HT Patterns Flashcards
What are the key symptoms of HT Qi Xu?
Palpitations, Tiredness, Empty Pulse
What is the pulse for HT Qi Xu?
Empty/weak pulse
What is the tongue color and coat for HT Qi Xu?
Pale or normal color, thin white coat
Bright-pale face, palpitations, chilliness and cold extremities (esp. cold hands), deep-weak pulse… key symptoms of what?
HT Yang Deficiency
What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Yang Deficiency?
Pale, wet, swollen
What is the pulse of HT Yang Def?
deep-weak or knotted
HT Yang Deficiency is basically HT Qi Def + what?
HT Qi Def + Cold
What is the treatment principle of HT Yang Xu?
Tonify and warm HT Yang
What are the key symptoms of HT Yang Collapse?
Cyanosis of lips, “hidden-minute-knotted pulse,” cold limbs
What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Yang Collapse?
Very pale or bluish-purple, short
What are the key symptoms of HT Blood Xu?
Palpitations, insomnia, poor memory, pale thin tongue (your brain doesn’t have enough blood!)
What is the pulse for HT Blood Xu?
Thready or choppy (blood vessels do not have enough blood)
What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Blood Xu?
Pale, thin, slightly dry
What are the key symptoms of HT Yin Xu?
Palpitations, insomnia, anxiety, heat sensations, no tongue coating and red tip
What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Yin Xu?
Red tongue with redder tip, NO COATING, deep midline crack to the tip
What is the pulse for HT Yin Def?
Thready (not much blood) - Rapid (a little heat), or Superficial-Deficient
What are the key symptoms of Heart Fire Blazing?
Palpitations, tongue ulcers, insomnia, agitation, dark urine, yellow tongue coating and red swollen tip
What is the pulse for HT fire?
Excess (full), Rapid, or Surging
Emotional problems, excessive spicy, pungent foods or alcohol, and Liver Fire can all lead to what?
Heart Fire Blazing
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?
HT Yin Deficiency
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?
HT blood xu
HT Yang Xu with chronic and severe deficiency of KD yang will lead to what?
HT Yang Collapse
Emotional Problems, Blood Loss, KD or LU Qi Xu, chronic illness, congenital deficiency, advanced age will all cause what?
HT Qi Xu
HT Qi Deficiency (and its causes), KD Yang Xu, SP/ST Yang Xu all lead to what?
HT Yang Xu
Mental confusion, mental retardation, aphasia or slurred speech, phlegm sound in throat, greasy tongue coating are the key symptoms of what?
Phlegm Misting the Mind
Emotional problems, chronic Heart Yang and HT Qi deficiency, Liver Qi stag, and consumption of greasy food and alcohol will lead to what?
HT Blood Stagnation
Stabbing chest pain, cyanosis of lips, purple tongue are the key symptoms of what?
HT Blood Stag
What is the pulse for HT Blood Stag?
Choppy, wiry, or knotted
What is the tongue diagnosis for HT Blood Stag?
Purple or purple sides in chest area
Red swollen tip and/or body, greasy yellow coating is what pattern?
Phlegm-Fire Harassing HT
Mental restlessness, insomnia, manic behavior, rapid incoherent speech, agitation, red tongue with greasy yellow coating, rapid excess pulse…. what pattern?
Phlegm-Fire Harassing HT
What is the only cause of HT Qi Stag?
Emotional stress
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?
HT Qi Stagnation
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?
HT Vessel Obstructed (think phlegm)
High fever at night, delirium, red tongue with no coating, hot body with cold extremities, acute onset with heat pathogenic factor invasion… what pattern?
Heat invading the Pericardium
Palpitations, stabbing or picking chest pain (radiate to the inner aspect of the left arm) - becomes worse at night, cyanosis of lips, purple tongue…
HT blood stasis