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1
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Li

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Syndrome Differentiation

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Fa

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Treatment Principle

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3
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Fang

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Acupuncture Perscription

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4
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Xue

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Point Selection

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5
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Shu

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Techniques

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6
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What are the four mechanisms of Acupuncture Therapy

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  1. Regulate Qi and Shen
  2. Harmonizing Yin and Yang
  3. Strengthening Body Resistance and Remvoving Pathogenic Factors
  4. Dredge Meridians and Collaterals, Regulate Qi and Blood
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7
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What book recorded points about 160, perscription about 200 and perscriptiion of single point and multiple points

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Neijing

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What book recorded the principle of treatment and prescriptions of different diseases?

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Zhenjiu Jaying

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9
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What Was collected about 360 perscriptions of acupuncture before Tag Dynasty, 13 ghost points for manic depression

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Perscriptions worth of Thousand Gold (Sun Si Miao)

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10
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Why select local points?

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tenderness + Ashi

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11
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Review the symptomatic points

A

pg16

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12
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Treat distal then local for?

A

acute

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13
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Select local then distal

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Chronic

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14
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Use this for fullness of upper abdomen

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Jing-Well

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15
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Use this For body heat/fever

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Ying-Spring

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16
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Use this for heavy body and articulatory pain

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Shu-Stream

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17
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Use this for Asthma, cough, alternating chills/fever

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Jing-River

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18
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Use this for contra-movement of qi and diarrhea

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He-Sea

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19
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Back shu

A
  • chronic
  • zang
  • sense organs
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20
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Front mu

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more acute, fu organs

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21
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yuan Source points

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Internal zangfu organ disease

-Tx the meridian

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22
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What is the Yin/Wei Linking point

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PC 6

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23
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What is the chong point

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Sp4

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24
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What points are used in combination to treat problems of the ST,Ht,chest, diaphragm

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PC6/Sp4

-Yin linking/chong meridian

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25
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What is the Yin Qiao/Heal point

A

Kd 6

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26
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What is the CV confluent point

A

Lu 7

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27
Q

What points are used in combination to treat lung, chest, diaphragm, throat

A

Lu 7 Kd6

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28
Q

What is the GV confluent point

A

SI 3

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29
Q

What is the Yang heel point

A

UB62

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30
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What two points treat the neck, inner cants, ear and shoulder

A

SI 3/UB62

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31
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What is the Dai confluent point

A

Gb41

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32
Q

What is the Yang linking confluent point

A

Tb 5

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33
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What 2 points treat the neck, outer cants, ear shoulder and cheek

A

GB 41

Tb5

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34
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What are the 8 influential points

A

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35
Q

When do you use Xi-Cleft Points

A

acute/pain

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36
Q

When do you use Lower he-sea points

A

disease of fu

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37
Q

Name this disease and treatment principle:

  • Asthma
  • Acute
  • Averse cold, no sweat/thirst, SOB wheezing

-Floating tight pulse

A

Excess Type Asthma

-Disperse Lu Qi and Expel cold to relieve asthma

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38
Q 
What Disease do these point treat?
Lu7
BL 12
BL 13
Dingchuan
CV 17
A

Excess Type Asthma

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39
Q

What point would you add to excess type asthma if they had allergic asthma

A

Sifengxue

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40
Q

Li 11
Li 4
Gv 14

External Heat or External Cold?

A

External Heat

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41
Q

Li4

Kd7

A

Support or stop sweating

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42
Q

Li4 Li 11

WindHeat or Wind cold?

A

Clear wind and heat in the upper jiao

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43
Q

Li4
Lr3

What does this treat? Stagnation, excess, deficiency?

A

Open and through gate

Create movement for stagnation

44
Q

Pc8
St36

Stagnation or deficiency of what channels?

A

Disperse depressed stagnation and regulate Sp and Stomach

Pc8 opens the chest

45
Q

Bl11
Bl10

Stiffness where?

A

Stiff neck, back, occipital headache

46
Q

Bl11

Influential point of what?

A

Influential point of bone

47
Q

Lu11
Li1
Li4

Clears Hot or cold?

A

Clear heat and relieve sore throat

48
Q

cv12

A

food and qi stagnation

49
Q

Patient Presents with :
chills, fever, no sweat/thirst

  • Treatment Principle
  • Points?
A

Disperse Lung qi and Cold

Li4
Gb20
Bl12
Bl13(specifically if cough present)
Lu7
50
Q

Patient presents with aversion to wind, sore throat, fever, sweating

  1. Treatment Principle
  2. Main Points
A

Lu5: clears heat as water point

Gv14: meeting point of all yang

Li4
Li11

Lu10: ying spring/relieves heat, fire point

Tb5: tx 500 diseases, relieves exterior, transforms heat

51
Q

Patient presents with aversion to wind, sore throat, fever, sweating

What if they also have Sore throat/dysphagia?

