DEPRESSION

• Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang

• Genital warts
• Anal warts
• Epigastric focal distention
• Fullness and tightness with very slight or no pain
• Dry heaves
• Vomiting
• Borborygmus D
• Diarrhea
• Anorexia
• Stomach pain
• Abdominal pain
• Subcardiac distention
• Heartburn
• Resistance below the Heart
• Soft epigastrium
• Nausea
• Ascites
• Gurgling sounds
• T: Normal or with a red tip
• C: Thin, yellow and greasy
• P: Wiry and rapid or Wiry, tight and rapid

These clinical manifestations indicate a Yang Deficiency condition which involves Kidney Yang Deficiency and Spleen Yang Deficiency in addition to Heart Yang Deficiency; therefore, the Yang of the whole body is very weak.

Jue Ni literally is "collapse" and "contravection" and refers to fainting and / or cold limbs due to disturbance of the circulation of Qi and Blood

• Fatigue
• Low spirits
• Depression
• Weakness
• Loss of appetite
• Distention and fullness of the epigastrium and abdomen
• Loose stools
• Sallow or pale complexion
• Pale lips and nails
• Dry skin and hair
• Bruises easily
• Easily bruised
• Copious, pale menses
• Uterine bleeding or
• Light menstrual flow or
• Amenorrhea
• T: Pale, may be swollen
• C: Thin and white
• P: Thready and weak

• Melancholy
• Depression
• Irritability
• Inappropriate anger
• Frustration
• anxiety
• Moodiness
• Women:
  Irregular menses
  Dysmenorrhea
  Breast distention and pain before and during menses
• Premenstrual syndrome
• T: Pink or Darkish with slightly red edges - chronic cases may be pale on the edges
• C: Thin and white, possibly greasy
• P: Wiry or Wiry and slippery

• Irritability
• Inappropriate anger
• Dizziness which is worse with stress and not posture related
• May be coughing of thick, yellow sputum
• Chest and diaphragm fullness and distention
• May be difficulty breathing
• Nausea
• Overweight
• A puffy, edematous, yellowish face
• Fullness in the head
• Heaviness of the limbs
• T: Pink or Dark or Red
• C: Thick, yellow and greasy
• P: Wiry, slippery and rapid

• Irritability
• Insomnia
• Dream disturbed sleep
• Stools difficult to pass
• Constipation
• Poor memory
• Depression
• Emaciation
• Dry skin
• Men:
  Spermatorrhea
• Women:
  Irregular menses or
  Scanty menses or
  Amenorrhea
  Vaginal discharge
• T: Red or Red an dry
• C: Little or none
• P: Thready and rapid or Thready, wiry , rapid and deep

• Dizziness
• Tinnitus
• Impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation
• Low libido
• Female infertility ("uterus cold and infertile")
• Maybe anorexia
• Maybe loose stools
• Maybe chronic diarrhea or "cock crow" diarrhea
• T: Pale and swollen
• C: Thin and white
• P: Deep and thready - maybe slow

• Breast distention and pain before and during menses
• Epigastric fullness, distention and pain with dislike of pressure
• Belching with rotten food smell
• Acid regurgitation
• Detests food or
• Vomits after eating
• Distention is reduced after vomiting
• Unformed stools or
• Knotted constipation
• Purple lips
• Purple nails
• Dry skin
• Blue, dark or purplish discoloration of skin in small or large areas
• Varicose and spider veins
• Cold hands and feet
• Tendency to hemorrhage dark blood or clots
  
• T: Pink or Purple, possible purple or red spots or Thick
  
• C: White or Greasy and white or Greasy and yellow
• P:Wiry or Choppy or Wiry and choppy or Slippery

• Debilitated constitution in children
• Enuresis in children
• Insomnia
• Fatigue
• Anemia
• Bleeding
• Abdominal weakness
• Epistaxis
• Habitual constipation
• Maybe warm extremities
• Night sweats
• Tired limbs
• Frequent urination
• Night crying
• Diarrhea in children
• Habitual headache in children
• Hernia pain in children
• Chronic constipation
• Purpura
• Asthma
• T: Pale
• C: White.
• P: Weak and slow or Thready, wiry and even or Thready and weak

• Dang Gui Jian Zhong Tang

• Dark circle under the eyes
• Dry, scaly skin
• Hair loss on the head and body
• Spider naevi on the cheeks, nose, trunk, inner knee and ankle
• Chronic gum disease with dark, purplish, patchy or dark, red atrophic gums
• Loose teeth
• Painful receding gums
• Frequently bleeding gums
• T: Purplish or Dark with brown or purple spots
• P: Wiry and choppy or thready or Deep and choppy or Wiry

• Xing Xiang Er Chen Tang
• Ban Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang
• Ding Xian Wan
• With Qi and Blood Stagnation: Bu Yang Huan Wu Tang
• Chinese patent medicines:
  Ding Xiang Wan
  Wu Xian Zai Sheng

• Gu Syndrome describes a state of chronic infection by fungi, bacteria, or viruses. It is a complex of systemic infection involving a host with a weakened constitution. Treatment is lengthy.
• It is quite complicated with most patients presenting with a triad of pathological syndromes including: Liver Qi Stagnation, Spleen and Stomach Qi Deficiency and Damp-Heat. It also may include Food Stagnation, Blood and Yin Deficiency, Shen disturbance and Phlegm.

• Bai He Syndrome – “Lily Disease,” named for the major herb that treats it, is a form of mental depression with depressed emotions, anxiety, taciturnity, a desire to sleep without being able to, a desire to walk without being able to and a subjective feeling of Cold or Heat. It follows either a warm disease, in which case it is of sudden and recent onset, or emotional problems which have damaged Heart Yin, in which case it is enduring and progressive in nature.
• The name Bai He has two meanings: 1. Bai means ‘hundred’ and He means meeting/communicating’. There is a saying “All the hundred branches (i.e. the channels and collaterals) originate in the Heart and meet in the Lung”. Thus the syndrome mainly relates to the Lung; 2. Bai He is the name of the herb (Bulbus Lilii) in the Chinese pharmacopoeia which nourishes Lung Yin and Heart Yin and pacifies Heart-Fire, and is used to treat this syndrome.
  The main symptoms of Bai He syndrome are:
  Absentmindedness (being in a ‘trance’)
  An abnormal appetite and behavior
  A bitter taste in the mouth
  A slightly rapid pulse
  The main Zang involved are:
  Lung
  Heart
  Spleen
• It is generally caused by injury due to excess of the seven emotions, and often begins with depression which damages the Heart and Lung Yin. Sometimes Bai He Syndrome develops after a febrile disease that damages the Yin of the Heart and Lung leading to emotional problems.
  The Heart stores the Shen; when the Heart is injured, the Shen is disturbed. The ‘intellectual function’ of the Lung is to store the Po. When the Po is disturbed, the patient is usually absent-minded and, because the Po belongs to the Lungs, easily suffers from sadness and grief; when the Po is uneasy the patient suffers from hallucinations. The general treatment principle for Bai He Syndrome is to treat the Heart and Lung, concentrating on whichever of these two Zang most predominates.