Point Selection by Pattern
Liver Patterns
Excess: Qi Stagnation
Additional points:
Formulas: Yue Ju Wan, Xiao Yao San
Key symptoms: Feeling of distension, depression, moodiness, wiry pulse
Excess: Blood Stasis
Additional points:
- UB-18 – Move Liver Blood
- UB-17 – Blood Hui point
- SP-10 – Move Blood
- REN-6 – For abdomen
- ST-29 – For Uterus Blood
- SP-4 + PC-6 – For Chong
- KI-14 – Chong point
- LIV-5 + LIV-6 – Liver Qi/Blood
Formulas: Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang, Shi Xiao San, Yan Hu Suo Tang
Key symptoms: Dark and clotted menstrual blood, purple tongue
Excess: Fire
- LIV-2 – Drain Liver Fire
- LI-11 – Clear Heat
- LIV-3 – Drain Liver Fire
- GB-20 – Drain Liver Fire
- Taiyang – For headache
- GB-13 – Calm Mind
- GB-1, GB-6 – Local pt
- GB-8, GB-9 – Local pt
- SP-6 – Nourish Yin
- LIV-1 – Subdue Liver Yang
Formulas: Long Dan Xie Gan Tang, Dang Gui Long Hui Tang
Key symptoms: Headache, irritability, red face, red eyes, red tongue with yellow coating
Excess: Damp-Heat
- GB-34 – Liver/Gallbladder Damp
- LIV-2 – Clear Liver Heat
- LI-11 – Damp-Heat
- SP-9 – Resolve Damp
- SP-6 – Resolve Damp
- LIV-14 – Liver Front-Mu
- UB-18 – Liver Back-Shu
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
Formulas: Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
Key symptoms: Fullness of hypochondrium and abdomen, feeling of heaviness, nausea, bitter and sticky taste, sticky yellow coating, slippery pulse
Excess: Cold
Formulas: Nuan Gan Jian
Key symptoms: Hypogastric pain referring to scrotum, cold hands and feet, wiry-deep-slow pulse
Deficiency: Blood
- LIV-8 – Tonify Liver Blood
- UB-18 – Tonify Liver Blood
- ST-36 – Tonify Spleen
- SP-6 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney
- REN-4 – For menstrual
- UB-17 – Nourish Blood
- Yuyao – Local for vision
Formulas: Bu Gan Tang
Key symptoms: Blurred vision, scanty periods, dull-pale complexion, pale tongue
Excess + Deficiency: Yang Rising
- LIV-3 – Subdue Liver Yang
- SJ-5 – For headache
- PC-6 – Calm Mind
- LI-4 – Regulate Qi
- GB-20 – Subdue Liver
- GB-43 – Water point
- GB-38 – Fire point
- LIV-8 – Nourish Liver Yin
- ST-36 – Nourish Liver Yin
- SP-6 – Nourish Liver Yin
- KI-3 – Nourish Kidney Yin
- KI-6 – Nourish Kidney Yin
- UB-2, Taiyang – Local
- GB-6, GB-8, GB-9 – Local
Formulas: Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin, Ling Jiao Gou Teng Tang
Key symptoms: Headache, irritability, wiry pulse
Excess + Deficiency: Internal Wind
Extreme Heat
Formulas: Ling Jiao Gou Teng Tang
Key symptoms: High temperature, convulsions, stiff tongue
Liver Yang Rising
Formulas: Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang
Key symptoms: Sudden unconsciousness, convulsions, deviation of eye/mouth
Liver Blood Deficiency
Formulas: E Jiao Zi Ji Huang
Key symptoms: Shaking of head, tremors, pale tongue
Gallbladder Patterns
Excess: Damp-Heat
- GB-34 – Clear Gallbladder Damp-Heat
- LI-11 – Clear Damp-Heat
- GB-24 – Resolve Gallbladder Damp, Front-Mu
- UB-19 – Resolve Gallbladder Damp, Back-Shu
- Dannangxue – Resolve Gallbladder Damp, Cholecystitis
- DU-9 – Resolve Gallbladder Damp, Jaundice
- LIV-14 + SJ-6 – Soothe Liver Qi, For hypochondrial pain
- UB-20 + REN-12 – Tonify Spleen to resolve Damp
- ST-19 – Descend Stomach Qi, For nausea and vomiting
Liver/Gallbladder Damp-Heat (add)
- LIV-3 – Soothe Liver Qi
- LIV-5 – Soothe Liver Qi, Resolve Damp in the genital area
- UB-18 – Resolve Damp from Liver, Back-Shu
Formulas: Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
Formulas: Yin Chen Hao Tang