A

Li1:jing well

Lu11: jing well

Kd6: goes to throat

52
Q

Patient presents with recessive fever, heaviness and a cold

  1. Treatment principle
  2. points
A

Clear summer heat and eliminate damp

Li4

Cv12

Lu6: xi cleft, goes deeper for damp

Tb6: damp heat

St36

53
Q

Patient presents with recessive fever, heaviness and a cold

Also has severe heat

Add what point

A

Gv14: meeting point of the yang

54
Q

Patient presents with aversion to cold, fever, fatigue, they may not want to talk, sweaty

What is the treatment principle?

Points?

A

Tonify qi and release the exterior

Li 4
Gb20
Bl13
St 36
Cv 6
55
Q

Patient presents with frequent cough, yellow phlegm, thirsty, yellow tongue

Treatment Principle
Points

A

Disperse lung qi and clear heat

Bl13: relieve exterior 
Lu5: disperse lung qi
Li4: 
GV14
Li 11
56
Q

Patient presents with harsh cough, white phlegm, chills, feverish cough

Treatment principle

points

A

Disperse lug qi and reliever exterior zheng

Bl13
Lu7
Li 4
Bl12

57
Q

patient presents with cough with profuse sputum

Treatment Principle
Points

A

Tonify Spleen and resolve phlegm

Bl 13
Lu 9
Bl20
Sp3
St 40
Li4
58
Q

Patient has a paroxysmal cough with sticky phlegm

A

reduce liver fire and clear lu

Bl13
Lu5
Gb34
Bl18
Lr3
59
Q

Patient has:

Cough with yellow phlegm, warm, sweat, phlegmy wheezing, rapid SOB, thirsty, constipation, Tongue: red body, yellow greasy coat, pulse is rapid

  1. Treatment principle
  2. Points
A

Clear lung and resolve phlegm

Lu1
Bl13
Lu5
St 40
Dingchuan
Li11
Gv14
60
Q

SOB, shallow breathing, clear phlegm, weak voice, nocturia, low back pain

Tongue: pale, tender, flabby, thin coat

A

regulate and tonify lung and kidney

Bl13
Bl43
Lu9
Kd3
Bl23
Cv6
Cv17
Dingchuan
61
Q

Spontaneous sweating, SOB pale tongue thready and weak pulse

A

Spontaneous sweating of deficiency

Strengthen superficial resistance to stop sweating

Lu1
Bl13
Lu9
Bl43
St36
62
Q

Night sweating, palpitations, insomnia, lusterless complexion and lassitude with a thready pulse Nourish the blood to stop sweating

A 
Deficiency of the heart
H7
Pc6
Bl17
Li4
Kd7
63
Q

Night sweats, yin deficiency symptoms red tongue w/ no coat pulse is thready and rapid

A

Empty fire due to yin xue

Nourish the yin

Pc7
Kd3
Ht6
Lv3
Li4
Kd 7
64
Q

Frequent belching, vomiting (mb acid or undigested food), foul breath, loose stool with foul odor, poor appetite

Tongue: think coat
Pulse: slippery and forceful

A

Food Stagnation/Retention

Promote digestion and remove stagnated food

Cv12
St 36
Pc6
Sp4
Cv10
Cv21
65
Q 
Vomiting w/ increased emotionality
Frequent belching
Acid reflux, Irritability
Tongue: Dusky with thin greasy coat
Pulse: Wiry and slippery
A

Attack on the stomach and liver qi

Disperse stagnated Lv qi and regulate stomach to stop vomiting
Cv12
St 36
Pc 6
Sp4
Gb34
Lv3
66
Q

Fatigue, vomitting after eating, bloating, heaviness of body weakness
pale sallow complexion
Tongue: scalloped pale tongue
Pulse: thin weak

A

Deficiency of sp and st

Strengthen sp and regulate st to stop vomiting

Cv12
St36
Pc6
Sp4
Bl20
Lv13
67
Q

Vomiting with sudden onset

A

external invasion

Expel the pathogen to harmonize the stomach

Cv12
St36
Pc6
Sp4
Bl20
Li4

must determine if hot or cold

68
Q

Patient presents with Acute diarrhea and abdominal pain

  1. Treatment principle
  2. Point perscription
A

Regulate the stomach and intestines

Cv12
St 25
St 36
Sp9
St 37
Li4
69
Q

Patient presents with Acute diarrhea and abdominal pain
Also is foul smelling, burning and pulse is rapid tongue red

What point would you add

A

Due to damp heat

St 44

70
Q

Patient Presents with sticky undigested food and fou order, tongue is thick white or yellow and the pulse is slippery and forceful

  1. Treatment principle
  2. Point perscription
A

Food Rentention:

