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Pattern Names

Kidney and Liver Yin Xu • 肾肝阴虚 • Shèn Gān Yīn Xū

Classification
Category: Zang Fu	Syndrome: Complex

Symptoms
Tongue: red, dry, no coat, or normal	Pulse: thready, rapid, weak, wiry, floating-empty
Indications: Night sweating, 5 Sole heat, Malar flush, Little thirst, Burning pain in hypochondrium, Eye problems, Tinnitus, Weakness, Soreness of low back & knees, Sexual problems, Bitter taste, Dry mouth and throat, Constipation, Occipital headache, Vertex headache, Limb numbness/tingling, Scanty menses, Delayed menses, Infertility, Insomnia, Dry stool, Dizziness, Tinnitus, Dry hair, Dry skin, Brittle nails, Dry vagina, Night sweats, Diminished hearing, amenorrhea [Maciocia] • dizziness or vertigo, blurry vision, tinnitus, poor memory, dry mouth and throat, insomnia, dream disturbed sleep, hypochondriac pain, knee and lower back aching and weakness, five center heat sensation, night sweating, hectic fever. Spermtorrhea in male, and scanty and short menstruation for female. A red tongue or crack tongue, with scanty coating, a thin and wiry pulse [Qiao]

Keywords

4 smalls, dry eyes, blurred vision, dry throat, weak/sore lower back, dryness [Maciocia] • Weakness of the low back and knee, hypochondriac pain tinnitus, dizziness, seminal emission plus deficiency heat symptoms [Qiao]

Treatment

nourish LV and KD yin, nourish body fluids

Acupuncture

BL 18, BL 23, BL 52, KD 3, KD 6, LV 3, SP 6

Herb

Yi Guan Jian, Qi Ju Di Huang Wan, Zuo Gui Wan

Etiology

Kidney and liver yin insufficient, causing yin unable to controls yang manifest deficiency heat disturbs the liver and kidney. –  Chronic illness, aging, improper diet, or emotional stress and sexual overstrain –  Liver yin deficiency failed to nourish channel, orifice and tendon cause hypochondria pain, blurry vision, dry eye, dizziness, or cramps –  Kidney yin deficiency failed nourishes orifice, full fill the brain and bone marrow, then lead tinnitus, lower back pain and weakness, poor memory –  Yin deficiency with heat, disrupts shen and sperm chamber, manifests with insomnia, seminal emission. [Qiao]

Notes

Use Case 1

Use Case 2

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