Sundance Acupuncture

Herb & Acupuncture Database

(This is my own personal database of teachers, teachings and notes that I use in my practice. I’ve decided to share it freely with anyone who would like to reference it.)

Anxiety

General

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points

Shao Yang With Fluid Accumulation In The Interior

Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Pronounced chills with light fever or
  • Chills without fever
  • Cold extremities
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Headache
  • Thirst
  • Sweating on the head
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Dry cough
  • Tuberculosis
  • Diarrhea
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Loose stools
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • A feeling of fullness and clumping in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Rapid Heart palpitations
  • Dysuria
  • Night sweats
  • Gastric distention
  • T: Moist
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Wiry and tight on the left or Wiry and slow on the right or Thin and rapid or Irregular
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize and release the Shao Yang
  • Disperse clumping
  • Warm the Interior
  • Dispel Cold
  • Dispel water accumulation
  • Clear Heat
  • Moisten the Lungs
  • Astringe sweating
  • Relieve flushing up
Herb Formulas
Points

Shao Yang Fu With Liver Qi Stagnation

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fullness and distention in the chest
  • Irritability
  • Occasional fright palpitations
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Constipation
  • Delirious speech
  • Insomnia
  • Subcardiac distention
  • Palpitations at the abdomen
  • Melancholia
  • Fear
  • Agitation
  • Unsteadiness
  • Tends toward mania and convulsions
  • Tends toward fatigue and clumsiness of limbs
  • Dysuria
  • Excitability
  • Dizziness
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Profuse expectoration of Phlegm
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Palpitations
  • Pale face
  • Oliguria
  • A sensation of extreme heaviness of the body
  • Fatigue
  • Inability to rotate the trunk
  • Difficulty moving the body
  • T: Red
  • C: Slippery
  • P: Wiry and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Shao Yang
  • Sedate and calms the Spirit
  • Regulate Liver Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

Shao Yin Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Fever
  • Cough
  • Nausea/vomiting
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Restlessness
  • Diarrhea
  • Anxiety
  • Edema
  • Lower abdominal distention and pain
  • Maybe hematuria
  • Painful urination with Yin Deficiency
  • Urinary dribbling
  • Decreased urination
  • Dry skin
  • Sunken eyes
  • Fever worse at night
  • T: Red or Dark red and dry
  • C: Yellow, thin or none
  • P: Thready and rapid or forceful and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Promote urination
  • Clear Heat
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points

Summerheat Disturbs The Heart

Clinical Manifestations
  • Anxiety
  • Disturbing dreams
  • Dysuria
  • Insomnia
  • Painful urinary calculus
  • Scanty dark urine
  • Thirst
  • Palpitations
  • Restless sleep
  • T: Red
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Calm the Shen
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Damp
Herb Formulas
Points

Damp-Heat Injures The Spleen

Clinical Manifestations
  • Anxiety
  • Headache
  • Fever (maybe chills)
  • Strong thirst with a desire to drink.
  • Vomits immediately after drinking
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Edema
  • General sensation of heaviness
  • Diarrhea
  • Irritability
  • Simultaneous vomiting and diarrhea
  • Throbbing sensations below umbilicus
  • Vomits frothy saliva
  • Vertigo
  • Abdominal pain and / or distention
  • Dark urine
  • Jaundice
  • Shortness of breath
  • Cough
  • Urinary retention
  • Lower abdominal fullness
  • Extreme thirst
  • Palpitations
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Lower abdominal palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Abdominal pain
  • Restlessness
  • Slightly pale skin tone
  • T: Normal
  • C:Thick, yellow and greasy
  • P: Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Promote urination
  • Drain Dampness
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Clear Damp-Heat
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen Not Governing The Blood