Promote digestion and remove rentention of food to stop diarrhea

St 25
St 36
Cv12
St 37
Lineiting
71
Q

Patient presents with pain preceeding diarrhea, belching, tongue is dusky w/ thin white coat and wiry pulse

Could also see mental emotional irritability

A

Liver qi attacking the spleen

Sooth the liver qi and strengthen the spleen to stop diarrhea

Cv12
St 25
St 36
Lv3
Bl18 (Lv shu)
Gb34
72
Q

Patient presents with loose stool, poor appetite, heaviness, fatigue, sallow complexion, weak pulse and pale scalloped tongue iwth a thin white coat

A

Tonify and regulate Spleen and Kidney

Cv12
Bl20
Lv13
St25
St 36
Sp3
Bl23
GV4
Cv4
Kd3
St 36
73
Q

Patient presents with loose stool, poor appetite, heaviness, fatigue, sallow complexion, weak pulse and pale scalloped tongue iwth a thin white coat

What would tell you the kidneys are involvedy

what poins

A

edema, frequent clear uniation slow week pulse, diarrhea is early in the morning ?
Cv 4
Gv4

74
Q

Patient presents with loose stool, poor appetite, heaviness, fatigue, sallow complexion, weak pulse and pale scalloped tongue iwth a thin white coat

What points if due to chronic

A

spleen deficiency

Bl25
Cv6
Cv9
St 25

75
Q

Constipation with dry and hard stools, scanty dark urine, red face, warm sensation, bloated abdomenal pain, dry or mouth, bad breath

A 
Open the blockage and free movement of the bowles
Clear heat and moisten the intestines
Bl 25
St 25
St37
Tb6

Li4
Li11
St44

76
Q

Constipation with belching, flatulence, fullness in the chest, hypo-chondrium, distenton, pain in abdomen, reduced appetite, alternating constipation and diarrhea
Related to emotional change

Tongue: thing white coat

Pulse: wiry

A 
Open the blockage and free movement of the bowles
Soothe liver and regulate Qi
Bl 25
St 25
St37
Tb6

Cv 12
Lv 2
Cv 6
Gb 34

77
Q

Stools are not dry but passing them with great efforts, even sweating, sob, tired after BM, pale face, low energy

tongue: pale with thin white coat
pulse: weak

A

Open the blockage and free movement of the bowles
Constipation due to qi and blood deficiency

Tonify qi and nourish blood
Bl 25
St 25
St37
Tb6
Bl20
Bl21
Cv4
Sp6
St36
78
Q

difficulty passing stools, clear coious urine, pale face, cold extremeties, cold pain in the lower abdomen or lower back, intolerance to cold

Tongue: pale with white coat
Pulse: deep and slow

A 
Open theblockage and free movement of the bowels
Tonify kidney and warm yang
Bl 25
St 25
St37
Tb6

Cv 6
Cv8
Bl23
Cv4

79
Q

stomach pain better warm, cold sensation

tongue: pale and wet
pulse: slow and weak maybe tight

A

Warm Zhong-jiao and eliminate cold

Cv 12
Pc 6
St 36
Lv 13
Bl20
Vl21
80
Q

Pain aggravated by eating, fulness and distension

A

Remove stagnated food and regulate the stomach

Cv 12
PC6
St36
Cv11: pain/bloating

81
Q

Pain radiates to epigastric/hypochondriac region, better with belching and passing gas

A

Remove stagnation of Liver qi, harmonize stomach

Cv 12
Pc6
St36
Lv3
Lv14
Gb34
82
Q

Pain radiates to epigastric/hypochondriac region, better with belching and passing gas

Add what with epigastric and abdominal distention?

83
Q

Pain radiates to epigastric/hypochondriac region, better with belching and passing gas

add what if acid reflux and belching present

A

Bl 18
Bl19
Gb40

84
Q

Yang Shui

A

Edema will start from the upper part of the body extending downwards. Causative factor most often external, disrupting the LU ability to descend and disperse, the water pathways are obstructed.

85
Q

Yin Shui

A
  1. Edema will start from lower body then gradually spread to the upper portions of the body. Yin shui is more related to internal organs (internal causative factor is the body’s yangqi – SP no longer have normal transportation and transformation, – KD yangxu, failure of the kidney in transporting water
    a. Pitting edema is present
86
Q

Edema Starts on face, skin luster, scanty urine, chills/fever/no sweat

Tongue: White wet coat, greasy

Pulse: floating/tight

A

Yang Shui: relieve the exterior and promote diuresis

LI4, LI6, LU7, BL13, SP9, BL22

87
Q

Edema Starts on face, skin luster, scanty urine, chills/fever/no sweat

Tongue: White wet coat, greasy

Pulse: floating/tight

Facial edema is also present

A

GV26, GV21

88
Q

.Edema Starts on face, skin luster, scanty urine, chills/fever/no sweat

Tongue: White wet coat, greasy

Pulse: floating/tight

Full and oppressed sensation in the chest:

