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Prescriptions For Treating Disorders of The Heart
Prescriptions For Treating Disorders of The Heart
HEART FUNCTION:
-Governing blood
-Propel blood circulation
-Beating
-Heart qi
-Heart yang warming
-Heart connected with the vessels directly (blood circulated inside the
vessels)
-Production of the blood
-"Redden"
-Transport nutrients into the blood
-Combine with clear qi
-Dominate mental (spirit)
-Shen
-Brain function
PATHOGENESIS
-Excess
-Blood stasis
-Qi stagnation
-Cold in vessel
-Phlegm retention in vessels
-Deficiency
-Palpitation
-Mental problems
-Insomnia
-Manic depression
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MANIPULATIONS
-Reducing method
INDICATIONS
-Chest pain, heart pain due to cold, phlegm, qi stagnation or blood stasis
obstructs the heart. Pain of the chest radiates to the back, chest pain
radiates to the lateral costal region, palpitation, disorders of the heart rate
and rhythmn
-Mania-disorder, mania-depression, epilepsy, poor memory, anxiety,
insomnia, excessive dreaming
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS
BL 15 and RN 14: Back shu and front mu combination, can regulate and
benefit heart function and activate the blood circulation to remove blood
statis
RN 17: Eight influential point of qi meeting
BL 17: Eight influential point of blood
RN 17 and BL 17: Combine together can activate qi and blood circulation,
alleviate pain
PC6: Luo connecting point of pericardium meridian
HT 6: Xi-cleft point of heart meridian, combine together to remove blood
stasis and alleviate pain
CLINICAL APPLICATION:
-Palpitations
-Heart-bi syndrome
FUNCTIONS
-Nourishing heart yin and heart blood
-Invigorating heart qi
-Calming mind
MANIPULATIONS
-Reinforcing or even method
INDICATIONS:
-Palpitation, insomnia, restlessness, poorr memory.
-For heart blood deficiency syndrome: pale complexion, pale tongue, thing
and weak pulse
-For heart yin deficiency syndrome: upset, five feverish centers, hot feeling
at afternoon, sweat in sleep, malar flush, thin red tongue lacking fluid, little
coating, thin rapid pulse.
-Depression
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS
BL 15: Nourishes the heart, takes yin from yang
HT 7: Yuan source point of heart meridian, nourishes heart and calms mind
ST 36: Through nourishing the postnatal to nourish heart blood
SP 6: Nourishes the yin and blood
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
-Palpitatons
-Insomnia
-Excess
-Fire
-Phlegm
-Heat
-Stomach (over eating)
-Deficiency
-Yin
-Blood
-Fluid
-Qi deficiency
-Heart qi
-Gall bladder qi
-Related with the kidney
-Combine with DU 20, YINTANG, or AN MIAN
-Anxiety
-Combine with YINTANG, HT 7, HT 6, PC 5
FUNCTIONS:
-Clearing away heart fire and heart heat
-Eliminating swollen and stopping pain
MANIPULATIONS:
Reducing Method
INDICATIONS:
-Dysphoria, insomnia, agitation, red face and thirst, ulceration and pain of
the tongue, hot sensation of the body, constipation, yellow dark and hot
urine, red tongue with deep red tip, yellow coating, rapid pulse.
PRECRIPTION ANALYSIS:
PC 7: Shu stream, yuan source point, child point of heart meridian, clears
heat and purges fire
PC 8: Clears heart heat from the pericardium
SJ 5: Clears sanjiao, drainages urine, descends heat downward
LR 2: Clears heat and fire from the same name meridian
CLINICAL APPLICATION:
-Insomnia
-Combine with DU 20 and SI SHEN CONG
-Daytime agitation
-Tongue ulcer
-PC 8 very effective
-Bad breath due to heart fire
-Combine with DU 26
FUNCTIONS:
-Warming heart yang and tonifying heart qi
-Expelling cold and stopping heart pain
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reinforcing or even method
-Moxa is available
INDICATIONS:
-Palpitation, short of qi, heart-bi syndrome, with the qi deficiency:
spontaneous sweating, short of breath, get worse after activity, pale face,
pale tongue, weak pulse, with yang deficiency: plus aversion to cold, cold
limbs, purple face and lips, pale and puffy tongue or dark and purple tongue,
deep and weak pulse.
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
PC 6 and PC 4: Warm heart yang and tonify heart qi; appreciate to treat
heart vessels diseases
RN 17 and RN 6: Warm yang and tonify qi
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS:
-Palpitation
-Combine with ST 36 (for qi deficiency)
-RN 4,6 (alternate) (for yang deficiency)
-Heart-bi syndrome
-LI 4, back shu, DU 9
POSTED BY NERDMANN AT 4:28 PM