Symptoms - detail Flashcards
ASTHMA
Invasion of External Pathogenic Wind-Cold
BREATHLESSNESS, FEELING OF OPPRESSION IN CHEST, CLEAR/WHITE MUCUS ON CHEST AND IN NOSE, AVERSION TO COLD, SHIVERING, FEVER, HEADACHE, NO SWEATING
TP: Release Ext & Expel Wind-Cold: BL12, DU14, LU7, LI4 (Even/Reduction)
Stimulate Lung D&D: LU7, BL13
Soothe Asthma: LU6, Dingchuan
MOXA & CUPPING
ASTHMA
Damp Phlegm Obstructing the Lungs
ASTHMA W/ PROFUSE PHLEGM, COUGH WITH WHITE STICKY COPIOUS MUCUS, FEELING OF OPPRESSION &FULLNESS IN CHEST, WORSE LYING DOWN, NAUSEA OR VOMITING, FEELING OF HEAVINESS IN BODY, STICKY TASTE, LASK OF APPETITE
Resolve Phlegm: LU5, REN9, REN22, ST40, SP6 (Even/Reduction)
Restore Lung Descending: LU7, REN17, BL13, LU1, LU9 (Even/Reduction)
Soothe Asthma: dingchuan, Lu6 (Even/Reduction)
+ Moxa
ASTHMA
Phlegm Heat Obstructing Lung
ROUGH, RAPID & COARSE BREATHING, FEELING OF OPPRESSION OF CHEST, COUGH WITH THICK PURULENT, YELLOW OR BLOOD-TINGED STICKY SPUTUM, MENTAL RESTLESSNESS, FEELING OF HEAT, RED FACE, DRY MOUTH & THROAT, THIRST, SWEATING.
Resolve Phlegm: LU5, ST40, REN22 (Even/Reduction)
Clear Heat: DU14, LU10, LI11 (Even/Reduction)
Stimulate Lung Descending: REN17, LU7, LU1 (Even/Reduction)
ASTHMA
Lung Qi Xu
SOB, WORSE BREATHING OUT, WEAK VOICE, DISLIKE OF SPEAKING, SPONTANEOUS SWEATING, WEAK COUGH, SCANTY WATERY MUCUS, GENERAL LASSITUDE, PALE WHITE FACE, DISLIKE OF COLD
Tonify Lung Qi + Warm Lung Yang: LU1, LU7, LU9, BL13, BL42, BL43, DU12, ST36, REN12, REN6 (Tonify)
+ MOXA
ASTHMA
Lung & Kidney (Yang) Xu
CHRONIC ASTHMA WITH BREATHLESSNESS, WORSE EXERTION, DIFFICULTY BREATHING IN, BETTER LYING DOWN/RESTING, FREQUENT URINATION, CLEAR URINATION, DURING OR AFTER ASTHMA ATTACK, PALE FAE, COLD LIMBS, LOWER BACKACHE, OEDEMA OF FACE AND/OR ANKLES
Tonify + Warm Kidney Yang: Bl23, Kid3, Kid7, Du4, Kid25 (Tonify)
Stimulate Descending of Lung Qi: Bl13, Lu9, Lu7, Kid6 (opening & coupled point of Ren Mai Directing Vessel) (Tonification)
MOXA
ASTHMA
Liver Qi Stagnation Invading Lungs
STRUGGLING FOR BREATH, BROUGHT ON BY EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE, LITTLE OR NO PHLEGM, FACE RED OR QING, FEELING OF OPPRESSION OR TIGHTNESS OF CHEST, SIGHING, DEPRESSION, IRRITABILITY
Disperse the Liver/Regulate Qi: Liv3, Liv2, Liv14, Pc6 (Even/Reduction)
Soothe Asthma: Ren 17, Lu6, Lu7, Lu1, Dingchuan (Even/Reduction)
LOWER BACK PAIN
Stagnation of Qi & Blood
SUDDEN ONSET, SEVERE & STABBING PAIN, FIXED LOCATION, RIGIDITY & STIFFNESS OF LOWER BACK, INABILITY TO TURN AT WAIST, TENDER TO TOUCH, WORSE STANDING OR SITTING, WORSE AT NIGHT, BETTER WITH LIGHT MOVEMENT, UNLIKELY TO RESPOND TO WARMTH OR TO CHANGES IN WEATHER.
TP: Regulate Blood & Qi. Remove Pain.
