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.)

Cor Pulmonare, Pulmonary Heart Disease

General

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points

Wind-Cold Attacks The Lungs (Severe)

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fever and chills (chills predominant)
  • Anhidrosis
  • Cough
  • Wheezing (asthma)
  • Copious, white, stringy, difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Lacrimation
  • General heaviness (especially upper body)
  • General body aches
  • No thirst
  • Floating edema (severe)
  • Considerable difficulty breathing while lying down (severe)
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Periorbital edema
  • Dyspnea
  • Vomiting of frothy saliva during pregnancy
  • Chest distention
  • Dry heaves
  • Decreased urine
  • Subcardiac edema
  • Stridor
  • Occasional chills on the back
  • Hiccups
  • Retching
  • Dysphagia
  • Diarrhea
  • Dysuria
  • Flushed face
  • Dizziness
  • Headache
  • Inflammation of the tear ducts
  • T: Pink
  • C: Moist or White and greasy
  • P: Superficial and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Release the Exterior
  • Transform congested Fluids (Thin Mucus)
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Warm the Lungs
  • Descend Qi
  • Relieve wheezing and cough
Herb Formulas
Points

Wind-Cold-Damp- Bi

Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Stuffy nose
  • Neck and back spasms
  • Joint pain
  • Headache
  • Anhidrosis
  • Muscular pain
  • Joint swelling
  • Slight fever
  • Slight expectoration of white Phlegm
  • Heaviness of the body and joints
  • Cold feeling in the joints
  • Cough
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Preference of the joints for warmth
  • Limited movement of the joints
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thin and white or Thin, white and greasy
  • P: Superficial and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the channels
  • Activate Qi and Blood.
Herb Formulas
Points

Lung Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Soft, weak cough with clear thin sputum
  • Physical and mental exhaustion
  • Soft, weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Shortness of breath
  • Pale face
  • With Wei Qi Deficiency:
    Spontaneous perspiration (daytime)
    Low resistance to common cold
    Tendency to a blocked nose
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Lungs
  • Strengthen Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

Lung Qi And Yin Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic cough or
  • Dry cough
  • Insomnia
  • Night sweats
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Weakness
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Fever
  • Irritability
  • T: Red and dry or Red and swollen
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points

Lung And Kidney Qi Deficiency With Phlegm-Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic cough
  • Wheezing
  • Thick, yellow sputum
  • Sensation of Heat and irritability in the chest
  • Gradual emaciation
  • Facial edema
  • Chronic Lung atrophy
  • Coughing of pus and Blood
  • Dyspnea
  • T: Purple
  • C: Thin and white or Thin, yellow and greasy
  • P: Superficial and Deficient especially in the first position
Treatment Principle
  • TonifY Qi
  • Replenish Jing
  • Strengthen the Kidneys
  • Clear the Lungs
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Stop cough
  • Arrest wheezing
Herb Formulas
Points

Lung And Kidney Yin Deficiency With Fire Flaring

Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with blood streaked sputum
  • Wheezing
  • Dry, sore throat
  • Five sole Heat
  • Afternoon fever
  • Low grade fever
  • Malar flush
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Shortness of breath
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Steaming bones
  • Vivid dreaming
  • Fatigue
  • Tinnitus
  • Dizziness
  • Dyspnea
  • Dysphoria
  • Hoarseness
  • Night sweats
  • Maybe hemoptysis
  • Restlessness
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moisten the Lungs
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Stop Cough
  • Clear Heat
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • 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
  • Reinforce and Strengthen Heart Qi
Herb Formulas
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 Stagnation

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Stabbing pain in the anterior region over the Heart
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Maybe drawing pain down the internal aspect of arm (especially the left arm)
  • Pain (in chest and/or arm) tends to be severe and intermittent
  • Severe cases:
    Cold limbs
    Cyanosis of lips and nails
  • T: Dark red with purple spots or Purple body
  • C: Little
  • P: Minute (scarcely perceptible) and thready or Knotted
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Transform Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Blood Stagnation With Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Stabbing pain in the anterior region over the Heart
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Maybe drawing pain down internal aspect of arm (especially the left arm)
  • Pain (in the chest and/or arm) tends to be severe and intermittent
  • Palpitations
  • Easily startled
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Fever
  • Perspiration
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • T: Dark red with purple spots or Purple body or Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Hasty or Choppy and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Break up Blood Stasis
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Yin And Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Excessive perspiration (daytime)
  • Above symptoms worse after exertion or when tired
  • Cold limbs
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Maybe chills
  • Cyanosis
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Depression
  • Facial pallor
  • Irritability
  • Easily startled
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Poor memory
  • Low grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Five sole Heat
  • Restlessness
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • Malar flush
  • T: Pale and swollen or Reddish and dry
  • C: White or Little or None
  • P: Thready and weak or Knotted or Intermittent or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Clear Heart Yang
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Reinforce the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Yin And Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Yang Not Vigorous: Water Qi Insults The Heart

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Cardiac arrhythmia
  • Chest and abdominal fullness
  • Vertigo
  • Scanty urine
  • Edema
  • Inability to lie down
  • There may be audible fluid sounds in the abdomen when palpitating
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Slippery and maybe deep
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Transform Fluid
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart And Lung Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic cough with sparse sputum
  • Sputum difficult to expectorate
  • Shortness of breath
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Dry mouth and tongue
  • Palpitations with a stifling sensation in chest
  • Fatigue
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • Insomnia
  • Listless speech
  • T: Red and dry or Pink and dry
  • C: Thin and dry
  • P: Deficient and rapid or Irregular and slow or Thready and deficient or Consistently irregular
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Generate Fluids
  • Clear Heat
  • Preserve Yin
  • Stop Excess perspiration
Herb Formulas
Points

Qi Stagnation In The Liver Channel Affecting The Lungs

Clinical Manifestations
  • A sensation of fullness, distention and pain in the chest which is improved with massage
  • Cough
  • Prefers warm drinks
  • P: Wiry and large
Treatment Principle
  • Unblock Yang
  • Expand the chest
  • Dredge Stasis
  • Transform clumps
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic wheezing
  • Inhalation more difficult than exhalation
  • Worse with exertion, fatigue or Cold
  • Lumbago: low back feels cold, weak and aching
  • Feeling chilled
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold limbs
  • General debility
  • Pale or cyanotic face
  • Dark rings under the eyes
  • Facial puffiness
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Frequent colds
  • Urinary frequency with abundant, clear urine or
  • Oliguria with pitting edema
  • Maybe nocturia
  • Lethargy
  • Listlessness
  • Withdrawn, subdued behavior
  • Knees feel cold and aching
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Impotence
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Low libido
  • Female infertility ("uterus cold and infertile")
  • Maybe anorexia
  • Maybe loose stools
  • Maybe chronic diarrhea or "cock crow" diarrhea
  • T: Pale and swollen or Pueplish/bluish
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and thready - maybe slow or Imperceptible or Large, deficient and rootless
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce Kidney Yang
  • Support Wei Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

Phlegm-Heat Stagnation In The Chest

Clinical Manifestations
  • Focal distention in the chest and epigastrium with or without nodules which is painful when pressed
  • Coughing up yellow, viscous sputum
  • Constipation
  • A bitter taste in the mouth
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and floating or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Expand the chest
  • Dissipate Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points

Han Tan

Clinical Manifestations
  • Cough with sputum
  • Cough
  • Wheezing
  • Copious sputum
  • Chest distention
  • Anorexia
  • Indigestion
  • Hiccup
  • Shortness of breath
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy, white
  • P: Slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Cold
  • Descend Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

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