HYPOTENSION, LOW BLOOD PRESSURE

Clinical Manifestations
  • A pale, lusterless or sallow complexion
  • Fatigue, often worse after large meals
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • A weak voice
  • Disinclination to speak
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Dizziness
  • Often, a craving for sweets
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even, forceless and deficient or Thready, forceless, moderate or sometime slow
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Prolapse of one or more organs
  • Sallow complexion
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even or Soft and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Reinforce the Center
  • Invigorate Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
  • DU-20, other points are selected according to the type of prolapse
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Headache
  • Chest oppression
  • Nausea
  • Reduced food intake
  • Short, scanty urination
  • Slight edema in limbs, especially lower limbs
  • Maybe anasarca
  • Maybe abdominal distention
  • Loose stools
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • T: Pale and maybe swollen
  • C: White and moist
  • P: Soft and even
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Move water
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Mild constant epigastric pain; relieved by warmth and pressure
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal pain and fullness after meals
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Loose, unformed stools
  • Excessive salivation
  • Cold limbs
  • Lassitude
  • Weakness
  • Sallow or pale, dull complexion
  • Maybe edema
  • Maybe scanty urination
  • Maybe clear, watery, copious vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Warm Yang
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Impaired memory
  • Fatigue
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Body cold
  • Limbs icy
  • Complexion white and shiny
  • Palpitations
  • shortness of breath
  • Reduced food intake
  • Low back, knees and abdomen feel cold and painful
  • Lower abdomen feels cold and painful
  • Loose stools containing undigested food
  • “Cock-crow” diarrhea (occurs at about 5 am)
  • Edema of face and limbs
  • Dysuria
  • Decreased sexual desire
  • Infertility
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Severe: Abdominal ascites
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen with teethmarks
  • C: Thin and white or White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready, weak and maybe slow or Deep and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce the Spleen and Kidneys
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
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White
  • P: Weak or Big and weak or Intermittent
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Strengthen Heart Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • Epigastric fullness and contravection
  • Reflux vomiting
  • Sensation of Qi rushing upward to the chest (Running Piglet)
  • Suffocating sensation in chest
  • Weak cough
  • Expectorating watery white Phlegm
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Yang
  • Transform Harmful Fluid
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Poor memory
  • Four limbs tired and lethargic
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Sallow complexion
  • Copious, pale menses
  • Uterine bleeding or
  • Light menstrual flow or
  • Amenorrhea
  • T: Pale
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit the Heart and Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pale complexion
  • Pale lips
  • Blurred or failing vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Dizziness
  • Dry eyes
  • Pale nail beds
  • Irritability
  • Frightens easily
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Tinnitus
  • Numbness of the limbs
  • Light menses or
  • Amenorrhea
  • Late menses
  • T: Pale
  • C: Little
  • P: Thready
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Liver
  • Reinforce the Blood
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
  • Emaciation
  • Weakness
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Blurred vision
  • Aching and weak low back and knees
  • Daybreak diarrhea
  • Weight loss
  • Dizziness
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • T: Pink or Pale
  • C: White or None
  • P: Thready and frail or Deep, slow and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and replenish Yin
  • Tonify Jing
  • Augment Qi
  • Tonify and strengthen Yang
  • Nourish the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Severe aversion to Cold
  • Body curled up
  • Icy cold extremities
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Absence of thirst
  • Abdominal pain
  • Lack of energy
  • A constant desire to sleep
  • Shivering
  • Foaming at the mouth
  • Lips and nails purplish
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and thready or Impalpable
Treatment Principle
  • Rescue Yang (emergency)
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Generate the pulse
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Loose stools
  • Anorexia
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Empty
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic cough with sparse sputum
  • Sputum difficult to expectorate
  • Shortness of breath
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Dry mouth and tongue
  • Palpitations with a stifling sensation in chest
  • Fatigue
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Dry throat
  • Insomnia
  • Listless speech
  • T: Red and dry or Pink and dry
  • C: Thin and dry
  • P: Deficient and rapid or Irregular and slow or Thready and deficient or Consistently irregular
Treatment Principle
  • Augment Qi
  • Generate Fluids
  • Clear Heat
  • Preserve Yin
  • Stop Excess perspiration
Herb Formulas
Points
  • DU-20, KI-7, SP-6, ST-36
    With Yang Deficiency: + moxa REN-6
    With spontaneous perspiration: + LI-4
    With night sweats: + HT-6
    With a dry mouth and throat: + KI-6
    With Heart palpitations: + HT-7, PC-6
    With marked Kidney Yin Deficiency: + UB-23
    With marked Liver Blood Deficiency: + UB-18
    With marked Heart Yin Deficiency: + HT-7
    With Yin Deficiency Fire: + KI-2
    With dizziness: + GB-20
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness that is usually mild and postural and worse with fatigue
  • Vertigo
  • Poor memory
  • Fatigue
  • Lethargy
  • Low spirits
  • Depression
  • Loose stools
  • Poor appetite
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Phobias
  • Panic attacks
  • Blurred vision
  • Spots before the eyes
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Forgetfulness
  • Pale face, lips and nails
  • Scanty periods or
  • Bruises easily
  • 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
  • Either low Blood pressure or
  • Blood pressure that is sometimes low and sometimes high
  • Relatively high Blood lipids
  • Dizziness
  • Headache
  • Chest oppression
  • Piercing pain
  • Heart flutter
  • Shortness of breath
  • Lassitude
  • Lack of strength
  • T: Dark with possible static spots or macules
  • C: White
  • P: Wiry, moderate and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Descend turbidity
  • Tonify Qi
  • Invigorate the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Fatigue
  • Scanty periods
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin, white and dry
  • P: Thready and rapid or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Blood
  • Tonify the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points