Key symptoms: Hypochondrial fullness, bitter taste and thick sticky yellow coating on right side
Deficiency: Gallbladder Deficiency
- GB-40 – Source point, Effect on mental aspect
- UB-47 – Regulate Ethereal Soul, Effect on mental aspect, Liver Outer-Shu
- UB-18 – Tonify Liver, Liver Back-Shu
- LIV-8, ST-36, SP-6 – Tonify Liver Blood
- REN-4 – Tonify Liver
Formulas: Wen Dan Tang, An Shen Ding Zhi Wan
Key symptoms: Timidity, lack of initiative, indecision
Heart Patterns
Deficiency: Qi
- PC-6 – Tonify Heart, Calm Mind
- HT-5 – Tonify Heart Qi
- UB-15 – Tonify Heart Qi, Back-Shu
- REN-17 – Qi Hui-Gathering point
- REN-6 – Tonify whole body Qi
- DU-14 – Tonify Heart Qi/Yang, Moxa
Formulas: Bao Yuan Tang
Key symptoms: Palpitations, tiredness, empty pulse
Deficiency: Yang
- PC-6 – Tonify Heart, Calm Mind
- HT-5 – Tonify Heart Qi
- UB-15 – Tonify Heart Qi, Back-Shu
- REN-17 – Qi Hui-Gathering point
- REN-6 – Tonify whole body Qi
- DU-14 – Tonify Heart Qi/Yang, Moxa
Yang Collapse
- REN-4, REN-6, REN-8 – Rescue Yang
- DU-20 – Rescue Yang
- DU-4, UB-23 – Kidney Yang
- ST-36, PC-6 – Heart Yang
- DU-14, UB-15 – Heart Yang
Formulas: Shen Fu Tang
Key symptoms: Cyanosis of lips, hidden-minute pulse, cold limbs
Formulas: Rou Fu Bao Yuan Tang
Key symptoms: Palpitations, cold hands, deep-weak pulse
Deficiency: Blood
- PC-6 – Tonify Heart, Calm Mind
- HT-7 – Nourish Heart, Calm Mind
- REN-14 – Tonify Heart, For anxiety
- REN-15 – Tonify Heart, For anxiety
- REN-4 – Tonify Blood/Yin, Ground Mind
Additional points:
Formulas: Shen Qi Si Wu Tang
Key symptoms: Palpitations, insomnia, poor memory, pale tongue
Deficiency: Yin
- PC-6 – Tonify Heart, Calm Mind
- HT-7 – Nourish Heart, Calm Mind
- REN-14 – Tonify Heart, For anxiety
- REN-15 – Tonify Heart, For anxiety
- REN-4 – Tonify Blood/Yin, Ground Mind
Additional points:
Formulas: Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
Key symptoms: Palpitations, mental restlessness, night sweating, feeling of heat, malar flush, red peeled tongue with deep midline crack
Excess: Fire
- HT-8 – Clear Heart Fire
- HT-9 – Clear Heart Fire
- LI-11 – Clear Heat
- HT-7 – Calm Mind
- REN-15 – Calm Mind
- DU-24 – Calm Mind
- DU-19 – Calm Mind
- SP-6 – Promote Yin
- KI-6 – Promote Yin
Formulas: Xie Xin Tang
Key symptoms: Tongue ulcers, thirst, palpitations, red tongue
Excess: Phlegm-Fire
- HT-9 – Open Heart orifice
- PC-5 – Resolve Heart Phlegm, Open orifice
- ST-40 – Resolve Phlegm
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen to resolve Phlegm
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen to resolve Phlegm
- UB-15 – Clear Heart, Stimulate speech
Additional points:
- HT-8 – Clear Heart Fire
- LIV-2 – Subdue Fire
- REN-15 – Pacify Mind
- HT-7 – Calm Mind
- PC-7 – Calm Mind
- SP-6 – Calm Mind
- DU-20 – Consciousness
- DU-24 – Calm Mind
- GB-13 – Calm Mind
- GB-17 – Open Orifice
Formulas: Wen Dan Tang
Key symptoms: All the various mental symptoms, red tongue with sticky yellow coating
Excess: Phlegm
- HT-9 – Open Heart orifice
- PC-5 – Resolve Heart Phlegm, Open orifice
- ST-40 – Resolve Phlegm
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen to resolve Phlegm
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen to resolve Phlegm
- UB-15 – Clear Heart, Stimulate speech
Additional points:
Formulas: Di Tan Tang
Key symptoms: Mental confusion, rattling sound in throat, swollen tongue with sticky coating
Deficiency + Excess: Blood Stasis
- PC-6 – Move Heart Blood
- PC-4 – For chest pain
- HT-7 – Calm Mind
- REN-17 – Move Qi/Blood
- UB-14 – Move Heart Blood
- UB-17 – Move Blood
- SP-10 – Move Blood
- KI-25 – Local point
Formulas: Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang
Key symptoms: Stabbing pain in the chest, cyanosis of lips, purple tongue
Small Intestine Patterns
Excess: Heat
- ST-39 – Lower He-Sea point of Small Intestine, For abdominal pain
Additional points:
- SI-2 – Clear Small Intestine Heat, Water point
- SI-5 – Clear Small Intestine Heat, Fire point
- HT-5 – Clear Heart Fire, Connect Heart & Small Intestine
- HT-8 – Clear Heart Fire
Formulas: Dao Chi San, Dao Chi Qing Xin Tang
Key symptoms: Abdominal pain, tongue ulcer, scanty-dark-painful urination
Excess: Qi Pain
- ST-39 – Lower He-Sea point of Small Intestine, For abdominal pain
- REN-6 – Move Qi in Lower Burner, Relieve pain
- GB-34 – Move Qi in Lower Burner, Relieve pain
- LIV-3 – Relieve Liver Qi stagnation
- SP-6 – Stop abdominal pain
Additional points:
- LIV-13 – Harmonize Liver & Spleen, For chronic
- ST-27 – Move Qi in lower abdomen
- ST-29 – Move Qi in lower abdomen
Formulas: Chai Hu Shu Gan Tang
Key symptoms: Lower abdominal twisting pain, borborygmus, deep-wiry pulse
Excess: Qi Tied
- ST-39 – Lower He-Sea point of Small Intestine, For abdominal pain
- REN-6 – Move Qi in Lower Burner, Relieve pain
- GB-34 – Move Qi in Lower Burner, Relieve pain
- LIV-3 – Relieve Liver Qi stagnation
- SP-6 – Stop abdominal pain
Additional points:
Formulas: Zhi Shi Dao Wan, Tian Tai Wu Yao San
Key symptoms: Sudden severe abdominal pain, constipation, vomiting, deep-wiry pulse
Excess: Worms
Not applicable. Herbal treatment is the treatment of choice.
Formulas: Li Zhong An Hui Tang, Lian Mei An Hui Tang, Hua Chong Wan, Qu Tiao Tang
Key symptoms: Roundworm: abdominal pain; Pinworm: itchy anus; Tapeworm: constant hunger; Hookworm: desire to eat strange objects
Deficiency: Deficient Cold
- ST-39 – Lower He-Sea point of Small Intestine
- UB-27 – Expel Cold, Back-Shu of Small Intestine
- ST-25 – Stop diarrhea
- REN-6 – For Empty-Cold, Moxa
- ST-36 – Tonify Yang, Moxa
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen Yang
Formulas: Xiao Jian Zhong Tang, Shen Ling Bai Zhu San
Key symptoms: Dull abdominal pain, borborygmi, diarrhea
Spleen Patterns
Deficiency: Qi
- ST-36 – Tonify Spleen, Yang Earth Horary
- SP-3 – Tonify Spleen, Yin Earth Horary, Yuan-source
- SP-6 – Tonify Spleen
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-21 – Tonify Stomach
Formulas: Si Jun Zi Tang, Liu Jun Zi Tang
Key symptoms: Poor appetite, tiredness, loose stools
Deficiency: Yang
- ST-36 – Tonify Spleen, Yang Earth Horary
- SP-3 – Tonify Spleen, Yin Earth Horary, Yuan-source
- SP-6 – Tonify Spleen
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-21 – Tonify Stomach
Additional points:
- SP-9 – Resolve Dampness
- REN-9 – Stimulate Spleen transformation & transportation
- ST-28 – Stimulate Spleen transformation & transportation
- UB-22 – Stimulate Spleen transformation & transportation
Formulas: Li Zhong Wan
Key symptoms: Loose stools, feeling cold, cold limbs and tiredness
Deficiency: Qi Sinking
- ST-36 – Tonify Spleen, Yang Earth Horary
- SP-3 – Tonify Spleen, Yin Earth Horary, Yuan-source
- SP-6 – Tonify Spleen
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-21 – Tonify Stomach
Additional points:
Formulas: Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang
Key symptoms: Bearing down sensation, weak pulse
Deficiency: Not Controlling Blood
- ST-36 – Tonify Spleen, Yang Earth Horary
- SP-3 – Tonify Spleen, Yin Earth Horary, Yuan-source
