TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA (TIC DOLOREUX)

Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden paroxysmal burning in the facial region
  • Sudden pain while talking
  • Often appears after exposure to Wind
  • Sometimes the patient wakes from sleep
  • The pain is severe lasts from several seconds to two minutes
  • The pain suddenly stops
  • Pain mostly occurs in the maxillary and mandibular branches
  • Pain in the optic branch is rare
  • Most commonly seen in middle aged or older people
  • Seen more in women than men
  • Optic branch:
    Forehead
    Nose
    Maxillary skin
    Eyes
  • Maxillary branch:
    Facial skin
    Upper lip
    Hard palate
    Maxillary sinus
  • Mandibular branch:
    Mandible
    Oral cavity
    Teeth
    Tongue
    External ear
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe chills
  • Mild or no fever
  • Headache
  • Generalized discomfort
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Body aches
  • Joint ache
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Hiccups
  • Anhidrosis
  • Gasping
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Wind and Cold
  • Maybe low back pain
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • Maybe dyspnea
  • Maybe epistaxis (severe)
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Floating and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Expel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chills and fever
  • Achiness
  • Stiff neck and shoulders
  • Anhidrosis
  • Headache
  • Stabbing joint pain
  • Itchy throat
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Maybe frozen shoulder
  • * The Tai Yang symptoms remain for 2-3 days
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • May have vomiting immediately after drinking
  • Difficult urination
  • May have upper body edema
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Floating and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Promote urination
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Expel Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills without sweat
  • Headache
  • Body aches
  • Stiff neck and back
  • Abdominal pain and Cold
  • Diarrhea with borborygmus
  • A sensation of fullness in the chest and abdomen
  • May be Cold in the lower body with Heat in the upper body
  • Aching at the waist
  • Anhidrosis
  • Loose stools
  • Nausea
  • Abdominal distention
  • Borborygmus
  • An aversion to food
  • Vomiting
  • Women:
    Cold-type epigastric and abdominal pain
  • Menstrual irregularity
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep and wiry or Superficial and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Warm the Interior
  • Smooth the flow of Qi
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Reduce Accumulations
  • Regulate Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Generalized body aches and pains
  • Irritability
  • Heavy sensation in the shoulder and back
  • Discomfort or a constricted sensation in the area of the chest and diaphragm
  • Multiple sores, carbuncles furuncles or abscesses
  • Redness
  • Itching
  • Persistent swelling
  • Chest pain
  • Fever
  • Thirst
  • Aching and painful extremities
  • Aching and painful joints
  • Unbearable swelling and pain of the lower extremities
  • Shoulder stiffness
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and slightly yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Soft and moderate or Soft, superficial and slow or Slippery and rapid or Deep and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Clear Heat
  • Disperse Wind
  • Stop pain
  • Activate the Blood
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Recurrent episodes of cramping
  • Spastic pain, which, when severe is unbearable
  • A dull white facial complexion during the pain
  • Chills which are worse with the pain and better with warmth
  • Simultaneous facial puffiness
  • T: Pale or Pale and thick
  • C: White or Thick and white
  • :Tight or Slippery and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Relieve the Exterior
  • Expel Cold
  • Expel Phlegm
  • Free the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe chills
  • May have mild fever
  • No sweat
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold extremities
  • Cold sensation on back
  • Pale face
  • Extreme fatigue
  • Muscle aching
  • T: Pale with scallop
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, weak and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Expel Cold from the Exterior
  • Dispel Cold from the Interior
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills with fever increasing and chills decreasing
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Stiffness and pain of the extremities
  • Orbital pain
  • Eye pain
  • Shoulder and neck tension
  • Dry nasal passages
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Thirst
  • Epistaxis
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Floating and slightly flooding
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Release the muscle layer
  • Clear Interior Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Joint pain with a crackling sensation
  • Epigastric pain
  • Fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Headache
  • Heaviness in the head
  • Fever
  • Moderately severe chills
  • Distension beneath the Heart
  • Periumbilical or lower abdominal pain
  • Tenseness around the pubic bone
  • Subcostal pain
  • Epigastric fullness
  • Nausea
  • Mild vomiting
