PERSPIRATION (SPONTANEOUS PERSPIRATION, EXCESS PERSPIRATION)

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Mild, or severe chills
  • Fever which may be persistent
  • Uneasiness from fever
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Hemilateral sweating
  • Shivering
  • Headache
  • Nausea
  • Nasal irritation
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Nasal discharge
  • Tendency to snore
  • Itchy throat
  • Maybe aching limbs
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial and slow or Moderate and maybe weak
Treatment Principle
  • Create sweat to relieve the Exterior and expel Wind
  • Harmonize Ying and Wei to protect digestion and nourish Wei Qi
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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Great thirst with a desire to drink
  • Abdominal pain
  • Dryness
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Feverish body parts
  • Red face
  • Dry stools
  • No constipation
  • No aversion to Cold
  • T: Red, dry
  • C: Dry yellow
  • P: Rolling and rapid (gigantic)
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Reduce fever
  • Moisten and replenish fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever (sometimes rises and falls)
  • Great thirst
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Abdominal pain (worse with pressure)
  • Abdominal distension
  • Dryness
  • Constipation (hard dry knots)
  • Dislikes pressure
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Mental disturbance:
    Mentally unclear
    Delirious speech
  • T: Red and dry, or black and moist
  • C: Thick yellow or dry yellow
  • P: Deep, strong and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Purge
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • History of Yang Ming Jing or Fu
  • No appetite
  • Perspiration on extremities (cold center)
  • Sluggish or difficult urination
  • Constipation moving to long stringy stools moving to diarrhea
  • T: Normal
  • C: Slightly yellow and moist
  • P: Deep and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Restore Yang
  • Warm the center
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Inflammation of throat and/or tongue
  • Fever and chills with more fever than chills
  • Perspiration
  • Cough with sticky yellow sputum
  • Aversion to Wind and Heat
  • Yellow nasal discharge
  • Thirst with desire for cold drinks
  • Red bumps around mouth and lips (herpes simplex)
  • Headache
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Sore, swollen throat
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Dry mouth
  • Rapid breathing
  • Maybe constipation
  • Maybe scanty urine
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Clear the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Headache (wrapping)
  • Fever and chills, fever more pronounced or
  • Chills with afternoon fever
  • Slight, sticky perspiration
  • Thirst with a lack of desire for Fluids
  • Heavy extremities
  • Heavy sensations in the body
  • Maybe painful joints
  • Maybe edema
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Stomach glomus
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness
  • Gastric and abdominal distension
  • Loose stools which are difficult to defecate
  • Sticky mouth
  • No thirst
  • Short, red urination
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy, white or Greasy, yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid or Soft and slow or Wiry, thin and soft or Wiry, slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Damp-Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills, fever more pronounced or
  • Tidal fever
  • Abdominal distention
  • Thirst
  • Sweat
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Restlessness
  • Gastric disturbances:
    Heaviness
    Nausea
    Severe diarrhea
  • Scanty urine
  • T: Red tip and edges
  • C: Greasy white or yellow
  • P: Rapid and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Damp
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse, incessant sweating
  • Irritability
  • Great thirst with a desire for lots of Fluids
  • Chest and diaphragmatic glomus and oppression
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • Restlessness
  • Fatigue
  • Fatigued limbs
  • Heart vexation
  • Shortness of breath
  • Apathy
  • T: Pale or Red
  • C: Dry yellow
  • P: Deficient and rapid or Floating, large and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Summerheat
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish Yin
  • Generate Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden chest and stomach fullness and oppression
  • Vexation
  • Agitation
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Hot skin with sweating
  • Maybe clouded Spirit
  • Maybe deafness
  • Headaches with distention
  • T: Red tip and edges
  • C: Greasy white or yellow
  • P: Rapid and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Expel the impurities and transform turbidity with aromatic herbs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Great thirst with a desire to drink
  • Abdominal pain
  • Dryness
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Feverish body parts
  • Red face
  • Dry stools
  • No constipation
  • No aversion to Cold
  • T: Red, dry
  • C: Dry yellow
  • P: Rolling and rapid (gigantic)
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Reduce fever
  • Moisten and replenish fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever - sometimes tidal
  • Profuse sweat
  • Great thirst with desire to drink
  • Acute constant abdominal pain
  • Worse with pressure
  • Distension and fullness in the Stomach and abdomen
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Dryness
  • Restlessness
  • Excess symptoms
  • Constipation with dry knots
  • Sweat
  • Mental disturbance
  • Delirium
  • T:  Red or Dark red
    Severe: Gray or Black
  • C: Thick, yellow or Dry, yellow
  • P:  Forceful and deep or Deep and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Purge
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
  • High fever
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Thirst
  • Restlessness
  • T: Deep red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat from the Qi and Ying Stages
