PNEUMONIA

Clinical Manifestations
  • Bronchial (Lobular) Pneumonia: This is the most common form of pneumonia seen in older people and children. It usually appears after an External Invasion or surgery.
    Symptoms:
    Sudden onset
    Rapidly rising temperature
    Vomiting
    Difficulty breathing
    Convulsions
    Flushed face, especially in the afternoon
    Rapid respiration
    Chest pain
    Maybe a feeble cough or no coughing
    Severe: Cyanotic lips
  • Lobar (Pneumoccal) Pneumonia: This is usually associated with streptococcal bacteria and frequently invades one lobe of the Lung.
    Symptoms:
    Acute onset
    Chills and fever
    Coughing
    Chest pain
    Anorexia
    Sluggish bowels
    Flushed cheeks
    Blistered lips with small, watery vessicles
    A hacking cough
    Rust-colored sputum
    Severe:
    Clammy, cold extremities
    A drop in blood pressure
    Shallow breathing
    Maybe stupor
    P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Mild, or severe chills
  • Fever which may be persistent
  • Uneasiness from fever
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Headache
  • Nausea
  • Nasal irritation
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Tendency to snore
  • Itchy throat
  • 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
  • Itching or tickling in the throat
  • Cough with expectoration of thin, watery or frothy white sputum
  • Shortness of breath
  • Chills with low grade fever
  • Anhidrosis
  • No thirst
  • Headache
  • Aversion to Wind and Cold
  • Blocked and / or runny nose with clear, watery nasal discharge
  • Sneezing
  • General body aches
  • Maybe asthma
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin, white and moist or White and slimy
  • P: Floating and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Wind
  • Dispel Cold
  • Ventilate the Lungs
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills and fever or
  • Fever with no thirst
  • Achiness
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • Dyspnea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Mild or severe gasping
  • Hiccups
  • Fullness in chest
  • Vomiting
  • Heaviness of the body
  • Edema
  • Dysuria
  • Maybe thirst
  • Maybe diarrhea
  • Maybe scanty urine
  • Maybe lower abdominal fullness
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Floating and slippery or tight
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Expel Cold
  • Disperse the Lungs
  • Stop asthma
  • Expel water or Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever and severe chills
  • Maybe fever only
  • Achiness
  • Anhidrosis
  • Severe occipital headache
  • Loud cough
  • Sticky, yellow mucus
  • Sore throat
  • Generalized muscle aches
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Edema
  • Thirst with a desire for cold liquids
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Fidgeting
  • Constipation or
  • Dry stools
  • Sometimes dry achy eyes
  • T:  Normal or Red or Red tip
  • C:  Yellow or White
  • P:  Floating and tight or Floating and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Expel Wind
  • Disperse Cold
  • Cool 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
  • Sensation of extreme Cold
  • Severe chills
  • Chills are not relieved by clothing or covers
  • Slight fever
  • Anhidrosis
  • Exhaustion
  • Almost constant desire to sleep
  • Pale face
  • Cold extremities
  • Cold feet
  • Severe aversion to Cold
  • Headache
  • Shortness of breath
  • Edema
  • Cough
  • Pain penetrating to the back
  • Toothache
  • Sore throat
  • Raspy voice
  • Edema due to Wei Qi Stagnation
  • Weak extremities
  • Chronic wheezing
  • Severe pain and obstructed feeling over the throat
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind-Cold
  • Replenish Yang
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
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Anorexia
  • Sometimes fatigue
  • Nausea
  • Occasional vomiting
  • Headaches (side of head)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Rib pain
  • Achiness
  • Ear infection
  • Hearing difficulty
  • Red eyes
  • Stiff shoulders
  • Throat pain
  • Hip pain
  • T: Normal with bumps or dots on side
  • C: Thin white
  • 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
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Fullness and focal distention in the chest and diaphragm
  • Pain in the chest and diaphragm with pressure
  • Thick, sticky, difficult-to-expectorate Phlegm
  • Panting
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chest pain with coughing or on deep inhalation
  • Anorexia
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Expand the chest
  • Release the Shao Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Delirium
  • Heat in upper body
  • Cold in lower body
  • Sensation of Qi rushing to the chest
  • Vomits worms
  • Persistent thirst
  • Feverishness
  • Anorexia (hungry but can't eat)
  • Chronic diarrhea
  • Cold extremities
  • Maybe edema
  • Vertex headache
  • Vomits food
  • Cardiac Heat with pain
  • T: Red or pink or pale and flabby
  • C: Thick and greasy or thin