  • Mild thoraco-costal discomfort
  • Costal distress
  • Tension in the rectus abdominus
  • Chest distension
  • Abdominal pain
  • Abdominal distension
  • Constipation
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Repeated loss of spinal alignment due to muscular tension
  • P: Floating and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior and muscle layer
  • Harmonize and release the Shao-Yang
  • Harmonize the Liver, Spleen and Intestines
  • Dispel Water Accumulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever (sometimes rises and falls)
  • Great thirst
  • Profuse perspiration
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Abdominal pain (worse with pressure)
  • Abdominal distension
  • Foul breath
  • Red face
  • 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 (not so likely)
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Continuous vomiting
  • Headache (side of head)
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Epigastric pain
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Digestive disruption
  • Anorexia
  • Nausea
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Burning diarrhea or
  • Constipation
  • Menstrual problems
  • Dry throat
  • Heart pain with vomiting
  • Throat pain
  • Hip pain
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin yellow
  • P: Wiry, forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Liver and Gall Bladder
  • Purge Internal Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal pain
  • Constipation
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Chills
  • Low-grade fever
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Pain in the armpits
  • Unilateral pain in the abdomen and hypochondrium
  • Stiffness and spasms beside and below the umbilicus
  • Pain in the waist and legs
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Deep, tight and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Interior
  • Disperse Cold
  • Unblock the bowels
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Vomits clear fluid
  • Vertex headache
  • Migraine
  • Nausea
  • Dry retching
  • Cold extremities
  • Body cold
  • Diarrhea
  • Complete exhaustion of Yang
  • T: Pale
  • C: White or Greasy and white
  • P: Weak or Thready, wiry and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang especially in the Liver and Stomach
  • Descend turbidity
  • Stop vomiting
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
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden paroxysmal burning in the facial region
  • Sudden pain while talking
  • Red facial complexion
  • Sweating during the pain
  • Worse on exposure to Heat
  • Better when exposed to Cold
  • Fever
  • Dry mouth
  • Reddish urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and dry
  • P: Wiry and rapid
  • With Phlegm-Fire:
    Dizziness
    Chest oppression
    Numbness of the limbs
    T: Red
    C: Slimy and yellow
    P: Wiry, slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind
  • Clear Heat
    Expel Phlegm
    Activate the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • All types of headache
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Facial pain
  • Pain due to maxillary cancer
  • T: Red, may quiver
  • P: Superficial and may be rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind-Heat
  • Dispel Wind-Cold Dampness
  • Relieve pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sore, achy joints
  • The pain moves from joint to joint
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Dry Dampness
  • Activate the Blood
  • Dispel Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • 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)
  • Dislike of oily foods
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Lassitude
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • 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
  • Enduring facial pain
  • Continuous aching and pain for a long time
  • Piercing pain that is difficult to bear
  • Localized fixed pain
  • A dark, stagnant facial complexion
  • Tic may accompany or follow the pain
  • Numbness may follow the pain
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Disinclination to speak
  • A low, faint voice
  • T: Pale with possible static Maculae
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, thready and weak
  • Severe Blood Stagnation: scaly skin
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Unblock the channels
  • Stop pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema in limbs, especially lower limbs
  • Maybe anasarca
  • Maybe abdominal distention
  • Loose stools
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and moist
  • P: Soft and even
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Move water
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Burning Heat and pain in the epigastrium
  • Irritating thirst: drinks copious fluids and prefers cold drinks
  • Excessive appetite: hungry again quickly after eating (as if food vanishes)
  • Swelling, pain, ulceration and bleeding of gums
  • Foul breath
  • Toothache
  • Maybe vomiting right after eating
  • Vomiting acid or undigested food
  • Constipation
  • Maybe scanty, red urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick, yellow and dry
  • P: Slippery, big, Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear and Purge Stomach Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Epigastric fullness, distention and pain with dislike of pressure
