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.)

Menopause, Male

General

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points

Lung And Kidney Yin Deficiency With Phlegm-Dampness

Clinical Manifestations
  • Productive cough with white, difficult-to-expectorate Phlegm
  • The mucus may have a salty taste
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Bloody stools
  • Stuffy chest
  • T: Red
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich and nourish Lung and Kidney Yin
  • Eliminate Dampness
  • Transform Phlegm
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
  • Timidity
  • Indecisiveness
  • Indeterminate gnawing hunger
  • Seizures accompanied by copious sputum
  • 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
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate Qi
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Clear the Gallbladder
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Blood Deficicney With Liver Qi Stagnation

Clinical Manifestations
  • Shen disturbance
  • Depression
  • Restlessness
  • Easily angered
  • Paranoia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Palpitations
  • T: Pale red
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points

Heart Qi And Kidney Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Deafness
  • Blurred vision
  • Whole body itching
  • Lower abdominal distention and pain
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep[ and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Heart and Kidneys
  • Tonify Yang
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver Qi Stagnatiion With Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Flank distention
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Dry mouth
  • T: Dark
  • C: White
  • P: Wiry and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Spread the Liver
  • Regulate Qi
  • Tonify the Spleen
  • Nourish the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver And Kidney Yin With Liver Qi Stagnation

Clinical Manifestations
  • Cardiac pain
  • Flank pain
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • A dry mouth
  • Parched throat
  • Yellow urine
  • Constipation
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Harmonize the Liver and Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yin And Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold limbs
  • Frequent hot flashes with sweating
  • Headache
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Aches in the waist
  • Weakness
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Impotence
  • Alternating Hot and Cold sensations
  • T: Pale or Pink or Pale-pink
  • C: Thin or None
  • P: Deep and thready or Deep and weak or Deep, thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and balance Kidney Yin and Yang
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Jing Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Hearing loss
  • Stiffness of the spine
  • Low back and knees weak and aching
  • Leg pain and weakness
  • Decalcification of teeth
  • Hair loss
  • Graying or whitening of the hair
  • Weak sexual function
  • Atrophy and weakness of the feet with difficulty walking
  • Poor memory
  • Loss of concentration
  • Sexual activity weakened
  • Reproductive ability ceases
  • Senility (premature or mature)
  • Brittle bones
  • Gradual deterioration of the hearing
  • With Yang Deficiency:
    Aversion to Cold
    Edema of the lower limbs
    Incontinence
    Fatigue
    Anorexia
    Soft stools
    Hypersalivation
    Impotence
    Loss of sperm
    Lack of erection
    T: Pale and swollen
    C: White
    P: Deep and weak
  • With Yin Deficiency:
    A flushed face
    Dry mouth, worse in the evening
    Thirst
    Constipation
    Night sweats
    Five Sole Heat
    Excess excitability
    Premature ejaculation
    Nocturnal emissions with dream disturbed sleep
    T: Red
    C: Little or None
    P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
  • Benefit Jing
Herb Formulas
Points

Middle Jiao Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Palpitations
  • Forgetfulness
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • A heavy body
  • Shortness of breath
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin
  • P: Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Middle Jiao
  • Tonify Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

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