Diagnostic Information and Acupuncture and Herbal Treatment of Lung Wind Invasion - Wind Cold

• Headaches, primarily from wind-cold (but used with wind-heat/wind-damp), with neck stiffness, muscle aches and/or nasal discharge.
• In certain cases may be useful for migraines, frequent headaches - particularly when they are influenced by cold weather and/or changing from warm to cold environments.
• Rhinitis, sinusitis.

• Use only with direction during pregnancy.
• Avoid in cases of headache from liver yang rising or deficiencies of qi and/or blood.

• For chronic pain due to obstruction (bi zheng) with liver and kidney deficiency.
• For lower back pain often with weakness and/or pain in the knees.
• For arthritis, especially the type affected by cold/damp weather.

• Use with caution during pregnancy.
• Do not use with patients that present with damp heat or excess heat.

• Common cold and flu patterns, particularly at the early stages.
• Can be used in lie of actual bacterial or viral infection as long as flu or cold like symptoms are manifest.

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• Acute flu or cold symptoms including fever, aversion to cold, headaches, sinus pressure, runny nose.
• Vomitting and diarrhea from interior damp with possible abdominal cramps or pains.

• Not suitable for patients that present with yin and/or blood deficiency. 

• Early stages of disease arising from wind cold damp - common cold, flu, bronchitis, mumps.
• Early stages of skin diseases - boils, carbuncles, eczema, dermatitis with the right underlying factors.
• Mastitis arising from cold/damp.

• Avoid with issues arising from wind-heat, possibly yin qiao would be far more suitable.

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• Primarily used for blood stasis with wind-damp in the channels and collaterals characterized by internal deficiency with external excesses - joint pain, muscle aches, numbness and/or pain in the lower extremities (may be severe).
• Wind-cold damp bi-syndrome (i.e. arthritis) - particularly in the lower part of the body, hips, knees, lower back.
• Sciatic pain with the correct underlying pattern.
• Neck pain with the correct underling pattern.
• Fractures that are reluctant to heal, particularly in the lower body.

• Avoid during pregnancy.
• Generally not for long term use and use with caution if at all in deficient patients.

Cough with watery, copious sputum, breathing issues such as wheezing, asthma, shortness of breath (particularly difficulty inhaling), chest oppression.  Possibly signs of kidney qi/yang deficiency such as edema, weak low back and/or legs, fatigue.

The Tongue will have a white coating that can be either greasy or slippery.

• Cold/flu like symptoms such as aversion to cold, cough, clear watery phlegm -from exterior wind cold invasion.
• Wheezing, heavy sensation, edema due to interior water accumulation.

• Not meant for long term use.

• Colds and/or allergies with cold signs (white mucus and/or no fever, etc.).
• Chronic sinus congestions / issues, chronic sinusitis, chronic rhinitis, loss of smell.
• Headaches from sinus congestion.

• Avoid in patients with heat signs.

• Frequent colds, flus, chronic bronchitis - general low immunity to common infections.
• Spontaneous sweating, aversion to wind and/or cold.
• With appropriate diagnosis may be used to treat acute facial paralysis/Bell's Palsy.

• Use with caution with patients presenting with yin deficiency.
• Do not use for spontaneous sweating due to an exterior syndrome - only for sweating due to wei qi deficiency.