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Thirst
  • Maculopapular rash
  • Hematemesis
  • Epistaxis
  • T: Deep red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat from the Qi and Xue Stages
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever which is worse in the afternoon
  • Chills
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Headaches
  • Heaviness of the head and body
  • Slight sweating
  • Epigastric distention
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Moderate and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse, transform and leech out dampness in the Exterior and Interior
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low grade fever
  • Purple skin rash
  • Malar flush (deep red cheeks - dangerous)
  • Night sweats every night (gets progressively drier)
  • 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
  • High fever
  • Profuse sweating
  • Thirst with a desire for cold drinks
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Severe red, swollen, painful and ulcerated throat
  • Maybe partial blockage of the respiratory tract
  • Shortness of breath
  • Labored breathing
  • Dense patches of macules all over the body
  • T: Deep red with prickles
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Forceful and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat from the Qi Stage
  • Resolve toxicity in the Ying and Xue Stages
  • Cool the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Generalized edema that begins in the face
  • Slight fever or no fever
  • Slight but continuous sweating or no sweating
  • Absence of thirst or
  • Thirst
  • Decreased urination
  • Asthma
  • Dysuria
  • Coughing
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Floating or Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Induce sweating
  • Disseminate Lung Qi
  • Promote urination
  • Eliminate water accumulation
  • Eliminate Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever maybe high
  • Maybe slight chills
  • Perspiration
  • Nervousness
  • Thirst
  • Irritability
  • Arthralgia involving one or several joints
  • Dry mouth and tongue
  • Localized redness and Heat
  • Swelling of the joints with burning pain
  • Severe limitation of movement
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Restlessness
  • Flushed face
  • Desire for cold drinks
  • Pain worse at night
  • Pain relieved by Cold
  • Occasional vomiting
  • T: Pink or Red
  • C: White or Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Slippery and rapid or Big and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Clears Heat
  • Generates Fluids
  • Stops pain
  • Stop perspiration
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Soft, weak cough with clear thin sputum
  • Physical and mental exhaustion
  • Soft, weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Shortness of breath
  • Pale face
  • With Wei Qi Deficiency:
    Spontaneous perspiration (daytime)
    Low resistance to common cold
    Tendency to a blocked nose
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Lungs
  • Strengthen Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dyspnea on exertion
  • Asthma (inhalation difficult)
  • Dispirited
  • Soft, weak voice
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Cold limbs
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Lung Qi
  • Tonify the Kidneys
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
  • 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
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and thready or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Lungs
  • Soothe asthma
  • Reinforce the Kidneys to Grasp Qi
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
  • Knotted constipation or
  • Watery, thin diarrhea
  • Burning hot sensation in the anus
  • Abdominal distention and pain (dislikes pressure)
  • High fever or infantile tidal fever
  • Hands and feet dripping with perspiration
  • Vomiting
  • Irritating thirst
  • Delirium
  • T: Pink, maybe prickles or Red
  • C: Thick, yellow and dry
  • P: Deep and Excess
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Excess Heat with bitter, cold, strong purgative herbs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Diarrhea with tenesmus which intensifies after defecation
  • Frequent stools which are small in quantity
  • Stools are yellow or brown, thin, watery, with foul smell or sticky and pasty like jam or sticky fluid or containing pus and Blood
  • Burning hot sensation in anus
  • Abdominal pain
  • Urine short and red
  • Sustained fever despite profuse perspiration or
  • Raging fever in the afternoon
  • Severe cases:
    High fever and coma
  • Mouth dry but no desire to drink
  • Body heavy
  • Limbs tired
  • Fullness in chest
  • Lump in epigastrium
  • Anorexia
  • Vomiting
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Dampness
  • Stop dysentery
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sweating from the head
  • Sweating from the hands and feet
  • 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)
  • Maybe yellow sweat
  • Dislike of oily foods
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Lassitude
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • Yellow perspiration
  • 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
  • Sweating from the hands and feet
  • Loose stools or watery diarrhea
  • Weak extremities
  • Weight loss
  • Distention and a stifling sensation in chest and epigastrium
  • Pale wan complexion
  • Abdominal distention
  • Indigestion
  • Vomiting
  • Fatigue
  • Chills
  • Maybe vomiting
  • Leukorrhea
  • Reduced appetite
  • Borborygmus
  • Edema
  • Reduced appetite
  • Diarrhea with onset of menstrual flow
  • Cough with copious sputum
  • Leukorrhea in obese women
  • T: Pale or Pale red
  • C: White - maybe greasy
  • P: Thready and even or Even and Deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Stop sweating
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent spontaneous perspiration, worse on exertion
  • Fatigue
  • 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
  • Disinclination to speak
  • Possible low-grade fever
  • Thirst with a desire for warm drinks
  • A bright white facial complexion
