IMPOTENCE, ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION

Clinical Manifestations
  • An abnormal physical or psychological state of a male characterized by inability to engage in sexual intercourse because of failure to have or maintain an erection.
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
  • Due to fright with insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, depression and weakness: Impotence #2
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Alternating chills and fever (chills predominate) or
  • Chills without fever
  • Sensation of irritability in the chest
  • Sweating from the head
  • Fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal weakness
  • Heavy head
  • Neuralgia
  • Epigastric distension
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Tension around pubic bone
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Urinary difficulty
  • T: Moist
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Superficial and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Clumping
  • Harmonize the Shao Yang
  • Warm the Interior
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence or
  • Persistent erection
  • Heavy sensations in the body
  • Stuffy chest
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Dampness of the external genitalia
  • Difficult urination
  • T: Normal
  • C: Thick and white or Slimy and yellow
  • P: Soft, rapid and floating
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel wind
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Clear Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Unproductive cough or
  • Scanty, sticky phlegm or
  • Sometimes blood-streaked sputum
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Low back and knees sore and weak
  • "Steaming Bone" tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Malar flush
  • Maybe hoarse voice
  • Maybe pain in shin, foot, and heel
  • Sterility
  • Spermatorrhea
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Moisten the Lungs
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
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
Clinical Manifestations
  • Penis cannot become erect
  • Shen disturbance
  • Distention and fullness of chest, epigastrium and abdomen
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Anorexia
  • Loose stools
  • Diarrhea
  • Reduced sensation of taste
  • No thirst or preference for hot drinks
  • Sticky sensation in mouth
  • Borborygmus
  • Lassitude
  • Yin jaundice
  • Heavy head
  • Maybe edema
  • Maybe copious white vaginal discharge
  • Maybe cold limbs, fear of Cold or feeling chilled
  • Impotence
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thick, white and greasy or sticky
  • P: Deep and slow or Weak, floating and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Cold
  • Transform Dampness
  • Harmonize the Stomach
  • Strengthen the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Sallow complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Weakness
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools or
  • Diarrhea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dizziness
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even, forceless and deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Lethargy
  • A shiny, pale complexion
  • Loose stools
  • Diarrhea
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Soggy and frail or Moderate or Slow or Soft and floating
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Drain Dampness
  • Dredge the Liver
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Lack of spirit
  • Fatigue
  • Low back pain
  • Tinnitus
  • Dysuria
  • Depression
  • Turbid urine
  • Abnormal uterine bleeding
  • Polyuria
  • Enuresis
  • Seminal emission
  • Leukorrhea
  • Blood tinged leukorrhea
  • Anorexia
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry Tongue
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Fever
  • Physical and mental overexertion
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Deep and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heart Fire
  • Disperse Damp-Heat
  • Benefit Qi and Yin
  • Promote urination
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
  • Inability to get or maintain an erection
  • Performance anxiety
  • The impotence may be worse with fatigue
  • The patient may be able to get erections during sleep or masturbation
  • A pale, lusterless complexion
  • Fatigue
  • A low sperm count
  • Palpitations
  • May be anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Nervousness
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Poor memory
  • Four limbs tired and lethargic
  • Clammy palms
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Weak limbs
  • Loose stools
  • Sallow complexion
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and weak or Weak and slow or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce and Benefit the Heart and Spleen
  • Support Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Inability to get or maintain an erection
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Fear of sexual intercourse
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Apprehension
