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Heart Qi Deficiency

Causes:

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  • Loss of fluids such as excessive sweating, vomiting, loss/collapse of blood
  • Chronic illness injures the Qi (blood is the mother of qi)
  • Emotional problems, especially sadness
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Heart Qi Deficiency

Symptoms:

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  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath on exertion
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Pale face
  • Fatigue
  • Listlessness
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Heart Qi Deficiency

Tongue:

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Heart Qi Deficiency

Tongue: pale or normal color, thin white coating (midline crack in severe cases)

Pulse: thready, weak/empty

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Heart Yang Deficiency

Causes:

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• Heart qi deficiency leading to Yang deficiency, or a complication of Kidney Yang

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Heart Yang Deficiency

Symptoms:

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  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath on exertion
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Pale face
  • Fatigue
  • Listlessness
  • Bright-pale face
  • Chest stuffness or discomfort
  • Chilliness and cold extremities (especially hands)
  • Cyanosis of lips
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Heart Yang Deficiency

Tongue:

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Heart Yang Deficiency

Tongue: Pale, wet, swollen

Pulse: Deep, thready, weak, or knotted

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Heart Yang Collapse

Causes:

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• Extreme Heart Yang Deficiency, or collapse of qi, blood, and body fluids

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Heart Yang Collapse

Symptoms:

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  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Weak and shallow breathing
  • Profuse sweating
  • Cyanosis of lips
  • Grayish-pale complexion
  • Stupor
  • Possible loss of consciousness or coma
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Heart Yang Collapse

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Heart Yang Collapse

Tongue: very pale or bluish-purple, short

Pulse: Hidden-Minute-Knotted

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Heart Blood Deficiency

Causes:

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  • Diet
  • Spleen Qi Deficiency
  • Anxiety and worry weakening the heart
  • Blood Loss
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Heart Blood Deficiency

Symptoms:

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  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Insomnia
  • Dream-disturbed Sleep
  • Poor Memory
  • Anxiety
  • Easily Startled
  • Dull-pale or shallow complexion
  • Pale lips
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Heart Blood Deficiency

Tongue:

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Heart Blood Deficiency

Tongue: pale, thin, slightly dry

Pulse: thready or choppy

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Heart Yin Deficiency

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  • Long-term anxiety
  • Worry
  • Busy life damages Yin
  • Exterior heat consuming body fluids
  • Yin deficiency of kidney, lung, spleen, or stomach
  • Spicy fried, fatty food or alcohol
  • Incorrect treatment such as sweating
  • Acrid/warm herbs damaging Yin
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Heart Yin Deficiency

Symptoms:

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  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dream-disturbed sleep
  • Poor memory
  • Anxiety
  • Easily startled
  • Mental Restlessness
  • Fidgeting
  • Low-grade or tidal fever
  • Night sweating
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Five-centre heat
  • Malar flush
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Heart Yin Deficiency

Tongue:

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Heart Yin Deficiency

Tongue: Red tongue with redder tip, no coating, deep midline crack to the tip

Pulse: Thready-rapid, or superficial-deficient

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Heart Fire Blazing

Causes:

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  • Aftermath of febrile disease
  • Hot, acrid, spicy, fried food, or alcohol
  • Excessive warm and tonifying herbs
  • Chronic anxiety
  • Constant worry/depression
  • Qi stagnation
  • Liver fire
  • Anger
  • Resentment
  • Frustration
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Heart Fire Blazing

Symptoms:

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  • Palpitations
  • Thirst
  • Mouth and tongue ulcers
  • Mental restlessness
  • Agitation
  • Feeling of heat
  • Insomnia
  • Dream-disturbing sleep
  • Red face
  • Dark urine
  • Hesitant or painful urination in severe cases
  • Bitter taste
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Heart Fire Blazing

Tongue:

Pulse:

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Heart Fire Blazing

Tongue: Red tip and swollen red points; yellow coating

Pulse: Full (excess), rapid

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Heart Blood Stagnation

Symptoms:

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  • Palpitations
  • Stabbing or pricking chest pain
  • Chest pain radiating to left arm or shoulder
  • Stabbing chest pain which may become worse at night
  • Chest oppression
  • Constriction or discomfort
  • Cyanosis of the lips and nails
  • Cold hands
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Heart Blood Stagnation

Tongue:

Pulse:

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Heart Blood Stagnation

Tongue: Purple, purple sides in chest area

Pulse: Choppy, wiry, knotted

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Phlegm Misting the Mind

Causes:

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  • Constitutional in children
  • Greasy, cold, raw food
  • Combined with several emotional problems such as long-term anxiety
  • Seven emotions causing qi stagnation, causing transformation and transportation problems leading to dampness and transforming into phlegm
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Phlegm Misting the Mind

Symptoms:

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  • Mental confusion, depression or dullness
  • Mental retardation in children
  • Lethargy and stupor
  • Aphasia or incoherent speech
  • Weeping and laughing for no apparent reason, vomiting, rattling sound of sputum in throat, dull eyes unconsciousness, possible collapse into coma
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Phlegm Misting the Mind

Tongue:

Pulse:

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Phlegm Misting the Mind

Tongue: swollen, thick white greasy coating (possible midline crack to the tip)

Pulse: Rolling

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Phlegm-fire Harassing the Heart

Symptoms:

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  • Palpitations
  • Bitter taste
  • Red face
  • Thirst
  • Chest oppression
  • Expectoration of phlegm
  • Rattling sound in the throat
  • Mental restlessness
  • Insomnia
  • Dream-disturbed sleep
  • Incoherent speech
  • Rash behavior
  • Aggressive or violent behavior
  • Mania behavior
  • Uncontrolled laughing or crying
  • Agitation
  • Shouting
  • Mental derangement
  • Muttering to oneself
  • Mental depression and dullness
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Phlegm-fire Harassing the Heart Tongue: Pulse:
Phlegm-fire Harassing the Heart Tongue: red swollen tip and/or body, greasy yellow coating (possibly midline crack tot he tip with prickles) Pulse: Rapid, Surging rolling or full-wiry
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Full-heat in the Small Intestine Causes:
* Emotional problems such as long-term anxiety over one’s like pressures and life direction * Unstoppable desire to take on many projects, and push one’s self in different directions, depleting their energy
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Full-heat in the Small Intestine Symptoms:
* Mental restlessness * Irritability and insomnia * Red face and lips * Tongue and mouth ulcers * Pain in the throat * Thirst * Possibly deafness * Discomfort and heat in the chest * Fullness and distention of the lower abdomen * Scanty, dark urine * Burning pain on urination * Blood in the urine
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Full-heat in the Small Intestine Tongue: Pulse:
Full-heat in the Small Intestine Tongue: red with redder and swollen tip/yellow coating Pulse: rapid-surging, especially in the front position
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Small Intestine Qi Pain Causes:
* Chronic Liver QI stagnation invading the Spleen/Stomach, effecting the Small Intestine * Anger, frustration, resentment * Cold and raw foods
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Small Intestine Qi Pain Symptoms:
* Lower abdominal twisting pain * Abdominal pain * Abdominal distention * Dislikes pressure on the abdomen * Flatulence * Abdominal pain relieved by emission of wind * Pain radiating to the testes * Bearing down pain in the testes, referring to the lower back
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Small Intestine Qi Pain Tongue: Pulse:
Small Intestine Qi Pain Tongue: White Pulse: Deep, Wiry, especially in the rear position
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Small Intestine Qi Tied Causes:
* Exposure to cold water in winter * Heavy lifting * Excessive consumption of cold or raw food
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Small Intestine Qi Tied Symptoms:
* Sudden violent abdominal pain * Abdominal distension * Dislikes pressure * Constipation * Vomiting * Borborygmus * Flatulence
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Small Intestine Qi Tied Tongue: Pulse:
Small Intestine Qi Tied Tongue: Thick White Pulse: Deep, Wiry
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Infestation of Worms in the Small Intestine Causes:
• Spleen and intestine cold as a result of consumption of cold and raw food
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Infestation of Worms in the Small Intestine Symptoms:
* Abdominal pain and distension * Bad taste in the mouth * Shallow complexion * Roundworms – abdominal pain, vomiting os round worms, cold limbs * Hookworms – desire to eat strange objects (soil, wax, uncooked rice or tea leaves) * Pinworms – itchy anus, worse in evening * Tapeworms – constant hunger
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Infestation of Worms in the Small Intestine Tongue: Pulse:
Infestation of Worms in the Small Intestine Tongue: N/A Pulse: N/A
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Small Intestine Deficient and Cold Causes:
• Consumption of excessive cold and raw food, usually associated with Spleen Yang deficiency impairing the Small Intestine function of receiving and transforming, resulting in diarrhea
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Small Intestine Deficient and Cold Symptoms:
* Dull abdominal pain alleviated by pressure * Desire for hot drinks * Borborygmi * Diarrhea * Pale and abundant urination * Cold limbs
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Small Intestine Deficient and Cold Tongue: Pulse:
Small Intestine Deficient and Cold Tongue: Pale/White Pulse: Deep, weak, slow

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