  • Susceptibility to Wind-Cold invasion
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even or Soft and thready or Moderate and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Reinforce the Center
  • Invigorate Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Shortness of breath
  • Occasional fevers
  • Dyspnea
  • Abdominal pain and spasms due to Cold
  • Pain is better with warmth and pressure
  • Pale face or a sallow, dull complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Fidgeting
  • Lethargy
  • Dry mouth
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Frequent, clear urination
  • Constipation
  • Cold extremities
  • Dry throat
  • Hematemesis
  • Irritability
  • Carbuncles
  • Palpitations
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Fever with a preference for hot drinks
  • Dry skin
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Minute, thready and weak or Deep and slow or Floating, large and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonify the Spleen and Stomach
  • Replenish Qi
  • Harmonize the Interior
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sweating from the hands and feet
  • 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
  • T: Red
  • C: Little and dry
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden collapse with loss of consciousness
  • Mouth open and hands relaxed
  • Eyes closed
  • Limbs cold
  • Snoring
  • Perspiration ("flows like oil")
  • Incontinence of urine and feces
  • T: Not described
  • P: Minute and thready - about to collapse or Superficial and big but with no root (with a red face)
Treatment Principle
  • Support Zheng Qi
  • Consolidate Exhaustion
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Return Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath (especially on exertion)
  • Excessive perspiration (in daytime)
  • Symptoms worse after exertion or when tired
  • Facial pallor
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Weak or Big and weak or Intermittent
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Strengthen Heart Qi
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
  • Shortness of breath
  • Excessive perspiration (daytime)
  • Above symptoms worse after exertion or when tired
  • Cold limbs
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Maybe chills
  • Cyanosis
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Depression
  • Facial pallor
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak or Knotted or Intermittent
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Clear Heart Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Excessive perspiration (daytime)
  • Above symptoms worse after exertion or when tired
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Maybe chills
  • Cyanosis
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Depression
  • Facial pallor
  • All four limbs cold
  • Watery stools with undigested food
  • Maybe loss of consciousness
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak or Knotted or Intermittent
Treatment Principle
  • Return Yang
  • Relieve contravection
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Drenched with perspiration
  • Perspiration is bead-like, clear, thin and cold
  • Above symptoms worse on exertion or when tired
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Four limbs cold
  • Cyanosis of mouth and lips
  • A somber, white facial complexion
  • Faint, weak respiration
  • Lying curled up
  • Listlessness
  • Thirst with a desire for hot drinks
  • T: Moist
  • P: Minute (on the point of collapse) or Floating, rapid and scallion-like
Treatment Principle
  • Return Yang
  • Consolidate Exhaustion
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Spontaneous perspiration, usually in small amounts
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Chest and epigastric fullness, glomus and contravection
  • Nausea
  • Poor appetite
  • Reflux vomiting
  • Sensation of Qi rushing upward to the chest (Running Piglet)
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Weak cough
  • Lassitude
  • Expectorating watery white Phlegm
  • Maybe cold body and limbs
  • Loose stools
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep and wiry or Wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Transform Harmful Fluid
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Calm the Heart
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Dysuria
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Dizziness
  • Muscular twitching
  • Whole body edema
  • Cold body
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Icy limbs
  • Cold abdomen with watery stools
  • Edema of limbs
  • Cough
  • Pale complexion
  • Lips and nails cyanosed
  • Soreness and aching of the shoulders and back
  • Abdominal pain
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Pale or Purple (Lavender)
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep or Deep and minute
Treatment Principle
  • Support Yang
  • Expel Cold
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Asthma
  • Soft weak cough
  • Prolonged bouts of coughing with dyspnea
  • Expectoration of clear, watery Phlegm
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Spontaneous, weak perspiration
  • All of the above manifestations are exacerbated by exertion
  • Shiny white complexion
  • Weak voice
  • Catches colds easily
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit Heart and Lung Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sweating from the chest
  • 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
  • Insomnia or frequent waking, often early in the morning
  • Unable to fall back to sleep
  • Nightmares
  • Waking terrified
  • Easily frightened or startled
  • Easily unsettled by seeming trivial events
  • Apprehension
  • Restlessness
  • Fearfulness
  • Inappropriate worry
  • Timidity
  • Phobias
  • Anxiety (frequent and severe)
  • Frequent panic attacks
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Lethargy
  • Fatigue
  • Depression
  • Postnatal depression
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • T: Normal or Pale (chronic or congenital cases may show a deep narrow crack to the tip
