FORGETFULNESS - POOR MEMORY - AMNESIA - MEMORY LOSS- ABSENT MINDEDNESS

Clinical Manifestations
  • High fever worse at night
  • Thirst
  • Insomnia
  • Major mental problems
  • Dramatic change of personality
  • Delirium
  • Speech difficulty
  • Aphasia
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Maybe fainting
  • Maybe coma
  • Feverish extremities
  • T: Deep red
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat in Pericardium
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Slow movement
  • A torpid, dull affect
  • Relatively scanty speech
  • Severe: aphasia
  • Difficulty thinking
  • Chaotic speech
  • Decreased memory
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Loss of mental and physical sharpness and coordination
  • T: Pale and dark maybe with Stasis maculae
  • C: White and slimy
  • P: Slippery or Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Kidneys
  • Tonify the Spleen
  • Dispel Phlegm
  • Activate the Blood
  • Transform Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Disturbed consciousness
  • Loss of memory
  • Stares at people
  • Cannot recognize people
  • Talks to themselves
  • Dazed
  • Abnormal behavior
  • Seizures
  • T: Normal
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Drive out Phlegm
  • Open the Heart Orifices
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Dysuria
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Dizziness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Muscular twitching
  • Whole body edema
  • Cold body
  • Icy limbs
  • Cold abdomen with watery stools
  • Edema of limbs
  • Cough
  • Pale complexion
  • Lips and nails cyanosed
  • Soreness and aching of the shoulders and back
  • Abdominal pain
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Pale or Purple (Lavender)
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep or Deep and minute
Treatment Principle
  • Support Yang
  • Expel Cold
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • 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: Red, dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Clear Heat
  • Reinforce Heart
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
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
  • Anxiety
  • Apprehensiveness
  • Worry
  • Distress
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Forgetfulness
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white or Little or None
  • P: Weak or Big and weak or Intermittent
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Strengthen Heart Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
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
Clinical Manifestations
  • Poor memory
  • Forgetfulness
  • Absent mindedness
  • A short attention span
  • Inability to concentrate
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia with difficulty falling asleep
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Anxiety
  • Agitation
  • Phobias
  • Panic attacks
  • Postural dizziness
  • Dull complexion
  • Blurred vision
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
  • Four limbs tired and lethargic
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen after eating
  • Loose stools
  • Sallow complexion
  • Bruising easily
  • Copious, pale menses or
  • Uterine bleeding or
  • Light menstrual flow or
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit the Heart and Spleen
  • Tonify Qi
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Forgetfulness
  • Eye dizziness
  • Both eyes dry and rough
  • Twitching of the eyes
  • Pain in the ribs and flanks
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Stiffness and spasms of the tendons
  • Low grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Irregular, scanty menses
  • T: Pale and thin
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready, choppy and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reinforce the Blood
  • Conceal Yang
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Apprehension
  • Constant worry
  • Poor concentration
  • Timidity
  • Shyness
  • Easily startled
  • Nervousness
  • Irritability
  • Restless sleep
  • Insomnia
  • Inability to get or maintain an erection
  • Dizziness
  • Emaciation
  • Shortness of breath
  • Constipation
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Numbness
  • Dry cough
  • Cough with little or no sputum
  • Cough with blood streaked sputum
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat due to stress
  • Early menses
  • Restlessness
  • Dry tongue
  • Pale copious menstrual flow
  • Weakness
  • Memory loss
  • Excess dreams
  • Fright
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • Dry, hard stool
  • Coarse skin
  • Dry throat
  • Weakness
  • A skinny appearance
  • A pale complexion
  • T: Pale and shiny or Red
  • C: Thin and white or None or Thin and greasy
  • P: Knotted or Intermittent or Minute, forceless and Deficient or Thready and rapid or Wiry and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Restores the Pulse
  • Calm the Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent urination
  • Cloudy urine that resembles rice-water
  • Seminal emissions
  • Enuresis
  • Disorientation
  • Constipation
  • Forgetfulness
  • Anorexia
  • T: Pale or Light pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thin, slow and frail or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Regulate and tonify the Heart and Kidneys
  • Stabilize Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Poor memory
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Spermatorrhea with erotic dreams
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Irritability
  • Irritation
  • Easily startled
  • Restlessness
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back soreness
  • Legs weak
  • Afternoon tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Red cheeks
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Urine short and red
  • Serious cases:
    Nocturnal emission with dreams
    Impotence
    Premature ejaculation
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reduce Fire
  • Make Heart and Kidney communicate
