Heart Blood Deficiency

Heart Blood Deficiency TCM Pattern Connections

Below you will find various relationships to the concept of and potential approaches for heart blood deficiency.

Content Related to Heart Blood Deficiency

Heart Blood Deficiency is one of many possible underlying factors from a TCM perspective for health issues such as aortic stenosis, bulimia nervosa, motion sickness, numbness, rosacea, schizophrenia, and/or systemic lupus erythematosus (sle).

The above issues are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of issues intermixed from a variety of causal patterns in TCM terms. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

General TCM Diagnostic Signs

Tongue: Pale, possibly thin and maybe dry.
Pulse: Thin or choppy (many times felt in the HT position).

Treatment approaches are often akin to unravelling an onion, with the goal of resolving the root factor involved in the constellation of resulting issues. The current and historical array of issues and signs must be taken into consideration as well as the timing of the onset of each individual aspect.

Related Acupuncture Protocols

When developing an acupuncture protocol a practitioner is very often focusing on the causal diagnoses in Chinese Medicine terms, not on the condition itself. To guide you towards treatment potentials, heart blood deficiency is referenced in the following acupuncture protocol sections:

• View HT 7 (Spirit Gate)
  
      At the wrist crease, on the radial side of the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon, between the ulna and the pisiform bones.
  
      Tonify deficiencies of the HT Qi, Blood, Yin and Yang. Emotional issues, especially those with related sleep or thinking manifestations - insomnia, muddled thinking. Heart and Phlegm fire leading to insomnia, anxiety, mania. Physical re…