Clinical Manifestations
  • Memory loss
  • Forgetfulness
  • Absent-mindedness
  • Lack of concentration
  • Menorrhagia
  • Palpitations with or without anxiety
  • Insomnia (difficulty falling asleep)
  • Nightmares
  • Reduced appetite
  • Pale, wan complexion
  • Pale lips and nails
  • Early menstruation with copious pale blood
  • Continuous flow with little blood (spotting)
  • Excess perspiration
  • Night sweats
  • Leukorrhea
  • Dizziness (mild and postural, worse with sitting or rising or lying down or when fatigued)
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Blurred vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Low spirits
  • Depression
  • Bruising easily
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Short attention span
  • Anxiety
  • Phobias
  • Panic attacks
  • Fear
  • Low grade fever
  • Withdrawal
  • Fatigue and lethargy
  • Weakness
  • Genital itch
  • Impotence
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Weak abdomen
  • Abdominal distention after eating
  • Premenstrual spotting
  • Dry skin and hair
  • T: Pale, maybe swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak or Thready and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Augment the Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Nourish the Heart
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen Qi And Heart Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Poor memory
  • Panic attacks
  • Anxiety
  • Nervousness
  • Fatigue
  • Low spirits
  • Four limbs tired and lethargic
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Sallow or pale, lusterless complexion
  • Copious, pale menses
  • Uterine bleeding or
  • Light menstrual flow or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Inability to get or maintain an erection
  • Impotence, worse with fatigue
  • Clammy palms
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit the Heart and Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Fire

Clinical Manifestations
  • Ulceration, erosion, and pain of mouth and tongue
  • Thirst with a desire for cold drinks
  • Anxiety
  • Irritability
  • Irascibility
  • Feeling of Heat and disturbance in the Heart
  • Insomnia
  • Flushed face
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • T: Red tip with ulcers especially on the tip
  • P: Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Purge Fire
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points

Phlegm-Fire Disturbs The Heart

Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Insomnia
  • Dream-disturbed sleep with unusual dreams
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Profuse white foamy sputum
  • Restlessness
  • Easily startled
  • Indeterminate gnawing hunger
  • Seizures accompanied by copious sputum
  • Flushing up
  • Chest distention
  • Expectoration of yellow Phlegm
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chills and fever
  • Abdominal distention
  • Frequent dark, scanty urine
  • Irritability
  • Depression
  • Slight thirst
  • Anorexia after serious illness
  • T: Pink or Red tip
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Wiry and rapid or Rolling and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Dispels Heat
  • Clear the Heart
  • Break through Phlegm.
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Yin Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Fatigue
  • Insomnia
  • Very restless sleep
  • Inability to think or concentrate even for short periods
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Forgetfulness
  • Dry stools
  • Mouth sores
  • Tongue sores
  • Low grade afternoon fever
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Night sweats
  • Constipation
  • T: Red
  • C: Little
  • P: Rapid or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich Yin
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Tonify the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Yang Not Vigorous: Water Qi Insults The Heart With Lung And Spleen Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fullness in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Coughing up clear, watery sputum
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo (when standing)
  • Dyspnea
  • Anxiety
  • Tinnitus
  • Difficult urination
  • Mild edema
  • Cold feet
  • Headache
  • Migraine
  • Weak abdomen
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White and slippery or greasy
  • P: Slippery and wiry or soggy or Soft or Deep and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and transform Phlegm and congested Fluids
  • Strengthens the Spleen
  • Resolves Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Yang Not Vigorous: Water Qi Insults The Heart With Kidney Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Dysuria
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Dizziness
  • Muscular twitching
  • Whole body edema
  • Cold body
  • Icy limbs
  • Cold abdomen with watery stools
  • Edema of limbs
  • Cough
  • Pale complexion
  • Lips and nails cyanosed
  • Soreness and aching of the shoulders and back
  • Abdominal pain
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Pale or Purple (Lavender)
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep or Deep and minute
Treatment Principle
  • Support Yang
  • Expel Cold
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Apprehension
  • Constant worry
  • Poor concentration
  • Shortness of breath (especially on exertion)
  • Excessive perspiration (in daytime)
  • Symptoms worse after exertion or when tired
  • Facial pallor
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Weak or Big and weak or Intermittent
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Restores the Pulse
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Qi And Yin Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Apprehension
  • Constant worry
  • Poor concentration
  • Irritability
  • Restless sleep
  • Insomnia
  • Dizziness
  • Emaciation
  • Shortness of breath
  • Constipation
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Numbness
  • Dry cough
  • Cough with little or no sputum
  • Cough with blood streaked sputum
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat due to stress
  • Early menses
  • Restlessness
  • Dry tongue
  • Pale copious menstrual flow
  • Weakness
  • Memory loss
  • Excess dreams
  • Fright
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • Dry, hard stool
  • Coarse skin
  • Dry throat
  • Weakness
  • A skinny appearance
  • A pale complexion
  • T: Pale and shiny or Red
  • C: Thin and white or None
  • P: Knotted or Intermittent or Minute, forceless and Deficient or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Nourish Yin and Blood
  • Restores the Pulse
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
  • Zhi Gan Cao Tang
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Jian Nao Wan
    Bai Zi Yang Xin Wan
    Ding Xin Wan
    Yang Xin Ning Shen Wan
    Bu Nan Wan
    An Shen Bu Xin Wan
Points