Bl40 (Bleed when standing up & rotate spine)
Depending on location of pain:
Distal points: Yaotongxue, Bl10, Bl58, Bl59, Bl62, Du26 (Even/Reduction)
Local points: Bl26, Bl25, Bl54, Bl36, Du3, Shiqizhuzia, Ahshi points (Even/Reduction)
Regulate Blood & Qi: Liv3, Gb34 (Even/Reduction)
Extraordinary Vessel: Du Mai Governing Vessel Si3&Bl62
CUPPING, GUASHA
LOWER BACK PAIN
Invasion of External Pathogenic Wind-Cold-Damp
ACUTE BACKACHE, HEAVINESS & PAIN IN LUMBAR REGION, MAY REFER TO BUTTOCKS & LEGS, STIFFNESS OF MUSCLES WITH LIMITATION OF FLEXION & EXTENSION, WORSE ON COLD DAMP DAYS, BETTER WITH APPLICATION OF HEAT, WORSE IN MORNING (ESP IF DAMP) & BETTER WITH LIGHT EXERCISE, STIFFNESS & CONTRACTION OF MUSCLES (IF COLD PREDOMINATES), SWELLING & NUMBNESS (IF DAMP PREDOMINATES)
TP: Expel Wind & Cold. Resolve Damp. Warm Channels
Depending on location of pain:
Local or Ahshi Points - Bl26, Bl25, Bl54, Bl36, Du3, Shiqiztuxia (Even/Reduction)
Distal points: Yaotongxue, Bl10, Bl58, Bl59, Bl62 (Even/Reduction)
General Points to resolve Damp: Sp9, Sp6 (Even/Reduction)
CUPPING, GUASHA
Bl23, Du3, Bl52, Bl32 & Ahshi points Bl60, Sp6 (Reduce or Even + Moxa)
LOWER BACK PAIN
Kidney Yin Xu
CHRONIC BACKACHE/SORENESS OF LOWER BACK, ALLEVIATED BY REST & WORSE WITH EXERCISE OR WHEN TIRED, WORSE AFTER SEXUAL ACTIVITY IN MEN, WORSE DURING PREGNANCY & AFTER CHILDBIRTH IN WOMEN, WEAKNESS & SORENESS OF LOWER BACK & KNEES, DIZZINESS, VERTIGO, DARK SCANTY URINE, FEELING OF HEAT IN AFTERNOON & EVENING
TP: Strengthen Lumbar Area. Nourish Kidney Yin.
Nourish Kidney Yin: Bl23, Bl52, Kid3, Kid6, Kid9, Kid10, Ren4, Sp6 (Tonification)
Distal Points to Strengthen Lumbar Area: Si3 + Bl62, Bl60, Kid4, Sp3, Du20, He7 (Tonification)
Local points to Strenthen Lumbar Area: Bl26, Bl54, Shiqizhuixia, Tunzhong, Yaoyan (Tonification)
LOWER BACK PAIN
Kidney Yang Xu
CHRONIC BACKACHE, PAIN ALLEVIATED BY REST & WORSE WITH EXERCISE OR WHEN TIRED, WORSE WITH SEXUAL ACTIVITY IN MEN, WORSE DURING PREGNANCY & AFTER CHILDBIRTH IN WOMEN, COLD BACK & KNEES, COLD LIMBS, CLEAR ABUNDANT URINATION, TIREDNESS, WORSE WITH COLD WEATHER, OEDEMA
TP: Strengthen Lumbar area. Tonify & Warm Kidney Yang.
