GB patterns

Question 1

Gallbladder Main Symptoms

Answer 1

• bitter taste in mouth (from bile)
• jaundice
• timid and paranoid
• digestion, hypochondriac,

Question 2

dizziness, blurred vision, nervousness, timidity, propensity towards being easily startled, suspicion, lack of courage and initiative, difficulty making decisions when needed, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, shortness of breath, pale tongue, thready and wiry pulse, or weak pulse.

-Timidity, easily startled, suspicion and lack of courage, paranoid, nervous, plus qi deficiency signs and symptoms

Answer 2

Gallbladder qi deficiency

Question 3

Fever or alternating chill and fever (shao yang condition), a bitter taste in the mouth, unceasing retching, hypertonicity and pain below the ribs, yellow urine, bound stools, a red tongue with yellow coating, and a wiry and rapid pulse, jaundice

-Bitter taste, dry throat, dizziness and tinnitus, or there is alternative chills and fever with jaundice

Answer 3

Gallbladder heat congesting and stagnating

Question 4

dizziness, tinnitus, bitter taste in mouth, chest distress., hypochondria distention, timidness, easily startled, insomnia, and dream disturbs sleeping. Red tongue with thick yellow greasy coating, a slippery and wiry pulse

• Palpitations, insomnia, dizziness, thoracic and hypochondriac oppression and distension, bitter taste in the mouth and yellowish greasy tongue coating
• has mental health component

Answer 4

Gallbladder stagnation due to phlegm disturbance

Question 5

Hypochondrial or epigastric distension, hiccup, sighing, nausea, vomiting, belching, “churning feeling in the stomach”, irritability, in women breast distension. A normal tongue, and a wiry pulse

-similar to LV qi overacting on the stomach

Answer 5

Rebellious Liver Qi

Question 6

which GB pattern has alternating fever and chills (shao yang condition)?

Answer 6

Gallbladder heat congesting and stagnating