- SP-6 – Tonify Spleen
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-21 – Tonify Stomach
Additional points:
- SP-10 – Hold blood in vessels
- UB-17 – Stop bleeding
- SP-1 – For uterine bleeding, Moxa
- SP-4 – Stop bleeding relate to Spleen
Formulas: Gui Pi Tang
Key symptoms: Fine pulse, pale tongue, bleeding
Excess: Cold-Damp
- SP-9 – Resolve Damp
- SP-6 – Resolve Damp
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- REN-9 – Resolve Damp, Stimulate transformation & transportation
- REN-11 – For Middle Burner Damp
- ST-22 – For Middle Burner Damp
- ST-28 – For Lower Burner Damp
- UB-22 – For Lower Burner Damp
Additional points:
Formulas: Ping Wei San
Key symptoms: Abdominal fullness, feeling of heaviness, sticky white tongue coating
Excess: Damp-Heat
- SP-9 – Resolve Damp
- SP-6 – Resolve Damp
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- REN-9 – Resolve Damp, Stimulate transformation & transportation
- REN-11 – For Middle Burner Damp
- ST-22 – For Middle Burner Damp
- ST-28 – For Lower Burner Damp
- UB-22 – For Lower Burner Damp
Additional points:
Formulas: Lian Po Yin
Key symptoms: Abdominal fullness, feeling of heaviness, sticky yellow tongue coating
Stomach Patterns
Deficiency: Qi
Formulas: Si Jun Zi Tang
Key symptoms: Tiredness in the morning, uncomfortable feeling in the epigastrium, empty pulse on the Stomach position
Deficiency: Deficient Cold
Additional points:
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen Qi
Formulas: Huang Qi Jian Zhong Tang, Xiao Jian Zhong Tang
Key symptoms: Discomfort in the epigastrium that is better after eating, tiredness, cold limbs
Deficiency: Yin
Additional points:
Formulas: Sha Shen Mai Dong Tang, Shen Ling Bai Zhu San, Yi Wei Tang
Key symptoms: Dull epigastric pain, dry mouth, tongue without coating or with rootless coating in the center
Excess: Fire (or Phlegm-Fire)
Additional points:
- ST-44 – Clear Stomach Heat
- LI-11 – Clear Heat
- REN-12 – Regulate Stomach Qi
- LI-4 – Clear Stomach Heat
- REN-11 – Clear Stomach Heat
- SP-15 – For constipation
Phlegm-Fire
Key symptoms: Less thirst, mucus in stools, mental derangement, sticky coating, rolling pulse
Formulas: Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang, Qing Wei San, Liang Ge San
Key symptoms: Burning sensation in the epigastrium, thirst with a desire to drink cold liquids, thick yellow coating, red tongue
Excess: Cold Invading
Additional points:
- SP-4 – Expel Stomach Cold
Formulas: Liang Fu Wan
Key symptoms: Sudden pain in the epigastrium, vomiting, feeling cold, deep-tight pulse
Excess: Qi Rebellion
Additional points:
Formulas: Ding Xiang Shi Di Tang, Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San, Ban Xia Hou Po Tang
Key symptoms: Nausea, belching, vomiting, hiccup
Excess: Food Retention
Additional points:
- ST-44 – Resolve Food
- ST-45 – Resolve Food
- REN-13 – Descend Stomach Qi
- ST-19 – Descend Stomach Qi
- KI-21 – Move Blood
- REN-12 – Regulate Stomach Qi
- ST-40 – Descend Stomach Qi
Formulas: Bao He Wan, Zhi Shi Dao Zhi Wan
Key symptoms: Epigastric fullness, sour regurgitation, thick tongue coating
Excess: Blood Stasis
Additional points:
- ST-34 – Xi-cleft point
- SJ-6 + GB-34 – Move Qi
- UB-17 + SP-10 – Blood
- LI-4 – Descend Stomach Qi
- REN-11 – Descend Stomach Qi
- ST-19 – Descend Stomach Qi
- KI-21 – Move Blood
- REN-12 – Regulate Stomach Qi
- ST-40 – Descend Stomach Qi
Formulas: Shi Xiao San, Dan Shen Yin, Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang, Tong You Tang
Key symptoms: Stabbing pain in the epigastrium, vomiting of dark blood
