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| Pattern Names |
| Shao Yin Disease • 少阴病 • Shào Yīn Bìng |
| Classification |
| Category: 6 Channels |
Syndrome: Shao Yin Disease |
| Symptoms |
| Tongue: COLD: Pale tongue • HEAT: Dark red or purple tongue with little coating |
Pulse: COLD: deep, slow, faint • HEAT: thin, rapid [Qiao] |
| Indications: COLD Transformation(少阴寒化): somnolence, intolerance of cold (畏寒), cold limbs, lassitude, listlessness, chronic loose stool, or early morning diarrhea, no desire to drink fluids, a
pale tongue, and deep slow and faint pulse • HEAT Transformation(少阴热化): irritability, insomnia, feverish sensation in five center areas, night sweating, dry mouth and throat, red tongue tip, or dark red or purple tongue with little coating, a thin and rapid pulse. [Qiao]
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| Keywords |
| COLD: intolerance of cold, loose stool, cold extremities, deep and faint pulse • HEAT: irritability, insomnia, red tongue with little coating, a thready and rapid pulse [Qiao] |
| Treatment |
| COLD: Strengthen the yang and repress the yin • HEAT: Nourish Yin and clear heat |
| Herb |
| COLD: Si Ni Tang, Fu Zi Tang, Zhen Wu Tang • HEAT: Huang Lian A Jiao Tang
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| Etiology |
| Pathogen directly invade Shao Yin or transmitted by other channels. Can appear as cold or heat. COLD: It's a pattern characterized by an insufficiency of heart and kidney yang, manifested with deficiency cold syndrome • HEAT: a pattern characterized by an insufficiency of heart and kidney yin, manifest with deficiency heat syndrome. [Qiao]
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| Notes |
| ZANG FU equivalent: Cold - Kidney and Heart yang deficiency or failure; Heat - Kidney and Heart Yin deficiency |
