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| Pattern Names |
| Heart with Water Qi Encroaching • 水气凌心 • Shuǐ qì líng xīn |
| Classification |
| Category: Zang Fu |
Syndrome: Heart |
| Symptoms |
| Tongue: pale, white slippery coating |
Pulse: deep |
| Indications: Palpitations, shortness of breath, chest tightness and oppression, edema, difficult urination, thirst but no desire to drink, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, panting, dizziness, cold limbs, pale tongue, deep pulse. TWO SUBTYPES: Thin Mucus Obstructing the Heart (饮阻于心，productive cough with profuse white foaming phlegm, oppression and tightness in the chest, in ability to lie down flat, facial edema), Water-Dampness Invading Upward (水湿上犯，Whole-body edema worse in the lower extremities, abdominal bloating and distention, scanty or difficult urination, pale and flabby tongue, deep, slow and deficient pulse). [Qiao] |
| Treatment |
| Thin Mucus(饮阻于心) - Warm and transform mucus, promote and invigorate HT yang • (Water Dampness)水湿上犯- warm and tonify SP and KD yang, move Qi and promote urination |
| Herb |
| Thin Mucus(饮阻于心) - Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang • Water dampness(水湿上犯)- Zhen Wu Tang |
| Etiology |
| SP and LU Qi deficiency leading to accumulated thin mucus that is obstructing Heart yang. Lung -chronic cough damaging LU function and accumulating thin mucus in upper burner 2) overconsumption of greasy food damaged SP function leading to thin mucus in the middle burner that moves up to obstruct the Heart.[Qiao] |
| Notes |
| AKA: Moisture Affecting the Heart |