Lung Patterns
Deficiency: Qi
- LU-9 – Tonify Lung, Yuan-source
Additional points:
- LU-7 – Descend Qi
- REN-6 – Tonify Qi
- ST-36 – Spleen, Mother
- REN-12 – Spleen, Mother
- DU-12 – For chronic
- UB-13 – Tonify Lung
Formulas: Ren Shen Bu Fei Tang
Key symptoms: Shortness of breath, weak voice, empty pulse
Deficiency: Yin
- LU-9 – Tonify Lung, Yuan-source
- REN-4 – Tonify Kidney Yin
- KI-6 – Tonify Kidney Yin, For throat
- SP-6 – Nourish Fluids
- REN-12 – Tonify Stomach, origin of Fluids
Additional points:
- REN-17 – Tonify Lung
- DU-12 – For chronic
- UB-13 – Tonify Lung
- UB-43 – For chronic
- LU-10 – Clear Heat
- LU-11 – Clear Heat
Formulas: Yang Yin Qing Fei Tang
Key symptoms: Dry cough, weak-hoarse voice, dry throat, night sweating, red without coating
Deficiency: Dryness
- LU-9 – Tonify Lung, Yuan-source
- REN-4 – Tonify Kidney Yin
- KI-6 – Tonify Kidney Yin, For throat
- SP-6 – Nourish Fluids
- REN-12 – Tonify Stomach, origin of Fluids
Additional points:
- ST-36 – Nourish Fluids
Formulas: Bai He Gu Jin Tang
Key symptoms: Dry cough, dry throat, hoarse voice, dry tongue that is not red
Excess: Wind-Cold
Additional points:
- DU-16 – Expel Wind
Formulas: Ma Huang Tang
Key symptoms: Aversion to cold, sneezing, floating pulse
Excess: Wind-Heat
Additional points:
- LI-4 – Expel Wind
- DU-16 – Expel Wind
- GB-20 – Wind-Heat
- DU-14 – Wind-Heat
- SJ-5 – Wind-Heat
- LI-11 – Wind-Heat
- LU-11 – For throat
Formulas: Sang Ju Yin
Key symptoms: Fever, aversion to cold, sore throat, floating-rapid pulse
Excess: Wind-Water
Additional points:
- LI-4 – Expel Wind
- LI-6 – Water passages
- LI-7 – Xi-cleft, Acute
- REN-9 – For edema
- DU-26 – Facial edema
- UB-13 – Descend Lung
Formulas: Xiao Qing Long Tang
Key symptoms: Sudden swelling of face, aversion to wind, floating-slippery pulse
Excess: Damp-Phlegm
- ST-40 – Resolve Phlegm
- LU-5 – Clear Lung Phlegm
- UB-13 – Descend Lung Qi
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- LU-7 – Descend Lung Qi
- LU-1 – Clear Lung, Front-Mu
Additional points:
- REN-22 – Stop cough
- REN-17 – Descend Qi
- REN-9 – Promote transformation & transportation
- PC-6 – Open chest
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
Formulas: Er Chen Tang
Key symptoms: Chronic cough with profuse white sputum, thick sticky white tongue coating
Excess: Phlegm-Heat
- ST-40 – Resolve Phlegm
- LU-5 – Clear Lung Phlegm
- UB-13 – Descend Lung Qi
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- LU-7 – Descend Lung Qi
- LU-1 – Clear Lung, Front-Mu
Additional points:
Formulas: Wen Dan Tang, Qing Qi Hua Tan Wan
Key symptoms: Cough, yellow or green sputum, thick-sticky yellow coating, rapid-slippery pulse
Excess: Phlegm-Fluids
Additional points:
- REN-17 – Descend Qi
- REN-9 – Promote transformation & transportation
- LU-9 – For chronic
- UB-43 – For chronic
- ST-36 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney
Formulas: Ling Gan Wu Wei Jiang Xin Tang
Key symptoms: Cough with white watery frothy sputum
Large Intestine Patterns
Excess: Damp-Heat
- ST-37 + ST-25 – Lower He-Sea + Front-Mu
- SP-6 – Regulate Lower Burner
- LI-11 – Clear Heat
- UB-25 – Regulate Large Intestine, Back-Shu
Additional points:
- SP-9 – Resolve Damp
- REN-3 – Lower Burner Damp
- UB-22 – Lower Burner Damp
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- ST-27 – For abdominal pain
- REN-6 – Move Qi
- SP-10 – Stop bleeding
Formulas: Ge Gen Qin Lian Tang, Bai Tou Weng Tang, Shao Yao Tang
Key symptoms: Abdominal pain, diarrhea with mucus and blood in the stools
Excess: Heat
- ST-37 + ST-25 – Lower He-Sea + Front-Mu
- SP-6 – Regulate Lower Burner
- LI-11 – Clear Heat
- UB-25 – Regulate Large Intestine, Back-Shu
- LI-2 – Clear Heat, Water point
- ST-44 – Clear Stomach Heat
Additional points:
Formulas: Ma Zi Ren Wan
Key symptoms: Dry stools, burning sensation in anus, thick yellow dry coating
Excess: Heat Obstruction
- ST-37 + ST-25 – Lower He-Sea + Front-Mu
- SP-6 – Regulate Lower Burner
- LI-11 – Clear Heat
- UB-25 – Regulate Large Intestine, Back-Shu
- LI-2 – Clear Heat, Water point
- ST-44 – Clear Stomach Heat
Additional points:
Formulas: Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang
Key symptoms: Constipation, abdominal pain, fever, dry yellow tongue coating
Excess: Cold
Additional points:
Formulas: Liang Fu Wan + Zheng Qi Tian Xiang San
Key symptoms: Sudden abdominal pain, diarrhea, feeling of cold
Deficiency: Dry
Additional points:
Formulas: Zeng Ye Tang, Qing Zao Run Chang Tang, Wu Ren Wan, Tian Di Jian, Si Wu Ma Zi Ren Wan, Ma Zi Ren Wan
Key symptoms: Dry stools that are difficult to discharge, thin body
Deficiency: Cold
- ST-36 – Regulate abdomen
- ST-25 – Regulate Intestine, Front-Mu
- REN-6 – Tonify Qi
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen Qi
Additional points:
Formulas: Liang Fu Wan
Key symptoms: Loose stool, dull abdominal pain, cold limbs
Deficiency: Collapse
- ST-36 – Regulate abdomen
- ST-25 – Regulate Intestine, Front-Mu
- REN-6 – Tonify Qi
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen Qi
Additional points:
Formulas: Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang
Key symptoms: Chronic diarrhea, prolapse ani
Kidney Patterns
Deficiency: Yin
Additional points:
- LU-7 + KI-6 – Tonify Kidney Yin
- KI-9 – For anxiety
- KI-10 – Tonify Kidney Yin
- SP-6 – Tonify Kidney, Calm Mind
- REN-7 – Nourish Yin
Formulas: Zuo Gui Wan, Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
Key symptoms: Backache, night sweating, floating-empty pulse
Deficiency: Yang
- KI-3 – Tonify Kidney, Yuan-source
- REN-4 – Tonify Kidney
- DU-4 – Tonify Kidney, Moxa
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney, Back-Shu
- UB-52 – Tonify Kidney, For Will-power
- Jinggong – Tonify Kidney, For Essence
Additional points:
Formulas: You Gui Wan, Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan
Key symptoms: Backache, feeling of cold, abundant clear urination, pale tongue, deep pulse
Deficiency: Qi Not Firm
- KI-3 – Tonify Kidney, Yuan-source
- REN-4 – Tonify Kidney
- DU-4 – Tonify Kidney, Moxa
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney, Back-Shu
- UB-52 – Tonify Kidney, For Will-power
- Jinggong – Tonify Kidney, For Essence
Additional points:
Formulas: You Gui Wan + Huang Qi, Qian Shi, Jin Suo Gu Jing Wan, Fu Tu Dan
Key symptoms: Dribbling after urination, chronic vaginal discharge, backache
Deficiency: Not Receiving Qi
- KI-3 – Tonify Kidney, Yuan-source
- REN-4 – Tonify Kidney
- DU-4 – Tonify Kidney, Moxa
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney, Back-Shu
- KI-6 – Tonify Kidney Yin/Essence
Additional points:
- REN-6 – Tonify Kidney Qi
- REN-17 – Descend Lung Qi
- KI-13 – Tonify Kidney
- KI-25 – Improve breathing
- LU-7 – Descend Lung Qi
- KI-7 – Tonify Kidney
- ST-36 – For chronic cases
- DU-12 – Tonify Lung Qi
- UB-13 – Tonify Lung Qi
Formulas: You Gui Wan + Dong Chong Xia Cao, Wu Wei Zi, Shen Ge San, Su Zi Jiang Qi Tang
Key symptoms: Shortness of breath on exertion, lower backache, clear urination
Deficiency: Essence
- KI-3 – Tonify Kidney, Yuan-source
- REN-4 – Tonify Kidney
- DU-4 – Tonify Kidney, Moxa
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney, Back-Shu
- KI-6 – Tonify Kidney Yin/Essence
Additional points:
- GB-39 – Marrow Hui point
- UB-11 – Bone Hui point
- KI-13 – Tonify Kidney Essence
- UB-15 – Tonify Heart & Brain
- DU-14 – For Brain Marrow
- DU-16 – For Brain Marrow
- DU-17 – For Brain Marrow
- DU-20 – For Brain Marrow
Formulas: Zuo Gui Wan
Key symptoms: Children: poor bone development; Adult: weak knees, falling hair, weak sexual activity
Deficiency + Excess: Yang Deficiency + Water
- DU-4 – Tonify Life-gate
- KI-7 – Tonify Kidney Yang
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney Yang
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen Yang
- UB-22 – Back-Shu of San Jiao
- SP-6 – Resolve Damp
- SP-9 – Resolve Damp
- REN-9 – Resolve Damp
- ST-28 – Water passage
Water → Heart
Key symptoms: Palpitation
Water → Lung
Key symptoms: Thin-watery-frothy sputum
Formulas: Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan + Wu Ling San
Key symptoms: Edema of ankles, deep-weak pulse, pale swollen tongue
Deficiency + Excess: Yin Deficiency + Empty-Fire
- KI-2 – Clear Empty-Heat
- KI-3 – Tonify Kidney
- KI-6 – Nourish Kidney Yin
- KI-10 – Nourish Kidney Yin
- KI-9 – Kidney Yin, Calm Mind
- SP-6 – Kidney Yin, Calm Mind
- REN-4 – Kidney Yin, Calm Mind
- HT-5 – Conduct Heat down
- LU-7 – Conduct Heat down
- LU-10 – Clear Lung Heat
- HT-6 – Clear Heart Heat
- DU-24 – Calm Mind
- LI-11 – Clear Heat
Formulas: Liu Wei Di Huang Wan + Di Gu Pi, Zhi Mu
Key symptoms: Malar flush, dizziness, tinnitus, feeling of heat in the afternoon, red-peeled tongue
Bladder Patterns
Excess: Damp-Heat
- UB-28 – Bladder Back-Shu
- REN-3 – Bladder Front-Mu
- SP-9 – Resolve Damp
- SP-6 – Resolve Damp
- UB-22 – Water passage, San Jiao Back-Shu
- ST-28 – Resolve Damp, Water passage
Additional points:
Formulas: Ba Zheng San
Key symptoms: Burning on urination, dark urine, difficult urination
Excess: Damp-Cold
- UB-28 – Bladder Back-Shu
- REN-3 – Bladder Front-Mu
- SP-9 – Resolve Damp
- SP-6 – Resolve Damp
- UB-22 – Water passage, San Jiao Back-Shu
- ST-28 – Resolve Damp, Water passage
Additional points:
- REN-9 – Resolve Damp, Water passage
Formulas: Shi Wei San
Key symptoms: Difficult urination, feeling of heaviness, pale turbid urine
Deficiency: Deficient Cold
Additional points:
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney & Bladder, Moxa
- DU-4 – Tonify Kidney & Bladder, Moxa
- REN-4 – Strengthen Yang, Moxa
- REN-6 – Tonify Qi in Lower Burner
- DU-20 – Tonify & lift Qi, For enuresis or incontinence
Formulas: Suo Quan Wan, Sang Piao Xiao Wan, Tu Si Zi Wan
Key symptoms: Frequent pale abundant urination, deep-weak pulse
Combined Patterns
Liver: Liver Invading Spleen
Additional points:
- LIV-13 – For Liver→Spleen
- LIV-3 – Move Liver Qi
- REN-6 – Abdomen
- SJ-6 – Move Liver Qi
- PC-6 – Liver Qi, Mind
- SP-4 – Chong Mai
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- SP-6 – Tonify Spleen
- ST-25 – For Stool
- SP-15 – For Stool
Formulas: Xiao Yao San
Key symptoms: Alternation of constipation and diarrhea, abdominal distension/pain, wiry pulse
Liver: Liver Invading Stomach
Additional points:
- REN-13 – Descend Stomach Qi
- REN-10 – Descend Stomach Qi
- ST-21 – Descend Stomach Qi
- ST-19 – Descend Stomach Qi
- ST-34 – For pain
- UB-21 – For chronic
Formulas: Si Mo Tang, Xuan Fu Dai Zhe Tang, Ju Pi Zhu Ru Tang
Key symptoms: Irritability, hypochondriac pain, rebellious Stomach Qi symptoms
Liver: Liver Fire Insulting Lung
