LIVER
LIVER-QI STAGNATION PATTERNS
Stagnation of Liver-Qi
Stagnant Liver-Qi turning into Heat
Clinical manifestations
Hypochondrial or epigastric distension, a slight feeling of oppression of the chest, irritability, melancholy, depression, moodiness, premenstrual tension, irregular periods, premenstrual breast distension, a feeling of a lump in the throat, a feeling of heat, red face, thirst, propensity to outbursts of anger, heavy periods.
LIVER-BLOOD STASIS
Clinical manifestations
Hypochondrial pain, abdominal pain, vomiting of blood, epistaxis, painful periods, irregular periods, dark and clotted menstrual blood, infertility, masses in the abdomen, purple nails, purple lips, purple or dark complexion, dry skin (in severe cases), purple petechiae.
DAMP-HEAT
LIVER-WIND
Liver-Yang rising generating Wind
Liver-Yang rising deriving from Liver- and Kidney-Yin deficiency
LIVER-BLOOD DEFICIENCY PATTERNS
LIVER-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS
Liver-Yin deficiency
Clinical manifestations
Dizziness, numbness/tingling of the limbs, insomnia, blurred vision, ‘floaters’ in the eyes, dry eyes, diminished night vision, scanty menstruation or amenorrhoea, dull-pale complexion without lustre but with red cheekbones, muscular weakness, cramps, withered and brittle nails, very dry hair and skin, depression, a feeling of aimlessness.
LIVER-QI DEFICIENCY
LIVER-YANG DEFICIENCY
Clinical manifestations
Tendency to worry, fearfulness, moroseness, depression, floaters, blurred vision, a feeling of cold, hypochondrial pain and distension, cold legs, numbness of the head and body, tingling of the limbs, greenish complexion, pale and withered nails, contraction of the tendons, inability to grasp, lack of libido, impotence, cold penis, damp scrotum, nocturnal emissions without dreams, contraction of the vagina, a feeling of cold and pain in the abdomen in women, late periods, trickling of periods, a feeling of cold in the waist, infertility.
), Beijing 5, 1994, p. 264–267.
