Foundations: Blood Pathologies

Question 1

Blood Deficiency

Answer 1

Dull white sallow complexion, pale lips, dizziness, blurred vision, poor memory, insomnia, depression, slight anxiety, numbness or tingling, scanty periods or amenorrhea.
T: pale and slightly dry P: choppy or fine.

Question 2

Blood Stagnation

Answer 2

Dark complexion, purple lips, purple nails, pain that is boring, fixed and stabbing, abdominal masses (immobile), bleeding with dark blood and clots, painful periods with dark clots.
T: purple P: wiry, firm or choppy.

Question 3

Heat in Blood

Answer 3

Feeling of heat, skin diseases with red eruptions, thirst, bleeding.
T: red P: rapid.

Question 4

Loss of Blood

Answer 4

Epistaxis, hematemesis, hemoptysis, melena, menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, hematuria.

Question 5

Causes of Loss of Blood

Answer 5

Heat in Blood, Stasis of Blood, Qi Deficiency, Yin Deficiency.

Question 6

Causes of Blood Stagnation

Answer 6

Qi stagnation (most common cause), Qi Deficiency, 
Blood Deficiency, Heat in Blood, Interior Cold or Phlegm.