Diagnostic Information and Acupuncture and Herbal Treatment of Liver and Gallbladder Damp Heat

• Palpitations, anxiety, restlessness, agitation/irritibility, and insomnia from heat due to liver yang or fire.
• Mental disorders such as including biopolar and schizophrenia resulting from distrubed shen.
• This formula is useful for treating symptoms of addiction recovery.

• Hypochondriac pain, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, easily angered, headache, dizziness, red, and possibly sore, eyes resulting from liver fire rising.
• Urinary symptoms such as painful, hot urination perhaps with swollen genitalia, dark and/or turbid urine from damp heat accumulation in the lower jiao.
• Leukorrhea of yellow color with a strong odor.

• Not for long term use.
• Not for patients who present with yin, yang, and/or blood deficiency.
• Use with caution with patients that present with spleen qi deficiency.

• Damp-Heat Bi-Syndromes in Chinese Medicine terms - arthritis with hot swollen joints. With the right underlying diagnosis both osteo-arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis would respond.
• Gout.
• Weakness and/or atrophy in the lower body with swelling.
• Leukorrhea and other heat related discharge.

• Avoid in pregnancy.
• Avoid in deficiency cases.
• Generally not suitable for arthritis with cold/deficient signs.

Anxiety, depression, insomnia, palpitations, vertigo, dizziness, nausea and/or vomiting, insatiable hunger, chest oppression, seizures, bitter taste in mouth, slight thirst.

Pulse will be rapid and slippery or wiry depending on the level of phlegm and the Tongue will be greasy with a yellow coat.

• Generally for short-term use with early stage heat toxins - sores, carbuncles, boils, styes, acne.  Swollen and painful skin lesions with other heat signs (chills/fever). 
• Breast abscesses, mastitis.
• Uses for rheumatoid arthritis and/or psoriasis with the right underlying diagnosis.
• Internal abscesses from blood stasis.

• Generally not for long-term use.
• Use with caution with spleen qi deficiency.
• Avoid with yin fire.

Itchy and red skin lesions, possibly with weeping, comprising such conditions as psoriasis, eczema, acne, dermatitis, etc.

The Pulse will generally be forceful, floating and rapid and the Tongue will have a yellow or white tongue coating.

Signs of damp-heat with interior clumping which may settle into the abdominal region and/or rise upward to the head.  Fever, irritability, red eyes, constipation, dark urine, flushed face - middle warmer issues - jaundice, dysentery, tongue/mouth ulcers.

Pulse will be be wiry and rapid and the Tongue will be red, swollen with a yellow greasy tongue coating.

• Hemorrhoids and/or constipation from an accumulation of damp-heat and toxins in the lower jiao - possibly bleeding hemorrhoids, pain, rectal prolapse, anal itching.
• With the right underlying factors may also be useful for vaginal bleeding with abdominal pain, possibly with dark clots.

• Used for a range of liver, gallbladder and pancreatic disorders arising from damp heat.  Symptoms such as jaundice, urinary difficulty, nausea, bloating and more.
• Western conditions could be cirrhosis, gallbladder disease, alcohol toxicity and more.
• May involve other psychiatric conditions as well such as manic depression, anger outbursts, etc.

• Avoid in pregnancy.
• Avoid with yin jaundice (jaundice with absense of heat signs, feeling cold, no redness in tongue).