I)       Liver Qi Stagnation

Tongue: normal

Pulse: normal or wiry, thin-white coat

Traditional Indications:

Sighs (helps Qi circulate), beltches, irritable, bad attitude, depression

P.M.S., irregular menstruation

If Qi is stuck in the throat: plum pit throat, difficulty swallowing

If Wood attacks Earth: poor appetite, bloated abdomen

Pain: chest pain sometimes with palpitations, costal region, stomach, breast

Lumps under armpit, short of breath

Conventional Classifications:

Dysmenorrhea, Gallbladder stones or chronic infection, Chronic throat infection, Hernia, Food allergies, Depression (lithium is often prescribed)

Treatment: Regulate Liver Qi (Chai Hu, Wu Yao, Zhi Shi, Bai Shao)

Liv 14 for costal pain, Cv 17 for chest pain, St-36, GB-34, Liv 3,2, Ear: Liver, Shen Men

Note: The liver is like a small tree that draws water up and circulates it through small tubules.  Injury blocks the tubules hurting the Qi, thus causing knots.  Likewise, Liver Qi Stagnation progresses into Liver Qi Knotted, also known as Liver Qi Congestion.

II)       Liver Fire Uprising

Tongue: very red, dry yellow coat

Pulse: rapid, slippery, wiry

Traditional Indications:

Headache over the whole head, dizzy, blurring of vision, red eyes and face, bitter taste in the mouth, vomit with blood, epistaxis, constipation, burning urine, tinnitus, ear pain

Conventional Classifications:

Hypertension, Psychosematic illness, Conjunctivitis, Ear infection, Alcoholism causing minor U.T.I., Acute Hepatitis, Hyperthyroidism,  Liver sclerosis (Hard livers give rise to symptoms and sign such as: high blood pressure, vomiting with very red blood, and an esopahgus with a broken blood vessel (danger)), Drug withdrawl symptoms (cigarettes, opium, cocaine)

Treatment: Purge Liver Fire, Clear Heat  (Xia Ku Cao, Da Huang, Huang Lian, Huang Qin, Bai Ju Hua, Long Dan Cao)

III)       Liver and Gallbladder Damp-Heat

Tongue: greasy yellow coat, puffy body

Pulse: wiry, rapid, slippery

Traditional Indications:

Heavy feeling, tired, reduced appetite, dirty water, mucus, nausea, vomit, does not like greasy-oily food, jaundice, costal region pain

Channel pain especially groin or testicular pain

Burning discharge: herpes, exzema, infection

Conventional Classifications:

Gallbladder infection, Hepatitis (can also be Spleen & Stomach Damp-Heat), Herpes, Vaginal infection, Testicular infection, Jaundice

Treatment: Clear Liver and G.B. Damp-Heat, Promote Water (Liv-14, 2  GB-34  Sp-9,10  Local points)

IV)       Liver Wind Moves Internally

A)            Excess Heat Produces Wind

Tongue: dry, thick coat, gray

Pulse: very fast, excess, wiry

Traditional Indications:

High temperature, spasms, seizures

Conventional Classifications:

Cerebral and other Infectious diseases, Meningitis, Tetanus

Treatment:

Clear Heat and Toxins Strongly, Extinguish Wind

B)            Liver Yang Uprising changes to Wind  (Excess Yang with underlying Yin Xu)

Tongue: red, shaking, deviated, stiff, numb (shows more on the body and less on the coat)

Pulse: small, wiry, rapid, xu

Traditional Indications:

Heavy head and upper portion of the body and "light", weak feet: easy to fall down

Stiff tongue: poor speech, If serious: coma, spasm, seizures

Dizzy, blurring of vision

Conventional Classifications:

Hypertension produces Stroke

Treatment:

Clear Heat, Sink the Yang

Acup: bleed ear or well points, Sp6;  Huang Qin, Mu Li, Long Gu, Sheng Di

Note: The heavy head and light foot syndrome exemplifies Excess Yang floating upward with an underlying Yin deficiency.

C)    Blood Xu causes (generates) Wind  (Deficiency produces Excess)

C) Blood Xu causes (generates) Wind (Deficiency produces Excess)

Tongue:

Pulse:

Traditional Indications:

Conventional Classifications:

Treatment: