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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:

Analysis of signs

Diseases: Heart palpitation; fearful throbbing; insomnia; vacuity taxation.

Treatment

Medicinal therapy: Nourish the blood and quiet the spirit. Use Four Agents Decoction (四物汤 sì wù tāng).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, HT, PC, and CV. Select BL-15 (Heart Transport, 心俞 xīn shù), BL-17 (Diaphragm Transport, 膈俞 gé shù), CV-14 (Great Tower Gate, 巨阙 jù què), SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo), CV-6 (Sea of Qì, 气海 qì hǎi), HT-7 (Spirit Gate, 神门 shén mén), and PC-6 (Inner Pass, 内关 nèi guān); needle with supplementation and moxa.

Combined patterns

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