Myalgic Encephalitis

Question 1

Chronic muscle aches, tiredness, heaviness in the body and head aven after the slightest exertion, no appetite with sticky taste, chest and epigastric oppression, dull headache and muzzy feeling in the brain, with poor short term memory is what syndrome?

Answer 1

Damp Heat in Muscles

Question 2

What organs can damp heat affect?

Answer 2

Liver and Gallbladder

Question 3

What is the treatment principle for Damp Heat?

Answer 3

Resolve dampness and clear heat

Question 4

Muscle fatigue but without ache, thirst and dry throat, insomnia, cough with scanty yellow sputum, tiredness, breathlessness upon exertion, weight loss, t: red with redder front, c: yellow, p: rapid and slightly wiry is what syndrome?

Answer 4

Heat Lurking in the Interior

Question 5

What is the treatment principle of Heat Lurking?

Answer 5

Clear interior heat

Question 6

Tiredness worse in the mornings, slight ache in the muscles, muscle fatigue after slight exertion, shortness of breath, weak voice, spontaneous daytime sweating, poor appetite with loose stool, slight epigastric and abdominal distension, t: pale, p: empty, is what syndrome?

Answer 6

Qi Xu

Question 7

What is the treatment principle for Qi Xu?

Answer 7

Tonify Qi and expel remaining pathogenic factor

Question 8

Typically affects kidney and spleen, symptoms with vary depending on which is predominant, sore lower back and muscles, cold knees and general chilliness, weak legs and knees, bright white complexion, impotence/premature ejaculation/loss of libido/infertility, lethargy and mental apathy, oedema of ankles, t: pale swollen, wet, p: deep and weak is what syndrome?

Answer 8

Yang Xu

Question 9

What is the treatment principle for Yang Xu?

Answer 9

Tonify yang