Heart Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Easily startled
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face and lips
  • T: Pale
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Heart Blood
  • Calm the Heart and Shen
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Blood Deficiency With Liver Qi Stagnation

Clinical Manifestations
  • Absent-mindedness
  • Frequent feelings of extreme sadness with an urge to cry
  • Inability to control one's emotions
  • Depression
  • Restless sleep
  • May be night sweats
  • Abnormal speech or behavior
  • Disorientation
  • Frequent yawning
  • T: Red
  • C: Scanty
  • P: Small and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Harmonize the Middle Jiao
  • Ease tension
  • Tonify Spleen Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Blood And Spleen Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Memory loss
  • Forgetfulness
  • Absent-mindedness
  • Lack of concentration
  • Menorrhagia
  • Palpitations with or without anxiety
  • Insomnia (difficulty falling asleep)
  • Nightmares
  • Reduced appetite
  • Pale, wan complexion
  • Pale lips and nails
  • Early menstruation with copious pale blood
  • Continuous flow with little blood (spotting)
  • Excess perspiration
  • Night sweats
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Leukorrhea
  • Dizziness (mild and postural, worse with sitting or rising or lying down or when fatigued)
  • Blurred vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Low spirits
  • Depression
  • Bruising easily
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Short attention span
  • Anxiety
  • Phobias
  • Panic attacks
  • Fear
  • Low grade fever
  • Withdrawal
  • Fatigue and lethargy
  • Weakness
  • Genital itch
  • Impotence
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Weak abdomen
  • Abdominal distention after eating
  • Premenstrual spotting
  • Easy bruising
  • Dry skin and hair
  • T: Pale, maybe swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak or Thready and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Nourish the Heart
Herb Formulas
  • Gui Pi Tang
  • Chinese Patent medicines:
    Gui Pi Wan
    Bai Zi Yang Xin Wan
    Ding Xin Wan
    Bu Nao Wan
    Yang Sha Ning Shen Wan
Points

Heart And Liver Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Palpitations
  • Night sweats
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Dry throat and mouth no thirst
  • Fidgeting
  • Insomnia
  • Insomnia due to stress
  • Excessive dreams
  • Lack of energy
  • Weakness and fatigue
  • Weak abdomen
  • Restlessness
  • Sleepiness
  • Light-headedness
  • Impatience
  • T: Pale or Red and dry
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Thready and rapid or Thready and weak or Thready and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Liver Blood
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Clear Heat in Liver and Heart
  • Eliminate irritability
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart And Liver Yin And Blood Deficiency With Liver Yang Rising

Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Restless sleep
  • Occasional palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Dizziness
  • Fright
  • Insomnia
  • Vertigo
  • T: Red or Pale or Pink
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich Yin
  • Nourish the blood
  • Sedate the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Calm the Liver
  • Anchor Yang
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart And Gall Bladder Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent, severe anxiety attacks
  • Apprehension
  • Fearfulness
  • Insomnia or frequent waking, often early in the morning
  • Unable to fall back to sleep
  • Easily frightened or startled
  • Easily unsettled by seeming trivial events
  • Worry
  • Timidity
  • Phobias
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Lethargy
  • Fatigue
  • Depression
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • T: Normal or Pale (chronic or congenital cases may show a deep narrow crack to the tip
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak, thready and rapid or Wiry and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Calm the Shen
  • Alleviate fearfulness
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart And Gall Bladder Qi Deficiency Due To Shock Or Fright

