HT Patterns

Question 1

What are the key symptoms of HT Qi Xu?

Answer 1

Palpitations, Tiredness, Empty Pulse

Question 2

What is the pulse for HT Qi Xu?

Answer 2

Empty/weak pulse

Question 3

What is the tongue color and coat for HT Qi Xu?

Answer 3

Pale or normal color, thin white coat

Question 4

Bright-pale face, palpitations, chilliness and cold extremities (esp. cold hands), deep-weak pulse… key symptoms of what?

Answer 4

HT Yang Deficiency

Question 5

What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Yang Deficiency?

Answer 5

Pale, wet, swollen

Question 6

What is the pulse of HT Yang Def?

Answer 6

deep-weak or knotted

Question 7

HT Yang Deficiency is basically HT Qi Def + what?

Answer 7

HT Qi Def + Cold

Question 8

What is the treatment principle of HT Yang Xu?

Answer 8

Tonify and warm HT Yang

Question 9

What are the key symptoms of HT Yang Collapse?

Answer 9

Cyanosis of lips, “hidden-minute-knotted pulse,” cold limbs

Question 10

What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Yang Collapse?

Answer 10

Very pale or bluish-purple, short

Question 11

What are the key symptoms of HT Blood Xu?

Answer 11

Palpitations, insomnia, poor memory, pale thin tongue (your brain doesn’t have enough blood!)

Question 12

What is the pulse for HT Blood Xu?

Answer 12

Thready or choppy (blood vessels do not have enough blood)

Question 13

What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Blood Xu?

Answer 13

Pale, thin, slightly dry

Question 14

What are the key symptoms of HT Yin Xu?

Answer 14

Palpitations, insomnia, anxiety, heat sensations, no tongue coating and red tip

Question 15

What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Yin Xu?

Answer 15

Red tongue with redder tip, NO COATING, deep midline crack to the tip

Question 16

What is the pulse for HT Yin Def?

Answer 16

Thready (not much blood) - Rapid (a little heat), or Superficial-Deficient

Question 17

What are the key symptoms of Heart Fire Blazing?

Answer 17

Palpitations, tongue ulcers, insomnia, agitation, dark urine, yellow tongue coating and red swollen tip

Question 18

What is the pulse for HT fire?

Answer 18

Excess (full), Rapid, or Surging

Question 19

Emotional problems, excessive spicy, pungent foods or alcohol, and Liver Fire can all lead to what?

Answer 19

Heart Fire Blazing

Question 20

Long-standing anxiety, worry or fear, overwork and busy lifestyle, febrile disease that damages Yin and Body Fluid, KD Yin Xu and its causes can all lead to what?

Answer 20

HT Yin Deficiency

Question 21

Poor diet leading to SP Qi Xu and Blood Xu, chronic anxiety, hemorrhage, and liver Blood Xu and its causes can all lead to what?

Answer 21

HT blood xu

Question 22

HT Yang Xu with chronic and severe deficiency of KD yang will lead to what?

Answer 22

HT Yang Collapse

Question 23

Emotional Problems, Blood Loss, KD or LU Qi Xu, chronic illness, congenital deficiency, advanced age will all cause what?

Answer 23

HT Qi Xu

Question 24

HT Qi Deficiency (and its causes), KD Yang Xu, SP/ST Yang Xu all lead to what?

Answer 24

HT Yang Xu

Question 25

Mental confusion, mental retardation, aphasia or slurred speech, phlegm sound in throat, greasy tongue coating are the key symptoms of what?

Answer 25

Phlegm Misting the Mind

Question 26

Emotional problems, chronic Heart Yang and HT Qi deficiency, Liver Qi stag, and consumption of greasy food and alcohol will lead to what?

Answer 26

HT Blood Stagnation

Question 27

Stabbing chest pain, cyanosis of lips, purple tongue are the key symptoms of what?

Answer 27

HT Blood Stag

Question 28

What is the pulse for HT Blood Stag?

Answer 28

Choppy, wiry, or knotted

Question 29

What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Blood Stag?

Answer 29

Purple or purple sides in chest area

Question 30

Red swollen tip and/or body, greasy yellow coating is what pattern?

Answer 30

Phlegm-Fire Harassing HT

Question 31

Mental restlessness, insomnia, manic behavior, rapid incoherent speech, agitation, red tongue with greasy yellow coating, rapid excess pulse…. what pattern?

Answer 31

Phlegm-Fire Harassing HT

Question 32

What is the only cause of HT Qi Stag?

Answer 32

Emotional stress

Question 33

Feeling of distention or oppression of the chest, depression, slight feeling of lump in the throat, slight shortness of breath, weak and cold limbs, sighing, pale complexion… key symptoms of what pattern?

Answer 33

HT Qi Stagnation

Question 34

Palpitations, depression, stabbing pain in their HT region (radiating to the upper back or shoulder), pain comes and goes, pain aggravated by exposure to cold and alleviated by warmth, feeling of heaviness, dislike of speaking, cold hands… what pattern?

Answer 34

HT Vessel Obstructed (think phlegm)

Question 35

High fever at night, delirium, red tongue with no coating, hot body with cold extremities, acute onset with heat pathogenic factor invasion… what pattern?

Answer 35

Heat invading the Pericardium

Question 36

Palpitations, stabbing or picking chest pain (radiate to the inner aspect of the left arm) - becomes worse at night, cyanosis of lips, purple tongue…

Answer 36

HT blood stasis