Liver Syndromes Symptoms Flashcards

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Liver Blood Deficiency (deficient condition)

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Postural dizziness,

numbness tingling limbs, cramps

scanty periods or amenorrhea,

blurred vision, floaters, poor night vision

Dull pale complexion, dry hair and skin, withered and brittle nails

Muscle weakness

Insomnia - waking in night (frequent)

feeling low/aimless

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Liv Yin xu (deficient condition)

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Insomnia

Dry eyes

restless/irritable

Very dry hair and skin, dull pale complexion

Malar flush - feeling of heat in the PM 5 palm heat, night sweats. thirst with desire to drink small sips

Muscle weakness

Aimlessness, depression

scanty periods or anemorrhoea (or heavy if lots of heat

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Liver Yang Rising (mixed condition)

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Temporal headaches

irritable, outbursts of anger, feeling worked up

dizziness

tinnitus

deafness

Blurred vision

dry mouth/throat

stiff neck

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Liver Qi Stagnation (excess condition)

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Moody, PMT, irritable

melancholy, depression, anger without cause, wound up

Distention in hypochondrium, chest or abdo

Frequent sighing

Nausea/vomiting

epigastric pain

poor appetite, sour regurgitation, belching, feeling of pulsation in epigastrium

Stomach churning, abdo distention, flatulence, diarrhoea

Plum stone throat

Pre mentrual breast distention

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Liv Bl Stag (excess condition)

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Painful periods

dark and clotted menstrual blood

hypochondrial or abdo pain

Haematemesis (vomiting blood)

Nose bleeds

irregular periods

fibroids

purple petechiae

purple nails

purple lips

purple or dark complexion

dry skin (if severe)

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Liver fire Blazing upwards

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Irritability, outburst of anger,

dream disturbed sleep

red face and eyes

tinnitus

deafbess

temporal headaches

dizziness

thirst

bitter taste

Constipation, dry stools

dark yellow urine

epistasis (nose bleeds)

haematemesis (rare- vomiting blood) haemoptysis (coughing up blood)

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Liver Wind - Liver Blood xu causing wind agitating within
Full condition

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Mild tremor of limbs, facial tic, numbness, shaking of head

Insomnia,

scanty periods or amenorrhea

floaters or blurred vision
diminished night vision

dull pale complexion
Pale lips, dry hair

Muscular weakness
cramps

withered and brittle nails

aimlessness
feeling low

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Liver Wind - Extreme heat generating Liver Wind (unlikely to see this) Excess condition

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High temp

convulsions

rigidity of the neck

tremor of limbs

opisthotonos - (Opisthotonos is a condition in which a person holds their body in an abnormal position. The person is usually rigid and arches their back, with their head thrown backward. If a person with opisthotonos lies on their back, only the back of their head and heels touch the surface they are on)

Coma (in severe cases)

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Liver Yang Rising generating Wind (Strokes, epilepsy) (excess condition)

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Headache

Hypertension

Severe dizziness

Sudden unconsciousness

convulsions

Deviation of the eye and mouth

hemiplegia

aphasia

severe tremor

Dry throat, eyes, blurred vision,

numbness

tingling of limbs

facial tic

tinnitus

scanty urine

night sweating

insomnia

poor memory

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Damp heat in the Liver and Gallbladder (excess condition)

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Nausea

Feeling of fullness and heaviness in the chest, abdo and hypochondrium,

vag discharge and itching

Jaundice

Bitter or sticky taste

loss of appetite

pain

redness and swelling in scrotum

difficulty passing urine, dark urine, pain and burning

papular or vesticular (fluid filled blisters) rashes

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Stagnation of cold in the Liver channel (rare) Excess condition

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Fullness and distention of the hypogastrium with pain that refers to the scrotum and testes and upwards to the hypochondrium, pain alleviated by warmth

Straining of the testes or contraction of the scrotum

Vertex headache

Feeling of cold, cold hab=nd =s and feet

vomiting of clear watery fluid or dry vomiting

In women there may be shrinking of the vagina

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