Below you will find theoretical and clinical applications information related to heart blood stagnation. We have created associations based on clinical experience that lead to possible treatment approaches with acupuncture points, individual herbs, TCM formulas, and more.

Heart Blood Stagnation - Basics

Angina, chest oppression, HT Pain which may radiate down to the left arm or to shoulder (emotionally a/or physiologically related), palpitations, cyanosis of the lips (in more severe cases).

Tongue Diagnosis

Purplish.

Pulse Diagnosis

Knotted.

The Chinese Medicine treatment of heart blood stagnation generally involves being certain that this pattern is the proper diagnosis. Each pattern may have multiple conditions and each condition may arise from one or more patterns (see treating the cause and not the symptoms).

The following 2 conditions may arise from heart blood stagnation . Each condition is listed with other possible patterns to expand diagnostic possibilities.

• Blog Posts Where Heart Blood Stagnation Is Discussed

•   My Heart Is What? Summertime, Heat and Joy...

• Blog Posts Concerning Acupuncture

•   Acupuncture, Pricking, and Cupping Effective for Treatment of Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
•   Acupuncture Treatment Prognosis Guidelines
•   Study Find Electro-Acupuncture May Slow And Possibly Rebuild Degenerative Disc Disease
•   Meta Analysis Finds Acupuncture Superior to Medicine for Optic Nerve Atrophy
•   A Brief History of Acupuncture in the West
•   Acupuncture Modulates the Stress Response
•   Acupuncture as an alternative to an epidural for labor pain (Study)
•   Acupuncture Outperforms Glucosamine HCL over the Long-Term for Knee Osteoarthritis
•   Study Finds Using the Five Liver Shu Points Effective for Depression

Have questions about heart blood stagnation? Or want to discuss treatment techniques? You may reach us and our community of practitioners by using our forums

• Mystery reaction to Moxibustion
• Auto-Immune Diseases
• GV 16 tonification or evacuation?
• Sedation points
• Best Herbal Formulas for PTSD?
• Electroacupunture
• Kidney disease treatment
• Blocked Fallopian Tubes - Herbal Treatment?
• My concern about my health
• Acne on specific meridian