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Heart blood vacuity
心血虚 〔心血虛〕xīn xuè xū
A disease pattern chiefly characterized by heart palpitation; insomnia; profuse dreaming; blood vacuity signs.
Description: Heart palpitation, dizziness; insomnia and profuse dreaming; susceptibility to fright; forgetfulness; lusterless pale-white or withered-yellow facial complexion; pale tongue; and a pulse that is fine and forceless.
Biomedical correspondence: nutritional disturbance, neurosis, tachycardia, arrhythmia, anemia, and hyperthyroidism.
Pathogenesis: Insufficiency of heart blood depriving the heart of nourishment and thereby preventing the spirit from keeping to its abode. This results from:
- loss of blood;
- excessive taxation of the spirit;
- spleen qì vacuity;
- enduring illness.
Analysis of signs
- Heart: Heart palpitation, insomnia and profuse dreaming, susceptibility to fright, and forgetfulness.
- Blood vacuity: Lusterless pale-white or withered-yellow complexion, dizzy head and vision, pale lips.
- Complexion: pale-white or withered-yellow complexion, reflecting blood’s failure to provide nourishment.
- Tongue: Pale, reflecting the blood’s inability to provide nourishment.
- Pulse: Fine and forceless, reflecting blood’s inability to fill the vessels.
Diseases: Heart palpitation; fearful throbbing; insomnia; vacuity taxation.
Treatment
Medicinal therapy: Nourish the blood and quiet the spirit. Use
Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, HT, PC, and CV. Select
Combined patterns
- Dual vacuity of the heart and spleen, which is heart blood vacuity with spleen qì vacuity, characterized by heart palpitation, insomnia, reduced eating, sloppy stool, in some cases with chronic bleeding, with signs of qì and blood vacuity. This pattern is attributable to spleen disease affecting the heart.
- Heart-liver blood vacuity, marked by heart palpitation, insomnia, eyes and sinews deprived of nourishment, and signs of blood vacuity.