  • P: Deep, thready and weak or wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear worms
  • Clear Heat (Do not purge, create diaphoresis, or create emesis)
  • Revive Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Early-stage: A slight aversion to Cold
  • Inflammation of throat and/or tongue
  • Fever and chills with more fever than chills
  • Perspiration
  • Cough with sticky white or 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 and flank pain
  • Dry mouth with a desire to drink
  • 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
  • Heavy extremities
  • Heavy sensations in the body
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • 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
  • 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
  • No chills
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Shortness of breath
  • Thick yellow Phlegm
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick and yellow, maybe dry and sticky
  • P:  Rapid, maybe slippery, maybe forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in Lungs
  • Strengthen when weak or elderly
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic, incessant cough
  • Chronic hoarseness
  • Throat lesions
  • Itching throat
  • Fever
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Lack of spirit
  • Fatigue
  • Low back pain
  • Tinnitus
  • Dysuria
  • Depression
  • Turbid urine
  • Abnormal uterine bleeding
  • Polyuria
  • Enuresis
  • Seminal emission
  • Leukorrhea
  • Blood tinged leukorrhea
  • Anorexia
  • Five sole Heat
  • Physical and mental overexertion
  • Phlegm
  • Dry mouth
  • T: Reddish and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid or Deep and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Lungs
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Relieve coughing
  • Drain Fire
  • Moisten Dryness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Profuse sweat
  • Great thirst with desire to drink
  • No chill
  • Irritability
  • Abdominal pain
  • Dryness
  • Restlessness
  • Red face
  • Dry stools
  • No constipation
  • No aversion to Cold
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Rough breathing
  • Dark yellow urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Dry, yellow
  • P: Rolling, gigantic and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Reduce fever
  • Moisten and replenish Body Fluids
Herb Formulas
  • Bai Hu Tang
  • With Qi and Body Fluid Deficiency with a flooding and hollow pulse, copious sweating, slight dyspnea and in severe cases flaring and scorching of the nostrils: Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang
  • Note:  If the pulse is scattered, it is considered an emergency. Double the dose of Ren Shen.
  • Note: If there is no sweat, a floating, tight and thready pulse or a deep pulse, do not use Bai Hu Jia Ren Shen Tang
  • If Qi and Blood are both affected: Yu Nu Jian modified
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • Rib pain (doesn't like touch)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Hypogastric pain and distension
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve Gall Bladder Heat
  • Pacify the Liver and Gall Bladder
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Insomnia
  • Dream-disturbed sleep with unusual dreams
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Profuse white foamy sputum
  • Restlessness
  • Timidity
  • Indecisiveness
  • Indeterminate gnawing hunger
  • Seizures accompanied by copious sputum
  • Chest distention
  • Expectoration of yellow Phlegm
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chills and fever
  • Abdominal distention
  • Frequent dark, scanty urine
  • Irritability
  • Depression
  • Slight thirst
  • Anorexia after serious illness
  • T: Pink or Red tip
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Qi
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Clear the Gallbladder
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever worse at night
  • Thirst
  • Insomnia
  • Major mental problems
  • Dramatic change of personality
  • Delirium
  • Speech difficulty
  • Aphasia
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Maybe fainting
  • Maybe coma
  • Feverish extremities
  • T: Deep red
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in Pericardium
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever, worse at night
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Mild thirst with no desire to drink
  • Mental disturbance
  • Speech disturbance
  • Red, dry, painful rashes
  • T: Deep red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Reduce Heat in the Ying
  • Detoxify
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Confusion of mind
  • Delirium
  • Mania
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Excessive skin rashes all over body
  • Hemorrhage:
    Hematemesis
    Hemoptysis
    Epistaxis
    Hemafecia
    Hematuria
  • Stiffness
  • Convulsions:  
    Clenched jaws
    Clenched fists
    Shaking
  • Opisthotonis
  • Stiff neck
  • Semi-consciousness
  • T: Deep red and dry
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Subdue Wind
  • Clear Heat