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry and thready or Weak, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Calm the Shen
  • Alleviate fearfulness
  • Calm the mind
  • Nourish and tranquilize the Heart
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sweating from the chest
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lumbago: low back feels cold, weak and aching
  • Feeling chilled
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold limbs
  • General debility
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • 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
  • Dyspnea which is worse on exertion
  • Difficult to inhale but not to exhale
  • Shortness of breath, shallow breathing
  • Soft voice
  • Perspiration
  • In chronic cases:
    Thin physique
    Mental weariness
    Urinary incontinence on coughing
    Cold limbs
    Facial edema of Deficiency type
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial and Deficient or Deep and thready
  • Dyspnea which is worse on exertion
  • Difficult to inhale but not to exhale
  • Shortness of breath, shallow breathing
  • Soft voice
  • Perspiration
  • In chronic cases:
    Thin physique
    Mental weariness
    Urinary incontinence on coughing
    Cold limbs
    Facial edema of Deficiency type
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial and Deficient or Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Kidneys to Grasp Qi
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
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back and knees weak and aching
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • 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
  • Fatigue
  • Loose stools
  • Anorexia
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Empty
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
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
  • Maybe one-sided sweating
  • 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
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Scanty periods
  • Chills
  • Cold limbs
  • Inability to get warm
  • Loose stools
  • Profuse clear urine
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Lassitude
  • T: Pale
  • C: White or Thin, white and dry
  • P: Slow, deep and weak or Empty or Thready and rapid or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Yang
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
  • Spontaneous perspiration which is worse on exertion
  • Profuse sweating from the head and face
  • Pale or bright white facial complexion
  • Shortness of breath
  • Cold body and limbs
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Poor appetite
  • Abdominal distention
  • Prefers warm drinks
  • Loose stools
  • Lassitude
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Empty and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Constrain Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Strong chills or shivering
  • Possible mild fever
  • Chronic aversion to Cold
  • A desire to curl up
  • Exhaustion
  • Headaches
  • General muscle pain
  • Aching in the bones
  • Anhidrosis or
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • When there is sweating, the aversion to Cold is more pronounced
  • A low, soft voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Waxy, pale complexion
  • Cold body and limbs
  • There may be an exposure to Wind or Cold prior to the aggravation of the symptoms
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Support Yang
  • Clear the Exterior
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Great, persistent sweating which is hot and sticky or oily
  • Maybe fever
  • Warm limbs
  • Thirst with a desire for cold drinks
  • Rough breathing
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Red, dry lips
  • T: Dry
  • C: None
  • P: Empty and rapid or Forceless and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Generate Fluids
  • Tonify Qi
  • Stem desertion
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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Hemilateral sweating
  • Painful hypertonicity of the sinews
  • Inhibited bending and stretching of the hands and feet
  • Heavy limbs
  • Severe: Difficulty turning over
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Soft or Slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and scatter Cold and Dampness
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Unblock the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Paralysis
  • One-sided perspiration
  • 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
  • Tidal fever
  • Sweating
  • Thirst
  • Irritability
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Chest distention
  • Epigastric distention
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Severe diarrhea
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • T: Red tip and edges
  • C: Greasy and white or yellow
  • P: Rapid and soft
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in the San Jiao
  • Resolve Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lethargy
  • Anorexia
  • Maybe jaundice
  • No thirst or
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Afternoon fever
  • Body aches
  • A sallow complexion
  • Scanty urination
  • Diarrhea
  • Chest discomfort
  • Epigastric pain and distention
  • Dull appearance
  • Maybe disorientation
  • Loose stools
  • Maybe skin vesicles
  • Heavy extremities
  • T: Pink
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Damp and turbidity
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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever with sweating or
  • Fever with shivering
  • Heavy, painful limbs
  • Swollen and painful joints
  • T:Normal
  • C: Gray, yellow
  • P:Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Dampness
  • Move Qi
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Relieve pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Yellow sweat after having been caught in the rain or taking a cold shower while sweating
  • Fever
  • Thirst
  • Heavy body
  • Edema
  • A sensation of insects crawling under the skin
  • Thirst
  • Inhibited urination
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Deep
Treatment Principle
  • Unblock Stagnation
  • Harmonize the Ying and Wei
Herb Formulas
Points