  • Calm She Shen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Impaired vision
  • Night blindness
  • Tinnitus
  • Irascibility
  • Throbbing headache with distended feeling
  • Flushed face
  • Blurred vision
  • Red, dry eyes with feeling of grit in eye
  • Dry mouth and throat with bitter taste in mouth
  • Palpitations
  • Headache
  • Nervousness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Dry throat
  • Thirst
  • Five Sole Heat (palms, soles and center of chest)
  • Night sweats
  • Light or late menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and wiry or Wiry and rapid (when Yang is Rising and Excess, pulse is forceful) or Thready and rapid when Yang is not prominent
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Pacify the Liver
  • Subdue Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Facial complexion pale and sallow
  • Both cheeks slightly red
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Blurred vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Numbness of limbs
  • Flaccid paralysis (Wei syndrome), weakness
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Low back and knees sore and painful
  • Throat dry and painful
  • Five sole Heat
  • Low-grade fever
  • Night sweats
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Stools difficult to pass
  • Constipation
  • Men:
    Spermatorrhea
  • Women:
    Irregular menses or
    Scanty menses or
    Amenorrhea
    Vaginal discharge
  • T: Red
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and Reinforce the Liver and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Poor memory
  • Mental and physical fatigue
  • 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, worse with exertion
  • Tinnitus
  • Loss of hearing
  • Impotence
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Low libido
  • Fluid retention
  • 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
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mild dizziness which is worse with sex, overexertion and late nights
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Forgetfulness
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of low back
  • Spermatorrhea or premature ejaculation
  • Low grade fever or
  • Afternoon fevers
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Fatigue
  • Insomnia
  • Tendency toward constipation
  • Malar or facial flushing
  • Aching in bones
  • Aching in leg and heel
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
  • Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
  • Zuo Gui Wan  modified
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Liu Wei Di Huang Wan

    He Che Da Zao Wan
    With Deficient Heat: Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
    With tinnitus: Er Ming Zuo Ci Wan
    With visual disturbances: Ming Mu Di Huang Wan
    With Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency: Qi Ju Di Huang Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of the low back
  • Spermatorrhea or
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Aching in the bones
  • Aching in the leg and heel
  • Dry mouth
  • Thirst
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Low grade fever in the afternoon
  • Dry throat, maybe recurrent sore throat
  • Dry stools and/or
  • Constipation
  • Urine short and red
  • Heightened libido
  • If Heart Fire also Flares:
    Insomnia
    Frequent dreams
    Palpitations
  • If Liver Yang also Rises:
    Dizziness
    Blurred vision
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Subdue Fire
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Loss of hearing
  • Loss of visual acuity
  • Low back and knees weak and aching
  • Severe:
    Loss of recognition of close relatives and friends
    Forgetting events instantly
  • Hair loss
  • Graying or whitening of the hair
  • Weakness
  • Emaciation
  • Weak sexual function
  • Impotence
  • Infertility
  • Atrophy and weakness of the feet with difficulty walking
  • Senility (premature or mature)
  • Brittle bones
  • Gradual deterioration of the hearing
  • Frequent urination
  • Nocturia
  • In children:
    Retardation in mental and/or physical development
    Failure to thrive
    Late or incomplete closing of the fontanel
    Poor bone development
    Brittle bones
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
  • Benefit Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Memory loss
  • Palpitations
  • Frequent dreams
  • Dizziness
  • Dry mouth
  • Weakness
  • Stiff and painful low back and knees
  • A slightly wild look
  • Gets cold easily
  • Profuse, clear urination
  • Diminished hearing
  • Decreased libido
  • T: Pale and soft with a red tip
  • C: Thin and white or None
  • P: Thready, weak and sinking
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Kidney Yin
  • Tonify Kidney Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lassitude
  • Fatigue
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Palpitations
  • Emaciation
  • Lack of strength
  • Dry, rough eyes
  • Possible distended feeling in eyes
  • A pale, lusterless face
  • Possible malar flush
  • Restless
  • Insomnia
  • Poor memory
  • Scanty, yellow urination or
  • Profuse, clear urination
  • Dry, parched throat
  • Tasteless feeling in the mouth
  • Low back and knee soreness and
  • Weakness
  • Low grade fever
  • Five sole heat
  • Possible sweating
  • Possible tremors of the hands and tongue
  • Scanty intake
  • Abdominal distention after meal
  • Loose stools
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin or Peeled
  • P: Empty and rapid or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Spleen
  • Augment Qi
  • Supplement the Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness that is usually mild and postural and worse with fatigue
  • Fatigue
  • Lethargy
  • Low spirits
  • Depression
  • Loose stools
  • Poor appetite
  • Anorexia
  • Weight loss
  • Pale face
  • Weakness
  • Weariness
  • General debility
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Coughing
  • Shortness of breath
  • Loose stools
  • Timidity
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Phobias
