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.
• Symptoms of addiction recovery: cravings, anxiety, mood swings etc.

• 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, and other shen disturbances caused by phlegm misting the mind.
• Seizures, convulsions or other types of involuntary muscle contractions that are caused by phlegm and heat.
• Nausea, vomitting, abdominal discomfort resulting from disharmony of the stomach and gallbladder/liver.
• Vertigo, dizziness or light-headedness.

• Use with caution with patients that present with yin or blood deficiency.

• 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 -psoriasis, eczema, acne, etc.
• Topical allergic response, dermatitis -poison ivy, oak, sumac.
• Acute [allergic] edema in the limbs.

• Use with caution with patients that present with yin and or blood deficiency.

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).