Clinical Manifestations
  • Insomnia or frequent waking, often early in the morning
  • Unable to fall back to sleep
  • Nightmares
  • Waking terrified
  • Easily frightened or startled
  • Easily unsettled by seeming trivial events
  • Apprehension
  • Restlessness
  • Fearfulness
  • Inappropriate worry
  • Timidity
  • Phobias
  • Anxiety (frequent and severe)
  • Frequent panic attacks
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Lethargy
  • Fatigue
  • Depression
  • Postnatal depression
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • T: Normal or Pale (chronic or congenital cases may show a deep narrow crack to the tip
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry and thready or Weak, thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Calm the Shen
  • Alleviate fearfulness
  • Calm the mind
  • Nourish and tranquilize the Heart
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart And Kidney Yin Deficiency With Heart Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Easily startled or frightened
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Palpitations
  • Fatigue
  • Insomnia often waking to anxiety or panic
  • Very restless sleep
  • Nightmares
  • Inability to think or concentrate even for short periods
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Forgetfulness
  • Dry stools
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Mouth sores
  • Tongue sores
  • Low grade afternoon fever
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Dizziness
  • Light-headedness
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Tinnitus
  • Constipation
  • Low back pain
  • T: Red
  • C: Little
  • P: Rapid or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich the Yin
  • Nourish the Blood
  • TonifY the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver Qi Stagnation With Heat In The Blood

Clinical Manifestations
  • Breast distention
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Irritability
  • Short temper
  • Restlessness
  • Fever or tidal fever
  • Red eyes
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Palpitations
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Difficult urination
  • Painful urination
  • Increased menstrual flow
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Early menstruation
  • Aching in limbs
  • Dizziness
  • Mental instability
  • Red face
  • Thirst
  • Turbid urine
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Red cheeks
  • Wheezing
  • Nervousness
  • Headache
  • Red eyes
  • Dry mouth
  • Anorexia
  • Infertility
  • Abdominal pain
  • Spontaneous sweating or night sweats with fever
  • Anxiety
  • Dry eyes
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Anorexia
  • Somnolence
  • Insomnia
  • Aching shoulders
  • Five sole Heat
  • Earache
  • Premenstrual tension
  • Hot flashes
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Depression
  • Restlessness
  • Constipation with flushing up
  • Pale complexion
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Vertigo
  • Abdominal distention near the umbilicus
  • Epistaxis
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Heaviness in the lower abdomen
  • T:Red or Red edges
  • C: Thin and yellow
  • P: Thready, rapid and wiry or Wiry and tight and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Clear Heat
  • Cool the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver Qi Stagnation Phlegm And Qi Stagnant And Blocked

Clinical Manifestations
  • A feeling of obstruction in throat as if a slice of roast meat were stuck there which cannot be coughed up nor swallowed down. This sensation becomes more prominent during emotional upset and subsides when relaxed.
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Women:
    Irregular menses
    Dysmenorrhea
    Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Slippery and wiry (slippery due to Phlegm)
Treatment Principle
  • Spread Qi
  • Resolve Phlegm.
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver Qi Stagnation With Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Headache
  • Vertigo
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Dizziness
  • Frequent sighing
  • Epigastric pain and distention
  • Flatulence
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Breast distention
  • Lassitude
  • Insomnia
  • Shoulder and back pain
  • Rib pain
  • Anxiety
  • Tightness or fullness in the chest
  • Cold extremities
  • Pain in the arms and legs
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Night sweats
  • Bloating and pain at the umbilicus and abdomen
  • Diarrhea alternating with constipation
  • Five sole heat
  • Palpitations
  • Malar flush
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Increased desire to sleep
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin white or yellow
  • P: Wiry and Deficient or Wiry, tight and Deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Clear Stagnation
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver Yin Deficiency With Empty Fire Disturbing The Heart

Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Palpitations
  • Night sweats
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Dry throat and mouth no thirst
  • Fidgeting
  • Insomnia
  • Insomnia due to stress
  • Excessive dreams
  • Lack of energy
  • Weakness and fatigue
  • Weak abdomen
  • Restlessness
  • Sleepiness
  • Light-headedness
  • Impatience
  • T: Pale or Red and dry
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Thready and rapid or Thready and weak or Thready and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Nourish Liver Yin
  • Calm the Shen
  • Clear Heat in Liver and Heart
  • Eliminate irritability
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver Blood Deficiency With Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Muscle spasms
  • Feverishness
  • Bruxism
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Fever and chills
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Spitting of sputum or saliva
  • Abdominal distention
  • Reduced appetite
  • Restless sleep
  • Nervousness
  • Rigidity and pain of the neck and head
  • Opisthotonos
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Vertigo
  • Dizziness
  • Hemiplegia
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Clenching or grinding of teeth
  • Easily frightened
  • Restlessness
Treatment Principle
  • Calm the Liver
  • Regulate the Liver Qi and Blood
  • Dispel Heat
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver And Kidney Yin Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Facial complexion pale and sallow
  • Both cheeks slightly red
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Blurred vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Numbness of limbs
  • Flaccid paralysis (Wei syndrome), weakness
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Low back and knees sore and painful
  • Throat dry and painful
  • Five sole Heat
  • Low-grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Stools difficult to pass
  • Constipation
  • Men:
    Spermatorrhea
  • Women:
    Irregular menses or
    Scanty menses or
    Amenorrhea
    Vaginal discharge
  • T: Red
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and Reinforce the Liver and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points

