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.)

Habitual Miscarriage

General

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points

Shao Yang Fu With Congested Fluids

Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever (chills predominate) or
  • Chills without fever
  • Sensation of irritability in the chest
  • Sweating from the head
  • Fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Heavy head
  • Neuralgia
  • Epigastric distension
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Tension around pubic bone
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Urinary difficulty
  • T: Moist
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Superficial and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Clumping
  • Harmonize the Shao Yang
  • Warm the Interior
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Habitual miscarriage
  • Pale-red to normal Blood color
  • Thin and watery Blood with clots
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Sallow complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • May be much Blood due to Spleen Not Governing Blood
  • May be little Blood due to Spleen Qi Sinking
  • The Blood is pale-red in color and watery
  • An empty feeling in the lower abdomen
  • Spleen Not Governing Blood:
    Shortness of breath
    Dizziness
    Palpitations
    Functional Uterine Bleeding
    Purpura
    Epistaxis
    Hemafecia
    Hematuria
    Menorrhagia
    Metrorrhagia
  • Spleen Qi Sinking:
    Prolapse of one or more organs
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even, forceless and deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Middle Jiao Qi
  • Keep the Blood in the Chong and Ren channels
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen Not Governing The Blood

Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal pain
  • Uterine bleeding (metrorrhagia)
  • Excessive menstruation
  • Menstruation with constant spotting
  • Postpartum bleeding
  • Bleeding during pregnancy
  • The Blood is pale and thin without clots
  • Weakness
  • Sore lower back
  • Post abortion bleeding
  • Dull complexion
  • Weakness and pain of the legs
  • Light red, unelevated and indistinct eruptions
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white or Whitish and moist
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and warm the Blood
  • Stop bleeding
  • Regulate menstruation
  • Calm the fetus
  • Prevent miscarriage
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen And Kidney Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Continuous cramping pain in the abdomen
  • Pain not severe
  • Pain relieved by pressure
  • Edema of the feet
  • Urinary difficulty
  • Slight edema (primarily of the lower limbs)
  • Symptoms generally occur during pregnancy
  • Pale face
  • Fatigue
  • Heaviness of head
  • Lassitude
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Lumbago
  • Palpitations
  • Cold feet
  • Vertigo
  • Weakness and numbness of lower back and legs during pregnancy or postpartum
  • Thirst with no desire to drink
  • Malposition of the fetus
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Right upper quadrant pain
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Hepatomegaly
  • T: Pale or pink maybe petechiae on the edges
  • C: Thin or Greasy white
  • P: Deep and weak or Soft, floating, small and slow or Wiry and small or Wiry and rough
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yin Deficiency With Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Continuous menstruation or
  • Uterine bleeding that alternates between spotting and gushing
  • The Blood is very red, thick and sticky and may contain dark-purple clots
  • A sensation of Heat and irritability in the chest
  • Menstruation may be delayed
  • Dry mouth
  • Leukorrhea
  • Dysuria
  • Abdominal pain
  • Dark urine
  • Red urine
  • Red face
  • Difficulty defecating
  • T: Red
  • C: Normal or Yellow
  • P: Wiry or Wiry and rapid or Tight and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Clear Deficiency Heat
  • Stop bleeding
  • Stabilize the Menses
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Lumbago: low back feels cold, weak and aching
  • Feeling chilled
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold limbs
  • General debility
  • Pale face
  • Urinary frequency with abundant, clear urine or
  • Oliguria with edema
  • Maybe nocturia
  • Lassitude
  • 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
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and thready - maybe slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce Kidney Yang
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yin And Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Lower back soreness and distention
  • A sensation of collapse in the lower abdomen
  • Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Weak legs
  • Frequent urination to the point of incontinence
  • T: Pale
  • C: Slippery and white
  • P: Deep and frail at the rear position
Treatment Principle
  • Stabilize the Kidneys
  • Calm the fetus
Herb Formulas
Points

Qi And Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Miscarriage after several months or premature delivery
  • Lassitude
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Anorexia
  • Loose stools
  • Weak limbs
  • Abdominal distention
  • Lumbar soreness
  • Frequent, clear urine
  • Clear, watery vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak in the Qi position
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • A history of miscarriage or threatened miscarriage
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Restless fetus
  • General weakness
  • Light red Blood
  • Constant lower abdominal pain
  • Insomnia
  • A pale or sallow complexion
  • Lassitude
  • Palpitations
  • Ptosis of the viscera
  • Dizziness
  • T: Pale
  • C: Slippery or Thin and white
  • P: Slippery and forceless or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Blood Deficiency With Blood Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Repeated miscarriage
  • Facial flushing
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Dry stool
  • Lumbar soreness
  • P: Large and empty, especially in the Qi position.
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Tonify Deficiency
Herb Formulas
Points

Blood Stagnation

Clinical Manifestations
  • Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion
  • Unchecked bleeding or
  • Continuous spotting afterward
  • Abdominal pain which is worse with pressure
  • Slightly grayish gums
  • Pain
  • Masses or tumors
  • Hemorrhage
  • Echymosis
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Eliminate Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points

Lower Jiao Blood Stagnation With Heat

Clinical Manifestations
  • Acute lower abdominal pain
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Night fevers
  • Delirious speech
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst
  • May be mania (severe)
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Amenorrhea
  • Hard stool
  • Dark red complexion
  • Headache
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Insomnia
  • Palpitations
  • Constipation
  • Frequent urination
  • Emotional instability
  • Chills in the waist and feet
  • Tremors
  • Excruciating abdominal pain with cold
  • Black stool
  • May be chills and fever
  • Hemoptysis
  • Hematuria
  • Red eyes
  • Pain and distention of the head
  • Toothache
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Lochioschesis
  • Severe wheezing
  • Distention of the chest
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Deep and forceful or Choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Heat
  • Break up Blood Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points

Blood Stagnation Due To Coagulated Blood

Clinical Manifestations
  • Scanty or no lochia after miscarriage or spontaneous abortion
  • Distending pain in the lower abdomen which is worse with pressure
  • T: Greenish
  • P: Deep and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Eliminate Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points

Deficiency Cold Of The Chong And Ren Channels

Clinical Manifestations
  • Habitual miscarriage
  • Afternoon fever
  • Five sole heat
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Cold abdominal pain
  • Infertility
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Chronic pelvic inflammation
  • Menopause
Treatment Principle
  • Warms the vessels
  • Comforts the Womb
  • Nourishes and invigorates the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Injury To The Chong And Ren

Clinical Manifestations
  • Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion
  • Heavy Blood loss
  • Fainting spells
  • Unchecked dribbling of Blood (serious)
  • Low back pain
  • Weakness of the limbs
  • Abdominal pain which is better with pressure
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin
  • P: Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

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