heaviness of the body and limbs
  • Somnolence (after sleeping, the patient often feels worse)
  • Sluggishness
  • Copious salivation
  • Stuffiness in the chest
  • Maybe chronic mucus in the sinuses and Lungs
  • Diarrhea with mucus
  • Headache
  • Melaena
  • Greasy skin
  • A musty body odor
  • Tendency to obesity
  • T: Pink, maybe flabby or swollen
  • C: Thick, white and greasy
  • P: Soft or Floating, tight and soft or Weak or Slippery, wiry and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Activate Qi
  • Dry Dampness
  • Transform s Phlegm
  • Descend Qi
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Stop vomiting
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Nausea/Vomiting
  • Belching
  • Chest fullness and distention
  • Abdominal pain
  • Indigestion
  • Epigastric discomfort
  • Generalized weakness
  • Maybe chest distention
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Regulate Qi
  • Reduce Food Stagnation
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
  • Acid reflux
  • A sallow facial complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Poor muscle tone
  • A flabby abdomen
  • 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
  • Maybe edema
  • Maybe scanty urination
  • Maybe clear, watery, copious vaginal discharge
  • T: Moist
  • C: White
  • P: Large and faint
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Warm Yang
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
  • Regulate Qi and Blood
  • Stop pain
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
  • General signs and symptoms:
    Epigastrium Cold with pain
  • Mild cases:
    Constant pain
  • Severe cases:
    Sudden bouts of sharp pain
    Pain is aggravated by Cold and relieved by warmth and hot drinks
    Cold hands and feet
  • Cold Penetrates the Stomach and Intestines:
    Pain is sudden and sharp
    Pain is relieved by warmth
    Nausea
    Diarrhea
    Loose stools
    T: Pink
    C: White
    P: Deep and tight
  • Retention of Fluid in the Stomach due to Cold:
    Pain is dull
    Pain is relieved by warmth
    Succussion sound in the epigastrium on palpation
    Vomiting of clear, watery fluid
    T: Pink
    C: White and sticky
    P: Thready or Thready and slow
  • Stomach Deficiency with Stagnation of Cold:
    Pain is dull
    Pain is relieved by warmth and pressure
    Vomiting clear, watery fluid
    T: Pale
    C: Thin and white
    P: Deep and slow or Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Stomach
  • Warm Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Burning Heat and pain in the epigastrium
  • Irritating thirst: drinks copious fluids and prefers cold drinks
  • Excessive appetite: hungry again quickly after eating (as if food vanishes)
  • Swelling, pain, ulceration and bleeding of gums
  • Foul breath
  • Toothache
  • Maybe vomiting right after eating
  • Vomiting acid or undigested food
  • Constipation
  • Maybe scanty, red urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick, yellow and dry
  • P: Slippery, big, Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear and Purge Stomach Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Indigestion
  • Epigastric fullness, distention and pain with dislike of pressure
  • Belching with rotten food smell
  • Halitosis
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Heartburn
  • Nausea
  • Detests food or
  • Vomits after eating
  • Distention is reduced after vomiting
  • Foul flatulence
  • Unformed stools or
  • Knotted constipation
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick and greasy
  • P: Slippery or slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Food
  • Conduct Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Epigastric fullness and distention
  • No desire for food and drink
  • Frequent belching
  • Borborygmus
  • Loss of sensation of taste
  • Stools not solid
  • Urine clear and abundant
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak and Deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Invigorate the Spleen and Stomach
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
  • Mai Men Dong Tang
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Indigestion
  • Epigastric focal distention which is soft and not tender to the touch
  • Fullness and tightness with very slight or no pain
  • Dry heaves
  • Vomiting
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Anorexia
  • Stomach pain
  • Abdominal pain
  • Subcardiac distention
  • Heartburn
  • Resistance below the Heart
  • Soft epigastrium
  • Mild nausea in the morning
  • Ascites
  • Gurgling sounds
  • A tendency toward diarrhea or loose stools
  • T: Normal or with a red tip
  • C: Thin, yellow and greasy or mixed white and yellow
  • P:Soft, slippery, slightly wiry and rapid or Wiry and rapid or Wiry, tight and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Descend Rebellious Qi
  • Disperse clumping
  • Eliminate focal distention due to Cold and Heat factors
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Body hot but desires warm bedclothes
