Draining the liver

Also clearing the liver and draining fire. A method of treatment used to clear and drain liver fire with cold bitter medicinals. Draining the liver is the method used to treat liver fire flaming upward characterized by headache, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, red face and eyes, dry mouth with bitter taste, rib-side pain, vomiting and retching of bitter fluid or, in severe cases, blood ejection, impatience, agitation, and irascibility, constipation, yellow tongue fur, and rapid stringlike pulse.

Medicinal therapy: A representative liver-draining formula is Gentian Liver-Draining Decoction (龙胆泻肝汤 lóng dǎn xiè gān tāng).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment on the LR and GB. LR-2 (Moving Between, 行间 xíng jiān), GB-43 (Pinched Ravine, 侠溪 xiá xī), or GB-34 (Yáng Mound Spring, 阳陵泉 yáng líng quán) can be selected and needle with drainage to drain liver fire.