- LIV-2 – Clear Liver Fire
- LIV-3 – Subdue Liver
- LI-11 – Clear Heat
- PC-6 – For chest
- LIV-14 – For chest
- REN-22 – Descend Lung Qi
- REN-17 – Descend Lung Qi
- LU-7 – Descend Lung Qi
Formulas: Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
Key symptoms: Breathlessness, asthma, hypochondriac fullness, headache, wiry pulse
Spleen: Spleen & Lung Qi Deficiency
- ST-36 – Tonify Spleen, Earth Horary
- SP-3 – Tonify Spleen, Earth Horary
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen, Spleen Back-Shu
- UB-21 – Tonify Spleen, Stomach Back-Shu
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen, Stomach Front-Mu
Additional points:
- SP-6 – Tonify Spleen
- REN-6 – Tonify Qi
- LU-7 – Descend Lung
- LU-9 – Tonify Lung
- UB-13 – Tonify Lung
- DU-12 – Chronic
Formulas: Si Jun Zi Tang, Liu Jun Zi Tang
Key symptoms: No appetite, tiredness, breathlessness
Spleen: Spleen Qi & Liver Blood Deficiency
- ST-36 – Tonify Spleen, Earth Horary
- SP-3 – Tonify Spleen, Earth Horary
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen, Spleen Back-Shu
- UB-21 – Tonify Spleen, Stomach Back-Shu
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen, Stomach Front-Mu
Additional points:
- LIV-8 – Tonify Liver
- SP-6 – Tonify Liver
- UB-18 – Tonify Liver
- UB-23 – Tonify Kidney
- REN-4 – Tonify Blood
- UB-17 – Blood Hui
Formulas: Gui Pi Tang
Key symptoms: Loose stools, scanty periods, blurred vision, pale sides of the tongue
Spleen: Spleen Damp + Liver Qi Stagnation
- UB-20 – Tonify Spleen
- REN-12 – Tonify Spleen
- SP-9 – For Damp
- SP-6 – For Damp
- SP-3 – For Damp
- ST-19 – For Damp
- GB-34 – For Liver Qi
- LIV-3 – For Liver Qi
- LIV-13 – For Liver Qi
- LIV-14 – For Liver Qi
- GB-24 – For Liver Qi
Formulas: Ping Wei San + Mu Xiang, Xiang Fu, Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San + Mu Xiang, Xiang Fu, Yi Jia Jian Zheng Qi San
Key symptoms: Fullness of epigastrium, hypochondrial distension, thick sticky yellow tongue coating
Kidney: Kidney & Liver Yin Deficiency
Additional points:
Formulas: Zuo Gui Wan, Qi Ju Di Huang Wan
Key symptoms: Dry eyes, dry throat, night sweating, scanty menses, tongue without coating
Kidney: Kidney & Lung Yin Deficiency
Additional points:
- LU-7 + KI-6 – Nourish Yin
- KI-13 – For Kidney Yin
- UB-43 – For chronic
- LU-9 – Tonify Lung Yin
- LU-1 – Stop cough
Formulas: Ba Xian Chang Shou Wan
Key symptoms: Dry cough, dizziness, tinnitus, night sweating, tongue without coating
Kidney: Kidney & Heart Not Harmonized
Additional points:
- HT-5 – Empty-Heat
- HT-6 – Night sweat
- KI-7 – Night sweat
- UB-15 – Back-Shu
- REN-15 – Calm Mind
- HT-7 – Calm Mind
- KI-9 – Calm Mind
- KI-10 – For Kidney Yin
- Yintang – Mind
- DU-24 – Calm Mind
Formulas: Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan
Key symptoms: Palpitations, dizziness, tinnitus, night sweating, red tongue with redder tip and midline crack and without coating
Kidney: Kidney & Spleen Yang Deficiency
- KI-3 – Tonify Kidney, Yuan-source
Additional points:
- KI-7 – Kidney Yang
- DU-4 – Kidney Yang
- REN-4 – Yang, Moxa
- REN-6 – Yang, Moxa
- UB-23 – Kidney Yang
- UB-52 – Will-power
- Jinggong – Will
- UB-20 – Spleen Yang
- UB-21 – Spleen Yang
- REN-12 – Spleen Yang
- ST-36 – Spleen Yang
- SP-3 – Spleen Yang
- REN-9 – Promote transformation & transportation
- ST-37 – Diarrhea
- ST-25 – Diarrhea
- UB-25 – Diarrhea
Formulas: Li Zhong Wan + Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan
Key symptoms: Lower backache, feeling of cold, loose stools, deep-weak pulse