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Chapter 57
Chapter contents
TINNITUS/DEAFNESS
ITCHY EARS
EARACHE
BLEEDING FROM THE EARS
DISCHARGE FROM THE EARS
EXCESSIVE WAX PRODUCTION
ABNORMAL SIZE
Swollen ears
Contracted ears
DRY AND CONTRACTED HELIX
SORES ON THE EAR
WARTS ON THE EAR
ABNORMAL HELIX COLOUR
Yellow
Pale
Bluish-greenish (Qing)
Dark
Red
RED BACK OF THE EAR
DISTENDED BLOOD VESSELS ON THE EAR
SWELLING AND REDNESS OF THE CONCHA
Interrogation, Chapter 42
Tinnitus/deafness with gradual onset, tinnitus with low rushing sound, dizziness, backache, tiredness.
Other symptoms and signs, including tongue and pulse, depend on whether there is Kidney-Yin or Kidney-Yang deficiency.
Tinnitus/deafness, tinnitus with a high-pitched sound, headaches, dizziness, irritability, propensity to outbursts of anger, red face, Wiry pulse.
Tinnitus/deafness with sudden onset, tinnitus with high-pitched sound, red face, bloodshot eyes, headache, dizziness, tinnitus, irritability, propensity to outbursts of anger, thirst, bitter taste, constipation, dark urine, Red tongue with redder sides and dry yellow coating, Wiry-Rapid pulse.
Tinnitus/deafness with sudden onset, tinnitus with high-pitched sound, thirst, bitter taste, red face, a feeling of oppression of the chest, sputum in the throat, catarrh, Red tongue with redder sides, or Swollen with a sticky yellow coating, Wiry-Slippery-Rapid pulse.
Tinnitus/deafness with gradual onset, tinnitus with low-pitched sound, dizziness, insomnia, anxiety, palpitations, night sweating, tongue without coating, Floating-Empty pulse.
Tinnitus/deafness with gradual onset, tinnitus with low-pitched sound, dizziness, poor memory, palpitations, insomnia, anxiety, dull-pale complexion, Pale tongue, Choppy or Fine pulse.
Tinnitus/deafness with gradual onset, tinnitus with low-pitched sound, tiredness, palpitations, depression, shortness of breath, Pale tongue, pulse Weak on both Front positions.
Tinnitus/deafness with gradual onset, tinnitus with low-pitched sound, dizziness, blurred vision, insomnia, poor memory, Pale tongue, Choppy or Fine pulse.
Sudden Tinnitus/deafness, tinnitus with high-pitched sound, headache, stiff neck, sore throat, burning eyes, slight sweating, fever, aversion to cold, tongue Red in the front or sides, Floating-Rapid pulse.
Clinical note
• In my experience, tinnitus from a Deficiency is easier to treat than one from a Fullness.
Itchy ears, earache, dizziness, tinnitus, headache, sticky taste, hypochondrial pain, fullness and distension, nausea, vomiting, inability to digest fats, yellow complexion and eyes, irritability, a feeling of heaviness, unilateral or bilateral thick, sticky yellow coating, Slippery-Rapid pulse.
Itchy ears with sudden onset, aversion to cold, fever, sore throat, headache, body aches, slight sweating, tongue with Red sides/front, Floating-Rapid pulse.
Itchy ears, dryness of the skin around the ears, crusts on the ear, blurred vision, dizziness, giddiness, numbness, Pale and Stiff tongue, Choppy or Fine and slightly Wiry pulse.
Itchy ears, dizziness, tinnitus, night-sweating, dry mouth with a desire to drink in small sips, backache, poor memory, dark scanty urine, five-palm heat, malar flush, a feeling of heat in the evening, Red tongue without coating, Floating-Empty and Rapid pulse.
Earache with acute onset, aversion to cold, fever, sore throat, headache, body aches, slight sweating, tongue with Red sides/front, Floating-Rapid pulse.
Earache, yellow discharge from the ear, dizziness, tinnitus, hypochondrial pain, fullness and distension, nausea, vomiting, inability to digest fats, yellow complexion and eyes, irritability, a feeling of heaviness, unilateral or bilateral thick, sticky yellow coating, Slippery-Rapid pulse.
Earache with sudden onset, worse with pressure, headaches, dizziness, red face, bloodshot eyes, thirst, bitter taste, tinnitus, irritability, propensity to outbursts of anger, constipation, dark urine, Red tongue with redder sides and dry yellow coating, Wiry-Rapid pulse.
Severe earache, headache, tinnitus, Purple tongue, Wiry pulse.
• Chronic earache in children is always due to residual pathogenic factor (usually Damp-Heat) after repeated upper respiratory or ear infections treated with antibiotics.
Bleeding from the ears, earache, yellow discharge from the ear, dizziness, tinnitus, headache, hypochondrial pain, fullness and distension, nausea, vomiting, inability to digest fats, yellow complexion and eyes, irritability, a feeling of heaviness, unilateral or bilateral thick, sticky yellow coating, Slippery-Rapid pulse.
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