  • Nourish Yin
  • Stop convulsions
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever with or without chills
  • A hacking, painful cough with copious, purulent, malodorous mucus
  • The mucus may be Blood-streaked
  • Restricted movement of the chest
  • Labored breathing
  • Sweating
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Lethargy
  • Malaise
  • T: Red
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Flooding and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat and toxins
  • Disperse pus accumulation
  • Disperse Blood Stasis
Herb Formulas
  • Wei Jing Tangmodified
  • Chinese patent medicines:
    Niu Huang Xiao Yan Wan
    Wan Shi Niu Huang Qing Xin Wan
    Xi Ling Jie Du Pian

    Chuan Ke Ling
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dry cough with little or no sputum
  • Sputum is difficult to expectorate
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • Cough may cause chest pain
  • Dry or sore throat
  • Hoarse voice
  • Dry lips and mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dryness in nose
  • Epistaxis
  • Chills and fever
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Dry skin and hair
  • Constipation
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Thin, yellow and dry
  • P: Superficial, maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Lungs
  • Moisten Dryness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with copious, thin, white, frothy sputum
  • Chest congestion with full feeling
  • Dyspnea which is worse when lying down
  • Sometimes asthma
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, white and greasy or sticky
  • P: Slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Activate the Spleen
  • Dry Dampness
  • Expel Phlegm
  • Purge the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with expectoration of copious thick, purulent, yellow-green sputum or blood-flecked, foul-smelling pus (as in Lung abscess)
  • Fever, possibly high
  • Possible incessant sweating
  • Thirst
  • Chest pain
  • Flaring nostrils
  • Dyspnea
  • Asthma
  • Pain in the ribs
  • Maybe aversion to Cold
  • Yellow urine
  • T: Scarlet and dry
  • C: Yellow and smooth
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Surging and large
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Counteract toxin
  • Transform Stasis
  • Drain Pus
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • Clear the Lungs
  • (The use of Clear Heat / Counteract Toxin herbs and the principle of "Draining Pus" are only relevant when foul-smelling pus is being expectorated such as in pulmonary abscess)
  • Soothe asthma in case of asthma
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough
  • Yellow Phlegm
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Constipation
  • Sore throat
  • Hematemesis
  • Hemoptysis
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear and purge Lung Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Stop cough and asthma
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Longstanding dry cough with a little amount of white mucous or bloody sputum
  • Wheezing
  • Dry mouth
  • Shortness of breath
  • Scanty sputum
  • Blood-tinged sputum
  • Hoarseness
  • Flushed cheeks
  • Afternoon fever
  • Dry throat
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Insomnia
  • Night sweating
  • Fatigue
  • Emaciation
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Floating, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Tonify the Lungs
  • Clear Lung Heat
  • Stop coughing
  • Stop bleeding
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
  • Cough with little yellow sputum
  • Spitting saliva
  • Wheezing
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dry, uncomfortable sensation in throat
  • Hiccups
  • Dry mouth
  • Coughing up difficult-to-extectorate Phlegm
  • Nausea
  • Scanty urination
  • Hoarseness
  • Thirst
  • Asthma
  • Flushed face
  • Five sole Heat
  • Vomiting
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid or Deficient and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Benefit the Stomach and Lungs
  • Generate Fluids
  • Descend Qi
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
Herb Formulas
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
  • 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
  • Coughing fits with hemoptysis
  • Burning pain in chest and sides
  • Dizziness
  • Face and eyes red
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Dry lips
  • Short-tempered
  • Irascibility
  • Restlessness
  • Maybe dark urine
  • Maybe constipation
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin, yellow and dry
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Liver Fire
  • Purge the Lungs
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema of whole body particularly at and below the waist
  • Pitting edema
  • Low back pain, aching and heaviness
  • Abdominal distention with full sensations
  • Oliguria
  • Cold limbs
  • Face gray and congested or pale
  • Feeling nervous and cold with mental weariness
  • In severe cases:
    Ascites
    Edema of scrotum
