NEURITIS, GASTRIC NEURITIS, INTERCOSTAL NEURITIS, PERIPHERAL NEURITIS

Clinical Manifestations
  • Inflammation of nerves.
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills with fever increasing and chills decreasing
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Stiffness and pain of the extremities
  • Orbital pain
  • Eye pain
  • Shoulder and neck tension
  • Dry nasal passages
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Constipation
  • Abdominal fullness
  • Fever
  • Tenesmus
  • Vomiting
  • Thirst
  • Epistaxis
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and slightly flooding
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Release the muscle layer
  • Clear Interior Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Joint pain with a crackling sensation
  • Epigastric pain
  • Fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Headache
  • Heaviness in the head
  • Fever
  • Moderately severe chills
  • Distension beneath the Heart
  • Periumbilical or lower abdominal pain
  • Tenseness around the pubic bone
  • Subcostal pain
  • Epigastric fullness
  • Nausea
  • Mild vomiting
  • Mild thoraco-costal discomfort
  • Costal distress
  • Tension in the rectus abdominus
  • Chest distension
  • Abdominal pain
  • Abdominal distension
  • Constipation
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Repeated loss of spinal alignment due to muscular tension
  • P: Floating and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior and muscle layer
  • Harmonize and release the Shao-Yang
  • Harmonize the Liver, Spleen and Intestines
  • Dispel Water Accumulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Whole body numbness
  • Deviation of mouth and eyes
  • Numbness of skin
  • Dysphagia due to stiffness of the tongue
  • Hemiplegia
  • Rigidity of the extremities
  • Spasms of the extremities
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Fever
  • Chills
  • Aching joints
  • Tingling of the skin
  • Paralysis of the extremities
  • Numbness and lack of sensation in the hands and feet
  • Common cold (with above symptoms)
  • Inability to walk
  • Wandering joints pain
  • T: Pink or Red
  • C: White or Thin yellow
  • P: Superficial or Superficial and wiry or superficial and tight or Wiry and thin
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Circulate Qi
  • Dredge the channels
  • Nourish and activate the Blood
  • Harmonize the Ying and Wei
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Numbness and heaviness of the extremities
  • Soreness and fixed pain of joints
  • Stiffness or numbness of the muscles or skin
  • Pain worse on cloudy or rainy days
  • Maybe peripheral or systemic edema
  • Pain is alleviated by pressure and warmth
  • Pain lingers and is recalcitrant to treatment
  • Worse during cloudy or wet weather
  • Limited movement
  • Edema
  • Maybe stifling sensation in chest
  • Maybe anorexia or indigestion
  • Maybe abdominal distention
  • Maybe loose or semi-liquid stools
  • T: Pink or Pale
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Slow, moderate and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Damp
  • Clear the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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
  • Activates Blood circulation
  • Tonify the Blood
  • Warm the Channels
  • Relieves muscular tension
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Generalized body aches and pains
  • Irritability
  • Heavy sensation in the shoulder and back
  • Discomfort or a constricted sensation in the area of the chest and diaphragm
  • Multiple sores, carbuncles furuncles or abscesses
  • Redness
  • Itching
  • Persistent swelling
  • Chest pain
  • Fever
  • Thirst
  • Aching and painful extremities
  • Aching and painful joints
  • Unbearable swelling and pain of the lower extremities
  • Shoulder stiffness
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and slightly yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Soft and moderate or Soft, superficial and slow or Slippery and rapid or Deep and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Clear Heat
  • Disperse Wind
  • Stop pain
  • Activate the Blood
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Hemiplegia
  • Asymmetry of the face
  • Slow and slurred speech
  • Fever and chills
  • Semi-consciousness
  • Convulsions
  • Neck rigidity
  • Limited movement of the joints
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Muscle spasms
  • Low back pain
  • Numbness of the muscles and skin
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Floating and Deficient or Tense or Wiry and tense
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the channels
  • Unblock Yang
  • Dispel Wind
  • Support the Normal Qi
  • Relax spasms
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Deviation of the eyes and mouth
  • Paralysis of the skin
  • Continuous, uncontrolled salivation
  • Fever
  • sore, painful joints
  • Facial paralysis
  • Difficulty speaking
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Spasms of the limbs
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry or Taut and thready or Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • Stop spasms
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry, hacking cough with little or no sputum
  • Flushed face
  • Sputum is difficult to expectorate
  • Restlessness
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • Hiccups
  • Cough may cause chest pain
  • Dyspnea
  • Dry or sore throat
  • Upper respiratory tract infection
  • Hoarse voice
  • Asthma
  • Dry lips and mouth
  • Fever
  • Shortness of breath
  • Hemoptysis
  • Decreased urination
  • Constipation
  • Thirst
  • Dry skin and hair
  • Dryness in nose
  • Sensation of fullness in chest
  • Epistaxis
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Chills and fever
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Irritability
  • Itching
  • T: Red tip, dry
  • C: Thin, yellow, or White and dry, or None
  • P: Superficial, maybe rapid or Big and weak or Deficient, big and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Eliminate Dryness