Tonify & Warm Kid Yang: Bl23, Du4, Ren4, Ren6, Kid3, Kid7, Bl52, Jinggong (Tonification)
Distal points to Strengthen Lumbar area: Bl60, Kid4, Sp3, Du20, He7 (Tonification)
Local points to Strengthen Lumbar area: Bl26, Bl54, Shiqizhuixia, Tunzhong, Yaoyan (Tonification)
Extraordinary Vessel: Si3 + Bl62 Governing Vessel (Du Mai)
MOXA
CONSTIPATION
Accumulation of Heat (Stomach/Intestines/Liver)
DRY, HARD, PEBBLE LIKE, FOUL SMELLING STOOLS, INFREQUENT BOWEL MOVEMENTS, BOWELS FEEL FULL & HARD, FOUL BREATH, DISTENDED ABDOMEN, VERY THIRSTY, FEELS HOT, RED FACE, SCANTY YELLOW URINE, RESTLESS & IRRITABLE
TP: Clear Heat in Stomach, Large Intestine or Liver
Clear Heat: Li4, Li11, Tb6, St44, Liv2 (Even/Reduction)
Promote BM: Sp14, Sp15, St37, St28, St29 (Even/Reduction)
CONSTIPATION
Liver Qi Stagnation
CONSTIPATION WITH BELCHING & FLATULENCE, STOOLS SHAPED LIKE PEBBLES BUT NOT DRY, FULLNESS & DISTENDING PAIN IN ABDOMEN & HYPOCHONDRIUM, UNPRODUCTIVE DESIRE TO DEFECATE, SYMPTOMS MADE WORSE BY EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE, IRRITABILITY
TP: Disperse Liver. Regulate Qi: Liv3, Liv13, Gb34, Ren6, Tb6 (Even/Reduction)
Promote BM: Ren10, Sp15 (Even/Reduction)
CONSTIPATION
Retention of Food Causing Obstruction
UNPRODUCTIVE DESIRE TO DEFECATE, STOMACH BLOATED, ABDOMEN PAINFUL, BELCHING WITH FOUL SMELL, FLATULENCE WITH FOUL SMELL, DRY LIPS & MOUTH
TP:
Remove Retention of Food: St44, St45, Sp4, Pc8, St40, St19, Li4, St36 (Even/Reduction)
Stimulate Descending of Stomach Qi: Ren12, Ren13, Ren10, St21 (Even/Reduction)
CONSTIPATION
Liver Blood Xu
DRY STOOLS, DIFFICULTY PASSING STOOLS, POSTURAL DIZZINESS, NUMBNESS/TINGLING OF LIMBS, SCANTY PERIODS
TP:
Nourish Blood: St36, Liv8, Ren4, Bl17, Bl18, Bl20 (Tonification)
Moisten Intestines: Sp 6 (Tonification)
General POints to Promote BM: Sp15, Bl25 (Tonification/Even)
CONSTIPATION
Spleen Qi Xu
UNPRODUCTIVE DESIRE TO DEFECATE, GREAT EFFORT TO OPEN BOWELS, TIRED AFTER BM, FATIGUE, THIN & LONG STOOLS WHICH ARE NOT DRY, INCOMPLETE EVACUATION, POOR OR ABNORMAL APPETITE, PALE COMPLEXION
TP:
Tonify Spleen Qi: St36, Sp6, Bl20, Bl21, St25, Sp15 (Tonification)
MOXA
CONSTIPATION
Kidney Yin Xu
DRY STOOLS, THIRST WITH DESIRE TO DRINK IN SMALL SIPS, DRY MOUTH & THROAT, ESP IN EVENINGS, SORE BACK & KNEES, DIZZINESS, TINNITUS, NIGHT SWEATS
TP:
Nourish Kidney Yin: Ren4, Kid3, Kid6, Bl23 (Tonification)
Moisten Intestines: St36, Sp6 (Tonification)
General points to promote BM: Bl25, Sp15 (Even/Tonification)
CONSTIPATION
Kidney Yang Xu causing Obstruction of Cold
DIFFICULTY IN DEFECATION, EXHAUSTION & SWEATING AFTER DEFECATION, STOOLS NOT DRY, ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT, PRESSURE & WARMTH RELIEVE DISCOMFORT, ABDOMEN FEELS COLD, FEELS COLD GENERALLY, CLEAR COPIOUS URINE
TP:
Tonify & Warm Kidney Yang & Lower Jiao: Bl23, Kid3, Kid7, Ren6, St36 (Tonification)
Moisten Intestines: Sp 6 (Tonification)
General Points to promote BM: Bl25, Sp15, St37 (Tonification/Even)
MOXA
DAMP HEAT IN SPLEEN Chronic Gastroenteritis Acute Hepatitis Liver Cirrhosis Inflamed Gall Bladder Glandular Fever
NO APPETITE, LOOSE STOOLS, OFFENSIVE ODOUR, BURNING SENSATION IN ANUS, DARK SCANTY URINE, HEADACHE, STUFFY EPIGASTRIUM & ABDOMEN, THIRST, NO DESIRE TO DRINK, LOW GRADE FEVER, HEAVY BODY & LIMBS
TP: Resolve Damp, Clear Heat
Sp9, Sp6, Du9, Li11, Bl20, Gb34
DAMP HEAT IN LARGE INTESTINE Dysentery Crohn's Disease Ulcerative Colitis Irritable Bowel Syndrome Appendicitis
DIARRHOEA, MUCUS & BLOOD IN STOOLS, OFFENSIVE ODOUR, BURNING IN ANUS, DARK SCANTY URINE, ABDOMINAL PAIN, STUFFY CHEST & EPIGASTRIUM, THIRST, NO DESIRE TO DRINK, FEVER, SWEATING, HEAVY BODY & LIMBS.