  • Panic attacks
  • Blurred vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Pale face, lips and nails
  • Scanty periods or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Turbid urine
  • Bruises easily
  • Maybe nocturnal emissions
  • T: Pale or Pale, thin and dry
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak or Thin and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Scanty periods
  • Chills
  • Cold limbs
  • Inability to get warm
  • Loose stools
  • Profuse clear urine
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Lassitude
  • T: Pale
  • C: White or Thin, white and dry
  • P: Slow, deep and weak or Empty or Thready and rapid or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lassitude
  • Fatigue
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Palpitations
  • Emaciation
  • Lack of strength
  • Dry, rough eyes
  • Possible distended feeling in eyes
  • A pale, lusterless face
  • Possible malar flush
  • Restless
  • Insomnia
  • Poor memory
  • Dry, parched throat
  • Tasteless feeling in the mouth
  • Low back and knee soreness and weakness
  • Low grade fever
  • Five Sole heat
  • Possible sweating
  • Possible tremors of the hands and tongue
  • Scanty intake
  • Abdominal distention after meal
  • Loose stools
  • T: Red
  • C: Thin or Peeled
  • P: Empty and rapid or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Promote urination
  • Activate the Blood
  • Dispel Blood Stasis
  • Nourish Yin
  • Generate fluids
  • Clear Heat
  • Drain Kidney Fire
  • Cool the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Poor memory
  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Chronic, prolonged vertex headache
  • Heaviness or tightness in the chest
  • Boring pain under the ribs
  • Pain that is fixed, stabbing and /or severe
  • Pan is worse with pressure
  • Dark complexion
  • Fixed, palpable masses
  • Bleeding with clots
  • Purple lips
  • Purple nails
  • Dry skin
  • Blue, dark or purplish discoloration of skin in small or large areas
  • Varicose and spider veins
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Tendency to hemorrhage dark blood or clots
  • T: Purple, possible purple or red spots
    Red purple if there is Heat
    Blue purple if there is Cold
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Break up Stagnation
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Forgetfulness
  • Poor memory
  • Absent mindedness
  • Short attention span
  • Inability to concentrate
  • Slow speech
  • Dull senses
  • A blank expression
  • T: Dark or pale purple with echymoses and dark sublingual veins
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Slippery and choppy or Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Eliminate Stasis
Herb Formulas
  • Shou Xing Wan
  • If forgetfulness follows head trauma: Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang  modified
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Fu Fang Dan Shen Pian
    Sheng Tian Pian

    Jing Gu Du Sheng Wan
    Fu Ke Wu Jiao Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Fatigue
  • Scanty periods with pale dilute Blood
  • Vertigo
  • Blurred vision
  • Tingling of the limbs
  • Palpitations
  • Afternoon fever
  • Dry stools
  • Delayed menstruation
  • Dull pale complexion
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Dry skin
  • T: Pale and thin
  • C: Thin, white and dry
  • P: Thready and rapid or Weak or Choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Blood
  • Tonify the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Heavy and painful lower back
  • Dream-disturbed sleep
  • General weakness
  • Lack of interest in food or drink
  • Fever
  • Night sweats
  • Seminal emission
  • Forgetfulness
  • Toothache
  • Dizziness
  • Gum swelling
  • General pitted edema which is worse in the lower body
  • Vaginal discharge
  • Discharge of rice-water like urination without dysuria
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Impotence
  • Decreased libido
  • Emaciation
  • Loose teeth
  • Signs of premature aging
  • Abdominal Cold
  • Easily frightened
  • T: Pale or Pale and thick
  • C: Smooth and white
  • P: Moderate and weak or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Spleen and Kidneys
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Enrich Yin
  • Nourish the Blood and Yang
  • Augment Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pterygium
  • Tinnitus
  • Hearing loss
  • Diminished visual and aural acuity
  • Blurred vision
  • Abdominal pain
  • Forgetfulness
  • Dizziness
  • Light headedness
  • Anorexia
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Chronic diarrhea
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen and raise the Qi of the Middle Jiao
  • Improve visual and aural acuity
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Firmness and distention in the lower abdomen which is painful and gives resistance on pressure
  • Smooth urination
  • Manic behavior
  • Forgetfulness
  • Black stools that are easy to expel
  • Delayed menstruation
  • Amenorrhea
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Coagulated blood
  • Thirst
  • Dry mouth
  • Polyuria
  • Liver spots indicating stagnant blood found on the face, lips, tongue, limbs and finger nails
  • T: Purplish
  • C: Normal
  • P: Deep, slow and irregular
Treatment Principle
  • Break up and dispel Blood Stasis
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Forgetfulness
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Flashbacks
  • Panic attacks
  • Palpitations
  • Hair loss
  • Loss of appetite
  • Dizziness
  • Depression
  • Lack of motivation
  • T: Slightly p[ale
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Hollow
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yin and Yang
  • Harmonize the Ying and Wei
  • Astringe Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Forgetfulness
  • Constipation
  • Excess thirst
  • Dry mouth and/or throat
  • Dry skin
  • Chronic cough (usually dry)
  • Night sweats
  • Fatigue,
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and tonify the organs
Herb Formulas
Points