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin, white or Thick, white and sticky
  • P: Deep and thready
  • With Water Flooding the Lungs:
    Cough with copious, thin watery phlegm
    Asthma with phlegmy sound (wheezing)
    Dyspnea
    Facial edema
    Edema of limbs
    Dysuria
    T: Pale and swollen
    C: White and moist or White and greasy
    P: Superficial and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Kidneys
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever
  • Cough which may be productive or non-productive
  • Dyspnea
  • Night sweats
  • Hemoptysis
  • Sore throat
  • Throat sores
  • Facial flushing
  • Constipation
  • A dry mouth and throat
  • Wheezing
  • Steaming bones
  • Hoarseness
  • Thirst
  • T: Red, dry and cracked
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid or Thready, rapid and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Descend Fire
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Shortness of breath
  • Aphasia
  • Excess salivation
  • Aversion to Wind
  • 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
  • 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
  • Harmonize Yin and Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Coughing
  • Low-grade fever
  • Lassitude
  • Poor appetite
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Heart vexation
  • T: Red, fat and tender
  • C: Thin
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Dispel Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • A somber, white facial complexion
  • Cyanotic lips
  • Great perspiration with dribbling and dripping
  • Inversion Cold of the four limbs
  • P: Thready and minute or Regularly intermittent
Treatment Principle
  • Secure Yang
  • Stem counterflow
  • Invigorate the blood
  • Transform Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fullness and hardness of the epigastrium and/or abdomen
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Severe pain that becomes unbearable with the slightest pressure
  • Tidal fever at dusk
  • Shortness of breath
  • Severe constipation
  • Thirst
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • T: Normal
  • C: Very dry
  • P: Deep, tight and forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Drains Heat
  • Purge Water Accumulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Profuse epistaxis with bright red Blood
  • High fever
  • Acute red eyes
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Thirst
  • Insomnia
  • Sore throat
  • Mouth or tongue sores
  • Dark, rough urination
  • Reddish urine
  • Restlessness and Heat in the Heart and diaphragm
  • Constipation
  • Gum bleeding
  • Pimples
  • Dark, concentrated urine
  • Burning urination
  • Dizziness
  • Malaise
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Severe: Delirium
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Forceful and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve toxicity
  • Drain Fire
  • Unblock the bowels
  • Expel Wind
  • Cool the Blood
  • Stop bleeding
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Heaviness of head and extremities
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst - cannot drink
  • Afternoon fever
  • Slight fever
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy white or yellow
  • P: Soft, maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Disperse Damp
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever with fever more prominent
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Nausea
  • Dry heaves
  • Hiccups
  • A stifling sensation in the chest
  • Chest and hypochondriac pain and distention
  • Distending pain in the upper abdomen
  • Vomiting bitter or sour fluids that are yellow and sticky
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Thirst
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellowish or White and greasy or Yellow and greasy
  • P: Left: Wiry and rapid, Right: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Gall Bladder Heat
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Anorexia
  • Edema
  • Abdominal distention
  • Chest and hypochondriac distention
  • Dizziness
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Vertigo
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Maybe no thirst
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of Breath
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thick and slippery
  • P: Slippery, full and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Dissolve Tan Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sharp pain in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Hypochondriac distention and pain
  • Hard focal distention in the epigastrium
  • Dry heaves
  • Shortness of breath
  • Headache
  • Abdominal distention
  • Wheezing
  • Fullness in the chest
  • Dyspnea caused by extreme chest and back pain
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Asthma
  • Rapid breathing
  • Generalized edema which is worse in the lower body
  • Difficult urination and defecation
  • T: Normal or Dark
  • C: Thick, greasy and white
  • P: Deep and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Attack and Dispel water
Herb Formulas
Points