TP: Resolve Damp, Clear Heat
Sp9, Sp6, Ren3, Bl22, Bl25, St25, Bl17, Ren12, Li11, St37, Bl20
DAMP HEAT IN LIVER AND GALL BLADDER Leukorrhoa (thick white/yellow discharge), Thrush Jaundice Hepatitis Glandular Fever Orchitis (swelling & pain Testes)
NO APPETITE, NAUSEA & VOMITING, DARK SCANTY URINE, VAGINAL DISCHARGE, PAIN REDNESS AND SWELLING IN SCROTUM, VAGINAL ITCHING, FULLNESS & PAIN IN HYPOCHONDRIUM, ABDOMINAL DISTENSION, BITTER TASTE, FEVER, JAUNDICE.
DAMP HEAT IN THE BLADDER
Cystitis
Prostitis (swelling of Prostate)
General inflammation of Bladder & Urinary Tract
FREQUENT URGENT URINATION, BURNING ON URINATION, DIFFICULT URINATION, STOPPING MID FLOW, DARK YELLOW OR TURBID URINE, SAND IN URINE, THIRST, BITTER TASTE, FEVER.
DAMP HEAT IN GALL BLADDER
Inflammation of Gall Bladder
Cholecystitis (Inflammation due to Gall Stones)
Cholelithiasis (Gall Stones)
INABILITY TO DIGEST FATS, NAUSEA AND VOMITING, DARK SCANTY URINE, HYPOCHONDRIAC PAIN & DISTENSION, THIRST, NO DESIRE TO DRINK, BITTER TASTE, FEVER, JAUNDICE.
DAMP HEAT IN JOINTS AND CHANNELS
Joint Pains
MORE HEAT: Constipation
MORE DAMP: Loose Stools
DARK SCANTY URINE
STIFFNESS & SORENESS IN JOINTS, RED HOT SWOLLEN JOINTS, WORSE WITH PRESSURE, DIFFICULT MOVEMENT, MOUTH OR TONGUE PARCHED, THIRST WITH NO DESIRE TO DRINK, FEVER NOT ALLEVIATED BY SWEATING, HEAVY BODY & LIMBS.
DAMP HEAT
ACUTE EXTERNAL DAMP HEAT IN SKIN & MUSCLES
General ‘virus’ including Stomach Bug & Food Poisoning
MAY BE NAUSEA & FULLNESS IN EPIGASTRIUM. LOOSE STOOLS, MAY BE FOUL SMELLING & WATERY. DARK SCANTY URINE. MUZZY HEADACHE AS IF WRAPPED IN CLOTH, ABDOMINAL PAIN, STUFFY CHEST & ABDOMEN, NO THIRST, STICKY TASTE. (MORE HEAT=THIRST & BITTER TASTE). FEVER, WORSE IN AFTERNOON, FEELS HEAVY WEAK & LETHARGIC.
DEPRESSION - SHI
Liver Qi Stagnation
SEVERE FEELING OF MELANCHOLY, MOOD SWINGS, DEPRESSION GOES WITH ACTIVITY, IRRITABILITY FEELS UPTIGHT & TENSE, HELD-IN EMOTIONS LEAD TO DEPRESSION, FRUSTRATION, ‘PLUM STONE’ THROAT, PRE-MENSTRUAL DEPRESSION, SIGHING.
DEPRESSION - SHI
Lung & Heart Qi Stagnation
SADNESS & DEPRESSION AND A TENDENCY TO WEEP, SOB, SIGHING, TIGHTNESS OR OPPRESSION OF CHEST, LUMP IN THROAT, PALPITATIONS, WEAK VOICE, OVER-SENSITIVITY TO OUTSIDE INFLUENCES (CAN COME FROM HEART & LUNG QI XU).
DEPRESSION - SHI
Damp
LACK OF CONCENTRATION, TIREDNESS, HEAVY LIMBS, HEAVY HEAD, ‘WOOLLY’ MUZZY HEAD, STUFFY CHEST, WANTS TO LIE DOWN & DO NOTHING.