  • Moisten the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Distention of chest and epigastrium
  • Coughing up copious, thin, white sputum
  • Dyspnea
  • Sallow complexion
  • Anorexia
  • Rolled lips
  • Pale lips
  • Stiff tongue
  • Tired limbs
  • Heavy limbs
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after meals
  • Maybe bleeding
  • Stifling sensation in the chest and epigastrium
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Shortness of breath
  • Loose stools or diarrhea
  • Lethargy
  • Thin muscles
  • Fatigue
  • Does not like to speak
  • Weak, soft voice
  • Maybe enuresis
  • Maybe borborygmus
  • Maybe cold extremities
  • Maybe abundant clear urine
  • Muscle weakness in arms and legs
  • Weak abdomen
  • T: Pale and flabby, may have teeth marks
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Soft and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen and Stomach
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Dry Dampness
  • Circulate Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Prolapse of one or more organs
  • Sallow complexion
  • 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 or Soft and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Reinforce the Center
  • Invigorate Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
  • DU-20, other points are selected according to the type of prolapse
Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Palpitations
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Severe cases:
    Incoherent speech
    Crying and laughing without reason
    Manic agitation with irrational behavior
    May physically attack or abuse others
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery, Excess, rapid and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Heart
  • Break through Phlegm
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
  • Steaming bone disorder
  • Afternoon fever
  • Tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Spontaneous seminal emissions
  • Irritability
  • Heat and pain in the knees (maybe with weakness)
  • Atrophy and weakness of the knees and legs
  • Red face
  • Restless fever
  • Hematemesis
  • Sore knees
  • Sore lower back
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • May be constant hunger
  • Maybe constipation
  • Hot flashes
  • Restlessness
  • Fidgeting
  • Insomnia with frequent dreams
  • Productive bloody cough
  • Easily angered
  • Nightmares
  • Sore feet with flaccidity
  • Tinnitus
  • Burning sensation over Kidneys
  • Dizziness or vertigo
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Cough
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready, Excess and rapid in the Chi position
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Descend Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of the low back
  • Spermatorrhea or
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Aching in the bones
  • Aching in the 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
  • If Heart Fire also Flares:
    Insomnia
    Frequent dreams
    Palpitations
  • If Liver Yang also Rises:
    Dizziness
    Blurred vision
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Subdue Fire
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
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Weak legs
  • Lower back ache
  • Low-grade fever in the afternoon
  • Fatigue
  • Red cheeks
  • Hot flushed face
  • Spermatorrhea due to Deficient Yin
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Fever with thirst
  • Burning soles of feet
  • Hot flashes
  • Night sweating
  • Dry cough
  • Headache
  • Restlessness
  • Early periods
  • Pale dilute menstrual Blood
  • Nocturia
  • General feeling of being Cold
  • Restless insomnia
  • Vertigo,
  • T: Pale and swollen or Red
  • C: Thin and white or Little or None
  • P: Deep and weak or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Kidney Yang
  • Nourish the Liver and Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
  • Relieve Empty Fire due to Deficiency of 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
  • Infertility
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Seminal emission
  • Loose stools (sometimes with undigested food)
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Edema of the lower extremities
  • Pale face
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Dizziness
  • Enuresis
  • T: Pale
  • P: Deep, slow and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonify Kidney Yang
  • Replenish Jing
  • Tonify the Blood
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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Hemiplegia
  • Paralysis
  • Atrophy of the lower limbs
  • Facial paralysis
  • Slurred speech
  • Drooling
  • Dry stools
  • Frequent urination
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Deviation of the eyes and mouth
  • Excess salivation
  • Cold extremities
  • Asthenia
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Activate the Blood
  • Unblock the channels
  • Promote movement in the limbs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pallid or sallow complexion
  • Palpitations with anxiety that may be continuous
  • Reduced appetite
  • Shortness of breath
  • Laconic speech
  • Easily fatigued extremities
  • Light-headedness and/or vertigo
  • Dizziness
  • Anorexia
  • Thirst
  • Course skin
  • Headache
  • Blurred vision
  • Lassitude
  • Severe chills and fever
  • Midline pain in women
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Severe chills and fever
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Weight loss
  • Abscesses that neither suppurate nor improve
  • Continuous spotting from uterine bleeding
  • Weakness of the limbs
  • Itching
  • Under weight
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thin and frail or Large and Deficient without strength
Treatment Principle
  • TonifY and augment Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Anemia
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Cold extremities
  • Pale or sallow face
