MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Clinical Manifestations
  • May show demylenation in the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves.
  • Varied and individual symptomatology - including:
    Stress
    Depression
    Anxiety
    Weakness
    Tingling
    Numbness
    Spasms
    Tremors
    Gait disturbance
    Speech problems
    Visual problems
    Digestive disturbance
    Incontinence of urine
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
  • Scalp Acupuncture:
    For motor problems (paralysis, weakness of limbs, tingling, numbness, pain in limbs, urine and bowel problems): Sensory and Foot motor areas unilaterally or bilaterally
    For dizziness: Dizziness area
    For balance problems: Balance area
    For limb spasms: Tremor area
    Rotate 200 times/minute for three minutes, rest 10 minutes and repeat 3 to 4 times.
  • Lower Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa GB-34, LI-3, KI-3, Bafeng
    Upper Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa LI-11, LI-4, SJ-5, Baxie
    For older and weak patients: Moxa ST-36, SP-6, REN-4, KI-1, UB-23
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 Xu
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Spleen
  • Augment Qi
  • Eliminate Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Flaccid or slightly swollen legs
  • Legs a little hot to the touch
  • Legs may sometimes feel cold
  • Legs may be numb and swollen
  • Feet feel hot with a desire to stretch them out
  • General heaviness
  • Sensation of fullness in the chest and epigastric region
  • Painful joints, worse with Heat
  • Maybe low grade fever
  • Frequent, urgent, yellow urination
  • Painful urination
  • Hot, brownish urine
  • T: Pink or Red
  • C: Sticky and yellow or Greasy and yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Eliminate Damp-Heat
  • Clear the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Tic or tremor of hands and feet
  • Weakness of the limbs
  • Muscle stiffness
  • Unsteady standing and movement
  • Cramping
  • Spasms
  • Pale, dull complexion
  • Pale lips
  • Blurred or failing vision which is worse when tired
  • Muscle stiffness
  • Spastic cramping
  • Weak eyesight
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Pale nail beds
  • Irritability
  • Frightens easily
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Tinnitus
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Light menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Late menses
  • T: Pale or Pale and dry
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready or Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Liver
  • Reinforce the Blood
  • Subdue Yang
  • Nourish Yin
  • Extinguish Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Double vision
  • Unsteady gait
  • Low back and knee weakness and pain
  • Emaciation
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Yellow urine
  • Dry stools
  • T:Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Kidneys and Liver
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Exhaustion from long-term illness
  • Low energy
  • Lethargy
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Coolness of the extremities
  • Impotence
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Aching and weakness of the lower back and knees
  • Cold extremities
  • Infertility
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Seminal emission
  • Loose stools (sometimes with undigested food)
  • Diarrhea
  • Maybe constipation
  • Frequent urination
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Edema of the lower extremities
  • Pale face
  • Poor vision
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Dizziness
  • Enuresis
  • T: Pale
  • P: Deep, slow and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonify the Kidney Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lumbago
  • Low back feels cold, weak and aching
  • Knees feel cold and aching
  • Feeling chilled
  • Withdrawn, subdued behavior
  • Aversion to cold
  • Tinnitus
  • Cold limbs
  • Impotence
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Premature ejaculation
  • General debility
  • Pale face
  • Low libido
  • Urinary frequency with abundant, clear urine or
  • Female infertility ("uterus cold and infertile")
  • Oliguria with edema
  • Maybe nocturia
  • Maybe anorexia
  • Lassitude
  • Maybe chronic diarrhea or "cock crow" diarrhea
  • Dizziness
  • Maybe loose stools
  • 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: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and thready maybe slow
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
  • GB-39, KI-3, KI-6, REN-4, UB-23, UB-32
    For tinnitus: + GB-2
    For vertigo: + GB-20, UB-2
    For blurred vision: + GB-37, SJ-23, UB-1
    For urinary incontinence: + LIV-5, REN-3, UB-28
    For hesitant urination: + LU-7
    For Lung Qi Deficiency: + LU-9
    For Phlegm in the Lungs: + REN-23, ST-40
    For Heart Qi Deficiency: + HT-5
    For Liver Yin Deficiency: + GB-37, KI-6, LIV-3, SI-6, UB-1
  • Scalp Acupuncture:
    For motor problems (paralysis, weakness of limbs, tingling, numbness, pain in limbs, urine and bowel problems): Sensory and Foot motor areas unilaterally or bilaterally
    For dizziness: Dizziness area
    For balance problems: Balance area
    For limb spasms: Tremor area
    Rotate 200 times/minute for three minutes, rest 10 minutes and repeat 3 to 4 times.
