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| Pattern Names |
| Liver Fire Attack the Lung • 肝火犯肺 • Gān Huǒ Fàn Fèi |
| Classification |
| Category: Zang Fu |
Syndrome: Complex |
| Symptoms |
| Tongue: red with thin yellow coating • red with redder sides and dry yellow coating |
Pulse: wiry, rapid |
| Indications: Breathlessness, asthma, a feeling of fullness and distension of the chest and hypochondrium, cough with a yellow or blood-tinged sputum, headache, dizziness, red face, thirst, bitter taste, bloodshot eyes, scanty dark urine, constipation [Maciocia] • Hypochondria burning pain, irritability, easily anger, dizziness, distension headaches, red face and eye, bitter taste in the mouth, paroxysmal cough, or cough with blood, scanty yellow sticky sputum, a red tongue with thin yellow coating, and wiry and rapid pulse [Qiao] |
| Keywords |
| Cough, or cough with blood, burning pain sensation in the chest or hypochondria region, irritability and easy angry, accompany with internal excess heat symptoms. [Qiao]
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| Treatment |
| clear Liver heat, stop cough, soothe Liver Qi |
| Acupuncture |
| LI11, LU7, PC6, LV2, LV3, LV14, REN17, REN22 [Maciocia]
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| Herb |
| Long Dan Xie Gan Tang, Qing Jin Hua Tan Tang, Dai Ge San |
| Etiology |
| Characterized by the liver fire rising and cause lung qi rebellious, manifest with paroxysmal cough, and hypochondria pain. – Emotional stress, or pathogenic heat attack – Liver fire flairs up lead headache, red face and red eye, dizziness, and thirst – Liver fire flairs up consumes lung yin, and cause
lung qi rebellious, then have cough, or cough with blood. – Liver fire steams up bile, then there is bitter taste in the mouth. [Qiao]
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