Diagnostic Information and Acupuncture and Herbal Treatment of Liver Attacking the Spleen
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Liver Attacking the Spleen - Formulas From Our Store
The following herbal formulas are potentially useful in the process of treating liver attacking the spleen. For a complete list from our store with more details see our liver attacking the spleen formula section.
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The following (3) TCM Herbal Formulas May Be Useful For Liver Attacking the Spleen
Shu Gan Wan
- Liver Comfort Pills
- Abdominal and/or Hypochondriac pain, cramps or spasms resulting from liver qi stagnation.
- Alternating chills and fever.
- Nausea, bloating, acid reflux, alternating stools, or IBS like symptoms caused by the liver invading the spleen.
- Harmonize
- Regulate and Harmonize the Liver and Spleen
- Cautions
- Use with caution with pregnancy.
Si Ni San Wan
- Frigid Extremities Powder Pills
Used for liver qi stagnation and counterflow qi to the limbs (i.e. cold limbs with hot/stagnant trunk). Principle signs would be those of liver qi stagnation (depression, mood swings, PMS, grinding of the teeth), hypochondriac pain and/or abdominal pain.
The tongue will generally be purple/red - darker and the pulse will be wiry or possibly mixed to indicate heat trapped within and stagnation to the extremities.
- Harmonize
- Regulate and Harmonize the Liver and Spleen
- Cautions
- Not for cold extremities from yang or Blood deficiency.
- Use with caution or avoid in very weak patients who cannot sustain the movement that this formula creates.
Tong Xie Yao Fang Wan
- Important Pills for Painful Diarrhea / Calm Wind Pills
- Diarrhea, particularly with abdominal cramping.
- Diarrhea with alternating constipation.
- Harmonize
- Regulate and Harmonize the Liver and Spleen
Liver Attacking the Spleen - Conditions and Possibilities
The Chinese Medicine treatment of liver attacking the spleen 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 6 conditions may arise from liver attacking the spleen . Each condition is listed with other possible patterns to expand diagnostic possibilities.
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