  • Lower Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa GB-34, LI-3, KI-3, Bafeng
    Upper Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa LI-11, LI-4, SJ-5, Baxie
    For older and weak patients: Moxa ST-36, SP-6, REN-4, KI-1, UB-23
Clinical Manifestations
  • Qi Deficiency:
  • Lethargy
  • Severe weakness
  • Fatigue
  • Symptoms worse with exertion
  • Symptoms better with rest
  • Shortness of breath with little exertion
  • Laconic speech
  • Shiny, pale complexion
  • Reduced appetite
  • Maybe loose stools
  • Prolapse
  • Bleeding
  • Incontinence
  • Maybe soft voice
  • Maybe chronic cough with generalized weakness
  • Profuse sweating
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Deep and Weak
  • Blood Deficiency:
  • Pale face, lips & nails
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Scanty menses
  • Numbness of extremities
  • Amenorrhea
  • Insomnia
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
  • Kidney Jing Insufficiency:
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back and knees weak and aching
  • In adults:
  • Hair loss
  • Graying or whitening of hair
  • Weak sexual function
  • Atrophy and weakness of feet with difficulty
  • Poor memory walking
  • 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)
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
  • Scalp Acupuncture:
    For motor problems (paralysis, weakness of limbs, tingling, numbness, pain in limbs, urine and bowel problems): Sensory and Foot motor areas unilaterally or bilaterally
    For dizziness: Dizziness area
    For balance problems: Balance area
    For limb spasms: Tremor area
    Rotate 200 times/minute for three minutes, rest 10 minutes and repeat 3 to 4 times.
  • Lower Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa GB-34, LI-3, KI-3, Bafeng
    Upper Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa LI-11, LI-4, SJ-5, Baxie
    For older and weak patients: Moxa ST-36, SP-6, REN-4, KI-1, UB-23
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
  • Stools difficult to pass
  • Insomnia
  • Constipation
  • Irritability
  • T: Red
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
  • Women:
  • Irregular menses or
  • Scanty menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Vaginal discharge
  • Men:
  • Spermatorrhea
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Kidneys and Liver
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
  • GB-39, KI-3, KI-6, REN-4, UB-23, UB-32
    For tinnitus: + GB-2
    For vertigo: + GB-20, UB-2
    For urinary incontinence: + LIV-5, REN-3, UB-28
    For Lung Qi Deficiency: LU-9
    For Phlegm in the Lungs: + REN-23, ST-40
    For Heart Qi Deficiency: + HT-5
  • Scalp Acupuncture:
    For motor problems (paralysis, weakness of limbs, tingling, numbness, pain in limbs, urine and bowel problems): Sensory and Foot motor areas unilaterally or bilaterally
    For dizziness: Dizziness area
    For balance problems: Balance area
    For limb spasms: Tremor area
    Rotate 200 times/minute for three minutes, rest 10 minutes and repeat 3 to 4 times.