  • Feeling of thirst with no desire to drink
  • Vomiting immediately after drinking
  • Agitation
  • Face and cheeks flushed
  • Watery stools with undigested food
  • P: Minute (on the point of collapse)
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Cold
  • Return Yang
  • Clear Communication between the Inside and Outside
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Drenched with perspiration
  • Above symptoms worse on exertion or when tired
  • Four limbs cold
  • Cyanosis of mouth and lips
  • Faint, weak respiration
  • P: Minute (on the point of collapse)
Treatment Principle
  • Return Yang
  • Consolidate Exhaustion
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Poor memory
  • Four limbs tired and lethargic
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Sallow complexion
  • Copious, pale menses
  • Uterine bleeding or
  • Light menstrual flow or
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Pale
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit the Heart and Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Vague lower abdominal pain
  • Feelings of cold and heaviness
  • Fond of warmth and pressure
  • Abdominal fullness intermittently
  • Borborygmus
  • Unformed, loose stools or
  • Chronic, incessant diarrhea
  • Urinary frequency
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and even
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Clear the Small Intestine
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal distention and pain
  • Gas
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Flatulence
  • Anorexia
  • Loose stools
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Moodiness
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Women:
    Irregular menses
    Dysmenorrhea
    Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink or Dark
  • C: White or White and greasy
  • P: Wiry or Slippery and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Invigorate the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Recurrent indigestion closely related to stress
  • Epigastric pain (worse when emotionally upset)
  • Hypochondriac, discomfort, ache or tightness
  • Belching with acid regurgitation
  • Heartburn
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Anorexia
  • Epigastric distention
  • Mild r vague nausea worse in the morning
  • Borborygmus
  • Flatulence
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Moodiness
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Irregular menses
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • Tendency toward loose stools or
  • Alternating constipation and diarrhea
  • T: Pink, may be red edges
  • C: Thin and white or thick and greasy
  • P: Wiry or Wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Harmonize the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Short temper
  • Restlessness
  • Fever or tidal fever
  • Red eyes
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Palpitations
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Difficult urination
  • Painful urination
  • Increased menstrual flow
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Early menstruation
  • Aching in limbs
  • Dizziness
  • Mental instability
  • Red face
  • Thirst
  • Turbid urine
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Red cheeks
  • Wheezing
  • Nervousness
  • Headache
  • Red eyes
  • Dry mouth
  • Anorexia
  • Infertility
  • Abdominal pain
  • Spontaneous sweating or night sweats with fever
  • Anxiety
  • Dry eyes
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Somnolence
  • Insomnia
  • Aching shoulders
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Earache
  • Premenstrual tension
  • Hot flashes
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Depression
  • Restlessness
  • Constipation with flushing up
  • Pale complexion
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Vertigo
  • Abdominal distention near the umbilicus
  • Epistaxis
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Heaviness in the lower abdomen
  • T:Red or Red edges
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Thready, rapid and wiry or Wiry and tight and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Spread Liver Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Nourish the Blood and Yin
  • Regulate menstruation
  • Sedate the Heart
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Facial color dark and dull
  • Emaciation
  • Sides and ribs distended on both sides (maybe with sharp pain)
  • Enlargement of the Liver and Spleen
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Irregular menses
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Dark purple (maybe purple spots on edge of tongue)
  • P: Wiry, choppy and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Activate Blood circulation
  • Soften hardness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Dry throat
  • Bitter or sour taste in the mouth
  • Dizziness
