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| Pattern Names |
| Heart - Phlegm Misting Orifices • 痰迷心窍 • Tán Mí Xīn Qiào |
| Classification |
| Category: Zang Fu |
Syndrome: Heart |
| Symptoms |
| Tongue: swollen, white sticky coat [34] • thick, greasy tongue[32] • Swollen body, white sticky coating[35] |
Pulse: slippery[32] • string-taut, slippery[35] |
| Indications: Depression, Incoherent speech, Soliloquy, Dimentia, Spontaneous weeping and laughing, Sudden collapse, Throat gurgling, Sputum, Epigastric congestion, Syncope, Saliva dripping, Convulsion (not epilepsy), No heat [34] • Yin mania, mental fatigue, somnolence, stupor, depression, autism, epilepsy, loss of consciousness. There are three different groups clinical manifestations – Dian(yin madness) – Xian(epilepsy)– Phlegm Syncope(minor stroke) [32]
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| Keywords |
| Abnormal mental behaviors, Phlegm, No heat [34] • Shen confusion plus phlegm symptoms and signs [32]
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| Treatment |
| transform phlegm, open heart orifices |
| Acupuncture |
| BL15, BL20, HT7, ST40[32] • HT9, PC5, BL15, ST40, DU26, REN12, BL20 [35] |
| Etiology |
| Signs and symptoms which occur when the heart shen is confused by phlegm [32] |
| Notes |
| Both Phlegm Fire harassing the Heart and Phlegm misting the Mind deal with mental state. Phlegm misting the Mind has NO HEAT and tends to be depressive, dullness, lethargic stupor, collapse, depression. Phlegm Fire harassing the heart has HEAT and tends to be manic, have palpitations, agitation, bitter taste, tongue ulcers, dark urine. [35] |