  • Lower Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa GB-34, LI-3, KI-3, Bafeng
    Upper Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa LI-11, LI-4, SJ-5, Baxie
    For older and weak patients: Moxa ST-36, SP-6, REN-4, KI-1, UB-23
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
  • Stools difficult to pass
  • Insomnia
  • Constipation
  • Irritability
  • T: Red
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
  • Women:
  • Irregular menses or
  • Scanty menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Vaginal discharge
  • Men:
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Qi Deficiency:
  • Lethargy
  • Fatigue
  • Symptoms worse with exertion
  • Symptoms better with rest
  • Shortness of breath with little exertion
  • Laconic speech
  • Shiny, pale complexion
  • Reduced appetite
  • Maybe loose stools
  • Prolapse
  • Bleeding
  • Incontinence
  • Maybe soft voice
  • Maybe chronic cough with generalized weakness
  • Profuse sweating
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Deep and Weak
  • Blood Deficiency:
  • Pale face, lips & nails
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Scanty menses
  • Numbness of extremities
  • Amenorrhea
  • Insomnia
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Kidneys and Liver
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
  • Multiple Sclerosis #7
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Qi Ju Di Huang Wan
    Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
    He Che Da Zao Wan
    Ren Shen Yang Rong Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Steaming bone disorder
  • Afternoon fever
  • Night sweats
  • Spontaneous seminal emissions
  • Irritability
  • Heat and pain in the knees (maybe with weakness)
  • Red face
  • Restless fever
  • Hematemesis
  • Sore knees
  • Sore lower back
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • May be constant hunger
  • Hot flashes
  • Restless
  • Insomnia
  • Productive bloody cough
  • Easily angered
  • Nightmares
  • Sore feet with flaccidity
  • Tinnitus
  • Burning sensation over Kidneys
  • Dizziness or vertigo
  • Five sole Heat
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready, Excess and rapid in the Chi position
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Regulate Yang
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
  • Da Bu Yin Wan modified
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Qi Ju Di Huang Wan
    Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
    He Che Da Zao Wan
    Ren Shen Yang Rong Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness in the extremities
  • Poor appetite with scanty eating
  • Maybe abdominal distention
  • Maybe easy bruising
  • Orthostatic hypotension
  • Scanty menstruation or
  • Profuse menstruation
  • Loose stools or
  • Diarrhea
  • Tinnitus
  • Dizziness
  • Low back and knee pain and weakness
  • Maybe emaciation
  • Night sweats
  • Tidal malar flushing
  • T: Pale and swollen with a red tip or Swollen with a red tip or Swollen and red
  • C: Dry or scanty yellow
  • P: Thready, wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Qi
  • Boost the Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Numbness and weakness of the extremities
  • Spasms and contractures of the extremities
  • Mild trembling of the limbs
  • Shaking of the head
  • Usually long term
  • Slow to initiate movement
  • A slow, shuffling gait
  • A somber, pale, white or sallow and lusterless facial complexion
  • Pale lips and nails
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Weakness
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Disinclination to speak
  • Stiffness of the neck and back
  • Difficulty moving
  • Spontaneous cool perspiration
  • Dizziness
  • Insomnia
  • Blurred vision
  • Loose stools
  • Maybe edema
  • T: Thick and pale or Thick and dark with teethmarks or petechiae
  • C: Thin
  • P: Thready or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Extinguish Wind
  • Unblock the channels
Herb Formulas
  • Ba Zhen Tangmodified
  • With Liver Qi Stagnation: Xiao Yao Sanmodified
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Ba Zhen Wan
    Tian Ma Mi Huan Su
    An Shen Bu Nao Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fixed, sharp pain
  • Tumor formation
  • If Blood Stagnation combines with Qi Deficiency:
  • Fatigue
  • Shortness of breath
  • If Blood Stagnation combines with Cold:
  • Cold extremities
  • Distension & pain
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Preference for warmth
  • T: Purple or Pale with purple spots
  • P: Choppy or Choppy and Weak
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
  • Scalp Acupuncture:
    For motor problems (paralysis, weakness of limbs, tingling, numbness, pain in limbs, urine and bowel problems): Sensory and Foot motor areas unilaterally or bilaterally
    For dizziness: Dizziness area
    For balance problems: Balance area
    For limb spasms: Tremor area
    Rotate 200 times/minute for three minutes, rest 10 minutes and repeat 3 to 4 times.