  • Dizziness
  • General fatigue
  • Coarse skin
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Weak knees
  • Fatigue
  • Dyspnea
  • Night sweats
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Insomnia
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Decreased eyesight after a prolonged illness
  • Anxiety
  • Intermittent fever
  • Jaundice
  • Deficient cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • Palpitations
  • Anorexia
  • Listlessness
  • Lassitude
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Continuous spotting
  • Leukorrhea
  • Weak legs and knees
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Replenish Yang
  • Warm and tonify Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Weakness of the knees
  • Soreness of the lower back
  • Lumbago
  • Atrophy of the leg muscles
  • Lower back weakness
  • Knee pain
  • Difficulty walking
  • Emaciation
  • Impotence
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Night sweats
  • Five-sole Heat
  • Aggravation of the pain by Damp weather
  • Pale complexion
  • Profuse urination at night
  • Tinnitus
  • Hair loss
  • Sensation of warmth
  • Thirst
  • Dry skin
  • T: Red or Pale and flabby with teethmarks
  • C: Little or Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak, especially in the Kidney positions
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Liver and Kidneys
  • Strengthen the tendons and bones
  • Eliminate Damp-Heat
  • Tonify Kidney Jing
  • Relieve rheumatic pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Relatively superficial numbness without pain
  • Paresthesia and numbness of the skin and flesh
  • Paresthesia of the shoulders
  • Neck and shoulder stiffness and pain
  • Abdominal pain alleviated by warmth and pressure
  • Pale complexion
  • Hemiplegia
  • Stiff tongue
  • Flaccidity if the extremities
  • Migratory pain
  • Pain, weakness, tightness or spasms of the extremities
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Shortness of breath
  • Aphasia
  • Excess salivation
  • Aversion to Wind
  • T: Normal or Thick
  • C: White or Smooth and white or White and greasy
  • P: Faint, choppy and tight or Slightly rough and tight or Large and weak or Slow and large
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Warm and harmonize the channels and collaterals
  • Harmonize the Ying and Wei
  • Unblock painful obstruction
  • Warm the Middle Jiao
  • Dispel Cold
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Copious bleeding of dark purple blood
  • The blood is sticky during menstruation
  • May or may not have clots
  • Menstrual cycle is shortened (early menstruation)
  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Pale, lusterless complexion
  • Pale nails
  • Abdominal pain
  • Irregular menstruation with little flow
  • Fixed lower abdominal pain
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Pale lips
  • May be amenorrhea
  • Insomnia
  • Menstruation may also be accompanied by distention and pain
  • T: Pale
  • C: Normal
  • P: Thin and weak or Thin and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify and activate the Blood
  • Regulate Blood circulation
  • Break up Blood Stagnation
  • Regulate menstruation
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Localized painful swellings without a head that bleed into the surrounding tissues and do not affect the color or texture of the skin
  • The swellings are not hot to the touch
  • No thirst
  • Swollen and painful joints
  • Wasting of the muscles of the thigh and calf
  • T: Very pale or Pale-pink
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and forceless or Deep and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Yang
  • Tonify the Blood
  • Disperse Cold
  • Eliminate Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal pain with icy cold hands and feet
  • Extremities are cyanotic and difficult to warm up
  • P: Thready or Imperceptible
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the channels
  • Disperse Cold
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Unblock the channels
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
  • Heaviness of the limbs
  • Weak and flaccid extremities
  • Occasional numbness
  • Slight swelling in the affected extremities
  • Most often affects the lower extremities
  • Possibly fever
  • Stifling sensation in the chest and epigastrium
  • Obesity
  • Lower back pain with a burning sensation
  • Yellow, foul-smelling vaginal discharge
  • Edema
  • Skin problems
  • A dry mouth
  • Irritability
  • A sensation of Heat that begins at the dorsum of the foot and slowly progresses up the leg to the waist
  • Dark, scanty, painful and difficult urination
  • Reddish urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Soft and rapid and possibly slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Activate the Blood in the channels and collaterals
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pain in low back and knees
  • Weakness or atrophy of lower extremities
  • Scanty yellow urine
  • Red, hot, swollen and painful feet or knees
  • Edema in lower legs
  • Eczema
  • Painful and swollen feet
  • Pain and swelling of the joints
  • Leukorrhea (thick, yellow and foul-smelling)
  • Sores on lower extremities due to Damp
  • Severe numbness and weakness in lower extremities
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Eliminate Heat
  • Resolve Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A constant ache in the lower abdomen that occurs during or just after menstruation
  • The pain responds favorably to pressure
  • Scanty and pale menstrual flow
  • Pale complexion
  • Palpitations
  • Thirst
  • Listlessness
  • Menstrual bleeding that is light in color
  • Lethargy
  • Weak limbs
  • Withdrawn behavior
  • Restlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Sensation of Heat
  • Maybe irritability
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin
  • P: Thin and frail
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Tonify the Blood
  • Preserve the Blood
  • Tonify Yin
Herb Formulas
Points