  • Constant worry
  • Poor concentration
  • Timidity
  • Shyness
  • Easily startled
  • Nervousness
  • Irritability
  • Restless sleep
  • Insomnia
  • 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
  • Restore the Pulse
  • Calm the Shen
  • Support Yang
  • Nourish Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Spermatorrhea with erotic dreams
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Irritability
  • Easily startled
  • Palpitations
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back soreness
  • Legs weak
  • Tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth
  • Red cheeks
  • Urine short and red
  • Impotence
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reduce Fire
  • Make Heart and Kidney communicate
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpitations
  • Anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Nightmares
  • Hair loss
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Amnesia
  • Infantile night crying
  • Dreams of sexual intercourse in women
  • A cold sensation on the tip of the penis
  • Loss of appetite
  • Dizziness
  • Depression
  • Lack of motivation
  • Night sweats
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Lower abdominal contraction and pain
  • Occasional watery diarrhea
  • T: Slightly pale
  • P: Hollow and slow or Hollow and slightly tight
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Yin and Yang
  • Harmonize the Ying and Wei
  • Restrain the Jing
  • Suppress rebellion
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Inability to get or sustain an erection
  • Loss of libido
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Hypochondriac tightness or distention
  • Vague aches and pains
  • Dizziness
  • Occasional fatigue, better with exercise
  • Abdominal distention
  • Flatulence
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Alternating constipation and diarrhea
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Clear Stagnation
  • Support Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Clear Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal distention and pain
  • Gas
  • Borborygmus
  • Diarrhea
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Impotence
  • T: Pink
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Slippery and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Invigorate the Spleen
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Swelling and pain in scrotum as if the testicles were being pulled downward or
  • Contractions and Cold sensations of scrotum and testicles which are alleviated by warmth
  • Cold feeling in the lower body in general
  • Stuffiness in the chest and abdomen
  • Pale face
  • Pain, distention, fullness and Cold sensation in lower abdomen
  • Cold limbs
  • Dislike of Cold and a preference for warmth
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep and wiry or Slow or Deep and Excess or Deep and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Liver
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Vexation
  • Irascibility
  • Easily angered
  • Pain and fullness in the chest, ribs and flanks
  • Maybe pain in the right hypochondrium
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting sour and bitter fluids
  • Anorexia
  • Maybe alternating chills and fever
  • Concentrated, dark urine
  • Loose stools
  • Abdominal distention and fullness
  • Lack of strength
  • Excessive dreams
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Numb extremities
  • Edema
  • T: Slightly swollen with teethmarks
  • C: Yellow and greasy or sticky
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Spread Liver Qi
  • Clear Dampness
  • Purge Heat from Liver and Gall Bladder
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Emotional upset
  • Anger
  • Depression
  • Frequent sighing
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Fatigue
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Soften the Liver
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
  • Spermatorrhea
  • T: Red
  • C: None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish and Reinforce the Liver and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Blurred vision
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Profuse dreaming
  • Low back and knee pain and weakness
  • Impotence
  • Seminal emissions
  • Dribbling urination
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich and supplement the Liver and Kidneys
  • Tonify Jing
  • Brighten the eyes
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Low libido
  • An inability to get or sustain an erection
  • Lack of erection upon waking
  • Infertility
  • Low sperm motility
  • Low sperm count
  • Watery ejaculate
  • Lumbago: low back feels cold, weak and aching
  • Feeling chilled
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Intolerance of cold
  • Cold limbs
  • General debility
  • Pale face
  • Blurred vision
  • Poor memory
  • Urinary frequency with abundant, clear urine or
  • Oliguria with edema or
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Maybe nocturia
  • Edema of the lower limbs with scanty urination
  • Lassitude
  • Listlessness
  • Fatigue
  • Withdrawn, subdued behavior
