Liver Syndromes Symptoms Flashcards
Liver Blood Deficiency (deficient condition)
Postural dizziness,
numbness tingling limbs, cramps
scanty periods or amenorrhea,
blurred vision, floaters, poor night vision
Dull pale complexion, dry hair and skin, withered and brittle nails
Muscle weakness
Insomnia - waking in night (frequent)
feeling low/aimless
Liv Yin xu (deficient condition)
Insomnia
Dry eyes
restless/irritable
Very dry hair and skin, dull pale complexion
Malar flush - feeling of heat in the PM 5 palm heat, night sweats. thirst with desire to drink small sips
Muscle weakness
Aimlessness, depression
scanty periods or anemorrhoea (or heavy if lots of heat
Liver Yang Rising (mixed condition)
Temporal headaches
irritable, outbursts of anger, feeling worked up
dizziness
tinnitus
deafness
Blurred vision
dry mouth/throat
stiff neck
Liver Qi Stagnation (excess condition)
Moody, PMT, irritable
melancholy, depression, anger without cause, wound up
Distention in hypochondrium, chest or abdo
Frequent sighing
Nausea/vomiting
epigastric pain
poor appetite, sour regurgitation, belching, feeling of pulsation in epigastrium
Stomach churning, abdo distention, flatulence, diarrhoea
Plum stone throat
Pre mentrual breast distention
Liv Bl Stag (excess condition)
Painful periods
dark and clotted menstrual blood
hypochondrial or abdo pain
Haematemesis (vomiting blood)
Nose bleeds
irregular periods
fibroids
purple petechiae
purple nails
purple lips
purple or dark complexion
dry skin (if severe)
Liver fire Blazing upwards
Irritability, outburst of anger,
dream disturbed sleep
red face and eyes
tinnitus
deafbess
temporal headaches
dizziness
thirst
bitter taste
Constipation, dry stools
dark yellow urine
epistasis (nose bleeds)
haematemesis (rare- vomiting blood) haemoptysis (coughing up blood)
Liver Wind - Liver Blood xu causing wind agitating within
Full condition
Mild tremor of limbs, facial tic, numbness, shaking of head
Insomnia,
scanty periods or amenorrhea
floaters or blurred vision
diminished night vision
dull pale complexion
Pale lips, dry hair
Muscular weakness
cramps
withered and brittle nails
aimlessness
feeling low
Liver Wind - Extreme heat generating Liver Wind (unlikely to see this) Excess condition
High temp
convulsions
rigidity of the neck
tremor of limbs
opisthotonos - (Opisthotonos is a condition in which a person holds their body in an abnormal position. The person is usually rigid and arches their back, with their head thrown backward. If a person with opisthotonos lies on their back, only the back of their head and heels touch the surface they are on)
Coma (in severe cases)
Liver Yang Rising generating Wind (Strokes, epilepsy) (excess condition)
Headache
Hypertension
Severe dizziness
Sudden unconsciousness
convulsions
Deviation of the eye and mouth
hemiplegia
aphasia
severe tremor
Dry throat, eyes, blurred vision,
numbness
tingling of limbs
facial tic
tinnitus
scanty urine
night sweating
insomnia
poor memory
Damp heat in the Liver and Gallbladder (excess condition)
Nausea
Feeling of fullness and heaviness in the chest, abdo and hypochondrium,
vag discharge and itching
Jaundice
Bitter or sticky taste
loss of appetite
pain
redness and swelling in scrotum
difficulty passing urine, dark urine, pain and burning
papular or vesticular (fluid filled blisters) rashes
Stagnation of cold in the Liver channel (rare) Excess condition
Fullness and distention of the hypogastrium with pain that refers to the scrotum and testes and upwards to the hypochondrium, pain alleviated by warmth
Straining of the testes or contraction of the scrotum
Vertex headache
Feeling of cold, cold hab=nd =s and feet
vomiting of clear watery fluid or dry vomiting
In women there may be shrinking of the vagina
