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Also enriching yīn, calming the liver, and subduing yáng. A method of treatment used to address liver-kidney yīn vacuity with ascendant liver yáng characterized by headache, dizziness, tinnitus or deafness, vexation and agitation, irascibility, baking heat in the head and face, dry mouth and throat, insomnia and profuse dreaming, a red tongue, and a rapid stringlike fine pulse.

Medicinal therapy: Medicinals that enrich the liver and kidney yīn such as cooked rehmannia (Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata, 熟地黄 shú dì huáng), lycium berry (Lycii Fructus, 枸杞子 gǒu qǐ zǐ), and eclipta (Ecliptae Herba, 墨旱莲 mò hàn lián) are combined with yáng-subduing medicinals such as crude oyster shell (Ostreae Concha Cruda, 生牡蛎 shēng mǔ lì), crude dragon bone (Mastodi Ossis Fossilia Cruda, 生龙骨 shēng lóng gǔ), crude abalone shell (Haliotidis Concha Cruda, 生石决明 shēng shí jué míng), and loadstone (Magnetitum, 磁石 cí shí). To these may also be added liver-calming medicinals such as uncaria (Uncariae Ramulus cum Uncis, 钩藤 gōu téng), chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemi Flos, 菊花 jú huā), and gastrodia (Gastrodiae Rhizoma, 天麻 tiān má) to perform the triple action of enriching yīn, calming the liver, and subduing yáng.

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on KI, LR, GB, and PC. Needle with supplementation at BL-23 (Kidney Transport, 肾俞 shèn shù), BL-18 (Liver Transport, 肝俞 gān shù), KI-3 (Great Ravine, 太溪 tài xī), LR-3 (Supreme Surge, 太冲 tài chōng), and SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo), and with drainage at GV-20 (Hundred Convergences, 百会 bǎi huì), GB-20 (Wind Pool, 风池 fēng chí), PC-6 (Inner Pass, 内关 nèi guān), LI-11 (Pool at the Bend, 曲池 qū chí), and KI-1 (Gushing Spring, 湧泉 yǒng quán).

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