  • Knees feel cold and aching
  • Cold feet
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Impotence
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Maybe anorexia
  • Maybe loose stools
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Constipation or
  • Loose stools
  • Maybe chronic diarrhea or "cock crow" diarrhea
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and thready - maybe slow or Small and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce Kidney Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Sensation of extreme Cold
  • Severe chills
  • Chills are not relieved by clothing or covers
  • Slight fever
  • Anhidrosis
  • Exhaustion
  • Almost constant desire to sleep
  • Pale face
  • Cold extremities
  • Cold feet
  • Severe aversion to Cold
  • Headache
  • Shortness of breath
  • Fatigue
  • Edema
  • Cough
  • Pain penetrating to the back
  • Toothache
  • Sore throat
  • Raspy voice
  • Edema due to Wei Qi Stagnation
  • Weak extremities
  • Chronic wheezing
  • Severe pain and obstructed feeling over the throat
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind-Cold
  • Replenish Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema of whole body particularly at and below the waist
  • Pitting edema
  • Low back pain, aching and heaviness
  • Abdominal distention with full sensations
  • Oliguria
  • Cold limbs
  • Face gray and congested or pale
  • Feeling nervous and cold with mental weariness
  • In severe cases:
    Ascites
    Edema of scrotum
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin, white or Thick, white and sticky
  • P: Deep and thready
  • With Water Flooding the Lungs:
    Cough with copious, thin watery phlegm
    Asthma with phlegmy sound (wheezing)
    Dyspnea
    Facial edema
    Edema of limbs
    Dysuria
    T: Pale and swollen
    C: White and moist or White and greasy
    P: Superficial and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Kidneys
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Low back and knees aching and weak
  • Hearing deficit
  • Jing Gate Not Consolidated:
    Spermatorrhea
    Premature ejaculation
    Infertility
  • Urinary disorder:
    Frequent, clear, abundant urination
    Dribbling after urination
    Incontinence of urine
  • T: Pale and swollen with teethmarks
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Consolidate the Kidneys
  • Conserve Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Infertility
  • Listlessness
  • Lack of Spirit
  • Weakness and aching of the low back
  • A pale, shiny complexion
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonify the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
  • Moxa or moxa needle DU-4, REN-1, REN-2, REN-4
    For Cold pain in the lower abdomen: + moxa or moxa needle REN-3
    For a poor appetite: + moxa or moxa needle ST-36
    For clear diarrhea
    : + moxa REN-8
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence or
  • Premature ejaculation
  • The symptoms are worse when the patient is stressed or fatigued
  • Maybe a frequent desire for sex but an inability to initiate or maintain an erection
  • Maybe erotic dreams with spontaneous emission
  • Maybe increased numbers of abnormal sperm
  • Maybe a low sperm count
  • Scanty ejaculate
  • Dizziness more noticeable after sex
  • Tinnitus or deafness more noticeable after sex
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of low back and knees which is exacerbated with sex
  • A dry mouth and throat
  • Insomnia
  • Excess dreams
  • Restlessness
  • Facial flushing
  • Malar flush
  • Night sweats
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Aching in bones
  • Aching in leg and heel
  • A tendency to dry stools or constipation
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of low back
  • Spermatorrhea or premature ejaculation
  • 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
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Failure to maintain an erection
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Weak legs
  • Lower back ache
  • Low-grade fever in the afternoon
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Fatigue
  • Red cheeks
  • Hot flushed face
  • Spermatorrhea due to Deficient Yin
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Fever with thirst
  • Burning soles of feet
  • Hot flashes
  • Night sweating
  • Spontaneous sweat
  • Dry cough
  • Headache
  • Restlessness
  • Early periods
  • Pale dilute menstrual Blood
  • Nocturia
  • General feeling of being Cold
  • Restless insomnia
  • Vertigo,
  • T: Pale and swollen or Red or a Red tip
  • C: Thin and white or Little or None
  • P: Deep and weak or Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Kidney Yang
  • Nourish the Liver and Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
  • Relieve Empty Fire due to Deficiency of Yin
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
  • Frequent cloudy, milky urination
  • Maybe greasy urine
  • Thick, white vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Sinking, slow and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Kidneys
  • Drain Dampness
  • Separate the turbid from the clear
