NIGHT SWEATS

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Night sweats
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Anorexia
  • Sometimes fatigue
  • Nausea
  • Anorexia
  • Occasional vomiting
  • Frequent retching
  • Headaches (side of head)
  • Chest pain and fullness
  • Hypochondriac pain and fullness
  • Rib pain and fullness
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Achiness
  • Ear infection
  • Hearing difficulty
  • Red eyes
  • Stiff shoulders
  • A dry throat
  • Throat pain
  • Heart vexation
  • Hip pain
  • Possible vertigo
  • T: Normal with bumps or dots on side
  • C: Thin white or Thin and yellow
  • 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
  • Frequent night sweats
  • Headache (wrapping)
  • Fever and chills, fever more pronounced or
  • Chills with afternoon fever
  • Heavy extremities
  • Heavy sensations in the body
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Poor appetite
  • A sticky sensation in the mouth
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness
  • Gastric and abdominal distension
  • Sticky mouth
  • No thirst
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy, white or Greasy, yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid or Soft and slow or Wiry thin and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Damp-Heat
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
  • Night sweats every night (gets progressively drier)
  • Low grade fever
  • Purple skin rash
  • Malar flush (deep red cheeks - dangerous)
  • Restlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Hearing loss
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Short, sunken, dry gums
  • Thirst
  • Five sole heat
  • Emaciation
  • Collapse of Yin:
      a. Moist skin
      b. Sticky with sweat
      c. Extreme thirst
      d. Tired spirit
      e. Shortness of breath
      f. Extreme disorientation or confusion
  • T: Deep red and scorched
  • C: Dry
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin and Jing
  • Nourish the Liver and Kidney
  • Tonify the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe, dry hacking cough
  • No sputum expectorated
  • Small amounts of difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Blood tinged sputum (when Yin Deficiency Fire is present)
  • Shortness of breath
  • Afternoon fever
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush (especially in afternoon)
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Itching in throat
  • Hoarse voice, low voice or loss of voice
  • Emaciation
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moisten the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic cough or
  • Dry cough
  • Insomnia
  • Night sweats
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Weakness
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Fever
  • Irritability
  • T: Red and dry or Red and swollen
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Replenish Qi and Yin
  • Generate Body Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Unproductive cough
  • Scanty, sticky phlegm or
  • Sometimes blood-streaked sputum
  • Chronic wheezing which is severe and may be constant
  • Wheezing may be worse at night
  • Wheezing and panting which is worse on exertion
  • The patient may develop a barrel chest and a thick neck
  • Tightness and fullness in the chest
  • 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
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Warm, dry skin
  • Chronic sore throat
  • Low back and knees sore and weak
  • "Steaming Bone" tidal fever
  • Fine sole Heat
  • Tinnitus
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush
  • Maybe hoarse voice
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Finger clubbing
  • Large, red skin reaction to needles or pressure
  • Maybe kyphosis of the upper back
  • Maybe pain in shin, foot, and heel
  • Sterility
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Patients who used steroids as children may be small in stature
  • T: Red and dry or Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: None or Mirrored or White
  • P: Thready and rapid, may be fuller if on steroids or Deep and thready or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Cool the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Night sweats
  • Heavy-headedness
  • A wrapping headache
  • Heavy limbs
  • Maybe edema in limbs, especially lower limbs
  • Maybe anasarca
  • Abdominal distention
  • stomach oppression
  • Poor appetite
  • Nausea
  • Sliminess in the mouth
  • Inhibited urination
  • Loose stools
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and moist or White and slimy
  • P: Soft and even or Slippery or Moderate and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Middle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Eliminate Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sallow or pale complexion
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Physical and mental exhaustion
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose or unformed stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Functional Uterine Bleeding
  • Purpura
  • Epistaxis
  • Hemafecia
  • Hematuria
  • Menorrhagia
  • Metrorrhagia
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Benefit Qi
  • Conserve Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • No appetite or
  • Famished but with no desire to eat
  • Abdominal distention after meals
  • Dry stools
  • Irritability with low grade fever
  • Maybe dry retching or
  • Hiccups
  • 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
  • Night sweats
  • 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
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish the Stomach
  • Drain Heat from the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Night sweats
  • Dry throat
  • Thirst
  • Hacking cough with scanty sputum
  • Low grade fever
  • Epigastric pain
  • T: Red
  • C: Little, maybe dry
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear and Nourish the Lung and Stomach
  • Generate Fluids
  • Moisten Dryness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Insomnia
  • Continuous palpitations
  • A sensation of Heat and irritability in the chest
  • A desire to vomit without result
  • Dream-disturbed sleep
  • Anxiety
  • Tongue ulcers
  • Fidgeting
  • Maybe a rancorous disposition
  • Irritability
  • Fear and fright
  • Night sweats
  • Shortness of breath
  • Nausea
  • T: Red or Red tip
  • C: Normal
  • P: Thin and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Sedate the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Drain Fire
  • Nourish Yin
  • Relieve palpitations
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Irritability
  • Easily startled
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Poor memory
  • Low grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Restlessness
