Heart Patterns Flashcards
Palpitations, SOB on exertion, pale face, spontaneous sweating, tiredness, slight depression
T: Pale or normal coloured
P: Empty
Heart-Qi deficiency
Palpitations, SOB on exertion, tiredness, spontaneous sweating, a slight feeling of stuffiness or discomfort in the heart region, feeling of cold, cold hands, bright-pale face, slightly dark lips
T: Pale and slightly Wet
P: Deep-Weak
Heart-Yang deficiency
Palpitations, SOB, weak and shallow breathing, profuse sweating, cold limbs, cyanosis of lips, greyish-white complexion, coma
T: very pale or bluish-purple, short
P: Hidden-Minute-Knotted
Heart-Yang collapse
Palpitations, dizziness, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, poor memory, anxiety, propensity to be startled, dull-pale complexion, pale lips
T: Pale, thin, slightly dry
P: Choppy or Fine
Heart-Blood deficiency
Palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, propensity to be startled, poor memory, anxiety, mental restlessness, ‘uneasiness’, ‘fidgetiness’, dry mouth and throat, night sweating
T: without coating, deep midline crack reaching the tip
P: Floating-Empty
Heart-Yin deficiency
Palpitations, thirst, mouth and tongue ulcers, mental restlessness, feeling agitated, feeling of heat, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, red face, dark urine or blood in urine, bitter tastes (after bad night’s sleep)
T: Red, tip redder and swollen with red points, yellow coating; may be a midline crack reaching the tip
P: Full-Rapid-Overflowing esp on the Left front position, or Hasty
Heart-Fire blazing
Palpitations, thirst, red face, bitter taste, a feeling of oppression of the chest, expectoration of phlegm, rattling sound in the throat, mental restlessness, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, agitation, incoherent speech, mental confusion, rash behaviour, tendency to hit or scold people, uncontrolled laughter or crying, shouting, muttering to oneself, mental depression and dullness, manic behaviour
T: red, swollen, yellow dry sticky coating, deep Heart crack; tip may be redder and swollen with red points
P: Full-Rapid-Slippery or Rapid-Overflowing-Slippery or Rapid-Full-Wiry
Phlegm-Fire harassing the Heart
Mental confusion, unconsciousness, lethargic stupor, incoherent speech, slurred speech, aphasia, vomiting of phlegm, rattling sound in the throat, mental depression, very dull eyes
T: swollen with thick sticky coating, midline crack reaching the tip
P: Slippery
Phlegm misting the Mind
Palpitations, a feeling of distension or oppression in the chest, depression, a slight feeling of lump in the throat, slight SOB, sighing, poor appetite, weak and cold limbs, slightly purple lips, pale complexion
T: slightly pale-purple on the sides in the chest area
P: Empty but slightly Overflowing on the left front position
Heart-Qi stagnation
Palpitations, SOB with an inability to lie down, depression, mental restlessness, flustered feeling, feeling of oppression of the chest, stabbing or pricking pain in the Heart region that comes and goes and may radiate to the upper back or shoulder, pain aggravated by exposure to cold and alleviated by Heat, expectoration of Phlegm, a feeling of heaviness, dislike of speaking, cold hands, sighing, purple lips, face and nails
T: purple on the sides in the chest area, swollen with a sticky coating
P: Wiry, Choppy, or Knotted; Slippery if Phlegm is predominant
Heart-Vessel Obstructed
Palpitations, stabbing or pricking pain in the chest that may radiate to the inner aspect of the left arm or to the shoulder, a feeling of oppression or constriction of the chest, cyanosis of lips and nails, cold hands
T: purple in its entirety or only on the sides in the chest area
P: Choppy, Wiry or Knotted
Heart-Blood stasis