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • General weakness
  • Sexual dysfunction
  • Impotence
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Male infertility
  • Frequent urination
  • Dribbling of urine
  • Lumbar pain or weakness
  • Depression
  • Fatigue and poor memory following ejaculation
  • Weak bladder
  • Low sperm count
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Kidneys
  • Nourish and astringe Jing
  • Benefit the eyes
  • Tonify Kidney Yang
  • Tonify the Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back and knees weak and aching
  • In adults:
    Hair loss
    Graying or whitening of the hair
    Weak sexual function
    Atrophy and weakness of the feet with difficulty walking
    Poor memory
    Senility (premature or mature)
    Brittle bones
    Gradual deterioration of the hearing
  • In children:
    Retardation in mental and/or physical development
    Failure to thrive
    Late or incomplete closing of the fontanel
    Poor bone development
    Brittle bones
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
  • Benefit Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Light-headedness
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Soreness and weakness in low back and legs
  • Spontaneous and nocturnal emissions
  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Dizziness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Deafness
  • Rhinitis
  • Dribbling of urine
  • Malar flush
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Insomnia
  • Hair loss
  • Loss of teeth
  • Infertility
  • Impotence
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Poor vision
  • T: Red and shiny
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin and Yang
  • Tonify the Kidneys
  • Supplement Jing
  • Benefit the Marrow
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back and knees weak and aching
  • Exhaustion from long-term illness
  • Low energy
  • Lethargy
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Coolness of the extremities
  • Impotence
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Aching and weakness of the lower back and knees
  • Infertility
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Hair loss
  • Graying or whitening of the hair
  • Weak sexual function
  • Atrophy and weakness of the feet with difficulty walking
  • Poor memory
  • Senility (premature or mature)
  • Brittle bones
  • Gradual deterioration of the hearing
  • Loose stools (sometimes with undigested food)
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Edema of the lower extremities
  • Pale face
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Enuresis
  • T: Pale
  • P: Deep, slow and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Kidneys
  • Benefit Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Premature graying of the hair
  • Hair loss
  • Loose teeth
  • Spontaneous emissions
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Weak and sore low back and knees
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich Kidney Jing
  • Nourish Liver Blood
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Amnesia
  • Palpitations
  • Feverishness
  • Anorexia
  • Emaciation
  • Pale face
  • Insomnia
  • Dyspnea on mild exertion
  • Fatigue
  • Shortness of breath.
  • Weight loss
  • Dry skin
  • Dry mouth
  • Dry throat
  • Dry lips
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Irregular menstruation
  • May suddenly lose consciousness
  • Slack jaw
  • Restless at night
  • Lassitude
  • Tendency toward being frightened easily
  • Weakness
  • Sallow complexion
  • Dizziness
  • Tremors in the limbs
  • Spontaneous perspiration
  • Fever and severe chills
  • General debility
  • Mental instability
  • Coughing and gasping.
  • Night sweats
  • Amnesia.
  • Diarrhea
  • Turbid urine
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Impotence
  • Constipation
  • Feeble breathing.
  • Tired limbs
  • T: Pale
  • C:White
  • P: Thready and weak or thready, rapid and weak or Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Strengthen the Spleen and Lungs
  • Nourish the Heart
  • Calm the Shen
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
  • 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
  • Stabbing pain in the low back, feet, testes, penis and lower abdomen
  • Occasional swelling of penis and testes aggravated by resting and sleeping and better with movement
  • Maybe impotence
  • Maybe premature ejaculation
  • Maybe erection without stimulation
  • Maybe ejaculation without stimulation
  • Maybe partial erection during copulation
  • Incomplete ejaculation
  • Maybe ejaculation after copulation
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Dripping urine
  • Premature graying of the hair
  • Itch or pain of hairy areas
  • Tinnitus
  • Stuffy head
  • Chest oppression
  • Retardation of response to stimulation
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Forgetfulness
  • Insomnia
  • High viscosity sperm with a high number of deformed sperm and abnormal sperm count
  • T: Purple spots
  • C: Normal
  • P: Grating and astringent
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Free the flow of Jing