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • Malar flush
  • T: Red, dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Reinforce Heart
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Anxiety
  • Night sweats
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Restless sleep
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Secure the Exterior
  • Stop sweating
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Night sweats
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Easily startled
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Shortness of breath
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Pale face and lips
  • T: Pale
  • C: thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Heart Blood
  • Calm the Heart and Shen
  • Tonify Heart Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Eye dizziness
  • Both eyes dry and rough
  • Twitching of the eyes
  • Pain in the ribs and flanks
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Stiffness and spasms of the tendons
  • Low grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Irregular, scanty menses
  • T: Pale and thin
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready, choppy and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reinforce the Blood
  • Conceal Yang
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Apprehension
  • Constant worry
  • Poor concentration
  • Timidity
  • Shyness
  • Easily startled
  • Nervousness
  • Irritability
  • Restless sleep
  • Insomnia
  • Inability to get or maintain an erection
  • Dizziness
  • Emaciation
  • Shortness of breath
  • Constipation
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Numbness
  • Dry cough
  • Cough with little or no sputum
  • Cough with blood streaked sputum
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat due to stress
  • Early menses
  • Restlessness
  • Dry tongue
  • Pale copious menstrual flow
  • Weakness
  • Memory loss
  • Excess dreams
  • Fright
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • Dry, hard stool
  • Coarse skin
  • Dry throat
  • A skinny appearance
  • A pale complexion
  • T: Pale and shiny or Red
  • C: Thin and white or None or Thin and greasy
  • P: Knotted or Intermittent or Minute, forceless and Deficient or Thready and rapid or Wiry and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Benefit the Heart, Gall Bladder and Kidneys
  • Support Yang
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Spermatorrhea with erotic dreams
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Irritability
  • Easily startled
  • Palpitations
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back soreness
  • Legs weak
  • Tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth
  • Red cheeks
  • Urine short and red
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reduce Fire
  • Make Heart and Kidney communicate
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Amnesia
  • Palpitations
  • Feverishness
  • Anorexia
  • Emaciation
  • Pale face
  • Insomnia
  • Dyspnea on mild exertion
  • Fatigue
  • Shortness of breath
  • Weight loss
  • Dry skin
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Dry lips
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Irregular menstruation
  • May suddenly lose consciousness
  • Slack jaw
  • Restless at night
  • Lassitude
  • Tendency toward being frightened easily
  • Weakness
  • Sallow complexion
  • Dizziness
  • Tremors in the limbs
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Fever and severe chills
  • General debility
  • Mental instability
  • Coughing and gasping
  • Night sweats
  • Amnesia
  • Diarrhea
  • Turbid urine
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Impotence
  • Constipation
  • Feeble breathing
  • Tired limbs
  • T: Pale
  • C:White
  • P: Thready and weak or thready, rapid and weak or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Heart Blood
  • Calm the Heart and Shen
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
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Impaired vision
  • Dry eyes
  • Night blindness
  • Tinnitus
  • Headache
  • Nervousness
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Dry throat
  • Thirst
  • Five sole Heat
  • Night sweats
  • Light menses or
  • Late menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Red
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready, wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish the Liver
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Impaired vision
  • Night blindness
  • Tinnitus
  • Irascibility
  • Throbbing headache with distended feeling
  • Flushed face
  • Blurred vision
  • Red, dry eyes with feeling of grit in eye
  • Dry mouth and throat with bitter taste in mouth
  • Palpitations
  • Headache
  • Nervousness
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Dry throat
  • Thirst
  • Five Sole Heat (palms, soles and center of chest)
  • Night sweats
  • Light or late menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and wiry or Wiry and rapid (when Yang is Rising and Excess, pulse is forceful) or Thready and rapid when Yang is not prominent
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Subdue Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Palpitations
  • Night sweats
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Dry throat and mouth no thirst
  • Fidgeting
  • Insomnia
  • Insomnia due to stress
  • Excessive dreams
  • Lack of energy
  • Weakness and fatigue
  • Weak abdomen
  • Restlessness
  • Sleepiness
  • Light-headedness
  • Impatience
  • T: Pale or Red and dry
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Thready and rapid or Thready and weak or Thready and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Liver Blood
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Clear Heat in Liver and Heart
  • Eliminate irritability
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Neuropathy
  • Stiff shoulders
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Palpitations
  • Night sweats
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Headache
  • Fear
  • Dry throat and mouth no thirst
  • Fidgeting
  • Insomnia
  • Insomnia due to stress
  • Excessive dreams
  • Lack of energy
  • Weakness and fatigue
  • Weak abdomen
  • Restlessness
  • Sleepiness
  • Light-headedness
  • Impatience
  • T: Pale or Red and dry
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Thready and rapid or Thready and weak or Thready and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Calm the Liver
  • Regulate the Liver Qi and Blood
  • Relieve spasms
  • Dispel Heat
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Relieve Dampness
  • Resolve Phlegm
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
  • Low back, knees and legs painful and weak
  • Foot pain
  • Light-headedness
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Diminished hearing