A

PC6 (good for stomach and chest, chong mai), KI6(yin chiao mai goes to diaphragm and throat)

89
Q

.Edema Starts on face, skin luster, scanty urine, chills/fever/no sweat

Tongue: White wet coat, greasy

Pulse: floating/tight

SOB

A

i. LU7, LU5 (he sea, treats the internal organ, treats reversed flow, so here the water pathogen obstructs the lung so it does not have a normal function of qi, the qi is going up)

90
Q

.Edema Starts on face, skin luster, scanty urine, chills/fever/no sweat

Tongue: White wet coat, greasy

Pulse: floating/tight

Sore Throat

91
Q

Edema begins in lower part of body, moves upward, pitting edema, sallow or dark skin

Tongue: Flabby, scalloping, pale, thin white coat

pulse: deep, weak

A

Warm yang to induce diuresis (for yin shui):

CV6, CV9, BL20, BL23, ST36 warms the middle jiao, KI3

92
Q

Edema begins in lower part of body, moves upward, pitting edema, sallow or dark skin

Tongue: Flabby, scalloping, pale, thin white coat

pulse: deep, weak

With edema on upper limbs

93
Q

Edema begins in lower part of body, moves upward, pitting edema, sallow or dark skin

Tongue: Flabby, scalloping, pale, thin white coat

pulse: deep, weak

Edema on lower limbs

94
Q

Edema begins in lower part of body, moves upward, pitting edema, sallow or dark skin

Tongue: Flabby, scalloping, pale, thin white coat

pulse: deep, weak
Edema on foot

95
Q

Edema begins in lower part of body, moves upward, pitting edema, sallow or dark skin

Tongue: Flabby, scalloping, pale, thin white coat

pulse: deep, weak

Diarrhea

96
Q

Diabetes with

i. Thirsty, dry mouth and tongue
ii. Frequent urination
iii. Tongue: Red tip, thin yellow coat
iv. Pulse: big, rapid

A

Clear away lung heat and moisten dryness

LU10, BL13, LU9, LI4, BL15, Yishu

97
Q

Middle xiao – big appetite, excessive eating

Thirsty, frequent urination

Tongue: red, dry yellow coat

Pulse: slippery, rapid

A

Clear away stomach heat and nourish yin:

BL20, BL21, Yishu, ST44, SP6, LI11

98
Q

Middle xiao – big appetite, excessive eating

Thirsty, frequent urination

Tongue: red, dry yellow coat

Pulse: slippery, rapid

Gastric upset, easy hungry

99
Q

Middle xiao – big appetite, excessive eating

Thirsty, frequent urination

Tongue: red, dry yellow coat

Pulse: slippery, rapidi. Constipation

A

+ ST25, ST37

100
Q 
Lower xiao – frequent urination
Dry mouth, thirst
Dizziness, vertigo, restlessness, low back/knee soreness
Tongue: Red body, less coating 
Pulse: Deep, thready, rapid
A

Reinforce the kidney and nourish yin:

BL23, BL18, Yishu, KI3, LR3, SP6

101
Q 
Lower xiao – frequent urination
Dry mouth, thirst
Dizziness, vertigo, restlessness, low back/knee soreness
Tongue: Red body, less coating 
Pulse: Deep, thready, rapid

Blurred Vision

102
Q 
Lower xiao – frequent urination
Dry mouth, thirst
Dizziness, vertigo, restlessness, low back/knee soreness
Tongue: Red body, less coating 
Pulse: Deep, thready, rapid

Dizziness:

A

add GV23, Taiyang

103
Q 
Lower xiao – frequent urination
Dry mouth, thirst
Dizziness, vertigo, restlessness, low back/knee soreness
Tongue: Red body, less coating 
Pulse: Deep, thready, rapid

Deficiency of yang:

A

+ GV4, CV4 (moxa)

104
Q

Xiaoke General symptoms of diabetes: excessive eating, frequent urination, thirst

Patient has still lost weight

A

Prescription for Xiaoke: BL13, BL20, BL23, Yishu, ST36, KI3

105
Q

Xiaoke General symptoms of diabetes: excessive eating, frequent urination, thirst

Patient has still lost weight

Thirst:

A

+ LU11, LU10, BL17

106
Q

Xiaoke General symptoms of diabetes: excessive eating, frequent urination, thirst

Patient has still lost weight

i. Excessive eating and hunger:

A

+ BL20, BL21, CV12

107
Q

Xiaoke General symptoms of diabetes: excessive eating, frequent urination, thirst

Patient has still lost weight

Frequent urination:

A

+ CV4, KD7, KD5

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