Gall Bladder Deficiency Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Agitation
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Indecision
  • Suspiciousness
  • Palpitations with anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Frequent sighing
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • T: Pink
  • C: Yellow and greasy or Thin and white
  • P: Slippery and wiry or Thready and wiry- maybe rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Descend Contravecting Qi
  • Harmonize the Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yang Deficiency: Kidney Qi Not Consolidated

Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic spermatorrhea
  • Impotence
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Sore, weak limbs
  • Low back pain
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Enuresis
  • Insomnia
  • Leukorrhea
  • Lack of energy
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Night sweats
  • Anxiety due to stress
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Frequent urination
  • Midline pain
  • Tinnitus
  • Loss of muscle strength
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Astringe
  • Consolidates and Stabilizes the Kidneys to build up Jing
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yin Deficiency With Heart Fire Flaring

Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Anxiety
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of the low back
  • Spermatorrhea or
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Aching in the bones
  • Aching in the leg and heel
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Low grade fever in the afternoon
  • Dry throat, maybe recurrent sore throat
  • Dry stools and/or
  • Constipation
  • Urine short and red
  • Heightened libido
  • Insomnia
  • Frequent dreams
  • Palpitations
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Subdue Fire
Herb Formulas
Points

Yin And Blood Deiciency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Tidal fever in the afternoon or at night
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Bone steaming
  • Amenorrhea with gradual onset
  • Soreness of the lower back
  • Abdominal pain
  • Emaciation
  • Achy and uncomfortable flesh and bones of the hands and feet
  • Anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Palpitations
  • Night sweats
  • Dizziness
  • Light headedness
  • General disquietude
  • Gradually worsening afternoon fevers
  • T: Red
  • C: Scanty
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Qi And Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Anxiety
  • Facial pallor
  • Shortness of breath
  • General weakness
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Blurred vision
  • Palpitations
  • T: Pale, flabby and scalloped
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Qi , Blood And Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Anemia
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Cold extremities
  • Pale or sallow face
  • Dizziness
  • General fatigue
  • Coarse skin
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Weak knees
  • Fatigue
  • Dyspnea
  • Night sweats
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Insomnia
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Decreased eyesight after a prolonged illness
  • Anxiety
  • Intermittent fever
  • Jaundice
  • Deficient cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • Palpitations
  • Anorexia
  • Listlessness
  • Lassitude
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Continuous spotting
  • Leukorrhea
  • Weak legs and knees
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Replenish Yang
  • Warm and tonify Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Dampness Retention

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Mucoid sputum
  • Chest fullness
  • Epigastric distention
  • Lassitude
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Rolling
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points

Phlegm-Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Anxiety
  • Nervousness
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Insomnia with waking in the early hours
  • Unable to fall back to sleep
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Cough with sticky, yellow, difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Rapid breathing with a harsh voice
  • Restless fever
  • Sore throat
  • Constipation
  • Dry stools
  • Mania
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Indeterminate gnawing hunger
  • Anorexia
  • Belching
  • Acid reflux
  • Abdominal distention
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chest and/or epigastric fullness
  • Pain in the ribs
  • T: Scarlet
  • C: Yellow or Yellow and greasy or Yellow and smooth
  • P: Rapid and smooth or Slippery and rapid or Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points

Essential Oils

Oils whose functions, indications or applications include this condition. Open an oil to see how it is used.

From Class

  • Fear vs rumination vs heart shock: Differentiate the stress response — fear (kidney), ruminating worry (spleen), heart shock — treatment differs; exercise discharges stress like animals shaking it off. (Resnick)
  • German Medical Acupuncture Assoc. palliative protocol (JAMS 2017): Palliative protocol for anxiety, depression, dyspnea, pruritus, hypersalivation and xerostomia; at the bedside start with core points only rather than 10-12 needles. (Lewis)

For educational reference only; not a substitute for care from a qualified practitioner.