  • Five sole Heat
  • Chronic dry, sore throat
  • Toothache
  • Wasting and thirsting disorder (Xiao Ke)
  • Dizziness
  • Muscular weakness
  • Dry skin
  • Deafness
  • Steaming bones
  • Delayed closing or unclosed fontanel in infants
  • Tidal fevers
  • Loose teeth
  • Dripping urine
  • Thirst
  • Dry tongue
  • Numbness and weakness at the waist and knees
  • Heel pain
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Blurred vision
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Spontaneous and nocturnal emissions
  • Night sweats
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich Yin
  • Nourish the Essence of the Liver and Kidney
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
  • Hemilateral sweating in the afternoon or evening
  • 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
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back and knees weak and aching
  • Night sweats
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • In adults:
    Hair loss
    Graying or whitening of the hair
    Weak sexual function
    Atrophy and weakness of the feet with difficulty walking
    Poor memory
    Senility (premature or mature)
    Brittle bones
    Gradual deterioration of the hearing
  • In children:
    Retardation in mental and/or physical development
    Failure to thrive
    Late or incomplete closing of the fontanel
    Poor bone development
    Brittle bones
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
  • Benefit Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Amenorrhea
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Hot flashes
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Night sweats
  • Perspiration
  • Nervousness
  • Muscular flaccidity
  • Fatigue
  • Mood swings
  • Cold feet
  • Lassitude
  • Frequent, clear urine
  • Irritability
  • Headache
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Replenish Kidney Yin and Yang
  • Tonify Kidney Jing
  • Purge Deficiency Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • A pale face
  • Poor appetite
  • Loose stools
  • Dizziness
  • Weak voice/reluctance to speak
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Night sweats
  • Anxiety
  • Hot flashes
  • T: Pale, Pale red or Red
  • C: Thin white, Little or None
  • P: Deep and weak or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Restrain Yang
  • Astringe sweat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Loose stools
  • Poor appetite
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Night sweats
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Scanty periods
  • T: Pale or Pale, thin and dry
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak or Thin and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the 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
  • Palpitations
  • Fatigue
  • Anxiety
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Emaciation
  • Shortness of breath
  • Constipation
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Numbness
  • Dry cough
  • Cough with little or no sputum
  • Cough with blood streaked sputum
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Night sweats
  • Five sole Heat due to stress
  • Early menses
  • Restlessness
  • Dry tongue
  • Pale copious menstrual flow
  • Weakness
  • Memory loss
  • Excess dreams
  • Fright
  • Tired body
  • Dry, hard stool
  • Coarse skin
  • Dry throat
  • A skinny appearance
  • T: Pale and shiny or Red
  • C: Thin and white or None
  • P: Knotted or Intermittent or Minute, forceless and Deficient or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Nourish Blood
  • Enrich Yin
  • Restore the Pulse
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Steaming bones sensation
  • Night sweats
  • Tidal fever
  • Warm sensation in the afternoon
  • Red lips
  • Red cheeks
  • Cough with sticky yellow or blood tinged sputum
  • Exhaustion
  • Brittle hair
  • Insomnia
  • Lethargy
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Five-Sole-Heat
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Emaciation
  • Weak limbs
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Faint and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourishes Yin and Blood
  • Clears Deficiency Heat
  • Reduces steaming bones sensation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Nightmares
  • Hair loss
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Amnesia
  • Infantile night crying
  • Dreams of sexual intercourse in women
  • A cold sensation on the tip of the penis
  • Loss of appetite
  • Dizziness
  • Depression
  • Lack of motivation
  • Night sweats
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Lower abdominal contraction and pain
  • Occasional watery diarrhea
  • T: Slightly pale
  • P: Hollow and slow or Hollow and slightly tight
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yin and Yang
  • Harmonize the Ying and Wei
  • Astringe Jing
  • Suppress rebellion
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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
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Stabilize the Exterior
  • Stop sweating
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Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry hair
  • Persistent, tight abdominal pain
  • Abdominal pain with spasms or radiates to back and waist
  • Cannot eat
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Pale face
  • Epigastric pain
  • Lusterless complexion
  • Fidgeting
  • Reduced appetite
  • Maybe low-grade fever
  • Palpitations
  • Irritability
  • Cold and sore extremities
  • Nonspecific discomfort
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Dizziness
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Fatigue
  • Scanty periods
  • Hair loss
  • Insomnia
  • Fatigue
  • Anemia
  • Bleeding
  • Abdominal weakness
  • Epistaxis
  • Habitual constipation
  • Maybe warm extremities
  • Night sweats
  • Tired limbs
  • Frequent urination
  • Night crying
  • Hernia pain in children
  • Chronic constipation
  • Purpura
  • Asthma
  • P: Weak and slow or Thready, wiry and even or Thready and weak
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin, white and dry
  • P: Thready and rapid or Weak or Weak and slow or Thready, wiry and even or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Blood
  • Tonify the Spleen
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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 the Yin
  • Nourish the Blood and Yang
  • Augment Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Night sweats
  • Tidal fever
  • Heavy limbs
  • Stomach oppression
  • Poor appetite
  • Heavy-headedness
  • Dryness and stickiness in the mouth
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Dark colored urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Dampness
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