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention
  • Belching with rotten food smell
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Detests food or
  • Vomits after eating
  • Distention is reduced after vomiting
  • Unformed stools or
  • Knotted constipation or
  • Dysentery
  • Scanty dark urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy or slippery
  • P: Deep and Forceful
Treatment Principle
  • Reduce and guide out Stagnation and Accumulation
  • Clear Heat
  • Dispel Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Ulceration, erosion, and pain of mouth and tongue
  • Thirst with a desire for cold drinks
  • Irritability
  • Irascibility
  • Feeling of Heat and disturbance in the Heart
  • Insomnia
  • Flushed face
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • T: Red tip with ulcers especially on the tip
  • P: Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Purge Fire
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Stabbing pain in the anterior region over the Heart
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Maybe drawing pain down the internal aspect of arm (especially the left arm)
  • Pain (in chest and/or arm) tends to be severe and intermittent
  • Severe cases:
    Cold limbs
    Cyanosis of lips and nails
  • T: Dark red with purple spots or Purple body
  • C: Little
  • P: Minute (scarcely perceptible) and thready or Knotted
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Transform Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Irregular menses
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Clear Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal distention and pain
  • Gas
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Women:
    Irregular menses
    Dysmenorrhea
    Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Slippery and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Invigorate the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Epigastric pain
  • Belching with acid regurgitation
  • Recurrent or chronic nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Vomiting immediately after meals
  • Sour belching
  • Acid reflux
  • Heartburn
  • Indigestion
  • All symptoms are worse when emotionally upset
  • Fullness of the chest
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Continual belching
  • Anorexia
  • Epigastric distention
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Dry mouth
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Frustration
  • Anxiety
  • Moodiness
  • Irregular menses
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • Head and nape painful or swollen
  • T: Pink or Dark with slightly red edges
  • C: Thin and white or Thin and sticky yellow
  • P: Wiry or Thready and wiry or Wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Descend Stomach Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

Clinical Manifestations
  • One-sided burning head and facial pain
  • The pain is worse with Heat and emotional disturbance
  • Severe, splitting headaches with dizziness
  • Sudden tinnitus or
  • Sudden deafness
  • Flushed face
  • Red, swollen, painful eyes
  • Impatience
  • Irascibility with violent angry outbursts
  • Dry mouth
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Thirst
  • Vomiting sour or bitter liquid
  • Insomnia
  • Restlessness
  • Restless sleep
  • Constipation or dry stools
  • Maybe rib pain
  • Chest oppression
  • Sighing
  • There may be alternating periods of attack and remission
  • Reddish yellow urine
  • In severe cases:
    Tics and spasms
    Mania
    Hemoptysis
    Hematemesis
    Epistaxis
  • Liver Fire Attacks the Lungs:
    Hemoptysis
    Rib pain which is severe when coughing
  • Liver Fire Attacks the Stomach:
    Hematemesis
  • T: Red or Red tip and edges
  • C: Thick, yellow, dry and rough
  • P: Wiry, Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Liver
  • Purge Fire
  • clear the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever
  • Contractures
  • Spasms
  • Neck stiffness
  • Convulsions
  • Oculogyric crises
  • Opisthotonos
  • Coma
  • Possibly death
  • T: Red or Deep red
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Cool the Liver
  • Subdue Wind
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sudden paroxysmal stabbing or burning in the facial region
  • Sudden pain while talking
  • The pain may continue for several seconds
  • It may occur several times during one minute or
  • Only several times during the day
  • Even a light touch may induce an occurrence
  • Muscular twitching
  • Congested eyes
  • Lacrimation
  • Saliva flowing from the angle of the mouth
  • Vexation
  • Easily angered
  • Constipation
  • Fever
  • Contractures
  • Spasms
  • Neck stiffness
  • Deep colored urine
  • Constipation
  • Dizziness and vertigo to the point of falling over
  • Headache with a drawing sensation
  • Numbness and tremor of limbs
  • Twitching and involuntary writhing of hands and feet
  • Dysphagia
  • Unsteady gait
  • With Wind-Stroke:
    Sudden loss of consciousness
    Tongue stiffness with aphasia
    Facial paralysis
    Hemiplegia
  • T: Red or Deep red
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Taut and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Subdue Wind
Herb Formulas
  • Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin
  • Xiong Zhi Shi Gao Tang modified
  • Grind equal portions of Scorpio Quan Xie, Scolopendra Wu Gong and Bombyx Batryticatus Jiang Can into a fine powder and take 6g three times per day.