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Lower abdominal Cold
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Infertility
  • Dry lips
  • Dry mouth
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Pale complexion
  • Leukorrhea
  • Amenorrhea
  • Bleeding between periods
  • Low grade fever at dusk
  • Irritability
  • Five Sole Heat
  • No desire to drink
  • Distending breast pain
  • Low back coldness and pain
  • Loose stools
  • Cold limbs
  • Aversion to Cold
  • T: Purple with petechiae
  • P: Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the menses
  • Regulate menstruation
  • Dispel Cold
  • Warm the channels
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Dispel Blood Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Palpable masses that may or may not be painful
  • Lower abdominal pain without palpable masses
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Lower back pain
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Depression
  • Cold extremities
  • White vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Activate the Blood
  • Promote the movement of Qi
  • Dispel Blood Stasis
  • Unblock the collaterals
  • Unblock painful obstruction
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Abdominal pain with icy cold hands and feet
  • Extremities are cyanotic and difficult to warm up
  • P: Thready or Imperceptible
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the channels
  • Disperse Cold
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Unblock the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cold pain in the lower back and body
  • Sciatica
  • Copious urination
  • Extreme heavy sensation in the lower back
  • Absence of thirst
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, thready and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Dispel Cold
  • Eliminate Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Inability to get or maintain a full erection
  • Erection may be painful
  • Maybe excessive sweating around the scrotum and groin
  • Testicles cold
  • Itching or pain in the genitals
  • Maybe mucopurulent discharge from the urethra
  • Maybe a history of genital herpes
  • Lethargy
  • Heaviness or aching in the lower limbs
  • Maybe poor sperm count or
  • Low sperm motility and anti-sperm antibodies
  • thick or congealed ejaculate with retarded liquification
  • Afternoon fatigue
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Headache
  • Dizziness
  • Red sore eyes
  • Hearing loss
  • Swelling in the ears
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Irritability
  • Short temper
  • Difficult and painful urination with a heat sensation in the urethra
  • Swollen and itchy genitalia
  • 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
  • Flushing up
  • Chest distention
  • Expectoration of yellow Phlegm
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Chills and fever
  • Abdominal distention
  • Frequent dark, scanty and painful urination
  • Irritability
  • Depression
  • Slight thirst
  • Anorexia after serious illness
  • Ear discharge
  • Yellow urine
  • Chest pain
  • Loose stools or
  • Alternating constipation and diarrhea
  • Turbid, foul-smelling urine
  • Dry throat
  • Hematuria
  • Pain in the armpits
  • Sweating in the groin
  • T: Pink or Red tip or Red or Red edges
  • C: Yellow or Yellow and greasy, especially at the root
  • P: Deep and slippery or Soft, slippery and rapid or Slippery and rapid or Wiry and rapid or Wiry, Excess and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear and Drain Damp-Heat from the Lower Jiao
  • Clear Damp-Heat from the San Jiao
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Failure to ejaculate
  • Cough with copious, dilute, white frothy or lumpy sputum
  • Chest and epigastric congestion
  • Obesity
  • Palpitations
  • Headache
  • Pain and full feeling in chest
  • Dyspnea - worse lying down
  • Asthma
  • Throat rattle
  • Maybe anorexia
  • Lassitude
  • Nausea/vomiting
  • Dizziness/vertigo
  • Shortness of breath
  • Wheezing
  • Acute attack of panting with high pitched sound and rapid exhalation
  • Facial edema
  • Weak extremities
  • Heavy sensations in the body
  • Difficult urination
  • T: Pale, flabby and moist
  • C: Thick, white and greasy or sticky
  • P: Slippery or Soft
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Qi
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Eliminate Damp
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Impotence
  • Difficult ejaculation
  • Rapid breathing with a harsh voice
  • Cough with expectoration of copious thick, purulent, yellow-green sputum or blood-flecked, foul-smelling pus (as in Lung abscess)
  • The sputum is difficult to expectorate
  • Maybe chills and fever
  • Dyspnea
  • Fullness and distention in the chest and diaphragm
  • Nausea
  • Asthma
  • Epigastric fullness and distention
  • Chest pain
  • Pain in the ribs
  • Dry mouth
  • Constipation
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • T: Normal
  • C: Yellow or Yellow and greasy or Yellow and smooth
  • P: Rapid or Rapid and smooth or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Dispel Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points