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Also enriching yīn and coursing the liver. A method of treatment used to free the movement of liver qì using yīn-enriching and liver-coursing medicinals in the treatment of liver-kidney yīn vacuity with qì stagnation characterized by scurrying pain in the chest and rib-side, abdominal distension, no fluid on the tongue, dry throat, thin weak or vacuous stringlike pulse.

Medicinal therapy: A representative liver-harmonizing formula is All-the-Way-Through Brew (一贯煎 yī guàn jiān), comprising glehnia (Glehniae Radix, 北沙参 běi shā shēn), ophiopogon (Ophiopogonis Radix, 麦门冬 mài mén dōng), tangkuei body (Angelicae Sinensis Radicis Corpus, 当归身 dāng guī shēn), dried rehmannia (Rehmanniae Radix, 干地黄 gān dì huáng), lycium berry (Lycii Fructus, 枸杞子 gǒu qǐ zǐ), and toosendan (Toosendan Fructus, 川楝子 chuān liàn zǐ), adding coptis (Coptidis Rhizoma, 黄连 huáng lián) stir-fried in wine for dry mouth and bitter taste in the mouth.

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on back transport points, KI, and LR. Select BL-18 (Liver Transport, 肝俞 gān shù), BL-23 (Kidney Transport, 肾俞 shèn shù), KI-3 (Great Ravine, 太溪 tài xī), PC-6 (Inner Pass, 内关 nèi guān), LR-3 (Supreme Surge, 太冲 tài chōng), SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo), and GB-34 (Yáng Mound Spring, 阳陵泉 yáng líng quán); needle with supplementation.

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