  • Chinese patent medicines:
    Long Dan Xie Gan Wan + Yuan Hu Zhi Tang
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Paroxysmal distended solitary, limited attacks of unilateral headache that does not shift sides (Sjaastad syndrome)
  • Throbbing headache with distended feeling
  • Contracture of the cranial angle with referred pain to the teeth
  • Facial twitching
  • Dizziness
  • Dysphoria
  • Insomnia
  • Impaired vision
  • Night blindness
  • Tinnitus
  • Irascibility
  • 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
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Five sole Heat (palms, soles and center of chest)
  • Night sweats
  • Light or late menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Scanty, yellow urine
  • With Stomach Fire: Constipation
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None or Dry and yellow
  • 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 or Taut, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Subdue Yang
  • Stop pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal pain
  • Irritability
  • Slight chills
  • Spasms of the calf muscles
  • Cramps in the hands
  • Weak legs
  • Hypertonicity of the extremities characterized by difficult flexion and extension
  • Wheezing
  • Coughing
  • Hiccup
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Sciatic pain
  • Severe and painful muscle spasms in the Stomach, bronchi, Gallbladder and uterus. Intestines
  • Shoulder pain
  • Pain in the head, body or limbs due to arterial spasms characterized by a severe pulling pain
  • T: Normal or Reddish
  • C: None or Yellowish
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Soften the Liver
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moderate painful spasms
  • Relieve pain
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
  • Replenish Body Fluids
Herb Formulas
Points
  • General points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Recurrent episodes of severe, fixed, burning, one-sided face and head pain
  • Fatigue
  • Emaciation
  • Malar flush
  • Afternoon fever
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back and knee soreness and weakness
  • Anxiety
  • Agitation
  • Red eyes
  • T: Red
  • C: Scanty yellow, or Dry or None
  • P: Thready, wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Kidneys
  • Enrich Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Unblock the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lower abdominal pain and Cold
  • Abdomen feels chilled
  • Aching bones and joints
  • Muscle ache
  • Whole body pain
  • Aversion to Cold, especially at the back
  • Cold limbs
  • No Thirst
  • Lower abdominal pain and Cold
  • Abdomen feels chilled
  • Maybe fever
  • No thirst
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Deep and faint or Forceless or Choppy and slow or Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Cold
  • Warm the channels
  • Assist Yang
  • Dispel Dampness
  • Relieve pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pain that is fixed, stabbing and /or severe or
  • Pains that move around
  • Distention
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Pan is worse with pressure
  • Dark complexion
  • Fixed, palpable masses
  • Bleeding with clots
  • Purple lips
  • Purple nails
  • Dry skin
  • Blue, dark or purplish discoloration of skin in small or large areas,
  • Varicose and spider veins
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Tendency to hemorrhage dark blood or clots
  • T: Purple, possible purple or red spots
    Red purple if there is Heat
    Blue purple if there is Cold
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Activate the Blood
  • Break up Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pain that is fixed, stabbing and /or severe
  • Pan is worse with pressure
  • Dark complexion
  • Fixed, palpable masses
  • Bleeding with clots
  • Purple lips
  • Purple nails
  • Dry skin
  • Blue, dark or purplish discoloration of skin in small or large areas,
  • Varicose and spider veins
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Tendency to hemorrhage dark blood or clots
  • T: Purple, possible purple or red spots
    Red purple if there is Heat
    Blue purple if there is Cold
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Break up Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Piercing one-sided face and head pain
  • Heavy head
  • Numbness and insensitivity
  • Maybe frequent vomiting at the time of pain
  • A possible slimy feeling in the mouth
  • T: Pale and cyanotic
  • C: Glossy and slippery
  • P: Thready and soggy
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Phlegm
  • Clear the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Oppression and pain of short duration or
  • Burning sensation
  • Pain often provoked by eating
  • A desire for something cold to be put on the area
  • Dry mouth with no desire to drink
  • Heavy headedness
  • Chest and abdominal oppression and distention
  • Occasional vomiting of Phlegm, drool, sour fluid or bitter bile
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Irritability
  • Impatience
  • T: Red
  • C: Slimy and yellow
  • P: Wiry, slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Clear Heat
  • Free the channels
  • Stop pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Headache due to Wind attack
  • Headache in any part of the head
  • Fever and chills
  • Dizziness
  • Nasal congestion
  • Stuffy nose
  • Clear or white nasal discharge
  • Sneezing
  • Body aches
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Vertigo
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Copious sputum
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Superficial
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Wind
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
  • General points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Paralysis
  • Numbness
  • Slurred speech
  • Deviated eyes
  • Deviated mouth (wry mouth)
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Sputum in the throat
  • Chest fullness and distention
  • Epigastric fullness and distention
  • Hypertension
  • Stroke
  • T: Deviated and trembling
  • C: Thick
  • P: Slippery and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Resolve Phlegm
  • Subdue Wind
Herb Formulas
Points