  • Lower Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa GB-34, LI-3, KI-3, Bafeng
    Upper Limbs: Electro-acupuncture or rotate 200 times/minute and moxa LI-11, LI-4, SJ-5, Baxie
    For older and weak patients: Moxa ST-36, SP-6, REN-4, KI-1, UB-23
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
  • Weakness
  • Heaviness
  • Numbness
  • Tingling of the extremities
  • Cold limbs
  • Achy back and shoulders
  • Numbness of the back
  • Vertigo
  • Blurred vision
  • Double vision
  • T: Pink
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Slippery and maybe thready or Slippery and maybe empty
Treatment Principle
  • Resolve Phlegm-Damp
  • Raise the Yang
  • Clear the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Atrophy, wilting and weakness of the extremities
  • Accompanies the onset of fever or is a sequela to fever
  • Possible numbness and insensitivity of the limbs
  • Tends toward paralysis
  • Head distention
  • Chest oppression
  • Tinnitus
  • Possible decreased visual acuity
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Profuse yellow, sticky Phlegm
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow or Slimy and yellow
  • P: Wiry and slippery or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Open the Orifices
  • Unblock the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mild or severe tremors of the head and extremities
  • Sometimes the tremors can be stopped by conscious effort
  • Fullness and stiffness of the chest and epigastrium
  • A dry mouth
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Sweating
  • Yellow Phlegm
  • A tendency toward obesity
  • T: Normal or Red
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Wiry, slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Extinguish Wind
Herb Formulas
  • Dao Tan Tangmodified
  • With severe Phlegm, Heat and tremors: Cui Gan Wan
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    An Gong Niu Huang Wan
    Wan Shi Niu Huang Qing Xin Wan

    Hu Po Bao Long Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever during the initial stage of an illness or
  • Fever followed by weakness, rapidly developing flaccidity and immobility of the extremities with muscular atrophy, and dry skin
  • Low grade fever and Yin impairment
  • Usually lower extremities
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Cough
  • Scanty sputum
  • Scanty urine
  • Dry stool
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and scanty
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat from the Lungs
  • Moisten the Lungs
  • Nourish the tendons and bones
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Early stage: Abnormal sensitivity or numbness of the limbs
  • Heaviness of the limbs
  • Weak and flaccid extremities
  • Drooping of the hands and feet
  • Slight swelling in the affected extremities
  • Loss of use of the limbs
  • Most often affects the lower extremities
  • Possibly fever or low-grade fever
  • Stifling sensation in the chest and epigastrium
  • Body feels heavy
  • Obesity
  • Edema
  • Skin problems
  • Sticky, foul-smelling, dark colored or yellow stools
  • Burning sensation in the anus
  • Dark, scanty, urgent, painful and difficult urination
  • Sensation of Heat that begins at the dorsum of the foot and slowly progresses up the leg to the waist
  • Maybe painful joints
  • Symptoms worse with Heat
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Soft and rapid and possibly slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Dry Dampness
  • Open the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Gradual onset of flaccidity and weakness of the extremities aggravated by exertion
  • Gradual loss of muscle mass
  • Sallow complexion
  • Facial puffiness
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Anorexia
  • No desire for food and drink
  • Frequent belching
  • Borborygmus
  • Loss of sensation of taste
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • Urine clear and abundant
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even, forceless and Deficient or Thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify and Strengthen the Spleen and Stomach
  • Augment Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Weak and Cold lower back
  • Difficulty rising
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • P: Very deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Kidneys
  • Warm Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Slow and gradual onset
  • Weak and flaccid lower limbs
  • Muscle twitching
  • Soreness and weakness of the lower back and spine
  • Inability to stand for a long time
  • Total loss of mobility and severe loss of muscle mass can result with exacerbation
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Hair loss
  • Dry throat
  • Tinnitus
  • Fatigue
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Enuresis
  • Fecal and urinary incontinence
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Liver and Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Emaciation
  • Weak low back
  • Dry skin
  • T: Pale or Red and dry
  • C: White or Little or None
  • P: Weak and thin
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic flaccidity and weakness of the limbs
  • Muscular atrophy
  • Weakness and numbness of the limbs
  • Dark-colored skin or
  • Dry, scaled, fish-like skin
  • Possible muscular pain
  • Possible spasm leading to paralysis
  • Blood vessels may be visible on the skin surface
    T: /purple tongue
    P: Choppy/uneven, thready
  • T: Dusky, purple
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Choppy or Choppy and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Circulate Qi
  • Activate the Blood
  • Eliminate Stasis
  • Open the channels and collaterals
Herb Formulas
Points