DEPRESSION - SHI
Phlegm Misting Heart
MENTAL CONFUSION, LETHARGY, STUPOR, FEELS DISTANCED & CUT OFF, UNCONSCIOUSNESS, VISIBLE PHLEGM IN MOUTH & NOSE.
DEPRESSION - SHI
Heart Blood Stagnation
DEPRESSION, AGITATION, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT, SHORT-TEMPERED, RESTLESS SLEEP, DREAMING A LOT, PAIN IN CHEST.
DEPRESSION - XU
Yin Xu
Without Empty Heat: Tired, dispirited, weak, poor memory & concentration, mental confusion.
Liver Yin Xu: Deep depression, confusion & lack of direction & purpose.
Kidney Yin Xu: Lethargy & exhaustion, lack of will & drive, poor memory.
Heart & Lung Yin Xu: Extreme tiredness & lack of energy, sadness, loneliness, dispirited, feels easily affected by psychic forces.
DEPRESSION - XU
Qi Xu
TIREDNESS ON EXERTION, POOR ENERGY, APATHY.
Heart Qi Xu: Sadness/lack of joy, ‘spiritual lassitude’, lack of vitality, lack of spirit.
Lung Qi Xu: Grief, dislikes speaking, weak voice, easily affected by outside influences.
DEPRESSION - XU
Blood Xu
Heart Blood & Spleen Qi Xu: Poor memory, poor concentration, easily bursts into tears, feels can’t cope, weak limbs, extreme lethargy, obsessional thoughts, poor concentration.
Liver Blood Xu: Easily tired, fearful of making decisions & plans, lack of sense of direction & vision, confusion over aims of life should follow.
DEPRESSION - XU
Yang Xu
TIRED & LISTLESS, COLD DEPRESSION OF ENERGY & MOOD.
Heart Yang Xu: Spiritual lassitude, lethargy, sadness & lack of joy, lack of spirit, lack of vitality, stuffy sensation in chest.
Kidney Yang Xu: Lassitude, lack of energy, apathy, lack of will power, doesnt want to do anything or go out, curling up, fearfulness, low libido.
DIABETES
UPPER JIAO WASTING
DRYNESS & HEAT IN LUNG
Consumption of Upper Jiao: DRY THROAT & MOUTH, FREQUENT URINATION.
TP: Strengthen Lung, Tonify Yin. Clear Heat.
BL13, KID7, SP6, ST36 (Tonify). LU10, LU5 (Reduce) Weiguanxia Shu (extra, Pancreas Point)
DIABETES
MIDDLE JIAO WASTING
DRYNESS & HEAT IN STOMACH
INCREASED EATING & HUNGER, discomfort in Stomach, emaciation, constipation, profuse sweating.
TP: Clear Stomach Dryness & Tonify Yin. Clear Heat. Promote Fluids.
BL20, BL21, ST36, KID3, SP9, ST44 (Tonify unless severe Heat)
DIABETES
LOWER JIAO WASTING
EXHAUSTION OF KIDNEY YIN & JING
FREQUENT & INCREASED URINATION, turbid urine, dry mouth, weak lower limbs, sore back, blurred vision.
TP: Nourish Yin, Tonify Jing.
BL23, REN4, SP6, KID3, Weiguanxia Shu (extra) - Tonify
DIARRHOEA
External Pathogenic Damp-Cold
SUDDEN ONSET, WATERY STOOLS, ABDOMINAL PAIN-BETTER WITH HEAT, BORBORYGMUS, no appetite, stuffiness in chest & epigastrium, no thirst, clear urine, feeling of heaviness. Sometimes accompanied by symptoms of Wind-Cold ie. aversion to cold, slight fever, achy joints, slight headache.
TP: Resolve Damp, Expel Cold.
Resolve Damp: SP9, SP6, REN12, BL20 (Even/Reduction)
Expel Cold: REN6 (Tonify)
Expel Wind-Cold: BL12, LI4, GB20
General Points: ST25, ST36, ST37, ST39, BL25 (Even/Reduction)
MOXA
DIARRHOEA
External Pathogenic Damp Heat
ACUTE ONSET, YELLOW WATERY STOOLS, FOUL SMELLING STOOLS, INCREASED FREQUENCY OF BOWEL MOVEMENTS, BURNING SENSATION IN ANUS, dark scanty urine, fullness & heaviness of abdomen, fever, dry mouth, thirst, bitter taste, vomiting, irritability, restlessness.