  • Sensation of fullness in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Irritability
  • Heartburn
  • Chest distention
  • Difficulty taking deep breaths
  • Hardness beneath the Heart
  • Hypochondriac pain with pressure
  • Stress
  • Being downcast with no desire to eat
  • Anorexia
  • Vertigo
  • May be palpitations
  • Dysphoria
  • Retching
  • Abdominal pain
  • Stomach ache
  • Reduced appetite
  • Subcostal bloating
  • Depression
  • Amenorrhea
  • Tendency to diarrhea
  • Nervousness
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • May be urinary dysfunction
  • Restlessness
  • Sometimes fatigue
  • Headaches (side of head)
  • Rib pain
  • Achiness
  • Ear infection
  • Hearing difficulty
  • Red eyes
  • Stiff shoulders
  • Throat pain
  • Hip pain
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve the Liver
  • Harmonize the Liver and Spleen
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
  • Severe breathlessness
  • Rapid breathing
  • Extremely cold extremities
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Sleeping with knees drawn up
  • Lethargy with a constant desire to sleep
  • Vomiting
  • Abdominal pain and Cold
  • Lack of thirst
  • Coma
  • Diarrhea
  • Indigestion
  • Edema
  • Pale face
  • Superficial fever
  • Red face
  • Cyanosis of the lips and nails
  • T: Pale or Dark purple
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Deep and thready or Deep and slow or Deep and faint
Treatment Principle
  • Rescue Yang
  • Warm the Middle Jiao
  • Disperse Internal Cold
  • Stop diarrhea
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Night sweats
  • Red face
  • Dry mouth
  • Leukorrhagia with yellow, thick, foul discharge
  • Constipation
  • Dark, scanty urine
  • Irritation
  • Fidgeting
  • Insomnia
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Irregular menstruation
  • A thin physique
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Parched lips
  • Irritability
  • Dry stools
  • T: Dark red and dry
  • C: Dry and yellow or None
  • P: Flooding and rapid or Thin and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourishes Yin
  • Clears Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Stifling sensation and irritability in the chest
  • Nausea with an urge to vomit
  • Abdominal pain
  • Fever with slight chills
  • Diarrhea
  • Vexation
  • Borborygmus
  • Thirst
  • T: Pink
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Cold and Heat
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Descend Rebellious Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills
  • Chest fullness
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Stabbing pain in the bones and joints
  • Cough with sputum
  • Cough
  • Wheezing
  • Copious sputum
  • Chest distention
  • Anorexia
  • Indigestion
  • Hiccup
  • Shortness of breath
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thick, white
  • P: Sinking and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Cold
  • Disperse Phlegm
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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • No desire to eat or drink
  • Diarrhea
  • Abdominal pain
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Belching with a rotten or sour smell
  • T: Pale and thick
  • C: Greasy or Turbid
  • P: Weak and soggy
Treatment Principle
  • Augment the Spleen
  • Transform Dampness
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Dispel s Food Stagnation
  • Relieve diarrhea and vomiting
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Sweating
  • Thirst
  • Dysenteric diarrhea
  • Foul-smelling stools
  • A burning sensation around the anus
  • Gasping
  • Ephidrosis
  • Palpitations
  • Tenesmus
  • Maybe red tinged urine
  • Irritability and Heat in the chest and epigastrium
  • Stiffness and spasms at the back of the neck
  • Dry mouth
  • Dyspnea with perspiration
  • Maybe wheezing
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow (Greasy)
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Clear Internal Yang Ming Heat
  • Raise Yang to stop diarrhea
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Spasms
  • Cramps
  • Thirst
  • Irritability
  • Oliguria with reddish urine
  • Restlessness
  • Arthralgia with a burning sensation, redness and swelling
  • Abdominal pain
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, dry and yellow or Yellow and greasy
  • P: Soggy and rapid or Floating and rapid or Floating, soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Separate the clear from the turbid
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Intermittent abdominal pain
  • Indigestion
  • Emaciation
  • Loose stools
  • Feverishness
  • Foul breath
  • A sallow complexion
  • A large, distended abdomen
  • Anorexia
  • Decreased intake of food
  • Weak constitution
  • Constant fatigue
  • Maybe nausea and vomiting
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
Treatment Principle
  • Kill parasites
  • Reduce accumulations
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points